Advice on how to tag a pdf

I need some help with tagging pdfs. My uni uses Canvas and Ally. I have a faculty member with a screen-reader-student and a collection of files that show as needing tagged. I've attached one to this ...

Is this a valid concern?

The accessibility coordinator at my university mentioned that the message shown to students after completing a quiz doesn't have sufficient color contrast.   Image is attached. It's the mess...

NSSE Spring 2022 Student Survey

Hello all. I was contacted recently about the spring 2022 NSSE survey that requires unique links sent to several thousand graduating seniors. This page has some information about how this is accompli...

Bulk download course export packages

Is it possible to use the API to push all courses in a subaccount to export their packages and then bulk download to your computer? If so what's the best way to do it? Python? Any ideas of where to s...

Known Issues? Last Date Attended field disappears for Teachers

Recently we had to remove the permission allowing teachers to add other teachers, course designers, and TAs in a course:   But when we removed only that permission, the Last date attende...

Obtaining Assignment Names for all courses in a term

Hi all, My school has canvas data set up but our leadership wants a way around the two day delay. I have very minor experience with the API but am trying to find a way to pull all assignment data...

Bb Ally with Canvas--permissions and known issues

Hi everyone, I've had Ally installed in my instance of Canvas for about one year but only recently enabled it for all courses. Last week I noticed that it had been mysteriously disabled. Which le...

Reports vs data: unpublished courses

When I pull a canvas provisioning report I see a status column that lists courses as unpublished or published. Makes perfect sense. At my school we use oracle and have a reporting dashboard provi...

Multiple values in the LIVE API

Hi, I'm creating custom gradebook columns using the live API. Is it possible to enter multiple values for the course_id field or must it be done one-by-one? Example here: Thanks!

Can SIS drop students from a custom section in a course?

We have a working SIS integration with Peoplesoft and canvas. Unfortunately our online classes require us to create custom sections within those created via the integration. When a students drops the...

Manging custom sections in large courses

Hi all. My school just made the switch from Blackboard to Canvas and we are having some problems organizing sections in our large online courses. We contract with a company that provides acade...

How is your SIS set up

Hi Canvas Admins, We are transitioning from Blackboard to Canvas and are a bit confused as to the best way to push a template to our courses. We're a fairly large institution with over 9,000 cour...