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Yeah, unfortunately, my university does not allow you to add random gmail addresses as students.  I could see this being a major security issue, so I suspect many universities have the same restrictions.  (I'm frankly surprised that any institution would allow this). So the "work around" of just getting the student app is not a solution.  In the teacher app, I know exactly what the OP is talking about--you don't see the front page at all unless you scroll down, tap Pages, then tap Front Page, which is super annoying.  What the heck is the point of giving us the illusion that we are creating a FRONT page when it isn't the landing page in the app?  All that shows up in the teacher app (which I'm guessing is similar in the Student app, though it would be REALLY NICE TO BE ABLE TO VERIFY) is essentially what appears in the lefthand menu if you view it on a computer browser. If Canvas just gave us more control over what appears on the lefthand menu (like Blackboard did), then we wouldn't need a front page; we could customize the lefthand menu to our liking to give students quick access to the things  WE determine they need for our courses (not always the same as what Canvas, in its infinite wisdom THINKS our students need).  I get that we can hide some things and do some rearrangement in the Navigation tab of the Settings, but there are many other functions missing from our ability to control the lefthand menu (such as renaming the links or adding customized pages, etc). ... View more

Wow, this was really helpful!  Thank you, James! ... View more

I am constantly having this issue.  It happens, without fail, every. single. time I use speed grader on a large class' assignments.  And YES IT SAYS "All annotations saved."  But they are, in fact, not saved, as evidenced by their inexplicable disappearing act.  You can't predict which ones it will happen to, but it is about 10-20% of them every single time.  It's completely unreliable.  Also, while we're at it, speed grader refuses to select the student I choose if I leave and come back--it just cannot use the information you see if you scroll down the alphabet more than a few screens.  But when you teach 150-250 students in a class, you can't reasonably grade them all in one sitting.  When I go back and try to start with, say the M's alphabetically, and I click on some student with a last name of M, it takes me back to K or earlier.  I realize this is a separate issue, but maybe it's related to the lack of responsiveness with what you see being not what you get. ... View more

It's nice that you want to make things more comfortable for your students, and believe me, I am FULL of complaints about features Canvas lacks.  But honestly, I have looked at this as a teachable moment for my students.  They NEED to learn how to do this!  It's basic computer literacy to combine photos into one file.  The fact that I am teaching freshmen engineering students at a major university and they didn't all know how to do this was shocking to me and was all the reason I need to absolutely insist they figure it out.  It's literally so easy--there are many many many ways to combine multiple images into one file--drop them into a word document, powerpoint, use a free cam-scanner app like you suggested.  Heck just line the images up side by side on your computer and take a screenshot.  We do students a disservice by letting them remain technologically this illiterate.  I gave them a range of suggestions and told them to choose the method they like the best, but I definitely required them to do this themselves. ... View more

So you're referring us to a thread that was created 5.5 years ago and asking us to add more to the over 200 comments that say we would like to have this feature added, in the vain hopes that maybe some day in the next decade or so, Canvas might be gracious enough to implement it???  Just admit it, like with every other thread I've seen asking for a feature for YEARS--Canvas does nothing to address the needs of the users because it knows our administrators are the ones making the LMS decisions so we lowly educators have no power to walk away and take our dollars elsewhere.  Canvas just cares about selling points to administrators with cute buzz words like "cloud based."  I've been forced to use Canvas for less than a year and I could've made a nice sum of money already if I had a dollar for every time I've seen a years-old thread asking for a feature to be added and nothing but crickets has been the response. ... View more

HOW IS THIS NOT A SOLVED PROBLEM YET?! Seriously??  What kind of amateurish LMS system does not allow a re-grade from test bank questions? ... View more

It can't be that hard.  It was easily doable in Blackboard.  Not only could you hide ANY column you wanted to from the students (which I found to be insanely useful when uploading exam scores for large enrollment classes, so as to make it visible only at the right time-- when I had double and tripled checked the column for mistakes, for example), but you could also do the opposite of what the OP seems to do.  On the opposite end of the spectrum, many of us find the use of points to be rather, um, pointless, if you'll forgive the pun.  In Blackboard you could arbitrarily make assignments worth any amount of points you wished and then tell it in the weighted columns to weight by percentages rather than by points.  In canvas there's no way to do this so if I make an assignment worth 11 points and another worth 7 points, the 11 point one will count more heavily, which is not what I generally want.  I just want to use percentages of each assignment equally.  In blackboard, you could also simply add a column directly into the grade book without having to go back to assignments and create an assignment, which is very handy for quick manual grade entries. And blackboard didn't take an obscure detour into Settings to hide the total column, you simply got a pulldown menu from the top of the column and selected Hide from Students. All of these features in Blackboard have been around for at *LEAST* 5-7 years.  Why can't Canvas do what Blackboard has done for ages?  Give the instructor some control!  We can handle spreadsheet manipulation if you let us--I promise! ... View more