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I have the Teacher Canvas app on my iPad. Last year, I was able to annotate student work with my Apple Pencil on uploaded student work. This year, however, when I click on the Assignment, I am unable to annotate the assignment. I can still assign a grade but I want to be able to indicate to the student where the errors are…
The To-do List Widget on Canvas (iOS) app for iPad and iPhone doesn’t show the material. Canvas reverted back to the older version of the To-do list but it doesn’t work. When you click on the widget it opens to the To-do list but does not show the material listed. The calendar section allows me to add a “New To Do” which…
I am having issues with the Canvas teacher app with the iPad. I always cross list my courses because I teach the same class a few time a day. Last year, I was able to filter through assignments by class periods which made grading and checking that students turned in work a little easier. It seems that feature is no long…
It seems that teachers can no longer annotate onto student assignments when they have been submitted as a PDF. This was available last year and made it possible to use a stylus to grade and leave feedback directly onto the PDF that the student submitted. It seems this feature is not available on the Teacher app anymore or…
When you add an assignee to an assignment in Canvas teacher app, tags are not an option.
When providing students with an Assignment with a Text Entry Response in the Canvas iOS App, the response text box covers the assignment description. This is not only an inconvenience, it's an access issue for many students needing to visualize the prompts/description to complete their thinking. We like to keep our…
My school is in the Central US time zone and I live in the Eastern US time zone. On my PC, Canvas is set to Central time and all of the assignments are due at 11:59pm on say for example August 24. On the app, the to-do list shows 12:59am August 25. I feel that this may accidentally cause me to submit assignments a day…
The updated version of the Canvas teacher app for i-pad has removed the functionality of selecting grades to view by section. This is (was) one of the most important features of the mobile app and allowed not only very efficient grading of both homework assignments and quizzes by section (grades have to be transferred to…
Looking to find some guidance and offer suggestions on the prompt most Parents are getting when they set up their Observer accounts in Canvas. When a parent sets up an Observer account through the browser on their phone, they are then prompted to download the Student Canvas App. This seems to happen on both iOS and…
Can I still separate my courses by section when filtering views?
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