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I embedded a screenshot of the message that appears when the Faculty Journal is accessed: Faculty Journal message I looked through the Canvas Guides and found only one reference to it:  How do I set details for a Canvas Consortium account? I am not s...

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Has there been any movement on making speedgrader able to pop out into its own window?

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* I'm an instructor.* Actually, I just upload the empty file for testing purpose. Trying to catch bugs/test corner cases in Canvas, you may say.* I just go to the web interface, click upload button and select the empty file.

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@CheyenneHenry ... Have you tried clearing your browser cache/history, closing your browser, and then re-starting the browser? How do I clear my browser cache on a Mac?How do I clear my browser cache on a PC? Also, have you tried using a different br...

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Hi there, @david_landi ... I am not sure if you frequent the Canvas Release Notes here in the Community that are released on a monthly basis, but Saturday was another Release Notes day for Instructure.  They did make some updates to the Gradebook fil...

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Hello there, @ERINDOOLEY ... I am not sure if you are familiar with the monthly Canvas Release Notes, but I wonder if what you are experiencing is related to the updates that were pushed out over the weekend?  In particular, the Gradebook had an upda...

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@VANHOUTTEDieter ... Where / how can i vote for this suggestion? I've been looking through the filters but I can't find it. I'm sorry if this is not the right post on the right topic.  I tried searching the Community for existing ideas that would b...

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@BUIHONGDUC ... I have a few questions for you: Are you a Canvas administrator, instructor, student, or another role at your school?Where are you trying to upload this file?What steps are you taking to try and upload this file?Why are you trying to u...

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Hi @NYBG , There may be a way to do this in Canvas that I'm not aware of, but I would actually make this adjustment in the original PDF file. If you have Adobe Reader, you can go to the Print settings and adjust the printout to the 2-page view you de...

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I need to upload a PDF that is designed to be viewed in two-page view.  Is there a way to edit the Canvas PDF viewer so that the document appears in two-page view, rather than single page view?  Attaching a photo of what this view looks like in Adobe...

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I'm trying to create collaborations with Google Assignments LTI 1.3. When I go through the process, the tool creates the document in my Google account, but Canvas doesn't seem to want to create the collaboration on its end. Nothing shows up in Curren...

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Hello, When creating a collaboration with Google Assignments LTI 1.3 in Google Chrome, I notice that the corresponding Google Drive asset is Created in Google Drive, but the Collaboration itself does not show up in the Collaboration list in Canvas. E...

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We recently got a notice that says "Faculty Journal will be discontinued on June 15, 2024." Why is Canvas discontinuing this feature? We love it and use is school-wide on a daily basis. Will there be something similar/better to replace it?

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I'm enrolled in 1 course but when I go on canvas nothing loads. My dashboard is a blank screen. When I click on modules I can see them but when I click the module itself there's only a blank screen. Information is not loading.

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Hi @swolz, Are you primarily looking at "Act As..." to allow the Alternative Ed instructors to view the course from the teacher's point of view, or from the student's?  If you are primarily giving the student's view, then it seems like making them Ob...

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Hello, Are you talking about New Quizzes? My institution has been having this exact same issue for a number of months now. I have been working with Canvas L2 Support on this issue for months as well. It's been a very slow moving process.  We did find...

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How can I regrade a video quiz? Students took a video quiz I created in studio. However one of the questions had the wrong answer selected. I need to regrade the quiz and give everybody the point. How can I do that? I already tried editing the video ...

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I'm the Canvas admin for our district. We are a K-12 school with an alternative education program for students who have been suspended. The Alternative Education Instructors are requesting access to the Act As feature, since the students they have co...

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Thanks for your response Shel! Having this date is helpful. I thought that the current issue may have been linked to the recent jQuery update but I'm not sure of it with the dates now. I wish Canvas tools were more clear and that this gets cleared up...

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Hi, This is affecting us as well since about March 7th 2024.

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Hi,I just noticed that all of the gradebook filters I set previously for my classes are now gone.  I have tried to add the filters again but once you refresh the page the filter is gone again.  This was not an issue on Friday. Is anyone else experien...

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I would also like to see a solution to this issue! I don't want to return to the quiz page, like the "solution" suggests, but to return to an actual page after submitting a question. I have seen other "solutions" to a similar thing where we are told ...

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Hey @KathMcD7 , @abass44  - where you able to solve this problem somehow?

