Annoto Personal Notes
Annoto Personal Notes is a feature that allows students or instructors to make time-tagged notes while watching videos. These notes are visible only to the individual who made them and help link notes to a particular part of a video for easy reference. You can use your personal notes to summarize the video, reflect …
Microsoft Immersive Reader in Canvas
Navigate this article : * Text Preferences * Grammar Options * Reading Preferences Microsoft Immersive Reader is an accessibility and reading experience tool integrated into Canvas. The tool can be used to help students read and understand course pages, assignment instructions, and the syllabus. It is not availab…
Students: Muting notifications for a single course
Canvas offers you the option to mute all of the notifications from an old course or organization site . Muting notifications will prevent this course from sending notifications to your FSU email account or to your mobile device via push notifications. Keep in mind: Muting a course's notifications may cause you to…
Honorlock Resources for Students
If you need an accommodation for a disability, please see our Need Accommodations? webpage. Your instructor may choose to proctor your exam online through Honorlock. This online proctoring software is used to help minimize and deter cheating in online exams. To do this, Honorlock records your exam session and noti…
Students: Using Kaltura's transcripts to study more efficiently
Kaltura videos include automatically generated or user-uploaded transcripts that contain the speech from the videos. These transcripts can be a useful resource when studying and are able to be downloaded and used by students. This article will show you how to use Kaltura transcripts to help you study more effectively…
How do I set a new time zone for my account in Canvas?
Are you a Distance Learning student at Florida State University? If so, we strongly recommend that you adjust your personal Canvas time zone settings to match your region. FSU's Canvas courses are automatically set to Eastern Time for all date and time displays, so times and dates you see within your Canvas courses…
Students: How to submit to a Career Portfolio Canvas assignment
You will need to complete your work in the FSU Career Portfolio system, and then submit the assignment in Canvas using the instructions below. If you run into any difficulties while creating your portfolio, you can refer to the Career Portfolio's User Guide , Career Portfolio Tutorials offered in powerpoint format…
Resetting Your Canvas Account Password
FSU uses a central authentication system which allows users to transition seamlessly between myFSU, Canvas, and many other FSU systems. Only one set of login credentials - your FSUID and password - are needed, and these credentials are maintained by FSU's Information Technology Services . In the event that you hav…
Students: How to disable Assignment celebration animations
Canvas will display a confetti celebration animation when you make submissions to certain types of Canvas Assignments before the due date. These include: * Regular Canvas assignments, including a file upload assignment, text-entry assignment, URL entry assignment, or media upload assignment * Canvas assignments u…
Known Issue: Turnitin Zoom Bug Causing Difficulty with Assignment Submission
This error only impacts the old Turnitin LTI integration . If you use the Turnitin Direct integration when creating Turnitin assignments, you will not experience this error. There is currently an issue with the Canvas integration of Turnitin where users' browsers are automatically zoomed in, which makes the conti…
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11/22/2024: Canvas Outage 500 Page Error [RESOLVED] Resolved [Posted 11/22/2024 at 1:29 pm ET] At 12:43 pm on 11/22/2024 Instructure reports the incident has been resolved. For the full timeline of the error, please see the Canvas System Status Page. Monitoring At 12:34 pm on 11/22/2024 A fix has been implemented and Instructure is monitoring the results. For the full timeline of the error, please see the Canvas System Status Page. Investigating [Posted 11/22/2024 at 12:24 pm ET] At 12:15 pm on 11/22/2024 Canvas has experienced an outage of service. Some users may be encountering 500 page errors in Canvas. Instructure is currently investigating the issue. For the full timeline of the error, please see the Canvas System Status Page.
11/20/2024: Hypothes.is Scheduled Maintenance and Outage Saturday Pending [Posted 11/20/2024 at 2:04 pm ET] Saturday, November 30th from 3:00 to 5:00 am ET Hypothes.is At 3:00 to 5:00 am ET on Saturday, 11/30/2024, Hypthes.is will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance. During this time, the platform will be unavailable.
11/19/2024: Some Canvas Users Experiencing a 500 Error [RESOLVED] Resolved [Posted 11/18/2024 at 9:55 pm ET] At 9:55 pm on 11/18/2024 Canvas reported the situation has been fully resolved. For the full timeline of the error, please see the Canvas System Status Page. Monitoring [Posted 11/18/2024 at 9:36 pm ET] At 9:36 pm on 11/18/2024 Canvas implemented a fix to the 500 error some United States users were experiencing in Canvas. To ensure the fix was successful they remained monitoring the situation. For the full timeline of the error, please see the Canvas System Status Page. Investigating [Posted 11/18/2024 at 9:06 pm ET] At 9:06 pm on 11/18/2024 Canvas was aware and started investigating a reported error of some United States users experiencing a 500 error while in Canvas. This error seems to have impacted some students by kicking them out of their exams. For the full timeline of the error, please see the Canvas System Status Page.
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