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I have a student who left in the middle of a course. It has not concluded yet. I can't see any of this present courses...the dashboard is blank and the courses are not listed in the past enrollments because the class has not concluded until Dec. How ...

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How do I give the guidance counselor access to all student's classes and their completed work without giving them "administrator" level rights?

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Hey everyone,For our Spring '25 orientation on Canvas, I'm looking to spread out the activities over a few weeks rather than a single intense week. Has anyone managed something like this, and does Canvas handle staggered content releases well?Pls let...

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Are the good folks at Canvas considering amending the “Canvas Instructor Guide” to include how-tos for using AI to build things in Canvas courses? A few examples might be: Using AI to  Generate Quizzes and Upload to CanvasA step-by-step tutorial on h...

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I have a blueprint course that I would like to associate with a new course. However, when I search for courses the new course doesn't appear.The new course was originally associated with our school's default blueprint but I went in and removed this a...

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I sometimes want to email the students in all of my courses a reminder... For instance a reminder that class is cancelled on monday because it is a holiday. Or a flier to an important on campus event.Is there a feature to post an announcement and che...

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Hi, fellow friends.  Students' answers on their quizzes were marked correct whether answers were upper or lower case.  Since the new quiz changed, the auto capitalization has caused most if not all answers wrong especially answers in lower case.  I'm...

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  As with other Canvas users we have experienced past issues with images in Canvas Quizzes and Quiz Banks, particularly associated with copying and importing to alternate Canvas courses. We understand that this has been under investigation by our Can...

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Does anyone have a way to view multiple courses at once? I am the sole admin for 50+ blueprints and 100+ courses (and growing!) in a given term. I constantly need to get into these courses and would love a way to click one button and have all of them...

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Please can someone advise how I set up 1-1 appointments for my group to sign up for their 1-1 sessions?Thanks in advance

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One of our Music instructors has created a New Quiz with m4a audio clips. Some quiz questions contain a proper iframe URL linking to the course Files tab, while others show up as @@PLUGINFILE@@ links with no closing bracket.The audio is playable for ...

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I am working with several teachers that have created lots of unique video content that they have uploaded to YouTube. They are exploring the variety of ways to embed those videos in their Canvas courses and I was excited to show them how to use the Y...

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Hi all, In New Quizzes, when creating/updating questions and possible answers, one must click a field in order for it to expand into the RCE. In some workflows, this becomes inefficient and requires a lot of clicking. Is it possible to just auto-expa...

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In the following update: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Releases/Canvas-Deploy-Notes-2024-11-06/ta-p/619719 The notes state for the Notification Option for Announcements in Blueprint Courses "When creating a new announcement in a blueprint...

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Is there a way as a Canvas Admin I can create a Message Window for Users to see when they go to Canvas? For example, I would like to create a monthly tech tip for students and discovered that they don't really check emails but they are going into Can...

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In pretty HTML editor mode, when I make any changes that is outside the current frame. The cursor or position is reset in the beginning. This makes it very hard to do any editing. Could you advise on how to solve this? Thank you. 

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  Hi Team I'm currently working on developing Canvas courses for a range of grade levels, from Kindergarten to Grade 9, and I was wondering if anyone could kindly share any sample course module templates or frameworks that they've found effective for...

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Can anyone provide guidance on how to create an anonymous end-of-semester course evaluation in Canvas?  

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Is there a way to disable the "drop this course" option in a self-enroll or manual enroll course? 

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My org is evaluating an LTI tool(GitHub Classroom) in our test Canvas instance hosted by Instructure. We are working with the vendor's support to identify a resolution to this issue. No progress so far, hoping the community here can help. Unlike most...

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Need help urgently!Our orientation program needs to track student progress across different modules in Canvas. Has anyone used Canvas to monitor completion and engagement in a detailed way?Would love some tips 

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Has anyone set up an orientation on Canvas that works well for both in-person and remote students?We’re expecting students from various locations this time, and I want to make sure it’s accessible for everyone.

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Ok have read the guide https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-view-and-manage-grading-schemes-in-a-course/ta-p/1188 but am looking at an answer to the following that I can't see answered anywhere. I am an admin, and can add/edit...

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Hello, I am having the following issue with the office365 LTI. If a user is a member of my microsoft tenant the LTI works as normal with no issues however if I invite a user as a guest from another tenant even if I make them a member of my tenant I a...

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This is a screenshot of a student that has the pending flag still attached to their account, but you can see from the Last Activity that they have been in the course. This screenshot is from the People section of the course.  I can also confirm in t...

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In Canvas, we have both 'Groups' and 'Sections'—could someone provide examples or further clarification on how they differ in terms of functionality and usage within the platform?  

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A student has the wrong user ID in Canvas.The correct one is now being sent in our Canvas extract process, but it doesn't replace the wrong one.Can an Admin correct the ID?  OR do I need to Inactivate the ID (by sending 'inactive') for it ? Thanks.  

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For compliance reasons we are required to provide our students with a Knowledge Deficiency Report (KDR) of the questions they got wrong in a multiple-choice assignment/test. Each question in the test has a reference in which the student is to review ...

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Hello!So, the app sent me a notification that I received a grade in one of my subjects, and it was there. However, when I went to look for it in the site to know my class standing (with the quartiles since it’s not an app feature), it wasn’t visible....

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Is there a way to move multiple items from one module to another.  I do not want to move all the items, but I do want to move quite a few of them.  Instead of clicking on the kebab for each item or dragging each item, I would like to move a group of ...

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