What is a "participation"?

In "View Course Analytics"... what counts towards "Participations"?

Warning about Late Policy Effects

The Late Policy is applied across all assignments. Also, there is no quick-n-easy way to determine what the grade was before... or, (in the case of submitted files) whether or not a particular studen...

Filter by "Student Groups"

I'm trying to wrap my mind around a new (to us) feature in Settings called: "Launch Speed Grader Filtered by Student Group" I like the concept; making SpeedGrader much more efficient by focusing on ...

"Assign to" field doesn't show all students?

So, when creating a quiz, an instructor wants to assign the quiz to just a couple students. When the instructor goes to the "Assign to" field, and clicks inside the field, Canvas auto-displays a dro...

Automatically/Manually vs. Hide/Show

Can you clarify a point of confusion: In my testing, I have done this: 1)  Set an assignment Grade Posting Policy to "Manually". 2)  Entered/edited grades. 3)  Hit "Post Grades"....

How "Grade Posting Policy" interacts with "Hide grades"

I'm still trying to sort out the behavior of the Grade Posting Policy, and how it does/doesn't interact with the Hide Grades command. This is one point of confusion. 1)  My...

How to allow students to upload to Box, but not see?

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we have enterprise arrangements with Google and Box. We intend these third-party platforms to provide space for storage of large files. One recurring questi...

Status of new Student Dashboard?

Hey, Instructure Folks: At the Wisconsin Canvas Summit last month, in Wausau, one of your fine Canvas reps was there, and delivered an end-of-day presentation. Wherein she covered (among other thing...

Nickname for students with same name

At the University of Wisconsin - Madison, we frequently have courses with over 500 students. With those numbers, we frequently get two students with the same name. When you're working in the gradeboo...

Do files in a Blueprint course count against the quota for the child courses?

Just wondering how that works... A blueprint course has a bunch of files... some, maybe, are larger introduction videos. WHERE are those files stored? In the blueprint course itself...? or are they...

Gallery of sample Canvas courses?

I keep having faculty ask if they could see some sample Canvas courses... just so they can see what it might look like, and start thinking how they may want to lay our their course. Is there anythin...

Coworker can't log into Canvas Community

Hey, all: I am on staff at the University of Wisconsin. A coworker, a long-time professor with a valid university ID, is unable to log in to this fine Canvas Community. Any suggestions on where I c...

What happens with Conversations of old courses?

Hey, all: Two questions... First... the more specific question: What happens to the Canvas conversations associated with old courses? (I think I know the answer. But, I can't find documentation to ...

Test a quiz, but don't publish it

Is there a way to test a quiz, (or page, or assignment, etc.) in Student View, without having to publish the quiz, thus making it accessible by all the actual students?

Edit mode is stuck in HTML view

Hey, Canvas Community. I have a faculty member who reports the following: When he tries to edit a Canvas page, the page gets stuck in the HTML view. He wants to work in the rich-text editor view. ...

Managing similar "ungraded" options

To all you fine folks in the Canvas Community: My team and I have been pondering the pros and cons, the dos and don'ts, and the best practices of some closely-related features and settings around ...

Remember my search string!

Hey, all. I'm not sure who is the best group to approach about this. Let me start the discussion. Please, redirect me as necessary. This is not about Canvas itself. This is about the Canvas Commun...

Rubrics used for assignment grade

Good morning, Canvas Community. So... when creating an assignment, an instructor can create (or assign) a rubric to that assignment. The instructor can then use that rubric to assess the assign...

Problems with "Multiple Dropdown" question type

Has anyone experienced a weird corruption in a quiz that causes the optional responses in a "multiple dropdown" question type to automatically, and spasmodically, replicate themselves? My case: ...

Why is "down-voting" permitted?

I understand that Canvas solicits input from its user base, on which enhancement suggestions (or "Ideas") are most important, by use of the "up-vote". That's what the "up-voting" is all about: if ...