Observer access report?

Is there a report or analytics feature that will provide information on observer interactions or page views for a whole course or account?  My search of the community only came up with  @J...

Theme editor: Watermark

I've used custom CSS to prevent our watermark from being hidden under pages, menus, etc in the past, using the following most recently:  .ic-Layout-watermark::before {top:45px} Recently this h...

Accept course invitations via API?

Is there a way to accept course invitations via API? 

Observer linked to student, access after student concludes course

I've heard from a parent who is no longer able to view their child's grade in a course the child has completed. The parent is an observer linked to the student, and the student's enrollment is conclu...

Custom Roles and Canvas Inbox

We'd like to take greater advantage of custom course roles, but it appears that the custom course roles still don't show up in the Inbox when drilling down in a course to view users. I know this has ...

Is any limit to number of “Observers” for any single student?

Parents of a student would like for their child's tutor and tutoring centre staff to observe the student, besides being observers themselves. This would mean about 5-6 people observing the same stude...

Can you download the edited PDF from Big Blue Button?

We're just starting to use Conferences and would like to be able to use it to go over assignments with students (K12 students). We would like to be able to download the PDF that we edit in BBB  ...

Allow user to change username

Is it possible to allow users to change their usernames/login? I was sure I had seen this as an option to toggle in the admin settings, but have not been able to find it again, or find any questions ...

Cross listing from active course to inactive, and assignments

I'm getting asked by our staff about the feasibility of moving students between courses, specifically from one 'version' of a course to another. They'd want to keep their grades and most importantly,...

Flexbox grid/design for on Canvas App

I've been playing with Flexbox Grid in Pages in a course template, but in testing the template on the Canvas App on iOS, the Flexbox Grid doesn't work. Is this a bug, or a design feature? Does any...

Preventing Observers from seeing Locked Modules

Our teachers would like to put certain assignment answers in Modules in courses where students prepare for national exams. I was looking at putting it in a locked module with a pre-requisite of a sub...

Change time zone in Service Cloud

Is there a way to change the default time zone in Service Cloud? It appears the default is Mountain Time, and I'm in British Summer Time, which makes for some crazy time stamps...

Flexbox Grid tips and guides

I've just started playing around with Flexbox grid (Canvas provided a great overview here) and am looking for more resources to help me figure it out. Does anyone have any favourite tips, tricks, or ...

"Enable "OR" Condition for Modules"

While playing with the new interface (so pretty!), I noticed that the Feature Options>Course include " Enable "OR" Condition for Modules" (development) on our Beta instance. I have not been able ...

Starting off with a bang

Or to be more precise, a clack of thunder! Those of us here early experienced some of the same varying and powerful weather that brought the famous snow last year. The astonishingly close bolts of...

Young student users

How old are your youngest Canvas users? We currently do not have students younger than 9 years old enrolled on Canvas but are looking at how younger students will use and experience Canvas. Do you ha...

Students having trouble viewing assignment feedback

I've had a number of students contact me who have struggled to view their teachers' annotations when viewing feedback on graded assignments (as explained in these instructions How do I view assignmen...

The World's Local School

Wolsey Hall is a virtual, international school based in Oxford, England that has been using Canvas for the past three years to offer K-12 courses to students in over 60 countries across the globe. We...

Monitor student grades in all courses

Our teachers and student support managers, who keep track of a student's progress across all courses, have an overwhelming need to view all students grades even though they are not one of their teach...