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Hi,Our Canvas site has enhancements turned on. I normally set up assessments as an 'Online File Upload' and turn the Turnitin Plagiarism Review on.This semester I have set the assessment up as an external tool > Microsoft OneDrive LTI 3 assignment wi...

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Hello, I am trying to find a way to put a downloaded link from an eBook on to a page?  The link cannot be edited and I am trying to see how I can move it onto a page instead of it sitting in the Modules.

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My Accessibility Checker constantly flags my content for lists. I would happily comply and use the list function (bullets, numbers) in Canvas if it weren't so difficult to use. It is practically impossible to create any list resembling an outline in ...

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Hello, In Canvas we have encountered a problem with courses we loaded via SIS where many of them the course dates did not transfer to the sections tab of course settings. Upon investigation we did notice in some cases it was due to instructors in the...

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Hi there, Will Canvas Studio be part of the new Block Editor? I notice on our Beta version there is an block option in there called 'Media' but it does not look like or have the functionality of Studio. Also, having looked at the block editor on our ...

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Is there a way to automatically resend course invitations? Currently, our institution manually resends invitations at 7 and 14 days for our shorter courses and 30, 60, and 90 days for our year-long access courses. This is creating a lot of work for o...

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Friends of mine are using the ‘free for teachers’ version of Canvas and have asked me to look into their best CDN options for delivering audio and video assets into their course. After spending a couple of hours looking into this, I’m still no closer...

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Hi All,  We've encountered an interesting error while trying to edit a sequence of HTML files for pages:  We have been getting the body of individual pages from Get calls through Postman API. We've been copying this code to a Google Sheets spreadshee...

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I have looked and could not find anything regarding this.I am looking to see or audit who created or provided admin access to certain users.I have looked at different reports, notificiations, and enrollments but havent found which other admin provide...

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Hi I have created a blueprint course, and made a check mark in "make the course a blue print course" in the settings. Afterwards a have associated two courses to the blueprint course. In my settings I have added two courses. These courses are syncron...

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We are a school that uses colleague and upload users from colleague to Canvas. We have this one student with a name that does not match anything we have in our system. We checked their name, nickname and chosen and none of those matches the student's...

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My campus has a program where students get to choose an "enrichment" period where they choose in which teacher's classroom they want to be.  Not all students, however, are allowed to participate.  Some advanced classes use this time for extra practic...

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Is there any way to get the "Course Audit log" Published dates from the Canvas database?Problem: It seems like currently the only way to get this information is from the Course Audit log API command.Background: A dean wants to be able to run an SQL r...

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I have over 150 links that were returned as broken links via the link validator.  I'd like to export the listing into a spreadsheet so that I can track what was fixed.Is there an option in exporting the list rather than me copying/paste in a spreadsh...

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I would like student access reports for all of our graduates. Is there a way to get an individual student's views and participations for every course they enrolled in on one report?  Would you need to have an admin role or could an instructor pull th...

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can I hide a student in a list of a course? I need the student can't appear in the list the students that they have califications, ths student only will see the content but he won't be abel to have grades

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Buenos días Me gustaría saber si con el rol de profesor existe un permiso para que pueda actuar en nombre de un estudiante. He revisado los permisos y no encuentro uno que lo active. Muchas gracias

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Instructors who have been using Canvas for a long time who haven't necessarily been responsible for optimizing files. Uploaded files such as images and other instructional content that should have been part of a course files storage area seem to stic...

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Estoy intentando subir mis tareas, pero el mensaje "Error al cargar borrador de la entrega" aparece en todas mis clases. ¿Qué debo hacer?

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So previously Speed Grader showed only the relevant student's posts.  It showed their original post and their replies to other students.  That way, I was able to grade the student's posts (with speed). But now, it just shows the whole forum centered ...

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Has anyone encountered a situation where quiz data and the evaluation portion of a quiz were deleted by a teacher? How can I retrieve this information?        

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Hi all!So, I need to preface with saying I work in a Title 1 middle school, with great (but sneaky) kiddos. For my big unit quizzes, I use Google Forms because of their Lockdown Quiz feature that works perfectly with student Chromebooks. On Canvas, t...

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I'm able to create a new course via the API. However, the Let students organize their own groups box is checked (see the new on on the right).  What parameter is used to set it to unchecked that?  

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We have a highly evolved approach to our Capstone Projects and Dissertations which have one convenor/leader and up to 50 supervisors. Whilst the Capstone leader is responsible for maintaining the content, individual students are assigned to individua...

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I have migrated our courses to the new quizzes but the build on last parameters need to be set. As they all have the same parameters, can I update this build setting in bulk or do I have to do it one by one? Once course has 76 quizzes Thanks    

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I've been on a 30 minute seek and find to try to find a way to give feedback on the discussion redesign. In short - it's TERRIBLE!Grading discussion questions is now a laborious process extending my grading time due to all the extra clicking to find ...

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HelloWhen Trainers login to Canvas is there somewhere they can view all of their submitted assessments that require marking?Additionally is there a report that Admins can run to see this information?Thanks!

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Please help me!  I have created 3 new assignment pages and each time, when I am done and click on the blank assignment page to make a copy to start a new assignment, the previous assignment I just made disappears and is NOWHERE to be found.  Not in h...

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We turned on the feature to allow checkpoints yesterday. We have faculty who you use group discussions to keep their clinical groups together for grading. When you go in to click "Assign graded checkpoints" the group set goes away. When I save and go...

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Our institution only allows administrators to generate user access tokens to prevent any misuse and enhance security to our Canvas users. Due to increasing demands, we may require enabling user access tokens creation for these users. Is there a way t...

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