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Ive been using speedgrader for 7 years. All of a sudden its not working properly.Ive tried two different browsers with exact same problemsand Ive deleted all cookies etc. didnt fix the two problems below1) When using speedgrader in a canvas quiz usua...

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I have copied two different courses using the "import" function, copying all materials from one shell to a new one.  Each time, I have also utilized the "adjust dates" tool, in one case adjusting the dates by a couple of days, and in the other case a...

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I have a student whose current situation is forcing them to either do the entire online course as soon as possible or drop the course. I am willing to do this for this student, but would rather my locking/unlocking schedule stay the same for the rest...

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Hi I want to connect the output of the simple syllabus as a column in the grades. I would like this to automatically keep track of the percentage completed for each student. Is there a way to accomplish this?   Thanks, Dan Paxton

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Hello, so I was checking out a course that I am taking and I clicked on a quiz and it started. Is there anyway that someone could reset it? Please help! The quiz is due Sunday!-Dorothy King

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So...I had been checking out the lessons (Since this is my first year at SUU) and I didn't know that when I had clicked on a quiz it had started. And my teacher hasn't gotten back in the past two days. is there anything I can do to reset the quiz? Pl...

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The new speedgrader would be fine except that whenever I type anything in the comments/feedback box, it takes at least ten seconds for the words to show up. Then I found out that it is happening if I create Announcements, too.  I will have to type in...

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Can a student delete their parent as an Observer?When I log in to Blend I can no longer see anything related to my son, he is not linked any longer. No clue how this just happened overnight. Through his login and settings can he delete people as Obse...

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Is it just me, or has the grading behavior in Canvas degraded over the summer with new rubric changes?? In just the last half hour of grading, I'm noticing the following: When entering rubric comment text, Canvas is sucking out blank lines. I need to...

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Several students are using Tasks for Canvas chrome extension. However, tasks for my course in canvas are only showing up in their task list once in the course while their other courses are showing on the canvas dashboard. Any ideas about how to fix t...

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I am simply having the students upload their resume. I "graded" the early group of 6 students and posted the grades. Now the majority are turning them in, but the Post Grades on the pulled down is now grayed out. It's not an available. Any ideas? 

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I have the Canvas mobile app and use the web version on my laptop, as well. I've checked that notifications are enabled for Canvas on my iPhone. I also receive mobile notifications from the Canvas app for other things, like new comments on a discussi...

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I'm an instructor using the free Canvas account. I have several students who have successfully enrolled in the class using the link I sent out but, shortly after, when they try to log in it now says "access denied" and they can't view the course. I'v...

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I had a “quiz” in Canvas.4 of my students have started the quiz.It had the setting “Shuffle Questions” turned on.I did not want Shuffle Questions turned on.I changed the settings and turned off the shuffle questions setting.However, Canvas did not un...

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How do I share course with another instructor?

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Dear all, if anyone knows how to fix a setting. I teach a course which includes discussion assignments. I posted the discussion and the students should be able to respond to each other's posts but on my screen they appear to be able to do this, yet o...

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My students for an AV class are unable to submit their videos to complete assignments. After uploading, they can watch the clip, but when they submit, they are given the error message as seen in the screen cap video. "There was an error submitting yo...

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We have had several students download the Canvas v8.0.1 app onto their Mac computers. Most things have worked fine for them however, when they go to open any MS office documents, all they see is jibberish. PDF documents display fine. We have instruct...

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I have pushed back due dates for assignments in Canvas. Will the graded points adjust automatically, or do I need to adjust manually?  If I need to adjust the grades manually, how do I do that?

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the announcement posted by 4:30 today, was that the deadline?

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Prior to the ILP, our Course Titles included the Course Name Day and Time. (example: Art Appreciation MWF 1230) and our SIS ID included the Course Code, term, and CRN. (example AR1323-202430-30111)Our faculty members are missing the Day/Time in the c...

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From @NancyE I have learned that students cannot view past submissions on the same assignment. What is the reason for this decision?This should be changed because a student who has received comments/feedback on a previous submission can no longer vie...

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The student view of grades should be the same, no matter which role a person has (provided they have permission to view a student's grades). Our middle school just switched to only showing students letter grades by using "Restrict view of quantitativ...

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I had a new class today for which I shared a Google slides presentation, and I had one student who could not see the slides. He said it appeared as a green screen for him. When I shared other browser tabs, he could see them, just not Google slides. I...

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How to communicate with my class group.

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I'm the full time Canvas admin at my school and I have been asked to create a custom role in the admin panel called "University College Data and Analytics". The higher ups are predicting a greater demand for "at-will" Academic access/insight into Can...

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I am the instructor, and I have a student repeating my course.  But all of his previously submitted work (from 2 years ago) is showing up in my grade book and speedgrader.  How can I delete his previous submissions?

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I see in an archived post that some users were able to add code to only allow students to change thier Display Name (not ALL names).Here is the post:We were able to allow our students to change their Display Name without allowing them to change their...

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Before I started using Canvas, students would submit assignments on paper to me. These assignments would require students to write calculations/equations and solve problems.  I would then place a simple 'check mark' or 'x' by each question.  For the ...

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