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Hello,I'm sorry if this in an obvious question but I'm trying to find an answer and struggling:One of our members of staff has created a course and published it. It has now been decided that all of students and staff should be able to access this cou...

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Hi all! I've created a theme in a sub-account. I cannot find a way to enable this theme in the main account as the theme does not appear (either as a template tab or in the +Theme option). Is my only course of action now to copy every single field ma...

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Hello Community, We’re trying to use the Outcome Results report available under the Canvas Default Account Reports, but we’re facing an issue: the report is returning empty, even though we believe all necessary configurations have been made. Here’s w...

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Hi, I find the emoji in submission comments annoying as it often gets in the way when I am typing important comments about a student's work.  I know I can turn it off under the settings for a course.  However, I teach 5 to 6 courses a semester which ...

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Olá, comunidade do Canvas. No momento, estamos trabalhando na modelagem de cursos práticos para avaliar as competências e habilidades dos alunos e nos deparamos com algumas perguntas: É possível vincular uma competência ou habilidade a uma tarefa sem...

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For our institution's canvas (with a short-term license) do self-enrolled users (joining by a QR code) count towards license seat usage, even if they are only in public or self-enrollment course and not a full private course? Also, do users who view ...

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I need to contact my CSM to establish myself as the primary contact at my institution, but no one has the information.  I have several tickets outstanding that I have not heard back about.  Who can I contact to find out the CSM information?

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PLEASE HELP!!!!!Its saying i need to go to settings and click pair with observer but i dont even have that option

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Hello Canvas Community, Our district team is currently re-evaluating our course naming conventions in Canvas, and we’re looking to learn from others who have already established effective practices. Specifically, we’re interested in hearing from dist...

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Hi,We have a client who uses Canvas LMS, and we are experiencing some issues. They use a SCORM connector system, and when a user accesses a SCORM course, the system requests the LMS for the "cmi.core.student_id" to identify them. The problem is that ...

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As Canvas admin, I've set up the permission at root account level for teachers to be able to add their own courses, however, staff who have a teacher role on Canvas simply could NOT Start a Course themselves. They do not have a Start a Course option ...

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It is common in certain Higher Education disciplines to create assessments that are "hurdle requirements" (i.e a student can't pass the course unless they pass the assessment). These are typically work placement requirements, safety requirements, or ...

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As a Canvas admin, I observed about 83 students randomly enrolled in courses in Canvas that they are not registered for in our SIS (Colleague) this fall. Normally, dropped or withdrawn students retain a record of previous enrollment, and students are...

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I have published a Rise 360 course using Web and also created the Zipped file.Next, I uploaded the zipped file to Canvas and expanded it. I used an iframe to open the index.html file, but it did not work!The index.html works fine on my local hard dri...

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I understand that SpeedGrader uses a 2 steps process, and can autosave entered data for a short period of time. However, too often, in particular when working with new markers who worry about posting the marks too early, all the marked data can be lo...

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The course with that SIS ID (12CAF2026) was deleted and can’t be recovered and the section associated with the course was also deleted and can't be recovered. Please help me find out how to release this SIS Course ID so it can be reused in a new cour...

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Hello,Hope you are doing great,I'm experiencing a bug in the new desktop version of Canvas while trying to complete the pre-course assessment. When I'm trying to select multiple-choice options, the page scrolls or jumps, but no selection is registere...

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I am registered for a class that was published 9-12-25. It isn't showing up on my dashboard, and when I go to all courses, it shows that it's published, but the course name is not showing as a hyperlink for me to open it. I did get an email from my i...

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how do i make a quiz available for students to take and how do they submit?

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Greetings,I recently created rubrics in the Canvas LMS and I would like to take screenshots of them to include in my professional web portfolio. However, when I attempt to screenshot a rubric the screen blacks out. Now I'm not sure how to share these...

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We are having an issue with professors who need to use more than one rubric to rate an assignment. Our goal is to have faculty use a university-wide rubric to rate an assignment using the Learning Mastery gradebook (Outcomes). However, some professor...

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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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