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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…
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…
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?
After the cyber attack, some of my embedded images aren't showing up in quizzes. It seems to just be one of my classes, in particular, and the others were fixed on Monday. Anybody know what 3 of my classes were fixed, but the fourth one (Geometry) won't show the images in the quizzes?
Overnight, from 5-14-26 to the morning of 5-15-26, Canvas pages are behaving differently for us. Video embeds are getting "squashed" when the RCE is opened and, if the page is saved, they continue to look that way. Also, in a breakout box, I notice it eliminates position: relative, which was on the Allow list, amongst…
Hi everyone, I've got several pages and assignments where I use frames to embed videos and interactive resources. But whenever I go into editing, the formatting in some of them breaks down: the video size shrinks down, or I'm left with an empty blank space. I think I've narrowed down the cause of this issue: Some of these…
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,…
Hi all, I'm posting this here though we are using the Canvas Career instance because I think it's not specifically a Career issue. All of the embeds we have in our course are being blocked. It's fine in the admin view but when we view as learners, they are blocked (looking at the code, no links or URLs or iframes are…
These are feature suggestions. If there's a better place to put this post, please move it/let me know. Analytics We can see total time spend in the entire course, page views and participations already for each item. If we could see total time spent with each item, it would be very useful to gauge student actions in the…
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Can we add an option in Canvas where we can set up a default comment on assignments? For example, things happen and sometimes you simply run out of time in class. A default comment option would allow us to inform students of a change for the entire class. Examples-We will work on this assignment tomorrow in class. The due…
Imagine yourself walking into a library where books are piled randomly on the floor. You’d eventually find the book that you’re looking for, however you’d lose your momentum in the process. For students, most Canvas courses without organized Modules is that library. Just like in a library where organized books are crucial,…
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After kicking off our New Quizzes webinar series with a focus on adoption strategy for administrators, we continued the conversation in Sessions 2 and 3 with a focus on the educators using New Quizzes every day. You can revisit the recap of Session 1 in this blog post, and register for the fourth and final session here. In…
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