Please send information on how "Elementary School Counselor" can use Canvas. I need a jump start:)
Thanks
Hi @Kfregiad
Welcome to the Canvas Community. This is a public discussion board for Canvas users from different schools all over the world.
Canvas is a Learning Management System, used primarily to deliver course materials to students. There is an overview at https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Basics-Guide/What-is-Canvas/ta-p/45
Are you using Canvas through your school, or are you using the "Free for Teacher" version? If you are using it through your school, the school may have specific resources set up for you.
With the new SpeedGrader UI, we are seeing student names appear in the page title even when the “Hide student names” setting is enabled. When using Classic Quizzes, there is no option within the quiz settings to enable anonymous grading, so we rely on instructors using the hide student names setting in SpeedGrader to…
Has anyone had a chance to try this with a Canvas quiz? Seems it may have a similar effect as ChatGPT Atlas able to provide all the answers to an open Quiz. https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/microsoft_adds_a_sidepane_for/
When you are creating a quiz and/or also reviewing a quiz in Canvas after the class has taken it, the questions aren't numbered so after you get past the first few questions, there is no way to even tell what number you are on. Can someone change that?
Speedgrader chaning file name when being downloaded. Speedgrader: When downloading a submitted assignment, the file name is being changed to an unrecognizable name — (Student's actual name was part of the file name — changed for privacy.) Ideas???
We are all familiar with the standard Course Calendar, where assignment due dates are automatically added. However, at my institution, we structure our assignments as Challenges that develop over a period of time, rather than just a single deadline. Currently, the calendar only highlights the "end point." It would be a…
