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Dear all,I need to assign two different quizzes to two different groups of students in the class, on different dates.Quizzes belong to a weighted group assignment which is worth the 30% of the final grade.My question is: If I create 2 different quizz...

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I am the instructor for the course and I accidentally submitted an assignment for the wrong student. Now there is no way to remove the submission. Can you help with this?

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Wondering if anyone knows how an instructor can see the usage of a particular file by all students on the roster. They want to know how effective a particular study guide file is before creating more like them for all the assessments. An individual s...

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Hello Canvas Community, I am using a tablet and can't log in. I've checked to make sure my password is correct, checked my email, etc., but nothing is working. I need help 

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Can an instructor see what question(s) a student flags during an examination after submitting a New Quiz on Canvas.I am able to pull up the "View Log" showing the students start time, end time as well and changing answers but I do not see if they fla...

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Our group is beginning to utilize Canvas Outcomes for reporting for ABET on a mastery (0-4) scale along with the previously utilized 0-100% scale for specific assignments. Utilization of free-form comments prevents the rubric from also being able to ...

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Anyone else only able to view the last 10 events for a course's Gradebook History at the moment? Beta oddly shows the same data from today, while Test shows 10 events just prior to the refresh. I have submitted a ticket and am awaiting a response.

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Can students see the actual grade change in a grade change notification? For example, if I entered a new grade for a student by mistake and then (a few minutes later) entered the original lower grade again, will the student get a notification that in...

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When I use the equation editor in the Canvas discussion board to insert an equation with LaTex and say Done, the reply form returns without the menu above (i.e., nothing at all). That means if I want to insert another equation or underline text, etc,...

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3 questions,  all dealing with how canvas arranges assignments in the gradebook.  1) In Canvas Gradebook Settings, under View Options, I have Arrange By set to Due Date - Newest to Oldest.  However it won't stick and I frequently find it set back to ...

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Looking for a way that my colleagues and I can input assessment dates onto a calendar for our student body.We are teaching online via Canvas and need to maintain a “working” calendar throughout the year for our entire cohort of students in each year....

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Hi everyone,I'm hoping someone might have encountered this issue and can shed some light on it.We’ve had a strange issue with a series of calendar events in Canvas for one of our modules. The series of events has been working fine, but today’s specif...

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In the past (more than a year ago) when I posted an Announcement in Canvas, it was also sent to students via email.That doesn't seem to be happening now, and I don't see any reference to this in my class settings.

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Hello there,It's been three days I am facing an issue in canvas learning while I want to open my lesson, when I go to Dashboard then selecting any of my subjects, go to modules/ selecting the lesson, it opens but the graphic format is showing wrongly...

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I'm one of the few people doing Learning Mastery having to input my own outcomes, so I don't have help from my district or site, so hoping someone can help me. I have inputted my own outcomes in my courses (so much work!). I have linked each individu...

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How does Canvas determine the "average" grade for a "Category" ? For instance, if the category is "Lecture quizzes", but individual quizzes within that category are worth different amounts of points, is each quiz "weighted" equally???? This is import...

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Good morning,I am a teacher and i use Free-for-Teacher account of Canvas. After finishing modules with mastery paths and check the student view, after taking the quiz the massage "next mastery path is still processing" appears on the next button as t...

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I have created a quiz to assess my students on a piece of work. Some of the questions give feedback based on the whether they have the answer correct or incorrect. Also also have a rubric attached to the quiz.I am able to select the rubric easily eno...

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I have been using the free canvas app with my students as my school is a private school without an LMS, and I have not been able to find a way to disable student to student messaging on inbox. I saw a supposed checkbox that I could unmark in the sett...

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How long after completing a course will the content remain accessible to me? I would like to be able to recover some material from my undergrad (I am now in a Masters program) and I'm wondering if it is a Canvas decision or instructor/institution-spe...

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i have been in IT for 40 years so not exactly a computer nubbie.there seems to be at least 2 ways thru the portal to make an account.  i tried both.  both either say i have an invalid pairing code, which i dont, its current, the other web form just g...

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I am an independent developer, not associated with any institution. I want to request enabling LTI Developer Key (in my free account?) so that I can develop integrations with our online teaching platform. Whom do I contact to request this? thank you.

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I need some function in Canvas LMS available for Admins/Instructors that, based on a given quiz (New Quizzes!), generates a printable version of it. This function should adjust the layout of different question types to a format suitable for solving o...

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It happens, not often, but regularly that our SIS-system introduces duplicates of an individual, that then subsequently gets merged in the SIS-system. To keep our Canvas in step with the SIS-system, we then manually merge these duplicates (or delete ...

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When marking assignments on iPad it is handy to ink the student submission, but there is no ability to copy ink to reuse. I like to write a comment / feedback, then re-use it on other student's work. It would save time if I could copy the handwritten...

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I'm an instructor. I've published an assignment, but students don't find a window to submit it. Also Student View shows no "Submit" button.  What do I need to do to enable students to submit the assignment?

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I have an instructor who has lost his modules through no fault of his own. both modules from previous courses and recent course are not visible and no content is visible. we were unable to use the delete command to restore the data. How can we find o...

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I have folder with 70 files, one for each student group, that I want to link to from the Assignment page, but I cannot seem to get a link to the folder, which is inside the course's Canvas page. None of the (archived) suggestions help: https://commun...

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I am my school's Canvas admin.  A teacher accidentally deleted 29 assignments from a course.  He meant to delete only one but was distracted while in class with his students - separate discussion, so let's not go there.  If I am correct, there is a q...

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How can I hide suspended users in the peoples listing?

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