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Hi everyone, After deleting the developer key through the web interface, it gets successfully deleted, but when I refresh the page, it reappears. I also tried deleting it via the Canvas API using DELETE /api/v1/developer_keys/:id, and the request was...

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Is there a feature on Canvas on the Student Profiles to have their student identification number for ease of access for themselves and us as teachers? Thanks in advance,Roxanne

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Hi,  I need some help and advice.  We asked a vendor to help develop a SCORM courseware using storyline, we created like text box, asking students to send their comment, we uploaded the SCORM into canvas as assignment, the graded quizzes work ok, but...

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How do you prevent or allow faculty course title editing by an admin?  We create all courses via .csv upload and are moving to ILP.  On the Canvas Admin, I want to adjust settings to allow faculty to edit the course title.  I have been unable to loca...

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HI Is there a way to enroll a user in multiple courses in bulk? I have to assign advisors to courses and one advisor has 15 courses so wondering if there is a better way to do this than individually enrolling her in each course. Thank you!

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Hi Canvas admin: I just have a question on uploading custom cascading style sheets (CSS) and JavaScript (JS) files on the theme editor page in this article: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Admin-Guide/How-do-I-upload-custom-JavaScript-and-CSS-file...

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I have a student who has to be reactivated in a class daily. What do I need to do to fix this to ensure he remains active?

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I NEED ASSISTANCE IN CONTACTING THE REGISTRAR'S OFFICE TRINITY LAW SCHOOL IN THAT I HAD AN UNFORESEEN ILLNESS ONSET AND WAS LATE IN TURNING IN AN ASSIGNMENT.Outlined in the [Spring 2025 MLS 541 8915 Torts Class Syllabus Last Updated March 4, 2025]. I...

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Hi, Can I as a Canvas admin see whether a given Person's login account is based on Canvas native authentication, versus MS Entra, Google, or some other SSO/SAML source/IDP?  Just browsing around in the Persons page I am not seeing anything obvious......

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After the assignments have been submitted and the Download Submissions button is selected, the zip file that is downloaded marks the Last Modified date of all the files as the GMT time the Zip file was created rather than the time the submissions wer...

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when i create a multiple answer question for 6 points with 3 correct answers and 3 incorrect answers- will the the points be awarded 2 for each correct answer?

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I am an administrator, and we are converting from another testing platform to Canvas.  We have been using Canvas for course work for several years now.  The platform we use DOES NOT have a way to export our questions.  We are therefore planning to co...

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Hi, My reading of the SSO integration guides for Microsoft is that they assume integration with Microsoft education/business/organization accounts.  Has anyone successfully set up Canvas SSO with Microsoft Consumer/MSA accounts, allowing users to "br...

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I've seen that using Canvas Commons as a template enables one to make a change in Commons and push it to a live course. Is it possible to do this any other way besides using Commons? 

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When creating Outcomes, there's a description field and a "friendly" description field that is supposed to display for students.  I am creating an outcome at the sub-account level, and have entered different text into the friendly description field: ...

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I’m looking for—an archiving solution that allows us to remove old courses from Canvas while keeping backups of everything, including files. So far, I haven’t found a solution outside of K16. Have you come across any reliable process or vendor for th...

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Every time I read an article and look at the video box (or whatever it is), this error appears. Does anyone know what it means?

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We are identifying courses that do not have an associated blueprint or that, even with a blueprint, have pending synchronization. To resolve these issues before users raise complaints, I would like to know if there is a way to perform this check in b...

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I would like to know if it is possible to condition the completion of an assessment based on the scores obtained by the student in previous evaluations.For example, imagine we have three tasks: an Activity worth 40 points, a Test worth 60 points, and...

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Hi Community! Does anyone know if there is any sort of feature or LTI that would show me a dashboard of live data from the platform? I'm after some sort of screen showing graphics of how many active users we have on courses/course completion/assignme...

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Scenario: I want to make self-sign up groups that have different names - so 80 groups in total, divided into 3 lots of groupwork -Tutorial 1, groupwork -Tutorial 2, groupwork -Tutorial 3. This helps to identify for students which groups in their tuto...

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Have a Canvas site running from 2018 and we are missing a page that was mostly likely deleted in cleanup. When I go to the restore/undelete queue it only shows deleted material from 2018-2022. Is there a time period, or a refresh that I need to do to...

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Please Help! I am helping a teacher move her courses from Moodle to Canvas. All were fine except for this particular group of courses. I upload the course using Moodle file upload. It looks like it is going to work but I receive a error that say, "Un...

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Is anyone aware of a way to prevent (turn-off) the "Import Course Content" option for the "Teacher" role from the administrator side. As an administrator and per some recent questions via a committee, we are wanting to temporarily prevent faculty fro...

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OK so this is a pretty strange question (actually it's more of a discussion) so I will make sure to give you background and context first.   I am the Director of Educational Technology and my school's Canvas Admin at my high school (grades 9-12).  W...

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When editing a Canvas course DELAYED announcement, every Save of that announcement draft sent a notification to all course users. Created much confusion and chaos.Why would that happen and how to avoid?

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How do I delete a student that is no longer in my course?

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We are experiencing an issue in Speed Grader where the 'Reassign' option is greyed out, preventing us from reassigning submissions. This issue has occurred after, and seems to be linked to, an unexpected enrolment change that moved students between t...

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We are in the planning stages of moving from Zoom Pro LTI 1.1 to LTI 1.3.  Our original 1.1 install was installed using a Zoom personal account instead of a service account (which we don't want).  So, I will be installing Zoom Pro LTI 1.3 from scratc...

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