Recent Updates

  • Updated on: Apr 20, 2024

    How do I switch groups as a student?

  • Updated on: Apr 20, 2024

    How do I create a group as a student?

    As a student, you can create your own Student Groups for study groups, discuss an assignment, etc. You can be part of more than one student group.

    Note: If you cannot see the People tab in your course, or if you cannot see the Add Group button, your instructor has restricted this feature.

  • If your institution is using an Edu App Center whitelist, you can manage your whitelist directly in Canvas. To apply the whitelist, you will need to know the API token created for your Edu App Center organization. The access token syncs the External Apps list at both the account and course levels to only show apps from the Edu App Center whitelist set up for the organization.

    Admins can manage the app list at any time to remove or replace an access token. When an account or subaccount does not include an access token, the External Apps list displays the default app list provided by Canvas. Whitelists can only be managed at the account and subaccount levels.

    Canvas only accepts one API token for an organization. A token applied at the account level automatically filters down to to all subaccounts. The Edu App Center supports creating multiple tokens for an organization, but each token directs to the same whitelist. If you want to create separate whitelists that apply to individual subaccounts, you'll need to create additional organizations in the Edu App Center and create API tokens for each whitelist.

  • Updated on: Apr 20, 2024

    What options can I set in a quiz?

    When you create a quiz, you have a variety of options to choose from within a quiz.

  • You can create a conference in your student group. Conferences can accommodate up to 50 people.

    You can create multiple conferences, which are listed in chronological order by the date they were created. The most recently created conference will appear at the top of the list.

    Note: Creating a conference is a course permission. If you cannot create a conference, your institution has restricted this feature.

  • To stop students from posting replies to individual announcements, you can close an announcement to comments.

    If necessary, you can also disable comments for all announcements in a course.

    Notes:

    • If your announcements display a lock icon, announcement comments have already been closed to comments. Based on your institution's preference, comments may be disabled by default.
    • You may be able to open individual announcements for comments that have been closed. However, if the option to open a comment is not available, your institution has restricted this feature.
  • You can move multiple questions from one question bank to another. When moving multiple questions to a question banks, you will not have the option to leave a copy in the original question bank. If you want to copy your questions instead of moving them, you can copy questions individually.

  • You can copy course content such as assignments, modules, pages, and discussions from previous Canvas courses into existing courses.

    This option allows you to copy content into existing courses. You may be able to copy content into a new course shell.

    Notes:

    • Draft State settings are retained in course imports. If an assignment is unpublished in a course, the assignment will also be unpublished in the content import.
    • Importing a course more than once may have unintended consequences. If you import content into a new course, edit the content in the new course, and later import the previous content again, the imported content will override the existing content.
    • Not all content can be copied as part of a course.