Community Help

ShawnJensen2025 · 2025-07-01

I have imported the QTI file however when I go to my quiz/assignment, I am unsure how to import the file into the actual quiz. How do I get this file into my assignment/quiz, I have the free version so I do not think I have quizzes. Thank you! ...

MichelleStack · 2025-06-30

Instructor saved and published Modules, syllabus etc and made an announcement but it all appears to have disappeared. Any advice on what the glitch might be? Urgent thank you!

KarlijnvanA · 2025-06-30

Hi all, We've been experimenting using AI to generate quizzes. We now have a working prototype that will generate a QTI file, which Canvas accepts. When importing this QTI file, there is a number of options when choosing the "default question bank"....

DamianJolly · 2025-06-30

I'm a very news Canvas user and admin. We have a combination of external students and internal employees who are required to interact with Canvas LMS as a student. We use SSO/SAML to log employes into Canvas. When we enrol employees into Canvas, they...

KatPietrantonio · 2025-06-30

Hello,I'm an instructor creating quizzes with short answer and essay-style questions in Canvas. These questions require open-ended responses because students may phrase correct answers in different ways. However, there are still definitive answers th...

ssawhney · 2025-06-30

I set up the plagiarism checker for an assignment.I am not getting any response from the checker except a grey exclamation mark. When I resubmit the assignment, here is the response--You don't have enough credits to complete the request (required 11 ...

lwisfranco · 2025-06-30

Hi, from my subaccount admin access, I set up an alert admin functionality to send a reminder to multiple roles when an activity is submmited and more than a day has passed. As the days go by, no alert is sent. Do you know if there's anything else I ...

FlemmingVesterg · 2025-06-30

Hi everybody When I want to create a report in settings. e.g. Provisioning, Canvas I will send a mail when it is finished. I never receive any email, where can I see which email it sends to? Best regards Flemming

BRENDALESTER · 2025-06-29

Where can I find my access code to take my final exam?

ROGERSHACKELFOR · 2025-06-29

Greetings, I am looking for a high school art teacher group to brainstorm ideas like creating an art gallery virtual tour with student worksheet in Canvas. I emailed the Houston Center for Photography about accessing their virtual tours for my stude...

jbielecki · 2025-06-29

In updating my links to Canvas videos for students, I noticed that the suggested replacement for the "Feedback Overview" video for students is “How Do I View Annotation Feedback Comments from My Instructor Directly in My Assignment Submission?” Howe...

jwarren7 · 2025-06-28

I have this issue all the time and it's SO frustrating. It just started happening this year (2025, maybe 2024), but never happened before. ISSUE: While typing in Speedgrader, the page briefly bounces (as if a quick refresh has just occurred). Then, n...

MeganKS · 2025-06-27

How do you submit a discussion board assignment in canvas? 1) Modules2)the chapter discussion board I need to submit3) a page comes up with a notice "You must post before seeing replies. Edit history will be available to instructors. Below that is a...

FlorenceBennett · 2025-06-27

How do I let students see the total column

everson_50 · 2025-06-27

Hello, It's very possible this question has been answered elsewhere, and I am just not looking in the right place. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated! I'm new to New Quizzes. I have been using Classic Quizzes for years and feel I might need ...

Dablaze · 2025-06-27

How do i have access to LMS and how do i know my group leader because they said it is only the group leader that can submit the assignment on Lms

darioschiraldi · 2025-06-27

Hi everyone My name is Dario Schiraldi, and I am the CEO of Travel Works, a company focused on building digital tools that simplify and enhance travel planning and management for both individuals and organizations.I joined this amazing Canvas LMS Co...

pattene · 2025-06-26

I thought that this had been covered in the past but I couldn't find anything while searching this forum. I'd like to know if anything is being done to streamline the student Access Report so that it doesn't show each and every embedded image as thou...

StephenPerez · 2025-06-26

As a Canvas Admin - What would be the best way to enable New Quizzes for a hand-selected 20ish courses? I have considered creating a new Sub-account, and only enable New Quizzes there, but that would mean the courses might lose sub-account specific L...

