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JordanGarciaNAU · 2024-08-16

Good afternoon, I am working with a faculty member on trying to create an assignment that she said was easily doable in Bbl when we had that as our LMS last year. This group project involves groups of 3 students (she has 32 students total) producing...

pamela_branas · 2024-08-15

Hi,I hope you can provide a solution to this problem.I am adding new questions to a new Question Bank (classic) but it only saves a single question!It retains the last question I have saved to the Question Bank.It is extremely frustrating to lose tim...

Zooropa9476 · 2024-08-14

If I build a quiz with question groups that pull from a quiz bank, can I continue to add questions to the bank and have them get pulled into the quiz via the question groups AFTER I've finished building the quiz? Or, do I need to have all the questio...

ShaneDeHorney · 2024-08-14

My school recently set a grading scheme at the Account level. It uses percentages. For faculty who use points that divide evenly like 1000, there's no problem. Canvas' grading scheme doesn't work well when entering a points grading scheme for faculty...

RussellPlayer · 2024-08-13

I am looking to utilise an Accordion menu in my pages, however I am looking for a way to use the same menu in each page without having to copy the HTML code into each individual page... I used to be able to do this sort of thing using frames, but as ...

JillianMoore2 · 2024-08-13

I have come across several instances of teachers reaching out after creating a quiz, sharing the quiz with another teacher using "send to" and then the recipient can see it in their 'shared with me" content, but when we try to import it into a course...

MKBickford · 2024-08-13

Hi Canvas Community! My institution is currently searching for a course survey tool that integrates with Canvas. Integration with our SIS (Anthology Student) is also an ideal feature. We have already hosted demos for Blue by Explorance and Watermar...

JessicaFritzges · 2024-08-13

It would be helpful if students were able to draw out their responses to questions. I am aware that this is an option in assignments, but then I am not able to add multiple choice questions or other question styles. I have seen that some people use o...

craig_anderson1 · 2024-08-12

Does anyone know of any third-party Canvas apps that can extend the type and scope of question types (and response types) for new or classic quizzes?

LisaStepanovic · 2024-08-12

I created a rubric and attached it to an assignment. It contains rating descriptions for each cell. However, when I view the rubric in Student View, it does not display any of the detail. I can't locate any other reports of this and wonder if it mi...

SLP · 2024-08-12

I am trying to find a way to make individualized, recurring calendar invites for students that cannot be viewed by other students. As a speech-language pathologist providing individualized instruction, I cannot set one calendar for all of my students...

JennieSmith5 · 2024-08-12

Our institution just switched from Blackboard to Canvas. I rely heavily upon SCORM in one of my online classes, and everything worked well in Blackboard. One major issue with using SCORM in Canvas, however, is that Canvas only keeps the most recent g...

jorossi · 2024-08-11

I'm putting a new Canvas course together. Because of the idiotic non-inclusion of sub-folders in Canvas Modules, I have an enormous number of modules set up in my course. Because my slide narrations are sometimes spoken quickly, I decided to offer ...

marjeta · 2024-08-10

The process for one page is: open the pageclick "Edit"scroll downfind "Add to student to-do" box and click itenter dateclick "Save" I need to do this for some 100 pages! Is there a simpler way than going through all those steps for each page? Also, I...

LouisRosche · 2024-08-10

Hello Dear Reader!I'm struggling to get my code block to save and display properly when utilizing the embedding function in a Page; it quite literally only saves and runs the first 27 lines of code.Any suggestions or fixes?Code:"""<!DOCTYPE html><htm...

jgraham7 · 2024-08-09

In my course, I use prerequisites to help keep students completing the work in the correct order. The orientation process in-particular. I have them do the following: Welcome module (view) -> Syllabus Module (view) -> Orientations... The trouble i...

Zooropa9476 · 2024-08-09

I have 4 sections of a class cross-listed with a new "empty" Canvas shell (this allows me to give the cross-listed mega-class of 4 sections a unique title). In this course, I have 1 group set and had Canvas auto-assign students to groups of 5-6 (stud...

JLeuenberger · 2024-08-09

Does anyone have an effective way to incorporate layered curriculum into Canvas?Short summary: layered curriculum allows students to choose which assignments they want to do to achieve mastery. C-level are base knowledge (75 points), B-level are more...

BSchmidt0413 · 2024-08-08

Hello. Is there a way to disable the To Do list for student view?

SabrinaYaw · 2024-08-08

We use a course for our student handbook. I want to connect our policies via our Google docs so we can update them in real time. My question is, if I put it in as a link, can the student edit the online file?

mnewhart · 2024-08-08

We are preparing a new program and are considering enabling "Improved Outcomes management." I cannot find any documentation of how this affects existing Outcomes. We tried enabling this tool a few years ago, and it messed up the exisitng outcomes and...

mplotsker · 2024-08-07

Hi all, I need to copy my master courses from one canvas school instance to another canvas school instance. I am the Canavs IT Admin for 2 schools (same parent company), and I would like to copy all the master shell courses for a few programs from 1...

jlhummel · 2024-08-07

We are testing a self enrolled course which has three sections (A, B and C). Whenever our test students use the enrollment link they are automatically sent to section C. Is there a way to indicate which section the student should be enrolled in via...

themidiman · 2024-08-05

Apologies for not knowing where else to ask. Our institution is a bit late to the full understanding of how outcomes beyond the course level can help us make informed decisions. I'd like to start with how to replicate the Learning Mastery Grade book ...

ErickaLasley · 2024-08-05

Who do I contact to get a quote?

GregMayer · 2024-08-05

Hello canvas community! I am helping an instructor set up their canvas site. The instructor can set my role to be a TA, or an instructional designer, or anything else except instructor. We want to set up grade weights for the assignment groups but f...

kami_mclaughlin · 2024-08-04

We need a shortcut to open Canvas Equation Builder. When building a lot of content, it takes 3 clicks and moving your hand away from the keyboard just to open the builder. When the builder opens, the cursor is not automatically placed inside the w...

ragulamr · 2024-08-01

Hello, I am an administrator and an instructor. I would like to know if a question created in an Item Bank in New Quizzes can be modified to a different type of question? For example, the question was created as an Essay type question, and I would l...

RickHill · 2024-08-01

Hello, Cool trick I Can save HTML to my Files area, and I can iframe those into my course with no problem. This is amazing and opens the doors to a whole new level of interactives natively being hosted in Canvas. Problem: This cannot be shared to C...

nholman · 2024-08-01

I would like to export completed rubric scores (numeric and comments) from Canvas to a spreadsheet from all courses that use this rubric so I can compare them. Does anyone have a tool that we could use for this?

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QB not retaining questions

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Canvas quiz response types and third party apps

Students Can't View a Rubric's Descriptions

Personalized Calendar for Special Education

SCORM keep highest grade--still no response from Canvas?

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As an Instructor, I want to add several pages to student to-do. Can I do it...

Does Canvas only allow for 27 lines of embedded html code?

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