Turn On Course Pacing for Existing Course

We have an already existing faculty training course, and I would like to turn on Course Pacing because the enrollment for the faculty is rolling. They are added to the course when they first get hire...

SpeedGrader Annotations Not Saving

A few faculty members have experienced an issue lately with saving annotations and comments within the SpeedGraders Doc Viewer on file upload submissions. From time-to-time, they will receive this er...

Auto-Save Doesn't Seem to Work

The RCE Auto-Save feature doesn't seem to work with the Discussion Redesign, especially with the reply sidebar. It is really easy to accidentally click out of the reply bar and lose everything you ty...

Sub-Terms for Multiple Start Dates

Our university has multiple start dates per term. We use Terms in Canvas for every course in that is offered in the term, but they have different start dates. We run into the issue of students access...

Searching by User Sortable Name

My institution has been using Canvas for about seven years now. We have gotten to the point where we have multiple students with the same first and last name in one course, so we had to come up with ...

Split New User Tutorial and Browser Full Width

The New User Tutorial feature also removes the maximum width setting of Canvas to expand to the full width of the browser, removing the pesky white space. Why these two features are tied together mak...

Display Name vs. Full Name Showing

I was playing around with the Discussion Redesign and noticed that the new discussion view shows the full name of a user instead of the display name of the user like it says in the Editing a User Acc...

New Rich Content Editor Full Screen Save Button

The full screen mode on the new rich content editor is a very nice addition. It makes it very easy to edit a page in full screen mode.  One of the things I have received in feedback from the f...

Root Outcome Group API Giving a 401 Response

I have been working on an Outcomes script to help facilitate our accreditation efforts. Part of the script involves adding Outcomes to courses automatically, but in order to do this, I need to get th...

Monitoring Student Activity and Engagement in Canvas

My university has begun to be required to demonstrate that we are able to monitor students' activity within Canvas. We have to monitor their academic engagement and success within the LMS and the amo...

Icons and Feedback for Missing Assignments

We have started using the Assignment Enhancements at the beginning of January. The new feature was supposed to be more clear and transparent to students about where their submission is along the proc...

New Rich Content Editor Additional Image Options

It would be nice if the New Rich Content Editor could have new image options to add elements to images or objects in general, such as: Borders With color selection Padding Margins Image Align...

Getting Analytics for Inactive Students

I am curious if anyone has come across this. When students drop a course before the end of a term, they are removed from our Canvas courses. So, any analytics on the student in those particular cours...

How do I consolidate custom course navigation links?

Our university has added 6 custom links to course and user navigation. It is quite a few and makes course and user navigation very cumbersome because they are soooo long. I am trying to figure out a ...

Filter in All-Courses for Users

As faculty teach more courses over the years, their All-Courses tab in Global Navigation gets filled with courses from previous semesters. As an admin, I find this very difficult to navigate, especia...

Using Canvas Data with MS SQL Management Studio

Our institution is wanting to take a look at Canvas Data to see what kind of information we can pull out of it. I have looked around the Canvas community quite a bit to learn more about the data port...

Term Dates for 15 week and 8 week sessions.

Our university has 15 week sessions and 8 week sessions within each given term. We are trying to figure out the best method to use term dates so that students cannot participate in their 2nd 8 week c...