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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.
The purpose of the "Missing" tag in the Canvas gradebook is to notify students to turn in an assignment that they did not turn in by the due date. However, once the assignment closes, the "Missing" tag is just useless (students can no longer submit) and sticks around forever. The only way to remove the "Missing" tag once…
we had a student make up a quiz, and the original assign to was deleted to assign the student for a make up, is there a way to recover the other students grades?
I sometimes need to search for a file on Canvas so I can rename it or move it to a specific folder. The 'search' facility' is useless because it doesn't tell me the location of the file -i.e. which folder it is in. Is there any way of getting this basic information - the Panda Bot AI assistant suggested clicking on the…
I have never used Powershell. Can someone provide me with step by step process of implementing this to bulk upload photos??
When a matching question is added to an item bank, there appears to be no way assign it default point. For example, adding matching type question with 5 questions to match. There is no way to weight that question as being worth 5 points. This is true whether working on the question in an item bank, or directly in a quiz.…
As a Canvas Admin, I love having the ability to remaster someone's gradebook and ideally, I'd like our users to be empowered to use it as well. However, we have been advised to NOT enable nightly sync as our system is too large. It would be awesome if the Enable Nightly Sync toggle could be disassociated from the Grade…
How do i submit an assignment to Instructor?
When I go to send a message to the students in one of my courses, the drop down list includes multiple instances of the course. Some of these instances are from previous semesters; some are different sections from the same semester. There seems to be no rhyme or reason o the order in which they appear, and neither the…
The line between "skills" and "competencies" gets blurry fast, and "learning how to learn" means different things depending on who you ask. We're putting together an Educast 3000 podcast episode on all of it, and your questions will shape the conversation. Curious how to teach students to learn independently, what the…
I have two related scenarios I'm trying to cater for: All students are graded for Assignment 1. Only if a student fails do they do Assignment 2. The assignments are in the same Assignment Group (AG) because I only want one final grade (the highest) for each student. I set the AG to drop the lowest score. This works for…
Dear Colleagues, I am excited to announce an opening for an Instructional Designer - Canvas Systems and Course Quality in the Center for Excellence in Teaching (CETL) at Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU). Interested applicants may learn more and apply through the following link: Instructional Designer — Canvas Systems…
Release Timing: Generally Available in June 2026 as a Feature Option. Regional Availability: Globally Customer Type: All Available with: Canvas Core, Plus, and Next Key Takeaway: Peer Review enhancements make the peer review experience more transparent, efficient, and easier to manage for instructors and students.…
Release notes outline upcoming customer-impacting changes that are expected to display in beta and/or production environments. Please note that features considered for future development are not included in the notes. Visit the Canvas Collaborative Roadmap to explore upcoming work and share feedback. Your input helps guide…
We know Free-for-Teacher educators have been waiting for an update. So we’re excited to share that Canvas Lite is coming to canvaslite.instructure.com at the end of September. It's a simple, no-cost way for individual educators to build and deliver course content to their learners, without needing an institution to…
I have a circumstance where a student has a justified reason for resubmitting an assignment that is limited to a single submission. It seems like I can edit the assignment to allow more than one submission, but that would affect everybody (even if they don't know it). Is there a way to enable an additional submission for a…
Tell us what to fix in the On-Demand Training Portal. If you've taken a course in the On-Demand Training Portal, we could use about 12 minutes of your time. We're rebuilding parts of the portal. We'd rather hear what didn't work than be told it was fine. We already know some of it. You've told us about links that go…
One of the teachers has registered for Google Services in her Canvas account. However, she is unable to link the Google Assignment LTI as an external tool for assignment submissions. The error message is "account not linked" after clicking continue at this step: When I try to go into this teacher's course as an admin and…
When I want to create a recording within an assignment, quiz, or page, the recording window always blocks the text that I want to record. It would be helpful to have a smaller recording window for audio-only recordings or, even better, a window that can be moved where it does not block the text. The way it is now, I have…
a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } One of the most impactful features lost when moving from the legacy SpeedGrader to the new SpeedGrader is the preservation of file submission order for assignments that contain multiple uploaded…
Hello Canvas Community, Our institution is planning a migration from Banner to Workday Student and is beginning to evaluate the best approach to integrating Workday with Canvas. Our current integration is: Banner → Ethos API → ILP → Canvas We would like to learn from other institutions that have already migrated to Workday…
On the new "traditional" rubrics, the scroll bar is only at the bottom. This means on a very large rubric with a lot of ratings, I have to scroll all the way to the bottom to access the scroll bar in order to see all of my ratings and/or if I need to make a comment. This is cumbersome and time consuming. On the original…
When in Speed Grader, under the "Grade by question" option, the Next Student and Previous Student buttons no longer work.
Hi everyone, I’m working through a Sherpath/Evolve LTI 1.3 setup in Canvas and would appreciate some guidance from others who have configured grade passback. Sherpath’s guidance is that the point values need to be adjusted in the Sherpath link opened through the LTI so that the grades pass back to Canvas with the intended…
The fact that the teacher's gradebook view only displays the letter grade in the "override" column makes it difficult for the teacher to review grades, as the numerical grade entered cannot be determined in that view.
Screen readers seem to read out the LaTex and not the equation.
Whether you’re new to Canvas or looking to expand your skills, each Klatch session offers a welcoming space to share ideas, ask questions, and learn from one another. As a K12 Canvas Admin and Technology Instructional Specialist, I am passionate about helping teachers simplify their workflow, make the most of their time,…
Open office hours for finding your way around New to the Community, or just want to get more out of it? Drop in for Community Compass, an open office hour where you can ask anything about the Instructure Community. Bring your questions about notifications, profile settings, finding the right group, or connecting with other…
Learning While Leading explores the business of learning through conversations with institutional leaders, instructional designers, and training managers. The monthly podcast tackles the operational decisions that leaders in education face every day. We're kicking off with an episode dedicated to how leaders in education…
Discover how institutions can create more engaging and effective learning experiences by leveraging the flexibility of the Canvas ecosystem. Join Poll Everywhere, Cidi Labs, Instructure, and the University of Delaware for a practical conversation about active learning, student engagement, and formative assessment.…
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…
This session is for LearnPlatform Administrators: Description: Now that the school year is in full swing, it’s time to move beyond simply seeing what tools are being accessed to understanding how they are supporting your goals. In this session, we’ll use your Inventory Dashboard to explore early-year edtech engagement…