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With the new "Assign To" feature available for individual pages and modules, faculty have found themselves accidentally adding availability dates to things they don't intend to. As an instructional designer and for the benefit of all users' quick tro...

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Hi, I am trying to restrict access for only a few students who will take the quiz at a later time, but I don't see any option to do that. I want to basically debar them from taking the quiz while the rest of the class is taking it. The only solution ...

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Is it possible to use two rubrics to grade one assessment in Canvas? If so, how can I do this? The teacher has given the students two options for their report: they can submit either a video or a written report. If a student submits a video, the rubr...

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We would like your engineers to consider adding a feature to schedule due dates for Canvas pages. We would like Canvas to have the capability to differentiate due dates by user, rather than just one universal date. Our institution serves thousands of...

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Hello,I'm setting up courses for online learning. We don't have set term dates so I'm not sure how to set course durations without putting in actual dates. Basically, we want students to only have access to the online course for 6 months from the dat...

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Student To Do List Error - Not showing all missing assignments   For some reason, I have a few students whos To Do list is not counting assignments correctly.     The students go to canvas - then to dashboard view.  They mostly use the "List View" in...

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Hello-I have set up my courses (as Admin) so that students enroll in the course via email invite. I have not set a join code for any courses. One of my users (a teacher) has asked that I set a join code for her students because they have a Canvas acc...

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We have created a survey quiz - using classic quizzes- and have a multitude of multiple dropdown questions. We are looking to analyze the variables in the dropdown menu.Here is one of our questions:Please indicate how much you agree with the followin...

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It looks like settings for students commenting on announcements has changed. Previously there was a setting where students could not read comments until they first posted a comment. Is this no longer and option?Thank you

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Someone asked  in the new features area to be able to create due data for readings like assignments have due dates.There is a work around to do this by making a reading an ungraded assignment. This will add the reading with a due date to the calendar...

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Context: I run a large scale apprenticeship with hundreds of users. Since i took over, ive essentially been doing what was thought to me.... copy a canvas course and assign people to it whenever i needed a new course. And i run 4 courses 4 times a ye...

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1. When teachers move an assignment to other courses, they only choose one course at a time. Is it possible to change this to allow multiple courses?  2. When the assignment is moved it is placed under the import for each class it is transferred to. ...

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My school uses Canvas and Panopto. The latter of which allows us to record our classes. Once posted, the class video may be accessed by students who click the Panopto link. That part works fine, both on the app and on the desktop.However, what I like...

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During the recent Canvas upgrade this summer, there appears to be some type of glitch that randomly adjusted my discussion settings.  Specifically, on about 2/3 of my discussions in each class- it has them listed as "Disallow threaded replies."  In t...

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Hi! For my course we often ask questions that can be a little complicated for the simple helper functions available. Recently we had students convert numbers into binary and the function we wrote for that was hundreds of charcters long for a simple 8...

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Hello, Why does it say 'never' for all of my students in regard to Last Student Interaction. There is a current and final score therefore the students have participated... Please see image attached.   Thank you!

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I had 5 merged courses into 1 spanish course.I gained one class from TEACHER A (Zavala) and they gave one of my classes to TEACHER B.   Zavala's class that I gained now appears on my canvas dashboard. When I attempt to merge Zavala's class into my Sp...

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Good afternoon, Our first day of class began today, and we're having some strange bugs popping up. The latest one is something I can't seem to solve. A faculty member has some quizzes in their course, which are already published. Bizarrely, 2 of them...

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I have an instructor who would like to map her outcome to a group of assignments. Is this possible? For example, 15 assignments that are grouped and weighted under pronunciation. 

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If I (an instructor) upload a PowerPoint to my course, I (and my students) cannot download it. Usually, I upload a PowerPoint to a Module. It can then be accessed from the Module or from Files. However, if we try to download/export the PowerPoint, it...

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Canvas has an option to make a file "only available to students with link" but does not explain how to provide a link to a student.Does anyone know how to provide a student with a link to a restricted file in the Files section on Canvas?

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Hi,   I have students grade each other's notebooks and have used Google Forms to collect their scores. I like using Google Forms because it creates an Excel spreadsheet, making it easy to transfer grades. How can I do the same thing in Canvas? Could ...

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Is there a system-level or course-level way to disable student assignment comments in Canvas? To my knowledge and testing, faculty are not notified of these comments. Please let me know if there is a way to immediately notify faculty when a student p...

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Can I integrate a Webpage created in Canva into a Canvas page and include links that lead the user to assignments, modules, in the course?

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As a building administrator, I need to be able to see all of a student's grades on a single screen; not each assignment grade, but the overall current letter or % grade.  Having to click from course to course is time-consuming and clunky.  In my help...

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Hello Hive Mind, I am told that Canvas has the basic functionality as Kami. I need my students to be able to write on PDF's and than resubmit them to me for grading. I for the life of me can not figure out how to do that. Does anyone have a quick how...

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Hi! I am wondering as a course admin/instructor how to edit the URL of a page after it has been created. This page is part of a module. Thank you! 

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During my 3rd period Social Studies class today, my class opened their Canvas pages to view their online textbook from mcGraw-hill on their student Chromebook.  When the screen opened, only the math textbooks were showing on the screen, no Social Stu...

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I have created a rubric with Criteria, ratings, and points.  I then created the assignment where students will submit the paper and added the rubric to the assignment.  As an instructor, I can see the details written in the ratings area which lists t...

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I have been requiring my students to do publisher's activities to reinforce the reading assignments in a intro level course. They do two a week and honestly - it seems like a lot. I would like to assign two a week for a total of 320 points but only r...

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