MonikaOli · 2025-06-26

Did the topic about having a choice for module headings come up in the past? I'd love to visually color-code different parts of my classes. Any suggestions?

KataKeri · 2025-06-26

I was wondering how this information on underling HTML is useful for plain Rich Content Editor users - especially if the formatting is present in the toolbar too in a way which is more insightful. Do you have a specific reason or use case why this wo...

KirstenThomson · 2025-06-26

Someone asked a question about the Chrome extension Canvas Quiz Solver already (https://canvasquiz.com/) but the reply from Canvas was not very helpful. Is Canvas itself doing anything about this? Can Canvas make it so extensions don't work while in ...

mbmacdonald · 2025-06-26

I remember seeing a webinar presented by Instructure (maybe a CSM webinar) a few years ago (between 1 and 3 years ago) about doing some rearranging of your Canvas instance to "archive" courses. It did not actually archive them, it just designated old...

glaviolette · 2025-06-26

Hello, I am from a K-12 school district. Once our rosters are synced with SIS for the 25/26 school year, is it possible to prevent students from being able to see what courses/teachers they have been assigned to? Changes are still being made and we...

RoyceDale · 2025-06-25

My name is Royce Dale Williams. My student ID number is 1655008. I am enrolled in an introductory psychology class which starts TODAY. How do I access my class through CANVAS??????

KateRichardson2 · 2025-06-25

Context: I am assisting with management of a placement test administered in a "course" through Canvas. Students self-enroll. We are using sections to distinguish between placement test takers in different years. Currently, new students who self-enro...

lepelon11 · 2025-06-25

Hello All, I have been using Peer Reviews this semester and have run into a problem where students complete the rubric, and when they go in to add comments, Canvas has marked it as "done" and will not give them access anymore. I have worked around th...

JJPayne2277 · 2025-06-25

Hello, I'm working with a user who is having an issue with the UI displaying correctly. They have tried in both Chrome and Edge with the same result. Icons are not showing and the text is misaligned. We have cleared cache, updated the browser, res...

NancyJoLambert · 2025-06-25

While I love having a Comment Library to house comments for easy insertion in Speed grader for assignment grading, I teach two graduate level courses and have many discussions, assignments, and projects for each class. I currently have over 100 comme...

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SamGarza1 · 2025-06-23

Now that Differentiation Tags is available in Feature Preview in production as of June 21, 2025 , you may be asking yourself: What’s the difference between Sections, Groups, and Differentiation Tags? How do I know when to use each one?

AlexisNast · 2025-06-23

Discover how the new Canvas Apps experience streamlines app discovery, management, and monitoring, saving administrators valuable time. This enhanced experience provides critical data for informed investment in tools educators and learners truly use,...

SamGarza1 · 2025-06-18

Discussion Checkpoints are now available in Group Discussions! As we conclude the Discussion Redesign initiative, we invite you to share your feedback in a brief survey.

SamGarza1 · 2025-06-11

We’re exploring ways to improve the Learning Mastery Gradebook (LMGB) in Canvas—and we’d love your input.

SamGarza1 · 2025-06-09

We’re exploring ways to improve the Peer Review experience in Canvas and we need your input!

sgergely · 2025-06-03

We're excited to announce the upcoming release of a new column, non_collaborative, in the Canvas Data 2 (CD2) Query API's groups and group_categories tables at 2025-06-12. This column helps clearly distinguish between standard collaborative groups an...

ZoeLubitz1 · 2025-06-02

The Course Pacing feature is now only in Course Settings, not behind a feature flag. It is still disabled by default.

YasiAfsharnive · 2025-05-21

Learn more about performance and usability updates coming to SpeedGrader, June 21, 2025!

SamGarza1 · 2025-05-21

Differentiation Tags are a powerful new feature coming soon to Canvas! And we’re excited to announce that the Differentiation Tags feature is now available in Feature Preview in beta environments.

shirenv · 2025-05-21

At Instructure, we believe the best way to improve is by listening to the people who use our tools every day—you. That’s why on June 21st US customers will begin seeing a quick question pop up while using Canvas or Mastery asking for your feedback. I...

