The new interface for e-mailing from the grade book is TERRIBLE. Go back to the old one please.

Why was the interface to sending e-mails via the grade book changed to make it more difficult to send e-mail?   The new interface is ambiguous.  One cannot tell who messages are bei...

Quiz: Can't delete or change just one question

I have a few template courses that I copy over from every semester to my actual courses. On this template course I have a procedures quiz which students are required to earn 100% on before proceed...

Can canvas handle extra credit yet? Frustrated.

My students regularly feel that they are doing worse than they are because Canvas doesn't seem to have a method of setting an auto-graded quiz to be extra credit.  Has Canvas fixed this, and ...

Default Grades: Remembered for each class?

I have template courses that I copy over every semester to each instance of the course. Within this course there are a few items that have non-zero default grades. If I set a default grade, wil...

Crippling Canvas Error

I have been putting together a class in symbolic logic. I have spent hours upon hours producing a   question   bank.    For incorrect answers I entered truth tables t...

Space bar issue

Quite recently I have been having an issue of using the space bar.  Sometimes it simply does not work in Canvas. Then, I will backspace and delete what I wrote and it starts working again...b...

Email students in all active courses.

Is there a way to e-mail students in all of one's active courses at the same time? I often find that I have a need to give an announcement to all students not just in a single course but across al...

Students viewing Turn-it-in comments

Does anybody have a good resource that shows students how to view the bubble-comments on turn-it-in via canvas? I am thinking about something with images and red circles and arrows showing student...

Rubrics with Turn-it-in

I have a template course that I copy over every semester to my new course shells.  In this course I have an essay that uses turn-it-in.  I would like to edit the rubric for this essay, but ...

Backing up a course: Network Error on downloading export.

I am trying to back up a course.  It exports but when I go to download it it will download for about 10 minutes then stop and say "network error."  It is a rather large file.

Use a quiz for SLOs

I am trying to figure out how to use a Canvas quiz to measure SLOs. I have a course that has three SLOs and I have developed one or two questions for each SLO. I would like to set up a quiz tha...

Collecting all written responses: Anonymous survey

I use an anonymous survey to college student feedback about how the class is going.  The "statistics" shows me how they answer multiple choice questions but not how they answer the written quest...

Quiz refused to be graded

I altered, slightly, the wording of a question in a quiz that students had taken.  This isn't an issue for fair grading--it is something I wanted to fix now so that I would not forget before nex...

E-MAIL STILL NOT WORKING

I still can't send e-mail to my students through outlook.  I am getting very frustrated.  I also cannot find any way to send an official help ticket through canvas. I am duplicating a po...

Annoying E-mail Problem

Canvas connects to our outlook e-mail accounts, but when I respond to students some of my messages bounce back as deliverable.  The system says it must first be a "confirmed communication" and t...

Merge/Combine discussion boards

I have two copies of essentially the same online course.  Students do various assignments in which they are meant to interact with each other in the forums.  The problem is that, due to the...

Dates set back.

I just spent like 6 hours over the last couple days setting up all the test and assignment dates for the semester.  I changed them all, and they have been reset back for no apparent reason.&nbsp...

Extra credit for grade bood

Has there been any movement on being able to create extra credit assignments for the grade book?  At the end of every semester I have to tell mys students to ignore the grade Canvas is telling t...

Rearrange courses on the dashboard

Is there a way to drag around or rearrange the courses on the dashboard?  I cannot seem to find a way to do this, and it is very annoying to have my current courses appear in the middle of my li...

Extra Credit Assignments--Points based grade book

I am still having a difficult time handling extra credit so that it doesn't get calculated into the grade book. Suppose that I have a quiz that I want to be entirely extra credit. I already hav...