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In one of my courses, when trying to calculate different What-If scores, all assignments always automatically calculate their scores as 100%. For example, when trying to calculate 50/100, the What-If calculation shows 100/100. This is not the case in...

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We are trying to pilot Khanmigo at one of our schools.  There were handful of teachers who were unable to use the tool because they could not login using the "login with Google option."  It just occurred randomly for a few teachers while others were ...

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I am a Canvas admin and this is a paid account (not free for teachers).I am unable to edit any student's email. I can add people, but I cannot go in and alter their email later. I checked for courses that ended and ongoing courses. I am supposed to b...

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My last class ended Monday and I never saw my final grade. I cannot access anything to email my instructor nor look up past classes - not even my course from last semester (I received an email with the course completion certificate). What can I do?

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We are trying to setup our first blueprint course using mastery paths. When it is synced to an associated course, the conditional content pages in the mastery paths are no longer in the mastery paths in the associated course, even though they are syn...

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Hi, I know how to validate links in content, but does anyone know of a way to list all of the hyperlinks in a course? 

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Hi Everyone,  What are the benefits of using SIS imports to create courses and do enrollment versus a SIS integration? We are in the beginning stages of merging two instances of Canvas. At one location, they use SONIS as this SIS and have it integrat...

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Hi,We are using Canvas as LMS for professional development course.To register for a course, they register in another platform and our admin sends me an excel file to confirm if they have are eligible for the course. They need to list their previous p...

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I'm asking on behalf of an instructor who teaches for a college besides ours. She likes to divide up her course roster into sections using the 'Add Section'  feature. But she doesn't have the kebab icon listed in the People tab to edit the added sect...

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Hi! As a brief background, I use Canvas for a student program and not for courses or a classroom. This program provides support to students for two years. And each year there is a new group of students, so there are multiple sections on our Canvas sh...

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We've experienced some employee layoffs, specifically those who previously served as account course developers and admins.  I'm not certain what my assigned role is (I cannot see my role when viewing my Canvas profile/user settings).  I also see a ne...

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We have a number of courses that were created from templates (the Enable course as Course Template is selected in Settings). There is something new happening. When we copy a course created from a template, it's copying the course itself AND all of th...

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A teacher marked a students piece of worked and made some annotation comments within the document. The student saw them that evening and went to make changes to the document the next day.However when the student went back into the assignment all the ...

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Are you comfortable granting admin level permissions to third party integrations?  As a Canvas Admin, we go with the vendor instructions to install Developer Keys, API Keys, LTI apps, Admin level Access Tokens, custom JavaScript, etc.  If the third p...

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I am wondering if there is a way to "lock" the Syllabus tool in the course settings Navigation tab?  It was requested to have this tool locked so that instructors could not have the ability to remove the Syllabus tool from the course navigation menu ...

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I would like for Canvas to randomly assign students a number when hiding student names option is selected. After several trials, it seems that Canvas is programmed to assign these numbers alphabetically. For the primary teacher, this poses a non-rand...

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As anyone done a questionnaire within Canvas to define a students VARK Learning Style? Very similar to this, but the results can be given within Canvas.https://vark-learn.com/the-vark-questionnaire/ It would be fantastic if I could get add this withi...

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We are synching data between Canvas LMS and Salesforce and wondering if we can create custom fields on Canvas side to store Salesforce Ids. On Salesforce side we can create custom fields and store the Canvas id. In similar fashion we want to store th...

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Hello wonderful Community members Our institution had many sub-accounts (courses separated by faculty) and in the past we have been able to add users (our tutors) as admins (with restricted permissions) to specific sub-accounts, which would allow the...

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Hi,I assigned a final and distributed a maximum of 100 points. On the syllabus, the final is said to weigh 30 points out of 100. Unfortunately I forgot to adjust this on the final itself, and now the final outweighs all the other assignments combined...

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Hello Everyone,  We recently became an entire Microsoft school. I am looking into connecting Collaborations with our OneDrive. Our security team is concerned about the app permissions it grants. I wonder if anyone in this group came across this at th...

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Hi community, we've been noticing that when you upload a word doc or PDF to Canvas and have correctly coded links to websites in those docs or PDFs, if the doc or PDF is displayed in the Canvas "preview in overlay" mode, the links do not work. They'l...

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My quiz fails to open when I hit the take quiz button. It says that the course is unknown to the system, and that the professor to check browser settings in dashboard

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Dear Canvas Guru,Can someone tell me how the undelete function works on Canvas?With the undelete function, does it mean deleted items stay in some sort of recycle bin? if so, how long are the items stored there?Say I delete several items:- a file- a ...

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A few times a semester we have students who will lose access to their course in Canvas.  When this happens they are completely dropped from the course, not just marked inactive. I've checked our SIS and the student is still active in it.  In the Impo...

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Hi,  I have searched the Canvas Community and much of what I find is outdated..  I am curious if there are any more local canvas groups to New Mexico or West Texas?  I know there was just a Canvas Connect in Houston but we missed it!!  Also as a new ...

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I am at exploring stage so I would like to know how an attendance assignment is set up in a course. Or how can the attendance be linked to the gradebook as an assignment? Thanks.

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I've created a digital badge already in Canvas Badges, as well as issuers. When I go to assign my badge to a course in Canvas LMS - there is no badge option in the navigation menu. I went to the setting on the left hand side, selected the Navigation ...

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Our course home page was chock full of information for students. Just recently, the content we had is gone. The home page now shows Recent Announcements and Assignments, which were never found there before. I'm hoping someone can help us either recov...

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