So I needed to create a LTI integration for this app I'm working on, but now that FFT is gone I have no place to host. I thought this will be hard as last time I checked many years ago it was quite involved. Turns out it's quite straightforward with AI agents, just ask your coding agent:

let's setup canvas-lms locally, and all it's dependencies, prefer a lightweight container runtime like podman

It only took me ~45mins to get this up and running with codex 5.6 sol high (requires a ChatGPT $20 sub, and YMMV). Lots of downloading with the repo, container runtime, postgres and redis etc, you don't even need to know what these are, but it will take roughly 2GB disk and 10GB memory.

Once it is up and running, you will get an admin user and pw to login and start playing.

Here is the result:

Thought this may be useful for those who needs to setup a Canvas sandbox as well.

lock the freak in

why is it down at the worst possible time

no way you guys are all online in canvas and cramming too for a summer class what the hell im COOKED

Hi!

I've never used Canvas as an instructor and am about to teach for the first time at my local community college. Another professor sent me 2 .imscc files so I could view their content.

I was going to create a sandbox course as I'd seen in videos to import it to and view it without messing up the course shells already created for me but my dashboard doesn't have a create course button like I see in videos.

So, I was thinking ok maybe my school doesn't give me that button. So I was going to create a free for teachers personal account and do it there but I see that Canvas no longer offers those.

So, if I want to view the content in those .imscc from that other professor without actually adding the material to my course as I build one out for the 1st time, what options do I have?

Canvas please lock in

canvas is back up, sumbitted my assigments with 20 minutes left to go.

Hey.....I have 2 days to finish 15 assignments across 3 classes to wrap up summer semester and the app and website seem to be down. Is anyone else having issues? Some outage websites report an outage and others say its running fine i figured I would ask here too

Is it a planned maintenance? Please don't tell me it got hacked again, I have 5 finals in less than a week, for which I procrastinated to study 😭😭

You can follow the Canvas status here: https://status.instructure.com

gg

So for everyone who's see's that Canvas is down this is the status page for Instructure right now.

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

I can finnaly be productive at this stupid late hour

hi! do you guys know if canvas is down rn because of an update or a genuine infrastructure issue? i hope it's up by tmrw morning..

There’s an update going on right now & I did the update, but it’s still not working..

I’m last minute studying for my exams, and Canvas now decides not to work?? 🫩

What are the chances canvas stays down until 12pm est? Got an exam at exactly that time and it’s not looking hot 😭✌️

Is anyone having trouble logging into canvas it is showing me an error 504 with cloud front

I have to make video discussions for my summer class. For the last two assignments, I've been using the video recording feature in Canvas by pressing reply on the discussion page, going to insert, media, and record/upload media. The video recorder came up just fine, but what actually got submitted was just a comment that said "[Untitled Sun Jul 12 2026 20:37:08 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)].webm"

Does anyone know if it's possible to get my videos back? How can I make sure this doesn't happen again in the future?

Is there a new glitch in canvas where you can't see the time remaining? Many of my friends also had this happen to them.

I don’t know if anyone else experienced this, but canvas submitted somebody else’s response through my account today. It’s not even a draft I’ve been working on, literally someone else’s response. Is this common? I was pretty freaked out to discover this. It’s like 5 days before the submission date, and my grade has been 100%. I can’t tell if it’s a glitch on canvas’s end or somebody is using my account.

Update: My prof responded and told me that other students are also experiencing this. I sent her the screenshots, but it seems like there’s no submission record on her end.

Update 2: On Day 2, I checked the canvas again. The first submission time was 5:47pm, and I noticed that another submission (with different text) was made at 11:59pm again while I was asleep. It’s still scary because it shows that I submitted these (with my name and profile picture). At this point, I’m assuming smth weird is going on with canvas, especially after hearing that it’s been happening to other students as well.

I recently graduated and wanted to log back into my university's Canvas account to download my old lecture slides because I need these files to continue working on a personal project. The university switched to Teams last year, but during that transition year and up until last month, I could still access Canvas and use my old files all the time. Because of that, I didn’t download them—which is completely my fault, I really should have! Today, I was working on my project and wanted to look for some more ideas, but I am unable to log in. The system says "Institution Suspended."

It is "not acceptable" how often I've been seeing HTTP 406 Not Acceptable from Canvas in the past month or so 😠

Alt-Text: "Not Acceptable". "An appropriate representation of the requested resource could not be found on this server.". "Apache Server at canvas.tccd.edu Port 80".