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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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Please Help! I am helping a teacher move her courses from Moodle to Canvas. All were fine except for this particular group of courses. I upload the course using Moodle file upload. It looks like it is going to work but I receive a error that say, "Un...

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Is anyone aware of a way to prevent (turn-off) the "Import Course Content" option for the "Teacher" role from the administrator side. As an administrator and per some recent questions via a committee, we are wanting to temporarily prevent faculty fro...

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OK so this is a pretty strange question (actually it's more of a discussion) so I will make sure to give you background and context first.   I am the Director of Educational Technology and my school's Canvas Admin at my high school (grades 9-12).  W...

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When editing a Canvas course DELAYED announcement, every Save of that announcement draft sent a notification to all course users. Created much confusion and chaos.Why would that happen and how to avoid?

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How do I delete a student that is no longer in my course?

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We are experiencing an issue in Speed Grader where the 'Reassign' option is greyed out, preventing us from reassigning submissions. This issue has occurred after, and seems to be linked to, an unexpected enrolment change that moved students between t...

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Hello Instructure Community, My team came across this comparison chart for features in Classic Quizzes vs New Quizzes https://docs.google.com/document/d/11nSS2EP0UpSM6dcuEFnoF-hC6lyqWbE9JSHELNmfG2A/preview?tab=t.0#heading=h.tgr5djifqvtfUnfortunately,...

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We are in the planning stages of moving from Zoom Pro LTI 1.1 to LTI 1.3.  Our original 1.1 install was installed using a Zoom personal account instead of a service account (which we don't want).  So, I will be installing Zoom Pro LTI 1.3 from scratc...

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Staff would like to use speedgrader an the marking tools within, without the need to download submissions. However, notes put onto individual powerpoint slides as a script are not visible, the documents need to be downloaded. Is there a work around f...

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Hi, I already had lecture slides open on a computer and started to do a quiz on my other device in another room. However, one of my friends used my computer while I was gone to command-f the slides for the same course I was writing the quiz for to co...

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If students upload a file in an assignment, the file autoloads in Speedgrader. Why don't quizzes work like this? It is impossible to download quizzes for large classes, both in terms of time wasted, necessary number of mouse clicks and hard drive spa...

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I am part of a shared course (multiple instructors) and wanted to know if I can see which instructor posted a specific assignment. Is there a way to do this?

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Hi Canvas,   I currently having problem with integrating the Turnitin LTI 1.3 to the current open source Canvas. I tried to follow the steps in the Canvas guideline and create a user to set up Turnitin tool (https://guides.turnitin.com/hc/en-us/artic...

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Hello Canvas by Instructure team, I am reaching out to request a new feature for Canvas that addresses a concern expressed by instructors at my institution. Currently, there is no way to fully hide rubrics associated with assignments from students. I...

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An instructor contacted me recently because students were confused by the "Submit Anyway" message that pops up if you try to submit a quiz without answering all questions. The student mistakenly hit ok, thinking that would take them back to finish. H...

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On the permission page in Account Role, I created a profile with some permissions, but I’m unable to add people to it. I went to Settings > Admin> ADD Admin, but the profile I created doesn’t appear. How do I enable it?  

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  Hello,  Today, some of our courses lost the ability to view the grading scheme before faculty submit grades to the SIS. When clicking on the final grade, it now shows as "No info." Because of this, faculty are unable to submit grades, and the grade...

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I migrated a Classic Quiz with Mastery Paths to New Quizzes and then imported it into another course. However, after the import, the Mastery Paths did not function correctly.After troubleshooting, I found that the original developer had created the q...

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Hi Everyone, I have a question on the customization of the Rich Content Editor on Canvas. We would like to move the "insert video" button on the editor to stop our faculty members uploading their video files to the courses locally. We have reached ou...

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We are looking for a grade report for all students in all courses in a given term that would show assignment/discussion completion as well as final course grades. The "Grade Export" under Settings > Reports only shows final grades. Does anyone know i...

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The custom statuses on override grades could be very useful if the information could be pulled via API.  Is there any intention of making this possible?https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Releases/Canvas-Release-Notes-2023-10-21/ta-p/580466#toc...

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We would like concluded courses to be preserved as an archive. I thought that courses automatically enter a "read only" state to faculty and students after the conclusion of a term. However, I have found out that faculty are able to delete material f...

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In this documentation article, it says, "Some external app LTI tools such as Google Drive and Office 365 do not retain tool configurations in exported courses." What are the "tool configurations" that it refers to? Does it refer to the configurations...

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Hi I have several rooms imported from SIS with different users, they all have a unique SIS ID. Is it possible to put the same template on all of them at once? The template is manually created. Since the rooms af different users I do not think that I ...

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A student visited the "Assignments" page using her Fujitsu laptop for 2 courses, she could access the page, but the assignment list just won't load as expected. But when she switches to using her mobile phone, she sees the assignment list. In additio...

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I'm having issues aligning outcomes to individual quiz questions. It appears correct when building the "New Quiz" and I have gone through all the correct processes so that under each question there is an aligned outcome, however when a student takes ...

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