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My school says it is difficult to develop a course on Canvas and that this is what often keeps them from offering new courses.  I'd like to see if i can learn to develop and publish courses on Canvas so that I can offer that service to my school to h...

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We are trying to setup our first blueprint course using mastery paths. When it is synced to an associated course, the conditional content pages in the mastery paths are no longer in the mastery paths in the associated course, even though they are syn...

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I have created several New Quizzes in which I have aligned each quiz question to a single course learning outcome. Is there a way for me to automatically create a question bank that contains all quiz questions aligned to a single course outcome? Or, ...

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Hi all,I am a Instructional Designer trying to find a solution/ work-around to build the following activity type:- a question that allows short or long responses (a few sentences to a paragraph)- ungraded (no instructor will be manually releasing fee...

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We have a number of courses that were created from templates (the Enable course as Course Template is selected in Settings). There is something new happening. When we copy a course created from a template, it's copying the course itself AND all of th...

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I've uploaded a SCORM package with a virtual tour. It can be implemented as a page and the tour functions (360 view works, going from hot-spot to hot-spot works). The integrated video however does not work; it shows a dark blue frame (which is indeed...

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As anyone done a questionnaire within Canvas to define a students VARK Learning Style? Very similar to this, but the results can be given within Canvas.https://vark-learn.com/the-vark-questionnaire/ It would be fantastic if I could get add this withi...

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Hi,I assigned a final and distributed a maximum of 100 points. On the syllabus, the final is said to weigh 30 points out of 100. Unfortunately I forgot to adjust this on the final itself, and now the final outweighs all the other assignments combined...

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I am trying to add a designer to help me create a course, and it says the user does not exist. Which is true. However, I cannot add; do I have to add another way? Talk to the administrator.  How do I find out who is the administrator? 

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Hi there,I have uploaded a SCORM object as a graded assignment and configured the settings to open the SCORM object in a new tab. I have included learner instructions at the top of the page. When I review this in Student View the 'Previous' and 'Next...

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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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