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Hi all!So, I need to preface with saying I work in a Title 1 middle school, with great (but sneaky) kiddos. For my big unit quizzes, I use Google Forms because of their Lockdown Quiz feature that works perfectly with student Chromebooks. On Canvas, t...

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I'm able to create a new course via the API. However, the Let students organize their own groups box is checked (see the new on on the right).  What parameter is used to set it to unchecked that?  

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We have a highly evolved approach to our Capstone Projects and Dissertations which have one convenor/leader and up to 50 supervisors. Whilst the Capstone leader is responsible for maintaining the content, individual students are assigned to individua...

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I have migrated our courses to the new quizzes but the build on last parameters need to be set. As they all have the same parameters, can I update this build setting in bulk or do I have to do it one by one? Once course has 76 quizzes Thanks    

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I've been on a 30 minute seek and find to try to find a way to give feedback on the discussion redesign. In short - it's TERRIBLE!Grading discussion questions is now a laborious process extending my grading time due to all the extra clicking to find ...

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Our district uses the syncing option from Canvas to Infinite Campus. Recently, we discovered that assignments with a decimal in the assignment point value do not transfer to IC as decimals. The point value gets rounded down to the nearest whole numbe...

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I would like to be able to create an item bank question that has a table where some cells have images, others have math type, and students could write their answers in other cells of the table.  Like a fill-in-the-blank type question, but embedded in...

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HelloWhen Trainers login to Canvas is there somewhere they can view all of their submitted assessments that require marking?Additionally is there a report that Admins can run to see this information?Thanks!

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Please help me!  I have created 3 new assignment pages and each time, when I am done and click on the blank assignment page to make a copy to start a new assignment, the previous assignment I just made disappears and is NOWHERE to be found.  Not in h...

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We turned on the feature to allow checkpoints yesterday. We have faculty who you use group discussions to keep their clinical groups together for grading. When you go in to click "Assign graded checkpoints" the group set goes away. When I save and go...

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Our institution only allows administrators to generate user access tokens to prevent any misuse and enhance security to our Canvas users. Due to increasing demands, we may require enabling user access tokens creation for these users. Is there a way t...

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Looking for ways to complete course deletion in bulk for SIS and non-SIS courses as an admin. I have tried an SIS Import from an SIS Export by changing the status to deleted and the same for the non-SIS courses through gathering the data via provisio...

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I would like my students to receive a sample solution to their essay assignments immediately after they have completed a test. I have tried the feedback function, but the results only appear after I have graded the exam individually.Now we also have ...

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I just read this similar post, but it's different enough that there's potentially a different solution. For one of my teachers, when the Gradebook is set to filter for a section, the SpeedGrader loses its "Showing Sections" filter.  The first line of...

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We were so excited to have Checkpoints, and indeed those work really well; points, calendar, grading and more. We turned the feature on immediately on Jan 18.  Thank you Instructure!  Teachers love it.  Canvas Canvas Release Notes (2025-01-18) - Inst...

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It is showing my old "to do" lists not my current courses that are shown in the card view but I want them in the list view, please guide me into what I need to do..

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how do I create a csv file listing all teacher?

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We have a teacher that each time she uses Google Assignments LTI as an external app and selects Google Assignments instead of Speed Grader, it is making a copy of the assignment in the student's Google Drive.  Also, when she creates an assignment and...

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I need to enable some SCORM features that are only possible via Instructure. I cannot get the assistance I need from Help function within our instance.

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I had a faculty member call me because the publish buttons for items in their modules were missing (see attached image).  They were using Firefox (the preferred browser of our IT department). The + button at the top of the module also wasn't working....

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We are finding submissions made by students dated and time as the 1st of January at 0:00. With "time to attempt this 46,412 minutes". Is anyone else experiencing this? Some of these submissions do not appear in our system until several days after the...

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I'm creating a solution to pull course files into another storage platform automatically and am attempting to avoid unnecessary downloads/writes. When consulting the docs (Files - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation), I noticed two fields: modified_at ...

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I looked back and saw that there are 2 separate posts on this topic from 2023 and it appears that the issue still has not been resolved. An import today, with adjusted due dates, resulted in an email going out to 350+ students notifying them that an ...

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I'm editing a quiz I inherited that is in the Old Quiz format and trying to create a numerical question with a very small answer (1.34e-5) and the editor keeps defaulting my answer to zero. I get the same behavior when trying to edit the error margin...

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Hi everyone, I'm trying to update the use_rubric_for_grading parameter to true using the Canvas API, but my changes don't seem to take effect. Does anyone know why this might be happening? Could it be a bug on this parameter, or something else I migh...

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Hi everyone, I'm encountering an issue with the rubric_associations endpoint in the Canvas API. Every time I try to access it, I receive a 404 error. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Could it be related to permissions,  the URL I'm using,...

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We have some early start classes (1/6) before our semester starts (1/27) and the shells have the correct course dates that are being pulled from ILP that keep having the "Participation" dates defaulting to "Term" (1/27) rather than "Course" (1/6). I'...

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I have done all the Modules when will I be able to take the online exam?

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Hi! In the Course settings I uploaded a picture. It looks perfect. But when I go to Dashboard it's upside down instead. How can I edit the Dashboard picture to rotate it? Is there anything else I can do?

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I have an assignment in a course which has had a single set of questions for over a year now, and only recently upon grading a secondary attempt for a student have we detected that the questions are in different order for some students and in most ca...

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