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I'm an administrator and an ELA teacher in my school shared with me that after we imported course content from her previous course, for each Assignment that used Google Assignments LTI as the external tool, she had to do this: Edit the Assignment to ...

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How do I edit the number of attempts in an assigned assessment after the assignment has been published?

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Apologies if this question has been posted or answered in the guides and I didn't find it; the keywords are a bit tricky as you might imagine. I'm new to Canvas and trying to work out policies and resources for our K-12 district ahead of our August 2...

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We have installed the new Microsoft Education (LTI). In the Admin Settings is the option "Hide Admin settings for all users" is fade out. I can't find any artikel of documentation how I can enable this option. We don't want the users to change the se...

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Which rest API can be used to get the number of logins per student for a term?

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Our institution (Pepperdine) recently transitioned from the Sakai LMS to Canvas.  In Sakai, we had the ability to configure Turnitin default settings when setting up an assignment. But in Canvas, it appears we don't have that ability.  In particular,...

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My school district is requiring us to issue letter grades based on course outcomes. I have my summatives linked to the course outcomes in Canvas, but the letter grades seem to still be based on their formative work that's being recorded in the tradit...

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Hello, I am an admin and have a request to create a survey with a Likert scale.  I've seen information regarding how to do this w/ quizzes.  What I am not finding, however, is if there is some way to align the questions to the outcomes. The teacher w...

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I am an itinerant music teacher, and I work at two schools. Both Principals have created assignments where I need to submit my lesson plans. One school is my home school, where I regularly see students, but the other school is not showing up in the s...

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How do i add my TAs to my classes

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Hi, I missed the Intro to "Ingnite AI" presentation last week - does anyone have the recording? Is it active yet and if not when will it be available? Any information you could provide would be great. Cheers 

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Has anyone noticed inconsistencies in the Page Views data available within the User Profile page, and Gradebook History? I am looking at an instructor's Page Views and it shows the first login of the day at 6pm, while the gradebook history indicates ...

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I want to recieve an email about 'release notes' (Ideally prior to them rolling out). I know they are available within Canvas via the 'help' feature, but I want an email notification. I am already subscribed to the 'product blog' but I really want so...

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When using the import course feature, it does not import the dates assignments are due, nor does it import the sections the assignments are assigned to. When i previously created courses from the template course all the information was imported. 

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In the Files Redesign page, it is showing incorrect information for Blueprinted courses. I have a situation where a course was copied into and then associated as a blueprint all from the same course course. This duplicates items. All I have to do is ...

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Dear all, We have noticed that some course discussions do not appear to students in the Discussion section of the course navigation menu even when they are pinned. Do you know why this happens? This is before course launch, so the discussions have no...

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I wanted to bring to your attention an issue related to hiding grades from students in Canvas. At first glance, it seems that setting the Grade Posting Policy to "Manually Post Grades" would be sufficient to prevent students from viewing their scores...

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Hi, I am thinking to create questions within question bank using an API. As these questions are already available with me. Can you help me with Question bank API information, so i can use and push all the questions in the respective questions bank. A...

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I have faculty who want a certain file to be available to students AFTER their second attempt on a quiz. I cannot find a feature that allows that in Canvas. We can do it after the first quiz attempt, but not the second. Am I missing something? 

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I have created an assignment that was in a locked module (open August 26th). I created self-sign up group set in the People tab a week before and also created a Discussion board that I then set to group assignment and connected the group set.As of to...

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Hello everyone, I’ve noticed that when I create a course manually in Canvas, students do not receive notifications for announcements. However, when courses are created and loaded through SIS, students do receive those announcement notifications. Is t...

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I have a new faculty member who created a course and began creating Question Banks in it using the Classic Quizzes engine. He had hoped to build question banks in this "Quiz Banks" course during the term and be able to use Find Questions to populate ...

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Google has rolled out a new "Homework Help" button in the URL bar of Chrome, and I just tested it out. During a Canvas quiz, if I click that button in the URL bar and select a quiz question in Canvas, it'll spit out the answer right in a sidebar with...

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Hello, We have just enabled an automated integration that allows our students, teachers, and courses to be pulled from our SIS to Canvas. Post-integration, we noticed that courses, students, and teachers from sections that will not be using Canvas we...

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Hello Canvas Community, We’re running a professional education course with two enrollment options: One with a final assessmentOne without a final assessment All other course content is identical. We decided to try cross-listing the two versions of th...

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Hi everyone, Where Can I find the client credentials for the canvas LMS Authentication as I am able login as a Teacher, Student or as a Parent but not as an Admin.

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Hi everyone, I’m looking for a way to generate a list of users who have been inactive in Canvas since a given date (e.g., no activity in the last year). Is there a Canvas API endpoint that can return users who have not had any activity since a specif...

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I am wondering if anyone has a workaround to set up blueprints so pages automatically lock when saved? I am experiencing an issue where staff are not locking their pages and their courses subsequently become unsynced. This is then creating other file...

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Hi, I was not able to join any groups, It's not available on my dashboard. I watched video and read instructions, but this feature is not available for me. i did not find where to join any group. Please advise. Kind Regards,Queila 

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So...I had been checking out the lessons (Since this is my first year at SUU) and I didn't know that when I had clicked on a quiz it had started. And my teacher hasn't gotten back in the past two days. is there anything I can do to reset the quiz? Pl...

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