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I am using canvas lite for a collage course to learn how to create a canvas course. When trying to make a quiz I keep getting this error message. "There is a problem with this assessment. Please contact your instructor."
Help, I do not have Blackboard as an option when I try to import content on my Canvas Lite. Is there a way to get it to be an option? I only have, "Common Cartridge 1.x Package" "Copy a Canvas Course" "Canvas Course Export Package" I have used Blackboard 6/7/8/9 Ultra for many years with Canvas and Canvas Free but it is…
Click Begin. Answer them to the best of your knowledge. Then click Submit at the bottom. Last, click View Score to see how you did, and that's it you're done. Have a great rest of your day. See you soon, or should I say post you soon? LOL!
Whether you’ve built a script to save time on grading or manage an integration your institution depends on, API access helps you make Canvas work for your needs. We want to keep supporting that flexibility while giving you better ways to manage and secure those connections. That’s why we’re building new options to replace…
Is there any possibility to have students that are still pending in a class also marked as such under where they are set in groups? The work on me as a teacher to be going back and forth and wondering why my students are ending up alone in a group project is so much greater than if I could see who is pending and who is not…
In the Gradebook if you choose the default "Excused" status for a student record the colour of the cell changes and the word "Excused" appears in the cell but for all the other status's (eg. "Late" or "Missing") only the colour changes. I want to create a custom status called "Pending", with a unique colour, and have both…
At our institution, we have quite a few resource shells where faculty members need to be enrolled as students. However, we've uncovered that many of the faculty members have a higher-level admin view of these courses, meaning that they can see content outside of their assigned section, but that they also can't use regular…
Welcome to the Instructure Community Weekly Highlights blog! Every Monday, we will update you with all the goings-on in the Instructure world from the previous week: community updates, product updates, new blogs to read, and everything else you'll need to know will be here! Community Spotlights Introduction to Audio…
I teach 8th-grade ELA and Georgia Studies, and I am looking for ways to make Canvas easier for middle school students to navigate. I especially want to make assignments and directions more manageable for students who need information broken into smaller steps. What are your best tips for organizing modules, assignments,…
We made a series of changes to the SpeedGrader student list icons, and this disrupted your grading. This blog post is meant to share what happened, and how we’re working to avoid it happening again. What happened Initially the student list conveyed submission status differently on screen than it did to assistive…
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…
Hi all, I'm looking for some feedback on a possible change at our K-12 institution. Currently, we create separate classes for our year levels and subjects, for example, we have 6 Year 8 English classes, who are all associated to one Year 8 English Blueprint. We're tossing up whether it could be better for us to create one…
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.…
Has anyone successfully synced courses from Banner to a Canvas subaccount using Ellucian ILP? We are currently using Banner as our SIS and are trying to configure course-level subaccount assignments.
I haven't been able to find anything specific about exporting a Canvas Career course. My question is about format: when I export the course through Canvas Academic (there's nothing I saw in Career itself for export), it only exports an HTML/JS zip package. Is that the only option? @canvassupport1 or anyone?
Recently, Canvas changed the rubrics in SpeedGrader. Now assessor's comments in Rubrics remain in edit mode even after assesors have clicked "Submit Assessment" and published the grades. My colleagues have the same problem. Is this really how it is supposed to work?
I teach middle school, and I am looking for ideas for using Canvas to support students who need extra structure with assignments. I already try to break directions into smaller steps, but I would like to know what other features or routines teachers use to make expectations clearer and help students stay organized. Have…
This discussion was created from comments split from: Instructure Community Weekly Highlights (October 27 - November 2, 2026).
Hello everyone! Thank you for joining us at yesterday's Impact User Group meeting. Here is the link to the slide deck as well as the as the recording: Slides Recording Passcode: 2?=ub*!D Also, here are some quick tips for guides and segments in Impact: To ensure guides don't appear on assessment pages/during assessments,…
It would be helpful to see at least part of an essay submitted by students as I'm making my audio comments. Now, though, the modal box takes up most of the screen real estate in Speed Grader preventing me from quoting from what the student has submitted. Could it be smaller if one is choosing audio comments (rather than…
My iSpring lectures (in HTML5) were imported into the new Canvas Lite. They play well, but the audio (mp3) is intermittent. In trying to correct this behavior, I cannot successfully re-upload these files. How is everyone else uploading these types of lecture videos?
Hello Canvas Community! Does anyone utilize TouchNet as their payment system for Canvas Catalog courses? And if so, does anyone implement a Marketplace uStore? Other than adding tax into the course enrollment fee, does anyone have a working solution between Catalog and TouchNet Marketplace to collect tax for taxable online…
This is incredibly frustrating. I use a rubric with imported outcomes to grade my assignments. Each problem is mapped to an outcome, scored on a scale with 4 tiers (the upper 2 tiers granting mastery). For a few of my students—not all—grading a new assignment deletes their earned mastery on an earlier, unrelated…
Join us for the 2026 Illinois Canvas Connect event being held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This one-day immersive event will explore the latest innovations transforming the higher ed landscape in Illinois. Whether you're enhancing the digital classroom with Canvas or modernizing admissions and…
You already know students are using AI. The harder problem is that a finished draft no longer tells you how much of the thinking was theirs, and traditional detection tools get it wrong often enough to put you at risk with the wrong student. Changing the assignment solves more of this than changing a policy. When an…
The Instructure Community Developers Group is gathering to meet some fellow developers of Canvas customizations and external tool integrations. Discuss projects you're working on, success stories of past projects, and things you may be struggling with. Request to join the Instructure Community Developers Google Group to…
The Canvas Klatch is an online office hour open to all members of the Instructure Community. It started as an office hour for the courses I teach for the Online Network of Educators: Introduction to Teaching with Canvas Advanced Techniques with Canvas Online Teaching and Design Equity & Culturally Responsive Online…
Workflow Insights & Shared Resources from Last Month's User Group Join us for a brief summary of key workflow lessons learned and top resources shared during our October user group session ("Steal My Workflow"). Discover actionable insights and practical takeaways to help optimize your district's vetting processes. Session…