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Canvas • Releases and Deploys Paused
From August 18 through October 6, we're slowing down code deploys and releases for Canvas. Fewer changes during your busiest weeks means your team can focus on helping students and educators start the term strong.
Presented by Chris Lorch, Duke University Session Description What works in a pilot doesn’t always hold up at institutional scale. For teams supporting Canvas, the challenge is determining which tools will scale in practice. That means choosing platforms that integrate cleanly, meet security requirements, and remain…
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Presented by Ashley Jackson Ivey, Plano Independent School District Session Description Feeling overwhelmed by a sprawling ecosystem of digital tools in your district, leading to budget inefficiencies and underutilized resources? Discover practical strategies and lessons learned from a year of significant growth and…
Does anyone know why the Attendance feature is not working in Canvas? We have faculty that are trying to do their roll call this morning and it's not working.
How do I change the order of the listed Discussions to coincide with the Modules; i.e. Module 1, Module 2, Module 3, etc. They are currently listed randomly. I checked all the settings and read the available information to no avail. HELP! Thank you.
How do I recover a deleted page from a course?
I am setting up my courses for this year and I realized that when I opend the mastery-based gradebook, there is no color coding. When I open last years's course that had color-coding last time I opened it in the spring, it no longer has colors. The colors appear in the individual student view, but not in the all class view.
Less of a question and more of a feedback piece… Our old unnamed LMS allowed us to copy an assignment to multiple courses instead of just one at a time. This would be an incredibly useful feature for teachers that have the same course 6 times in a day, but do not want to link grade books in our SIS. Thanks!
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in the title of this document. New to deploy notes? Visit Understanding Release…
When I upload my video using the rich content editor, I only see a URL link.
Hello: Does anyone have any advice on how to esalate a ticket with Canvas? We have had issues with our SIS Rostering since last Wednesday, 8/10, the only response I have had on the ticket is that it has been referred to an Escaltation Team. A subsequent live chat conversation that was marked Urgent was referred back to the…
Presented by Aimée Stork, Sr. Manager, Online Education & Training, Joni and Friends Date @ Time : Wednesday, July 22nd, 3:25-4:05pm Room: M111 Session Description Neurodiversity is not a challenge to be managed; it is a perspective to be designed for. For instructional designers, creating a "low-friction" environment is…
Any time I click the three dots next to any item under modules in Canvas in the instructor edit view to show more options, Canvas immediately jumps to the top of the page. I have tried this across multiple different courses, browsers, accounts, and machines. The same behavior is exhibited on all of them. Is it not letting…
Hi all, We are experiencing a couple of issues with our Pages Index page. For many users, when there are enough individual pages to require extensive scrolling, the displayed width of the table is shorter after the initial pages that were loaded. (That was difficult to describe, please see the attached screenshot.)…
It seems like when uploading an SIS data import of our users.csv, even though I have changed all the users email addresses, they are not changed when I look at the UI. I have ensured Override UI changes is selected, but still no go. There are no errors, and all records are imported. Example: User showing via UI is: * Name:…
Hello, I'm writing to see if anyone else has noticed this change in Canvas and can explain when and why it happened. I can't find anything in the release notes about it, and Canvas support says it is "intended." Checkpoints in student view previously displayed directly below and slightly indented from the discussion forum,…
My school district has changed our required Learning Outcomes for all of our courses for this school year. How can I archive the 400+ Learning Outcomes we used last school year so they're still linked to our 25-26 courses but teachers can't use them in 26-27 courses going forward?
Calling https://api.demo.badges.parchment.com/o/token yields a 503 error: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable https://api.badges.parchment.com/o/token, in contrast, is available {"error":"Token grant parameters must be sent in post body, not query parameters","trace_id":"b400129f7c89efb81aa2f995539afaed"} I wasn't able to…
Because Catalog only supports a single payment for an entire purchase, I want the entire transaction to happen in Stripe so that our learners can pay over an arbitrary number of months to Stripe and each payment is reported to Canvas. My understanding is this would require special coding and API/webhooks. Has anyone done…
Hello, Our K12 district is using Qmlativ as our SIS and sync through API. We will be using cross listing for the first time this year, and we are concerned about what will happen when we introduce a Long Term Sub to a class. We understand this will create a new course for the long term sub. We have questions about the…
Hoping someone can explain for me. We're using pacing to avoid manually dating regular assignments each quarter, but the dates I see are based on when the course was instantiated, while students see dates based on when they were added to the course by [backend software I don't know anything about, presumably]. If I set…
Has anyone else had issues with an influx of duplicate users in Canvas? Ours is currently in the form of an email that already exists, becoming a new user - and not automatically merging with the user ID with the same email that also is linked to our SIS ID correctly as well. For example, user 1 is xyz@gmail.com without a…
Hi, We are transitioning to ILP to sync course data from Colleague to Canvas. The connection itself is working successfully. However, I need some assistance with getting Blueprint courses applied to the course shells in Canvas. Currently, we use a .csv courses file to create the courses and associate them with the…
Canvas Portfolios provide a powerful platform for students to document their learning journey, reflect on their progress, and showcase competencies. However, in programs where multiple educators are involved in assessment—such as team teaching, moderation, or competency-based evaluation—there are important questions about…
I am trying to understand the badge requirements for the "Course Grade" Course Item for the "Complete Item" and "Percentage Score" Trigger Type. I want to award a badge to all students who have scored at least a certain percentage (~90-95%) on every Quiz in the course for a fully asynchronous professional development…
Session Overview Join members of the Indiana Canvas User Group (INCUE) for an interactive session dedicated to the philosophy that "a rising tide lifts all boats". This collaborative group of talented and creative educators will share their best "Pro Tips"—from simple time-savers like mastering course numbers for…
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Skills gaps are widening, and employees are asking for growth they can't always find in generic, one-size-fits-all training. For a lot of organizations, that leaves a hard question: keep buying training off the shelf, or build a workforce university of your own, one designed around the actual skills your employees need to…
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…
We are excited to invite customers to our new monthly customer sync for Impact by Instructure beginning later this month! This recurring meeting is designed as a space for Impact users to share best practices, stay up-to-date on recent product enhancements, and participate in engaging breakout discussions with peers.…
Lexington City Schools set out to solve a common challenge: too much assessment data and not enough instructional clarity. Their benchmark approach relied on free, state-provided assessments that lacked alignment and predictive insight, leaving teachers unsure how to use data to inform instruction. In this session,…