A faculty member just asked me:  I am wondering if there is a way to clean out the Files sections in some of the courses I support more efficiently. Is there a way to tell from the Files section if something is in a Module? Or some way of telling if ...

We are using OpenStax textbooks in many of courses. We are also trying to keep the students in Canvas so we embedded the chapters of the OpenStax textbook in pages. The issue us that since the textbooks chapters are so long, we have a scroll bar insi...

I am teaching a course called Mathematics for Programming.  As a part of that, I am teaching about logic and truth tables.  I would like to give quizzes that included formula questions about boolean functions.  The only function I've been able to fin...

I need an algorithm for rounding whole numbers in a quiz. Is that possible to do? For example, the number is 405 and I want the student to round to the nearest hundred.

After uploading SVG files as a part of our standard course design process, the files are no longer viewable. SVG files that had already been uploaded are still viewable, but only files uploaded as of today are corrupted in Canvas. The files are not c...

I am an instructional designer working with an instructor. The instructor has an assignment that will be dividing his class into 2 groups of students, group A and group B.Group A will complete a different assignment than group B.Once the assignment d...

Hi,   I've got this question, enable item/s on course navi panel is easy, but does Canvas Admin can set up course navi panel that applies to all courses under one account/sub-account?    Cheers,Pitt

We have multiple math, finance, etc. courses with "starter" spreadsheets, data sets, or other files. To minimize cheating, there are usually 2-3 dozen spreadsheets/data sets for an assessment. I am trying to figure out a way to have a group of files ...

Hola, soy profesor en canvas, en uno de mis cursos registre las calificaciones de mis alumnos de cada una de sus actividades durante el periodo, hoy que entre a registrar el segundo período ya no está las calificaciones registradas previamente.¿Cómo ...

Greetings friends! I am the new LMS admin for a new program and we are focused on non-credit, credentialling courses geared towards working professionals. Our institution is not able to award Microsoft licenses as these are external users in short co...

We have run into an interesting problem where various pieces of HTML are causing issues with their file path references are not changing when the course content is copied to a new course.It appears that the reference (in this case an audio file) in t...

Hi everyone!  I'm familiar with downloading submissions for an assignment in Canvas.  I teach video production and we use Canvas Studio every day!  We transfer files between the iPad and the desktop.  We also use Studio to submit our final video for ...

I have recently started a new job that made me a Canvas administrator, and I need help understanding a discrepancy involving Outcome Proficiency Ratings. Context: I am an admin in two different instances of Canvas. One instance belongs to my company,...

When we started using Canvas a few years ago, we set up a pretty simple account and sub-account structure for our institution. Under the root account, we created a sub-account for Catalog, one for training courses, and one for migrated courses of the...

The Total shown in gradebook factors hidden assignments into the grade shown.  This means that what students see is artificially lower grade than they really have, because it includes possible points into the total for assignments that are hidden (an...

Greetings. I'm curious about mouse focus when adding content tabs. I was hoping to remove the underline on the active state tab, but Canvas strips out the .css <style>.enhanceable_content.tabs ul li.ui-tabs-active a {text-decoration: none !important;...

Unlike submitted “paper” files for assignments, media recordings with the new media player in Canvas doesn’t have a very noticeable link to download student submissions, whether they be audio or video recordings. I happened to spot a way that teache...

Does anyone have experience with creating courses that students can test out of assignments in a module after completing passing a test?After our students complete a module pre-test, we would like for our students to test out of assignments that they...

Hello!  For those of you who use some kind of templates (or maybe you don't use templates at all) to give your instructors a sort-of “starting point”, do you make a custom home/welcome page and set that as your “Front Page”, or do you set your Module...