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From Dashboard to Learning Command Center
This post includes a short student-facing video and a teacher-guided slide deck to help learners turn Canvas Dashboard customization into a purposeful learning routine. Students reflect on what they need to do, how they are doing, what they need to know, and who can help, building a Dashboard Top Four that supports those…
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Archiving Process/Policy
Hi everyone! This year I'm going to be working on an archiving process/policy for our district. We have been using Canvas since 2015 and have not had anything formal in place. We are a large-ish district of 58,000 students so there is a LOT to go through. If you have anything you can point to, share, or general advice-…
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Observers need to view completed quiz questions and answers
How can observers view quiz questions and answers after students have completed them. We need our observers to be able to obtain work samples which include quizzes. There doesn't seem to be a setting in the new quizzes but I hope I'm missing something.
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Parent App vs. Student App
Hello K12 users!! Someone posted a great question over in the Mobile forum, and I bet this group has awesome insights they can share. Let's post replies and ideas over on the original thread! I'm closing this one so we keep the conversation in one place. 🙌
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Why does the +People buttons not show up for teachers in Canvas LMS?
Our teachers said that the +People button in their courses was visible a few weeks ago but now it's gone. As a Canvas admin, I checked the permissions and teachers are checked off as having permission to add and remove students from their classes.
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Last years courses for my instructors don't show up
Last years classes for my teachers do not show up now. On the admin side I see them but I can't figure out why the instructors can't access them and it's a lot of teachers not just one. Ideas?
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Beta testing?
I'm sure, like many computer products, you guys will be doing Beta testing once you get to that stage in the process. When you do, what is the process for volunteering to do that?
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Mass Delete Non-SIS Courses
I am wanting to do some cleanup in our environment and delete some old Sandbox courses of staff that has left the district. Rather than doing this 1 course at a time, I found a post that mentioned to assign a course_id to those non-sis courses, then change the status to deleted and reimport the file. I ran a provisioning…
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Resource Roundup from Instructure New & Next | October 2025 (K-12)
This post summarizes the product updates covered in our Instructure New & Next webinars held on October 15 for our K-12 customers in North America. The webinar covered both features that are available now and features that are coming very soon. This time we organized the updates more clearly by product, based on your…
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Gradebook sorting options
A teacher of ours requested the ability to sort a gradebook by section. She likes to filter to all sections, but wishes she could sort the resulting list by section (All of period 1 students, then all of period 2 below that, etc.). Unfortunately, that option doesn't exist. Could it be added?