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How do instructors use mobile app to grade students in Canvas gradebook for a No Submission assignment.  Looks like mobile app works fine for submission based assignments, but not for a No Submission assignment. How do instructors do this?

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Hello, our organization is implementing account-level Outcomes that we will then tie in with course-level rubrics. While we intend the outcomes to remain consistent for the foreseeable future, we are wondering what would happen if we do need to make ...

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Hello, our institution is in the initial process of creating Account-Level Outcomes for our graduate programs offered through Canvas. We are going to be invoking these outcomes in course-level rubrics. We have been doing some testing and have been ab...

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Has anyone integrated the AI grading tool Cograder into their instance of Canvas? We are a 9-12 school and I've had a teacher request that I integrate this tool. It looks like Cograder is using Edlink to facilitate the integration. I'm just not sure ...

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Is there way or what is the best way to indicate a student has a medical issue (for example, due to a concussion sports injury) such that only the Canvas instructor or course director role can see only a generic w/o medical details indication of a pr...

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Hi Canvas Community.  I am working on providing my institution with support training for new canvas users who lose their “Finish Registration: Canvas” email.   What are the best ways/how do you handle it when a user reports not getting this email?   ...

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A staff member came to me with some Lockdown Browser questions and wanted to see if anyone has some experience with their requests - I think I know the answers but wanted to gauge others before giving the person information: 1.  When picking sites th...

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Hi, is there a way of running a basic report which would show me every course on my platform, and the number of enrolments on each course? Preferably active users, but I'm not overly bothered about that if it's not possible.    So one column showing ...

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Hi, We sync our Canvas data from Veracross, but student images are not coming over. Is there a way to add this to the Veracross-Canvas sync or can I batch upload images to student profiles?

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I've looked through the guides and throughout the community and cannot find the answer to this question. Can outcomes be reported on a Group assignment? Does it matter if the grades are individual grades or a group grade? 

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Our primary authentication method is M365/SAML.We have /login/canvas enabled as well.(1) On the Create Account page for our public, the form asks for course code, and several things, but it does NOT ask for email or have any verification using that e...

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I have already completed the registration process and started the class. Now I  discovered that there are three additional students who need to be included. However, the system is currently preventing me from registering them. Is there a solution to ...

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I would like the grade book to have a status "Credit" in addition to none, late and missing. It would be helpful for students that have IEP's and 504 accommodations.  I would like to acknowledge that the student completed the assignment to the best o...

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Someone changed a Canvas Theme in a subaccount, causing several CSS issues. Is there a way to determine who made the change?

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I’m curious to know if any institutions are using Canvas to facilitate a course for assessing credit for prior learning (PLA). If so, how are you structuring the process? Are you using a dedicated course, Folio, or another tool within Canvas to guide...

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Hi,  I need some help and advice.  We asked a vendor to help develop a SCORM courseware using storyline, we created like text box, asking students to send their comment, we uploaded the SCORM into canvas as assignment, the graded quizzes work ok, but...

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How do you prevent or allow faculty course title editing by an admin?  We create all courses via .csv upload and are moving to ILP.  On the Canvas Admin, I want to adjust settings to allow faculty to edit the course title.  I have been unable to loca...

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HI Is there a way to enroll a user in multiple courses in bulk? I have to assign advisors to courses and one advisor has 15 courses so wondering if there is a better way to do this than individually enrolling her in each course. Thank you!

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I have a student who has to be reactivated in a class daily. What do I need to do to fix this to ensure he remains active?

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I NEED ASSISTANCE IN CONTACTING THE REGISTRAR'S OFFICE TRINITY LAW SCHOOL IN THAT I HAD AN UNFORESEEN ILLNESS ONSET AND WAS LATE IN TURNING IN AN ASSIGNMENT.Outlined in the [Spring 2025 MLS 541 8915 Torts Class Syllabus Last Updated March 4, 2025]. I...

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Hi, Can I as a Canvas admin see whether a given Person's login account is based on Canvas native authentication, versus MS Entra, Google, or some other SSO/SAML source/IDP?  Just browsing around in the Persons page I am not seeing anything obvious......

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After the assignments have been submitted and the Download Submissions button is selected, the zip file that is downloaded marks the Last Modified date of all the files as the GMT time the Zip file was created rather than the time the submissions wer...

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when i create a multiple answer question for 6 points with 3 correct answers and 3 incorrect answers- will the the points be awarded 2 for each correct answer?

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I am an administrator, and we are converting from another testing platform to Canvas.  We have been using Canvas for course work for several years now.  The platform we use DOES NOT have a way to export our questions.  We are therefore planning to co...

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Hi, My reading of the SSO integration guides for Microsoft is that they assume integration with Microsoft education/business/organization accounts.  Has anyone successfully set up Canvas SSO with Microsoft Consumer/MSA accounts, allowing users to "br...

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I've seen that using Canvas Commons as a template enables one to make a change in Commons and push it to a live course. Is it possible to do this any other way besides using Commons? 

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When creating Outcomes, there's a description field and a "friendly" description field that is supposed to display for students.  I am creating an outcome at the sub-account level, and have entered different text into the friendly description field: ...

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I’m looking for—an archiving solution that allows us to remove old courses from Canvas while keeping backups of everything, including files. So far, I haven’t found a solution outside of K16. Have you come across any reliable process or vendor for th...

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Every time I read an article and look at the video box (or whatever it is), this error appears. Does anyone know what it means?

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We are identifying courses that do not have an associated blueprint or that, even with a blueprint, have pending synchronization. To resolve these issues before users raise complaints, I would like to know if there is a way to perform this check in b...

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