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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 Normally, dropped or withdrawn students retain a record of previous enrollment, and students are...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 am newly migrated to New Quizzes, and am struggling to work with randomizing essay prompts. In Classic, I had Question Banks for each group of essays, and the individual prompts would be text blocks.  I would then have Canvas randomly pull X prompt...

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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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How do i add my TAs to my classes

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Hi, I missed the Intro to "Ingnite AI" presentation last week - does anyone have the recording? Is it active yet and if not when will it be available? Any information you could provide would be great. Cheers 

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Has anyone noticed inconsistencies in the Page Views data available within the User Profile page, and Gradebook History? I am looking at an instructor's Page Views and it shows the first login of the day at 6pm, while the gradebook history indicates ...

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I want to recieve an email about 'release notes' (Ideally prior to them rolling out). I know they are available within Canvas via the 'help' feature, but I want an email notification. I am already subscribed to the 'product blog' but I really want so...

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When using the import course feature, it does not import the dates assignments are due, nor does it import the sections the assignments are assigned to. When i previously created courses from the template course all the information was imported. 

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In the Files Redesign page, it is showing incorrect information for Blueprinted courses. I have a situation where a course was copied into and then associated as a blueprint all from the same course course. This duplicates items. All I have to do is ...

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Dear all, We have noticed that some course discussions do not appear to students in the Discussion section of the course navigation menu even when they are pinned. Do you know why this happens? This is before course launch, so the discussions have no...

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I wanted to bring to your attention an issue related to hiding grades from students in Canvas. At first glance, it seems that setting the Grade Posting Policy to "Manually Post Grades" would be sufficient to prevent students from viewing their scores...

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Hi, I am thinking to create questions within question bank using an API. As these questions are already available with me. Can you help me with Question bank API information, so i can use and push all the questions in the respective questions bank. A...

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I have faculty who want a certain file to be available to students AFTER their second attempt on a quiz. I cannot find a feature that allows that in Canvas. We can do it after the first quiz attempt, but not the second. Am I missing something? 

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I have created an assignment that was in a locked module (open August 26th). I created self-sign up group set in the People tab a week before and also created a Discussion board that I then set to group assignment and connected the group set.As of to...

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