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Thanks @jerry_nguyen,    Sorry for late response we where very busy with other issue and thanks for helping me with this this JS will change everything in a good way.

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Thanks for replying David! It's hard to know sometimes what the problem is with all the different moving parts.

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If you're still having this issue, you can type MI for missing. You can also enter that into the "default grade" using the 3 dots at the top of the score column, and it will enter missing for all students without a score.

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I am trying to view individual student quiz responses in a spreadsheet so that I can group them into performance categories.  However, I can't seem to find that option now.  Any help or ideas on how to do that?

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Until today, the filters I set on my gradebook would stay until I changed them myself. Today, all of my filters started resetting every time I open the gradebook. Has anyone else encountered this?

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Hi Patricia, we've had this as well here in Sweden on Feb. 22, 2024. We haven't found anything that explains it, but as I was searching here, I think it's linked to the "rate limit exceeded" thread.  I took a screenshot of the top of the thread and a...

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A QR code attendance tracker that integrates into Canvas would be a great suggestion for a new feature, saving a lot of time. Students could scan the QR code on the instructors laptop with their phones when entering the classroom. Where / how can i v...

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We know that the most powerful aspect of Canvas LMS is its flexibility and extensibility. With our 900+ integration partners, Canvas LMS offers educators the power to seamlessly leverage tools that ar...

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Today, we're reaching out with an update on the anticipated release of our new feature, Discussion Checkpoints. We understand the excitement surrounding this addition to the Canvas experience, and we...

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  After customer feedback and collaboration with Google, we have decided NOT to deprecate Google Apps LTI tool as planned in 2024, but we still encourage you to transition to Google Assignments LTI 1...

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We've got some fantastic news to share – we've just finished a brand new video resource that provides an overview of the Discussion Redesign in Canvas!  In this short but informative video, we'll wal...

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I am very pleased to announce the general availability of our Data Access Platform (DAP) CLI and Client Library version 1.0.0.  The GA release (1.0.0) represents a major rewrite of the previous beta ...

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In 2017, Instructure announced that Canvas would be moving away from jQuery. As such, our implementation of jQuery has been stagnant since then. We’ve been moving away a page at a time as we implemen...

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For reference: Link to New Quizzes End of Quarter Update Q3 - 2023 New Quizzes - a look back on 2023 2023 was an incredible year for moving the functionality forward, most notably the following relea...

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In September, we introduced the new Quiz and Item Analysis report, focusing on improving its speed. I am delighted to announce that the 24-hour report generation time has now been reduced to an avera...

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  Tl;dr – Beginning today, Community members will only be able to comment on Product Blogs published in the last six months.   In 2023, the Instructure Product blog received 298,500+ page views and w...

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We’ve heard you loud and clear and have been spending the past year experimenting with ways to solve a persistent problem for instructional designers and instructors who create content in Canvas – ho...

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  As the end of 2023 is approaching, we offer you a brief retrospective of what’s new with Canvas Data, an important reminder about migrating data to Canvas Data 2 as Canvas Data 1 reaches end-of-lif...

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Have you ever taken a step back and looked at your recent accomplishments? It’s an exercise that can be exciting, humbling, and inspiring all at once.  Over the past few years, our Product teams have...

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The ability to duplicate item banks was released to production environments on November 18. With this functionality, it is possible to duplicate an entire item bank so that any future edits would not...

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Our focus on providing our customers the right experience has led us to make some adjustments to the Canvas Deploy Schedule this year in order to ensure the deploys are accompanied with the right lev...

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In the symphony of education, your voices have been the guiding notes. The Rubrics functionality within Canvas LMS has been a conversation close to our hearts, stirred by your valuable insights. Deli...

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Introduction Education Institutions are experiencing an unprecedented shortage of teachers across the globe (source). When teachers take leave, or get sick, giving “substitute” teachers (a United Sta...

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Following the introduction of the updated Quiz and Item Analysis processes, our teams have been dedicated to enhancing reporting capabilities in New Quizzes. Currently, we are focusing on two areas: ...

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Hello Canvas Credentials Community, We're back with another exciting update inspired by your invaluable feedback! Your voices have been heard loud and clear, and we're thrilled to announce the extens...

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We are excited to introduce a new feature in the Discussions Redesign - Edit History. This feature enables instructors to view the different versions of discussion responses when students edit their ...

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On Wednesday, November 8th, Admin Analytics will release a new navigation. I’m excited to let you know that this is a preview of the updated global navigation framework that we will be using across a...

