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My school will be getting a new teacher who’s never taught a course, so I just will share my assignments/quizzes with them. I know of the Send To feature, but if I do that for a quiz with item banks, will they have the control to edit the item banks on their end without editing my original item banks (meaning it gets…
I'm supporting faculty with accessibility at my community college/broad access college. I'm a social scientist and have used LaTeX, but I haven't pushed the boundaries of the Canvas editor at all. Microsoft has recently improved its equation editor, and it provides lists of what it does and doesn't support, for MathML,…
This is a pet peeve of mine, but it's also an easy UI toggle. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy how much effort goes into the Home page tab of my courses; however, for all of my courses, the most pertinent tab is the Modules tab. Right now, I click on my course, (load), the Home page tab opens and I click on Modules, (load), and…
I am specifically talking about each assignment column, but why isn't there a date range row in this little box? Seems easy enough to add since these are attached to every published assignment. It is very hard to navigate all my assignments (even if Canvas orders them from Oldest to Newest etc.) especially when you have…
I've gotten this email approximately 9000 times in the last two days and it is completely useless. We have a "Program Commons" Canvas shell where we store the worksheets and other documents shared between many classes in the same program. Every course homepage has a "Get Started Here" section with an ordered list, where…
Hello! A caution to my fellow Admins and support folks that Instructure updated their live-chat link (the one in the "(?) Help" menu, if you license their Support Chat service) fairly recently, but the old broken one is still online and appears as if it still functions. If someone hits the old link, after entering their…
I have been unsuccessful in trying to prevent instructors from deleting locked Blueprint module items/pages in their associated courses. The locked Blueprint module item still shows up in the child course's page index, but Pages is not something that we leave visible to students in the navigation. Functionally, the locked…
We are in the middle of add/drop, where students are changing classes regularly as they find the right fit for them. I have been using SIS Import to quickly update class rosters, but a downside is that teachers do not receive a notification when their rosters are updated. Is there a way to alert teachers that a new student…
It is common in Higher Education for academics to ask formative questions of students within the text of pages of their Canvas course. However, Canvas doesn't provide an inline tool where students can record an answer to these questions so I suspect many students just "gloss over" these important formative assessments.…
A student visited our office in the Disability Resource Center (DRC) today and expressed some frustration around impacts of recent Canvas accessibility updates. I'm hoping that this group can help me get started with trouble-shooting and problem solving for them. Below is a description of what I think is happening:…
The Instructure Community Developers Group is gathering to meet some fellow developers of Canvas customizations and external tool integrations. Discuss projects you're working on, success stories of past projects, and things you may be struggling with. Request to join the Instructure Community Developers Google Group to…
We’re excited to introduce a new quarterly Implementation Webinar series designed to support Canvas Administrators during setup, rollout, and early adoption. These sessions are built to help you better understand admin functionality, available training resources, and how to get the most value from your On-Demand Training…