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I've sent a support thing and didn't get a message back, I'm sorry if I'm not supposed to put it here. I use a iPhone 8+ with the iOS of 16.7.16, ever since Instructure fixed Canvas from the hack, the website worked, but the app for me doesn't at all. I see everyone at my university (UCR) having it work for them, but few…
With the end of the semester upon us, I'm already thinking of next fall. We spend a lot of time talking about how to start strong at the beginning of a semester or term, but really we lay the groundwork for that now…in the final weeks of our current term. I'm crowdsourcing from the community: What specific steps do you…
Hello- On the published FAQ page, #9, it states that "Users will still be able to view course content and teach through the end of the semester to help maintain pedagogical continuity." There is also mention that "access will be limited to teachers and existing teachers will be required to complete additional identity…." I…
I believe all college level students should have to take a course in grant writing. What are your thoughts?
Some of our instructors currently have grades recorded only in Canvas, and we need to export/download those courses because we do not have another grade record available. Given the current instructor access issues affecting the platform, what would be the best way to retrieve this information? Would it be possible to…
Hack Night is an evening at InstructureCon where you build alongside Instructure's product, design, and engineering teams. This year's event features two ways to dig in, plus an open invitation to tell us what we should work on. Solution CoLab Pull up a chair and prototype with us. Each station pairs a product manager and…
There doesn't appear to be an API to grab the equivalent of a gradebook export, and Canvas Data 2 doesn't seem to have anything easily generated either. Given recent events, people are asking if we can bulk export the gradebooks from our courses, i.e. grades for each assignment by course/student. Am I missing a report or…
Has anyone had success with having courses exported to them? I see some people have been redirected to meet with Kritin Lumdstrum. She is likely completely inundated with urgent requests. I will even pay to get my materials back. This is so stressful.
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When viewing a student submission, "Error while processing or retrieving the document" is shown in Speedgrader. The PDF can be read when downloaded, but this slows grading time down a lot. What can I tell the student to do differently? Is this a known bug?
I'm pretty sure this isn't currently possible, so I am asking for a feature request for future. My colleagues would like to request for the ability to hide the SpeedGrader average for markers. There is concern that seeing the average might skew how markers mark assignements, e.g. they might be overly generous or stricter…
After 7 years of building, iterating, and updating, there is a lot of detritus in some courses. Removing superseded pages, assignments, and discussions is easy enough but is there a clever way of identifying artifacts in Files that are no long embedded in pages, assignments, discussions, etc? It would be great to have a…
I have recently setup the Canva for Education Integration with our Canvas instance. We are noticing that if teachers create Assignments using the External tool from their Blueprint course that students who submit their assignments are running into issues. Teachers are unable to see their submissions via the Speedgrader and…
We recently hosted a technical deep-dive webinar to provide a technical update on what happened, the architecture and controls involved in our response, and the security investments we're making going forward. The session was designed for technical stakeholders (CISOs, CTOs, security architects, Information Security teams,…
This is a bit of a head-scratcher. There is a course where the instructors created three groups and an assignment for each group. There are 14 students in the course which are distributed into those three groups. All three assignments are set with the dates/times shown below. All three were added to a Module in the course,…
Our college would like to disable the Core Canvas tool "Syllabus" by default, so that it automatically doesn't show on Course Navigation menus. Is that possible? A fellow admin asked our CSM about disabling Syllabus by default, but the CSMs may be understandably busy at the moment. Below I rounded up some past comments…
Does anyone have suggestions for bulk aligning questions at the quiz level, not the item bank level? I don't know much about API keys, but would one of these work for a bulk alignment? We have a school that is preparing for accreditation next year and they must get their quiz questions aligned to outcomes. We know they…
Hello, I'm building a standalone app that integrate with CanvasI) - What are the requirements (and cost if any) for receiving an API developer key issued by Instructure? - Are Instructure-issued keys enabled globally in all Canvas organizations? or will there need to be institution-by-institution enablement? Thanks
The most recent quizzes and question banks (including renames) are not showing up as options in the Course Import Tool. As I was creating a new quiz in one course (Classic), I went to add the questions from the Question Bank, but what I needed wasn't there. I went back to the other course to make sure everything was…
Hi everyone, We are reviewing an assignment solution that allows assessors to use SpeedGrader while observing students in the workplace and assessing them. We have looked at using simple rubrics with "No Submission" assignment types. This meets some requirements, but not all. Is there any way in Canvas to ensure the…
In the wake of the recent Canvas security incident, many instructors are rethinking how they protect their course materials and ensure continuity for students if the LMS becomes unavailable. A common question we’re hearing is how to effectively back up courses “just in case,” especially with an eye toward re‑distributing…
Hello, We just started with Parchment, we have used Badgr in the past. Our badge is showing up as the Canvas icon in LinkedIn rather than the actual institution created badge. Is there a setting that we are missing? We set this up with Canvas support. Thanks.
I have multiple Canvas courses to add to the requirements needed to complete a step along a pathway. Is there a way to copy a step or copy the requirements from one step to another?
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The Canvas Klatch is an online office hour open to all members of the Instructure Community. It started as an office hour for the courses I teach for CVC@ONE: Introduction to Teaching with Canvas Advanced Techniques with Canvas Online Teaching and Design Equity & Culturally Responsive Online Teaching Humanizing Online…
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