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Our Elementary Sub Account is set with a Mastery Scale of FOUR Mastery levels: Insufficient EvidenceDevelopingApproachingMeets However, we have a special project with our Office of English Language Learners who would like to use the WIDA Levels of la...

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Hello, I would really like to know if it's possible to edit the icons available in the canvas navigation menu. For example, changing the icon of the "control panel" button and adding another button, an extra button in the menu. Is this possible? If s...

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I have a Canvas shell that's a decade old and am wondering which of the files are actually still being used, and where. Is there any way to go to the Files page and find out this information (such as: a list of pages where the file is referenced)?

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Creating a submission via quiz but was wondering if the students can record right from the quiz rather than uploading a video they created (on their phone)? 

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I completed the modules for the self-paced course, however, I cannot manage to locate my certificate of completion. I am supposed to receive it automatically via email, which has not occurred, and at the end of my final module I am referred to a link...

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Hi all, We are experiencing a couple of issues with our Pages Index page. For many users, when there are enough individual pages to require extensive scrolling, the displayed width of the table is shorter after the initial pages that were loaded. (Th...

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Whom would you recommend as a 3rd Party Service for remediating Adobe Acrobat PDF's?  

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I'm trying to use the Canvas speedgrader, but when I open it up the comments section is taking up the whole page as shown in the screenshot below. It seems like the pdf is behind the grading screen. Before it used to be split up where half the page w...

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Currently, we are encouraging faculty to clean up courses. Is it possible to have unpublished files be downloaded more than 1 at a time? And Is there way to distinguish files that are "scheduled" to be published, for example if they are in a unpublis...

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Has anyone noticed an issue in Speed Grader where, after leaving an overall comment on a student’s assignment, the comment appears on a separate white page instead of displaying in the comment box as usual? I’ve seen this occur a few times recently a...

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I have a TA who sent me a screenshot showing that one of the courses they are enrolled in says they have been dropped from course. However, I can see they are still active for the course when I look as an admin. What could be the reason for this?

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Technology Admin Have Google Drive LTI 1.3 in Canvas, and when trying to use as a submission type students are receiving this error. I have gone through google support and all of our Google Drive sharing settings are open and allow sharing outside ou...

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Hi. I am wondering about best practice for this issue. I can think of three ways to do this. (a) Have one quiz. Assign students to groups and manipulate start and finish times. (b) Have one quiz. Adjust student times after they have started the exam ...

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Is it possible for Canvas, to let students delete an old class off of their board, when the professor will not deactivate it. Currently the class is sitting on my card list, and I would like to clear it, but the professor will not deactivate it. The ...

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I've found that Assigning content (Assign To) to students still allows those via Public and Institutional Visibility (Course Visibility) to see content. In my testing, this happens with Module visibility as well as Content in a module. I'm wondering ...

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An Instructor recently requested that I, as the Canvas Admin, delete a Group Set that a Student in the course created.  The Instructor was unable to do that nor was I.  There is no option of using the kabob (three vertical dots) for this specific Gro...

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Hello, We are having an issue with some of the final course grades calculated in Canvas for several students at our school. Here is the context: - I performed a grade export at 8:00 am on October 16th for all the course grades in the school - I perfo...

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When some students go to access our Canvas page, they get a page saying invalid URL. I have tried rebooting, using different browsers, clearing the cache, and using different wi-fi networks (including a personal hotspot), and the error still appears....

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Hello! I'm working on Outcomes and need to build reports to show results at course, program, and institutional levels. I also need to show the hierarchy of outcomes so it is visibly understandable how they are related/nested. I haven't been able to f...

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Problem Canvas is not persisting the Google LTI 1.3 connection when editing existing assignments. This issue has been confirmed across multiple users. Symptoms Error message: "Page Error: Something broke unexpectedly. If you have a moment, click here...

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Hello,I am seeking confirmation from IT/LMS Admin specialists regarding the interpretation of a specific pattern in a student’s Quiz Log, where NO third-party proctoring software was used.The quiz attempt was taken on a Windows OS machine that experi...

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Hi Today I noticed that I can not move a page which I have duplicated, from one module to another. I'm using Firefox web browser. I was able to do it at the beginning of the week but not today, it works OK in Chrome, but it's not my favourite web bro...

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For some reason I cannot get the fill in the blanks to trigger the dropdown. I have cleared my history, tried typing the question, copy and paste from the example. I cannot figure out why the options are not showing in the dropdown.   

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We want to create a course role for paras/ specialists so that they can help administer tests students when they meet with students so they would need to be able to see the quiz code. Is there a way to do this without also giving editing access for t...

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We currently use Canvas Free. When students are enrolled in a course through our CRM, we want to automatically:Create Canvas user accountsEnroll them in the appropriate courseReceive webhooks when they complete coursesQuestions:Does Canvas Free inclu...

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We are receiving reports from staff and students that their profile pictures have disappeared.  As the Canvas admin when I go to People for the whole district there are no profile photos, only initials.  This is a change from yesterday.  Was there an...

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A teacher entered grades and submission comments for half the class.  She was grading one question at a time and clicking the update for each student before going to the next student.  The next day, when she wanted to continue entering grades for the...

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We are a publishing partner and often will use mailinator accounts in our development courses for test student accounts. We have noticed over the past few weeks that our dummy mailinator accounts are not receiving emails. Has Canvas stopped sending e...

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A quiz is set as an assignment with students allowed to see the correct answers at a particular date and time. Is this also the time when correct grades are posted? (assuming that automatic submission is set?)

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Hello everyone, I am in need of converting question banks into item banks. I used to create classic quizzes, migrate them,  and export them and then reimport them as item banks. However, the classic quizzes function has been disabled at my university...

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