TamasBalogh · 2025-05-13

To streamline the user experience and create consistency across all Canvas features, the dedicated “attach” button in Discussions and Announcements will be removed on July 19th, 2025. Users can continue to upload images, videos, and files via the RCE...

carlycurran · 2025-04-28

We've heard your feedback! You’ve been asking for clearer course data in Admin Analytics and Intelligent Insights. We're excited to announce a change that will improve your experience.

TamasBalogh · 2025-04-22

Over the past few months, we've implemented several UI and UX improvements to the Discussion Summaries feature preview, driven by the valuable feedback you've shared with us.

KevinMeredith · 2025-04-16

Customer Discovery Session takeaways from March 26th at Instructure headquarters. Members of the Internet2 consortium met with Instructure R&D teams to discuss edtech management and maximizing effectiveness.

SamGarza1 · 2025-04-10

Discussion Checkpoints Now Available at the Sub-Account Level

annalindsay · 2025-03-31

We recently hosted a Customer Discovery Session with R1 institutions at our Salt Lake City HQ, gathering valuable feedback on the Canvas LMS roadmap, assessment tools, and upcoming features like STEM item types and Differentiation Tags. This blog hig...

annalindsay · 2025-03-25

We recently participated in our first Customer Discovery Session of 2025 in Lakeland, Florida, where educators shared invaluable feedback on AI, accessibility, and user experience. Discover how their voices are shaping Canvas LMS.

ShelbySchaefer · 2025-03-25

Discover what’s top of mind for today’s career learning leaders—from skills-based frameworks to AI-powered efficiency—in our latest customer discovery session recap.

shirenv · 2025-03-24

Ideas, Customer Discovery Sessions, and Early Adopter groups are exciting, but our efforts go beyond that. Here’s how we’ve been further strengthening our partnership:

sgergely · 2025-03-19

We’re excited to announce an update to the context_external_tools table in the Canvas namespace of the DAP Query API. On 31st of March in 2025, we will be adding a new column: unified_tool_id: A unique identifier for the external tool, helping Canvas...

sgergely · 2025-03-12

We’re excited to announce the release of DAP CLI 1.4.0, which significantly boosts efficiency and ease of use by introducing multi-table operations. This release addresses a major customer pain point by allowing operations on all or selected tables w...

BalazsSerenyi · 2025-03-04

This quarter, we’ve made exciting enhancements to New Quizzes, from improved accessibility to expanded functionality. But the highlight? Our brand-new Student Analysis Report—a game-changer for data-driven teaching! This powerful tool gives instructo...

AkosFarago · 2025-02-27

We’re launching another round of invitations to the closed beta group to gather feedback around automated captioning, rolling transcript, private student notes and a lot more—complete the form by March 5th!

SamGarza1 · 2025-02-24

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in our recent survey about Discussion Checkpoints! Your feedback is invaluable, and we're excited to share how it's shaping this feature. Based on your input, we're making some key improvements that will ...

teryn_odom · 2025-02-11

Tl;dr: Impact Admins now have granular adoption data on NQ and the ability to strategically place messaging inside of New Quizzes to support migration and deepen adoption!

TamasBalogh · 2025-01-30

We would like to gather your feedback on the Discussion Summary feature, which has been available as a feature preview since July 2024. This initial period has allowed some of you to experience and utilize the feature, and we've received valuable inp...

sgergely · 2025-01-28

We’re excited to announce updates to a new table in the Canvas namespace that will be available in your CD2/DAP Query API dataset starting February 10th. These changes enrich the dataset with additional context and expand the range of supported use c...

SamGarza1 · 2025-01-22

This morning, we gathered our product team to discuss your feedback on the recent Speedgrader changes that apply to all Discussions in the Discussion Checkpoints feature. We heard you loud and clear – the update disrupted your grading workflow, espec...

ArohiDesai · 2025-01-16

We’re working hard to release the modernized SpeedGrader as soon as possible, with a target of Q1 2025. While we are striving to meet this timeline, we are committed to delivering the release no later than early Q2 2025.

SamGarza1 · 2025-01-16

We're diving deep into the world of Peer Review within Canvas and we need your help!

Published: 06-20-2025