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We've been working tirelessly to enhance the Canvas experience, and we're delighted to announce that the long-anticipated Discussions Redesign will be enforced on July 20, 2024! In our continuous eff...

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Hey there, awesome Community member! We hope this message finds you well and thriving in your journey with our products. Your satisfaction and experience mean the world to us, and we're constantly st...

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15 Themes - 9 for Canvas and 6 for Impact - are officially in “Open for Voting” to the Community from today, October 16th to November 15th, 2023.  Over the past month, our team has reviewed all of th...

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For reference: Link to New Quizzes End of Quarter Update Q2 - 2023 New Quizzes Migration through Course Copy/Import The New Quizzes Migration through Course Copy/Import, previously referred to as the...

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Q3 Milestones Over the past few months, the New Quizzes Integrations team has dedicated their time to the Quiz and Item Analysis for New Quizzes. The new process was launched in September, allowing i...

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The ability to export New Quizzes content as a QTI file was released in Production Environments on September 16.   This work is the first in a series of features on our roadmap related to exporting N...

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The Build on last attempt setting makes it possible for students to take additional attempts on a quiz, only re-attempting those questions they answered incorrectly. By eliminating the opportunity fo...

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With New Quizzes migration during course copy/import (formerly Bulk Migration) now available in production environments and the feature option turned on, question banks that have questions included i...

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When speaking to Canvas users, I often hear about the need for more flexibility in grading, especially for those using more non-traditional methods outside of those that rely heavily on the tradition...

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Exciting times in analytics at Canvas! At the end of 2023, we’re going to default the Admin Analytics and New Analytics (which are course-level analytics) feature options to ON for all customers.    ...

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Canvas LMS Release Notes

Learn about the latest releases, updates, and bug fixes for Canvas LMS

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

In this Canvas release (16 March), admins can search and sort Account Developer Keys. Within the Gradebook, instructors have the option to select multiple filter choices for each filter type. SpeedGrader's media recorder includes screen capture and a...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

In this Canvas release (17 February), observers can sign up for appointment groups when enabled by an institution and the instructor. Classic Quizzes' practice quizzes are migrated to New Quizzes with zero-point quiz settings enabled. The CSV format ...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in t...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in th...

Canvas Releases

In this Canvas release (20 January), additional question types are included in the Answer Frequency Summary in the Item Analysis Report. Screencast | View the New Feature Screencasts page for a compilation of all available videos in this release. A...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in th...

Canvas Releases

In this Canvas release (16 December), the LTI Deep Linking Line Items on Assignment Edit Page is enforced for all institutions. LTI tool postMessages are now properly supported in an active Canvas Rich Content Editor, including LTI Platform Storage m...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in th...

Canvas Releases

Upcoming Canvas Changes November 2023 Remove remaining utilities from Canvas related to Flash video support. 2023-12-16 The oembed_retrieve endpoint is removedEnforcement of LTI Deep Linking Line Items on Assignment Edit Page Feature Option 2023-12-...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in th...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in th...

Canvas Releases

Upcoming Canvas Changes November 2023 End of life for remaining utilities from Canvas related to Flash video support. 2023-12-16 Deprecation of oebmed_retrieve endpointEnforcement of LTI Deep Linking Line Items on Assignment Edit Page Feature Option...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in th...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in th...

Canvas Releases

Upcoming Canvas Changes 2023-09-16 Enforcement of ResourceLink.id substitution parameter to supply a resource link’s ‘resource_link_uuid’ instead of the ‘resource_id.' For more information, please see Upcoming Canvas Changes. In this Canvas release...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in th...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in th...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in th...

Canvas Releases

Upcoming Canvas Changes 2023-09-16 Enforcement of ResourceLink.id substitution parameter to supply a resource link’s ‘resource_link_uuid’ instead of the ‘resource_id.' For more information, please see Upcoming Canvas Changes.   In this Canvas rele...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in th...

Canvas Releases

In this Canvas release (15 July), Admins can automatically subscribe users to an account calendar. In the Inbox, coding has been updated to improve functionality and user experience. The Grading Scheme is redesigned in both Account Settings, Assignme...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in th...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in th...

Canvas Releases

In this Canvas release (17 June), instructors can bulk publish all modules or individual modules and URLs for LTI 1.1 tools are updated when launched after the bi-weekly beta refresh. In New Quizzes, the Rich Content Editor (RCE) is available and it ...

Canvas Releases

Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in th...

Canvas Releases