Delete an Import Job

How do you delete an import job? I accidentally picked the wrong class for importing some content. How do I remove that import job from the queue? I don't want it to confuse anyone. 

Stars in All Courses not corresponding to Dashboard

Other have asked similar questions, but I want to be specific. I was told that filling in a star in All Courses makes a course show up in the Dashboard - that IS the trigger. If you click to un-fi...

What is going on with Catalog?

We were told that Catalog would be the perfect fit as an online registration system, but when we implemented it, we found that it lacked so much capability (including basic design needs), only a...

Marking up a student's assignment

How can you mark up an assignment that a student submits - I mean write/add comments on the actual PDF they submitted the same way a teacher would have marked with a red pen?  I have heard th...

Email a file from My Files to another Canvas user

I am surprised that this does not already exist. I need the ability to add a file from My Files as an attachment to a Canvas email message so that one person can send it to another person within our ...

Choosing a file from My Files to submit or email

Once again, I can't find anything on this in the help for this common sense capability. When I go to submit an assignment, my file section choice is only to upload from my computer. The same with ...

How can an admin send a message to a whole class?

How can an admin send a message to a whole class? I can't choose it from the pre-defined groups since I am not the instructor. There has to be an easy way to do this vs. having to select every single...

Number of students reported on courses root page inaccurate

We just discovered (because we are new to Canvas) that the number of students for a class, as reported on the list of classes webpage at the root level, does not show the total number of students, bu...

Preview an Assignment without Student View

Hi. How can I preview an assignment without going into Student View? Some of the assignments are locked until pre-req is completed, and that stays that way in Student View (like it should), but I sti...

Too many emails when posting in the community

Every time I post in the community, I receive three emails for every response - one from the responder, one from the feed saying there was a response, and one from the feed with the response again. I...

Restricting Teachers

How do I restrict a teacher from changing any course settings? I can stop them from changing sections, adding students and changing roles in the Course Permissions. The only place where I see Course ...

Sharing files outside of a class

We are in an atypical situation. When a student applies to our program, we will have them upload some application assignments within an application class that we are building. I know from experimenta...

Enrolling Existing Users in Courses

Updated Original Subject Line: How do I add people that are already users to a class without looking for email addresses? I am new to Canvas and want to know how I can add existing people in the...

Ability to move through all assignments for one student in speedgrader

As I am looking at the speedgrader assignments, one feature that would be great would be that instead of per assignment, moving from student to student, but by student, moving from assignment to assi...