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Are assignment comments made in speed grader withheld until scores are posted or are the submitted assignment comments sent while scores are still withheld?

I'm an instructor who would like to point students to a help file that answers: "How do I view instructor comments on individual quiz questions?" Editing this page seems logical to me: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Student-Guide/How-do-I-view-qu...

We had a vendor ask us to enable Canvas Data Services for them, for a specific event. Even though the vendor's third-party tool would only be used in a limited number of courses, it looks like this in fact sends this specific event in *all* our cours...

I am trying the new quizzes, but I made a mistake that I am hoping someone can help me with. I (rather stupidly) made a multiple-choice quiz with the question type as "multiple answer" instead of "multiple choice". I honestly thought they remained mu...

We have our classes crosslinked in Canvas.  We have been grading in our Canvas gradebook.  Then, we sync to focus. It's only syncing some of the sections/classes.  For instance, I have 4 sections of Career Exploration.  Three of the four sections syn...

How does your SIS integration process students who drop classes? We are in the process of moving from Bb to Canvas and are using ILP. We have it set that students who drop before the class begins are removed entirely from the course. Students who dro...

Hi,   We are trying to make the starting of meeting in our Zoom Rooms as simple as possible for our instructors.   They schedule their class Zoom sessions in their Canvas courses using the Zoom LTI tool. When they teach in a room equipped with Zoom R...

For some students instead of their button saying "Begin" it says "Resume", even though they have never taken it before. When they hit "resume", nothing happens.

We are noticing a behavior that, when adding enrollments to a course that is not synced with our Student Information System (say, a faculty development or cohort-specific internship class), we are unable to use the participant email address. Only the...

Is there a way for Canvas to show the correct answer for fill in the blank questions set with regular expression match?  I had assumed that when I set my quiz settings for students to see the correct answers upon completing the assignment, that they ...

Is there any way you can update the teacher notifications to allow reposts for discussion boards to come in on our dashboards? When a student goes back in and edits (either an original post or a reply) after I have already graded it I am not notified...

When I create a Final Column the calculations are not shown in the gradebook,  and the default Total column shows always 0%. Calculated and weighted columns are visible, but not the Final ones.  Someone know what is happening?

Hi everybody, For my purposes, the distinction into absent, tardy and present is not flexible enough. I want to give half points for half attendance etc. How can I do this? Thanks in advance! Tom

Hi, I am trying to post a section via API as below ; api/v1/courses/sis_course_id:ABCY12021/sections?course_section[name]=1BA&course_section[sis_section_id]=ABCY120211BA&enable_sis_reactivation=true I have set enable_sis_activation to be true  So, I ...

When an animation occurs at the top of the page after I make a Canvas Submission, namely a confetti shower, the Next button disappears. Nobody seems to know why; this is in updated Windows 10 OS using both Chrome and Firefox browsers (updated), and Z...

Hello all, I have a group assignment in one of my courses. I use subgroups in canvas to communicate with these smaller groups/ Normally, the subgroup has on their group homepage the file tab and then a submission folder (not accessible, locked sign)....

Hi,  I am instructional support for a teacher who loves to grade writing with rubrics on a 0-4 scale. She also gives quick check quizzes during which questions might only count one point, especially if there are only 3 questions. When she uses speedg...

I am an instructor in canvas. I have read the guide about downloading student submissions for an assignment, however it doesn't help.  When I sign into Canvas, I go to Assignments, I click the name of the Assignment, and I can edit the description an...

Problem with Text Entry Submission   

Is anyone using Civitas Inspire and having difficulties with Cross-listed course data?

I used the "student annotations" feature for the first time. Super easy to use. However, once students submit their assignment, they can't go back in to edit or fix/change anything. If they try to redo the assignment, it gives them a blank document. ...

When I post an event to the calendar (not an assignment), the event shows up in my student's to-do list, whereas in the teacher view, it shows up as an upcoming event. Is there any way to change this? The event I am posting are not required so I woul...

Dear members of the Canvas Community and users of Turnitin solutions, Due to an unexpected service incident, users of Turnitin solutions may have experienced an unexpected service disruption. Our team encountered the incident between the following ti...