Is it possible for an Observer/Parent to message their student through Canvas?  Looking for alternative messaging options since we will not be allowing cell phones next year.

Hi all,I teach 4-5 sections of American Government online, about 250-300 students. I used to have an average of mid 70s on my online American Government classes. Since the advent of AI, the average has crept up and now is in the mid to high 80s.Stude...

How to find district name given a name or account which can be fetched from LMS.

I have this new course based on science experiments and learning how things work. Do you mind if I promote it here on the Instructure Community? To help you write a simplified reply, here are some criteria: Criteria 1: Educational Canvas Course Work:...

Hi,I would like to get in touch with the Customer Success Manager for our organization.I am currently facing an issue with uploading files to a course. As the IT support for our organization, I have investigated the problem and tried every possible w...

If a student is absent for an assignment, I leave the grade blank. However, I'd like for the blank to automatically change to the 50 ( lowest grade possible per the district) in one week.  Is there a way to set that up?

Anyone knows how the total activity is calculated for students. Since it's not clear where these numbers are coming from. Preferably if there's a way to calculate them using the data available in the database. 

Hello everybody, we have this issue in our CANVAS, our time zone is Asuncion (-3:00 / -3:00), but it seens there is an error, you configure a quizz with a date and CANVAS save it with one hour +, for example, the time you put is april 4, the canvas c...

Hello there:I am registered for IFC-5 course by Leon Van Berlo from BuildingSMAR. the course has been terminated at some level and I am not able to continue studying anymore. Does anybody have an idea? 

Hello All,In Australia with our senior assessment, we need to send away the annotated assignments for confirmation. In the past we would be writing on the physical assignment, scanning it in and uploading them. However, the features in Canvas for ass...

I manually paired students and observers in my course, but parent observers are saying they still need a code. How can I help them connect?

If a rubric is present for marking, it will be good to give an option to the assignment designer to block submitting the grade by the marker if any rubric criteria have been missed. On occasion a marker will mark student's work using a rubric. When t...

My quiz fails to open when I hit the take quiz button. It says that the course is unknown to the system, and that the professor to check browser settings in dashboard

So, our instructor told us to submit an assignment and a link to the comment feedback. What I did is I submitted the link on the comment feedback first. After that, I submitted the output on the submission bin. However, the comment feedback wasn't ap...

Hi, All.  I am a student that uses canvas for all of my classes including my HS and dual enrolled college classes.   When something is graded in canvas, I have recently seen a delay of 4+ hours to notify me.  I am used to the 1 hour delay between som...

I know this is a minor problem, but why are the posting times different? I didn't post these at 11 AM or 9:35 AM. This could be a case of the time zones, or correct me if I'm wrong.

I want to create my course or anything else in Canvas Commons and publish it for Commons, but I can't. Please help me 

Random question, what if an instructor deletes or stops using their account? What would happen to their courses and accounts? Is it like the Inactive Google Account manager?  

I don't know to get a pairing code, so where do you get a pairing code? 

A parent reached out because they are not receiving grade notifications for their 4th grader. The teacher post grades. Has anyone run into this issue?