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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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I want to terminate my account and request to be forgotten, but all possible ways as described in helpfiles appear not available to me. I can also not find any other way to get support than this way, by posting in community. Please delete my account ...

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Hi all!For our Spring intake at our University, we’re thinking about making orientation materials available early, but we don’t want students to start too soon.Is there a way in Canvas to release content on specific dates without manually publishing ...

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Hello, I am an instructor, hoping to get in contact with a CSM to assist with integrating Office365 with Canvas, in Australia. When trying to add the app, I am asked to contact my CSM for a Consumer Key & Shared Secret. Please let me know how I can g...

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I am requesting a change to the Canvas feature "Add to Student To-Do List." Currently, when a page is added to the Student To-Do List in Canvas, it is immediately visible to students, regardless of its scheduled publish date. This can be problematic ...

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When I revise my lesson plans and hit 'save' there is a reply that says "Lock date cannot be after course ends." But I've checked this and even re-entered dates that are before the last day of the course and no matter what date I put I get the same r...

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Before the move to GA4 we used to use a dashboard which, I think, had been developed by the UK HE Canvas community. It was free and very useful; senior management loved it. Does anybody know of a dashboard for GA4? Adam

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There were three required Discussions in my class. Some students missed the deadline for completing one or more of these discussions. Thus, I want to create a 4th discussion that is optional for students to complete. The student who would likely opt ...

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In this term, we have several students without 0's in the Gradebook for Missing Assignments. However, our Gradebook Settings, under Late Policies, is set to "Automatically apply grade for missing submissions" of 0%.  This is true in all of our course...

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We've had several instances where a student has been concluded in a course but no one went in to conclude the student. How is this happening?

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How do I enable a page that is in the left side bar, so that it gets visible to students?Thanks!

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Hello Community,  I am a district technology facilitator and I have a teacher that has created an assignment using Google Slides. One criteria for this presentation is for the students to create animation within the slide deck. However when they subm...

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Is there a way to batch edit assignment details? I would like to change the settings for all assignments at once. For example, change the Allowed Attempts from the default number to Unlimited. 

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A teacher of ours has made a peer review assignment and students have 2 attempts. Now a few of the students missed the due date and did not turn in their first assignment. The result is that they can't give feedback on the other students assignment. ...

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I've been asked these questions by a teacher regarding student booking appointments in Canvas for one-to-ones. I've had a scan of previous posts and read guides on the usual way of doing this but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing another way of ...

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Has anyone experienced Canvas automatically reverting quiz grade posting policies (from automatic to manual) even if we have it set to automatic for all quizzes by default?So once the students have attempted a quiz, the quiz appears as "muted", where...

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Um, has anyone done a Canvas orientation that includes like breakout groups or team activities? I’m planning one for our new students at my University, and I’m wondering how to keep it interactive. Would love some ideas!!

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