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Hello, Everyone! I am relatively new to being a Canvas administrator, and I have an instructor who would like to add rubrics to their quizzes/exams. They want to add a rubric to a 10-question/20-point multiple-choice quiz. Would there be any benefit ...

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Does anyone have any recommendations on how to format the works cited or reference lists in the textbox within Canvas for an assignment? I have lost points on almost every assignment because the professors find something wrong with the view they see....

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We are trying to access the quiz logs for our students. I noticed that when we review a quiz in speedgrader the quiz does not have a Quiz Logs button available to us to check those logs. Reading some of your documentation, I understand that this need...

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I need to confirm the date and time when a student first clicked to access a Quiz. I would also like to do this for every other Assignment for a particular student. How do I do that? 

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Every time I do an assignment I try to leave the assignment and save my data, but I can't. Every time I leave, it makes me start all over again. Canvas people, PLEASE MAKE IT TO WHERE I CAN LEAVE AN ASSIGNMENT AND NOT LOSE ALL MY PROGRESS. Thank you ...

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We had Nearpod LTI setup in Canvas LMS year ago. Recently a user reported some modules with Nearpod content returns a message "Information > This code or link is no longer valid > OK". After clicking OK, it returns an error "error "Nearpod.com refuse...

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Hello, I'm working on a process to remove courses/sections that have already been deleted in Jenzabar but are still present in Canvas. When I run the process, I have the courses files and the sections file with a "deleted" status for the courses/sect...

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We are just beginning the implementation phases of Canvas LMS. We uploaded standards from CCSS, NGSS, and our state department of education. The standards have imported in an odd sort order... something like:third gradesecond gradefifth gradefirst gr...

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I am an instructional coach. I create ACT material for my teachers and share it with them. Recently, I created a stimulus quiz in new quizzes. The passage is on the left and the questions on the right. On my account, it previews correctly. When I sha...

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We currently utilize a Microsoft form to simulate an online job application for our students.  I would like to be able to replicate this experience within Canvas, but can't determine whether there is the capability to do so.  I believe that I could m...

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I have an instructor that wants to see all student's regardless of submission or not in SpeedGrader for all of her assignments so that she doesn't have to grade from the assignment and the gradebook.  She only sees the students that have submitted in...

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Is there a way for the general object checkboxes in the blueprint settings to allow us to lock ALL content in the blueprint? Instead of having to do this 1 by 1 for each piece of content on the blueprint page?I see there was a post on something simil...

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  What does a little human icon mean on the discussion page (icon to the right)?

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Hi, I'm stuck in the calendar view for my Dashboard. I'd like to go back to seeing my Courses instead. The three dots seem to have dissapeared from the top right of the screen, so I'm unable to reset the view. Any suggestions how to reset this? Thank...

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We are migrating our SIS from Skyward SMS to Skyward Qmlativ.  I do not have any contact information for our current CSM.  Where do I find this?

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Hi all- We are about to administer our NSSE survey to first-year students and seniors. I will assume there is a way to embed the NSSE link in Canvas, so all of these students have access to the survey. Does anyone have experience with this or am I th...

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Quick question --- could a student copy and paste information before lockdown browser and hit control v when in lockdown browser?

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In my course I have a page called 'Additional reading material' where I post recommended articles and literature. I have never had any issues with it but now changes I make are not showing up when I press save? What is extra strange is that when pres...

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A new student enrolled last week and has been in PowerSchool since then.  He is not showing in Canvas.  Any thoughts on why this might be?

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How can i enter a quiz automatically in Canvas? I have it in the form of multiple choice questions with answers in a word document.

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Hi there, I have students submit assessment in a course in 2024 that was marked on speedgrader with the results in the course markbook.  The students have since rolled over in to the year 12 course (it was a year 11 course) but I wanted access to the...

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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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