Blueprint API

Perusing the API list and looking for references to migrating content, I noticed an API endpoint called Blueprint Templates and references to master courses. I have never seen this API before and am ...

Viewing calendars

I have to explain to my staff, students and parents the logic behind the Calendar displaying 10 calendars at a maximum at any one time and how this is workable for a student who may be enrolled in up...

Conversations - a hot mess that needs to be fixed

A very frustrating day I had yesterday, trying to predict the behaviour of Conversations. Especially problematic is how it interacts with other systems. I was prompted to start thinking about this...

Image rotation

I have uploaded 8 images from my computer. On my computer they are correctly oriented. When I upload them to the files area in my Canvas course, four of them are correctly oriented but the other f...

Replying to email notifications and including an attachment

I had a teacher email me today saying that a number of her students had replied with attachments to a notification that was sent to them from Canvas notifications. When she looked at the message i...

Quizzes on the iOS app - are there limitations?

I had a Science teacher create a quiz that has an accompanying worksheet. The worksheet uses letters to point out bones in a skeleton (i.e. A points to the femur, B to the ribs etc). The student is r...

Emails and notifications

I am wondering if someone could explain to me more clearly the rationale for having an internal messaging system over sending email. I see the advantage of using an internal messaging system bein...

iOS app and navigation menu settings

This may have been responded to elsewhere, but I couldn't find anything - if so, if someone could guide me in the right direction! Some of our teachers have set up a custom navigation menu for the...

Profile pictures

I am wondering how I disable the ability for students to change their profile picture. We are a K12 school and have Canvas available to all students. Children being children, the first thing they ...

Default Grading Standard

Would anyone know how I as an admin can set a Default Grading Standard for courses without teachers having to do it? I have two grading schemes set up for the account, but when an assignment is se...

International SMS

The International SMS option for our account is turned on, yet I don't seem to able to select a country as per the user guide instructions. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, I couldn't fi...

List of upcoming assignments for students in a course

I am wondering if the following is possible: I work at a K-12 school. Teachers have expressed a desire to have the ability to see what due work has been set for all students in all of the students...

Using natural language for due dates for assignments

Hi there: I'd like to ask the community whether they are having a problem with entering due dates using natural language. When creating an assignment, it used to be that I could enter 'tomorrow...