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I have some programming experience in VBA and Access SQL and was hoping to join your developers forum to get tips on where to start programming the building blocks in Canvas. For instance Blackboard uses JAVA whereas I gather, from the limited video ...

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Hey All, I have trolled through the community and have found many admins like myself (who are not a programmers), who are wanting a default course shell that can be pushed to all the courses upon new shell creation. In my hunt I have found that there...

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Hi, does anyone know if it is possible to permanently hide student names in gradebook? When looking at the Grades page, you can 'Hide Student Names' but if you leave the page and come back the names are visible again. Is it possible to make this perm...

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I was wondering if there is any way to enlarge the "Box" previewer window size (the height). Currently when I preview a docx file, the window size can cover only 1/3 of the letter-size page of the word file -- it's too small. Thank you!

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Does anyone know how/if you can find out how many times a PDF file has been downloaded from a Canvas course site? I'm doubtful this is possible, but I have an instructor asking. Thanks for any pointers!--lindy

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Hello, community. I am hoping you can provide me with some assistance as I pose these series of questions. Thanks so much!First, a little background...We utilize some code (I believe generously borrowed from  @kenneth_larsen ​) to add a few menu item...

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Hi:Is there any way to easily reset a quiz for ALL students in a course? I'm finding that many of our instructors spend a lot of time adjusting individual student quiz grades. I'm wondering if there is anything I am not aware of that could delete qui...

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I would like to know how other institutions are handling the Canvas terms of service (TOS) agreement requirement for newly created accounts in order to use an institutionally licensed instance of Canvas (not the free version). It seems, by default, n...

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Are any of you experiencing the "Crocodocs still processing" error in SpeedGrader?  I have a teacher who is getting it frequently and she is about to bolt from Canvas.  I have created three cases and have been assured that the resolution was made but...

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I am an admin for our Canvas instance and we have a few teachers interested in using the eportfolio application.  Is there any report that can be run to tell me how many students/teachers are using eportfolios?Thanks!

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Dear all,Can anyone of you from this or maybe other groups recommend a good complimentary Canvas training course for K-12 Instructors? I found one from the Commons and imported over but for some reason, I still having some trouble fixing issues befor...

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I am an administrator of Canvas at my college, and I have an issue with getting an app to work in Canvas. The essence of my project is to display an external web page within Canvas. After going through the tutorials and reading the documentation, and...

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I'm struggling to understand why images that display and load within the web app do not always display in the mobile app.  It is inconsistent and I haven't yet found a common thread.  In some cases, images are uploaded within the web app as a page is...

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We have been testing the Turnitin LTI and have noticed several issues.  I've looked through the community and see others are experiencing the Turnitin woes.Here are a couple of issues we have found:if a student re-submits their assignment within a 5 ...

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Hi,We have several course got cross listed with others. Then later on, when we go to the "child" courses, can't find a way to search for where the "parents" are. Of course inside the child Sections there are no student or info where it went to.Thanks

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At our college, we have a course template that is built out and imported into each online course before any content is added into the course. The first module is titled "Information: Getting Started" and provides students with pertinent information f...

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At my admin training I remember our trainer mentioning where I can look to see the current bugs being worked on in Canvas. Does anyone know where this is?

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Our organization is pretty different than the traditional ed institution, and we have always used our legacy LMS as the master record of student information. Now that we're on Canvas, that's not recommended. We have been using Salesforce as an ancill...

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Does anyone have any information on connecting SchoolNet with Canvas? I've heard you can export tests from SchoolNet and import into Canvas.

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We have a number of projects happening at the moment that entails cross-campus collaboration, document control, task allocation, authorisations and critical path visability.I use google docs and am dabbling with Pinipa, looking at Trollo,but it struc...

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I was wondering if anyone has had any confirmed issues with notifications being blocked by a firewall or spam filter on the user's side? I have a case where a user is not getting any email notifications from Canvas and I was curious if others have ha...

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I am attempting to create a site-wide role for the Dean's at our school to be able to view all students and thier grades. This seemed like it would be fairly straight forward process - I had created a site-wide role for our Librarians last week. When...

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Hi Admins,Just wanted to alert you to an idea I have currently open for voting as a proposed feature request. I'm not sure if you have the same problem but I'm constantly being asked for a system wide overview of assessments happening in the environm...

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*. Suppose I'm having a course in spring 2017- term: Feb 1 to June 30- section 1: Feb 1 to Mar 31- section 2: Feb 1 to June 15- grading periods for section 1: Feb 1 to 28 as interim and Mar 1 to 31 as final- grading periods for section 2: Feb 1 to Ap...

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I've been asked if it's possible to collect all syllabi from all Canvas courses, and if not currently possible, to look into options to make it possible in the future.  Anyone tried implementing something like this?

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I am wondering if there is anyone who is using Canvas Data and surfacing the information to SharePoint? I would like to be able to surface students information (grades, attendance, comments) to SharePoint so that an Advisor can quickly view an overvi...

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Something that drives me slightly bananas every semester is the problem faculty face when they're asked to turn in their syllabus to their department. The faculty who try to get with the technology and create their class in Canvas complete with assig...

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We Are just getting started and I have imported courses, sections, teachers, and students. My problem is there is one course with many sections and teachers in it.  How does each teacher set up their own course and materials without messing up anothe...

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Hi guys, I have an issue with the way our users can move between Catalog and Canvas, do you have any ideas?Currently, when I log into Canvas the word ‘Dashboard' appears at the top of the screen.When I click on the menu item Dashboard or the Icon at ...

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We need to make sure that teachers do not rename their courses, because of other systems working to pull data from Canvas. I can't find any information on which Permission I could remove so that the teacher could not edit the course name.

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