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Is anyone other than me really bothered by the big red dots that appear in front of students' names if they haven't submitted the assignment? I find them really distracting, and my first instinct is to think that they mean I need to check on something with that student. It's like a stoplight, and personally, I don't find…
I teach a semester long class, but I can usually sort my gradebook by the quarter. That stopped today. Has something changed? I prefer to look at grades in the current grading period. I do not want to see the entire semester. Any suggestions?
Canvas deploys contain code changes that are intended to fix bugs, improve performance, and prepare for new features. These deploys take place every two weeks and can be tested in the beta environment before the production deploy date indicated in the title of this document. New to deploy notes? Visit Understanding Release…
I have entered several Outcomes at the Admin Level and created rubrics from them (also at the Admin level). However, I can not find out how to add them to my course. Old notes are obsolete…
For those of you who use the Learning Mastery Gradebook in your courses, what are your thoughts about the updates? Do they improve your understanding of students' outcome mastery? What about the interface? The old version certainly needed some improvements. I did like the pie charts, however. Hovering the mouse pointer…
I really valued the Canvas Quizzes for the diversity of question types and the opportunity to offer immediate feedback and retry attempts. My school district will not purchase the Respondus lockdown browser. Without that it seems that Canvas Quizzes are useless in the age of AI. Students can easily use AI to complete these…
A student PDF submitted on October 6, 2026, is intermittently failing to display in Canvas SpeedGrader as of October 21. The original PDF downloads successfully, but DocViewer repeatedly returns HTTP 202 with the following response: {"error":"document_not_ready","retry_after":2} The request repeats approximately every two…
New Feature Release Timing: Generally Available December 2026 as a root-account feature option, off by default. Early Adopter Program (EAP): October 22, 2026 – November 22, 2026. Regional Availability: Global Customer Type: Higher Education, K12, Business & Government Available with: Canvas Core Key Takeaway: With the…
Release notes outline upcoming customer-impacting changes that are expected to display in beta and/or production environments. Please note that features considered for future development are not included in the notes. New to release notes? Visit Understanding Release Notes for a guide on how to read and use this document.…
We have a teacher who, when trying to add discussions to a module, cannot see all of them. One of my theories is that there are too many discussions in the course, as there are over 400, and that the pop-up window can only display a limited number at a time. This is just a theory, though. This is a blueprint course, and we…