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My quiz fails to open when I hit the take quiz button. It says that the course is unknown to the system, and that the professor to check browser settings in dashboard

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Hi everyone,I have a question regarding cross-listing in Canvas. If I cross-list multiple courses into a single course, will students from different original courses be able to see each other?Additionally, can groups be created that mix students from...

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Good afternoon, Today, I worked with a faculty member who had an interesting request that I can't seem to find any information on. They want to download graded rubrics in a format that can be easily shared with accreditors. We found a couple of Chrom...

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I've created a digital badge already in Canvas Badges, as well as issuers. When I go to assign my badge to a course in Canvas LMS - there is no badge option in the navigation menu. I went to the setting on the left hand side, selected the Navigation ...

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Our course home page was chock full of information for students. Just recently, the content we had is gone. The home page now shows Recent Announcements and Assignments, which were never found there before. I'm hoping someone can help us either recov...

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Hi there, I'm tying to work out how to create an interactive element that appears on a page - like a quiz but without the grading, assessment time and results wheel - I just want students to write a reflection without it being an assignment. Its for ...

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I've noticed that whenever I copy a course from a previous semester and adjust the assignment dates to match the current term, all assignments for the new student roster automatically receive a grade of zero. I then have to manually delete these zero...

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I'm just wondering if it is possible to create a bank of feedback comments that can be used across multiple Rubrics/Assessments? you're able to save a comment you make when giving feedback so that you can utilize it again for that singular task, but ...

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I am trying to add a question for an algebra class that requires students to write a polynomial in standard form.   When I use the backticks on numbers and variables, the + and - signs are recognized but the 3x^2 is not.    Is there a way for fill in...

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Hello. I'm looking for a solution or advice for the following scenario: The Canvas course has 1900 students. They are in 46 tutorial sections, and there are 18 tutors, with each taking 2 to 4 tutorials. I want to be able to review how tutors are mark...

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Dear Canvas Community, I am a Canvas administrator and instructor. We have three course sections that need to be cross-listed into one course shell. Two sections follow an 8-week schedule (Part A: Weeks 1–8 and Part B: Weeks 9–16), while the third se...

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I have my New Quizzes set up to randomly pick questions from item banks. When I run the analyses, the results are only from that quiz. Some of the questions only have one or two respondents, so the sample size is too small for accuracy. I know these ...

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I want to upload SCORM packages, but need to contact my customer success manager to enable the SCORM LTI.How do I go about contacting them?I have a free for teacher account if that is an issueThank you

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Hi There, I'm trying to help a department set up outcomes for and end of year evaluation of their curriculum.  They have specific outcomes from an outside organization.  They will use New Quizzzes and affiliate an outcome with each multiple choice qu...

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Is it possible to add people with an external email address to a Canvas page? Can they be made Instructor, too?

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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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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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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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I am in a college course and I created an e-Learning module in Canvas for an assignment. I am required to share my e-Learning Module via a link to be graded. Can someone explain to me how I can export my module as a shareable link? Thanks

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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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We have set up a Mastery Path for students. The pre-test is marked as required to submit, but if they score 90%, they may move on the the next module. The modules are each setup so that the module before is a prerequisite. The path we created is set ...

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An instructor would like to grant a student additional time to finish a quiz, but the quiz has already closed and the results submitted to the Gradebook. We can grant the student an additional attempt via "Moderate this Quiz" and assign them another ...

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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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This is a fun particular one We're working on layout templates for Pages, Discussions, and Assignments that feature a bespoke home button. In effect, the button is simply a link back to the course home, built with the destination link found via the ...

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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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I've built a bunch of content as webpages and webapps and gotten it all hosted. It all meets the highest standards for accessibility. It uses responsive design, adjusting to display well on any screen, with thoughtful layouts for both portrait and la...

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Scenario: I want to make self-sign up groups that have different names - so 80 groups in total, divided into 3 lots of groupwork -Tutorial 1, groupwork -Tutorial 2, groupwork -Tutorial 3. This helps to identify for students which groups in their tuto...

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Have a Canvas site running from 2018 and we are missing a page that was mostly likely deleted in cleanup. When I go to the restore/undelete queue it only shows deleted material from 2018-2022. Is there a time period, or a refresh that I need to do to...

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Hey everyone, Just wanted to give you a heads-up that Canvas has been a bit strange lately. It seems like not all the BBB conference recordings are showing up properly (check out the screenshots and the message from Canvas). I'm wondering if anyone e...

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