Data table: Student by week

I find the most useful data in New Analytics to be the page views and participations week by week, where I can click on the link for a given week to get more granular data (see screenshot below) but ...

Teacher App - Assignment Description Deleted

Wondering if anyone has encountered this?  A teacher edited a Due Date to an assignment on the Teacher App.  He had a very long, formatted Assignment description that had been composed on t...

Google Assignments LTI 1.3 and Collaborations

We currently have enabled the (Canvas) Google Apps LTI in our production instance.  Several of our courses use the Collaborations feature in Canvas.  We have not enabled the External Collab...

Fixing a group discussion problem

@Katrina-Hess  I hope I'm posting this in the right place, but if not please let me know.  I believe the concern I'm writing about has previously been submitted as a ticket, and my excellen...

Clicks in text fields and load times in Safari

Has anyone else found that when using Safari to author New Quizzes, it sometimes takes 2-4 clicks in a text field for a cursor to appear? Also that Safari is slower to load new quizzes than Firefox o...

Courses list sort order

Ordering of the Courses menu: In the document How do I customize my Courses list as an instructor? it says: Note: Courses are always listed alphabetically... Prompted by a frustrated...

Spontaneous Unpublish?

Every now and then, one our our Canvas sites that was published becomes unpublished.  I always assume it was the result of an accidental click by someone with Teacher or Designer privileges in t...

Automatic peer review assignment

The interface and documentation make it seem like you can set Peer Reviews for assignments and discussions to trigger at a specified time, and I've found they do, IF the only specified date...

SpeedGrader permissions fix(?)

A recent email from support says: "Per our email last Friday, the latest information about the outstanding Gradebook fixes are as follows: SpeedGrader permissions fix—complete and awaiting v...

Canvas and LTI data

A question just occurred to me.  Can Canvas (as "tool consumer") capture LTI interaction data, or is that private to the "tool provider"?  In different words, does Canvas have less acc...

Lock icon on card in Android means...?

What does the lock icon signify in the dashboard Card View on Android?  (Multiple versions of Android, up to 7.0 have been tried, and all display the icon.)  And how about the N/A that appe...

Google Drive LTI and Group Assignments

We have installed the Google Drive LTI. Although the documentation is very clear that "External Tool" assignments can't be group assignments, nowhere could I find documented that when the Submissi...

Way for students to see grading schemes?

Is there a way for students to see the grading scheme associated with a particular assignment or course?  Thanks. -Peter

Dashboard / Courses Menu logic

I have a few questions about the logic by which Course sites are automatically added or not added to the Courses Menu and Dashboard.  To be clear, I'm not talking about customizing the list...

Summary of key features

Below is my attempt to summarize the benefits of the new gradebook for faculty members while avoiding the TL;DR pitfall.  I'm auditioning it here in hopes of having others po...

Grade passback w Examsoft or Other LTI integrations

Is anyone using the New Gradebook also using the Examsoft's LTI integration?  If so, any problems with the grade pass-back?  Any other issues emerge?  If you'r...

Creating a New Role Based on Teacher

Is it documented anywhere, or does anyone happen to know, what abilities go along with the Teacher role apart from any permissions that might be assigned or not? I created a course role based...

Two questions about formatting

Hi, I'm relatively new to the Student app and I have two things I'd like to submit as feature requests, but I thought I'd ask here to be sure they are a) appropriate, b) haven't been already request...

SIS upload to switch a site status to "Completed"

I hoped to use an SIS upload to change the settings on a bunch of existing courses both adding an "Ends:" date and switching their status from "active" to "completed."  ...

Viewing SpeedGrader Markup

A faculty member here swears that she has always hidden the Grades tab in Canvas and students were able to access their marked-up submissions by going to the Assignments tab.  Now as far as...