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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…
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…
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?
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…
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?
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…
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…
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…
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