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We are finding submissions made by students dated and time as the 1st of January at 0:00. With "time to attempt this 46,412 minutes". Is anyone else experiencing this? Some of these submissions do not appear in our system until several days after the...

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I'm creating a solution to pull course files into another storage platform automatically and am attempting to avoid unnecessary downloads/writes. When consulting the docs (Files - Canvas LMS REST API Documentation), I noticed two fields: modified_at ...

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I looked back and saw that there are 2 separate posts on this topic from 2023 and it appears that the issue still has not been resolved. An import today, with adjusted due dates, resulted in an email going out to 350+ students notifying them that an ...

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I'm editing a quiz I inherited that is in the Old Quiz format and trying to create a numerical question with a very small answer (1.34e-5) and the editor keeps defaulting my answer to zero. I get the same behavior when trying to edit the error margin...

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Hi everyone, I'm trying to update the use_rubric_for_grading parameter to true using the Canvas API, but my changes don't seem to take effect. Does anyone know why this might be happening? Could it be a bug on this parameter, or something else I migh...

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Hi everyone, I'm encountering an issue with the rubric_associations endpoint in the Canvas API. Every time I try to access it, I receive a 404 error. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Could it be related to permissions,  the URL I'm using,...

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We have some early start classes (1/6) before our semester starts (1/27) and the shells have the correct course dates that are being pulled from ILP that keep having the "Participation" dates defaulting to "Term" (1/27) rather than "Course" (1/6). I'...

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I have done all the Modules when will I be able to take the online exam?

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Hi! In the Course settings I uploaded a picture. It looks perfect. But when I go to Dashboard it's upside down instead. How can I edit the Dashboard picture to rotate it? Is there anything else I can do?

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I have an assignment in a course which has had a single set of questions for over a year now, and only recently upon grading a secondary attempt for a student have we detected that the questions are in different order for some students and in most ca...

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My Institution has apprentices and when their results are sent to them, their boss also needs a copy to be sent for his records. Is there anyway I can add another email to the apprentices enrollment? Thanks Lynz

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I need 1 student in my course to resubmit his file. I don't want the other students to be able to submit multiple files because this creates chaos for me as an instructor. How can I do this.    Sometimes I want to be able to reassign the assignment t...

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Most of the time when I call up a course it brings up the material dated from the previous course (previous year).  I have updated all the due dates and saved everything so it should bring up the newest content but it doesn't always do that.  It will...

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Good afternoon, I have two courses in Canvas: one works perfectly fine when creating and posting Assignments, the other not so much. The problem with the latter one is that the Submission Type option does now show at all when creating as Assignment. ...

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Hello, Recently we have has a few instructors and myself login as the Test Student and submit a paper to an assignment configured with the Turnitin Plagiarism Framework option https://app.screencast.com/41Ee4o8zFlkMu Historically this has worked and ...

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@chriscas we use CanvasID authentication and have a paid subscription for higher ed. Half the students are in, but others are complaining of this issue. The student keeps getting the error message attached. "It looks like you may have already complet...

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Hi everyone,I’m exploring ways to add custom JavaScript to a specific course in Canvas LMS. I’ve looked into the Theme Editor, but that approach applies JavaScript globally or at the sub-account level.I’m trying to inject custom JavaScript that runs ...

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Hi - any idea why when creating a new quiz i just get spinning circle of death and nothing loads  

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Hello everyone, I’m looking for some guidance on how to analyze results from tests conducted through Canvas quizzes, specifically for: Question-wise attempt analysis – I want to review how students performed on each individual question to identify w...

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So I've noticed a bug (or feature?) in Canvas when you go to assign students to groups "randomly" where if you have two students with the same surname, they will always be put in the same group. I tested this across two Canvas classes in multiple tes...

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Our school currently has a trial version of Canvas for our district. Our teachers are trying to enter the students into their courses but it wouldn't allow them.  I was allowed to enter mine, then was given the optional boxes of entering students' fi...

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Hello,  I am trying to create an excel template to add SIS IDs (which are Salesforce IDs) to current users via their login  ID's. I used the following sheet structure to attempt this: user_idintegration_idlogin_idstatusSalesforce IDSalesforce ID We u...

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When I hover over the equation, it gives the message "clickable math" and does not read it. I have tried both Access8Math and Math Player Math Reader without any luck.Do you know the best equation settings to use, such as Math Renderer, and Show Math...

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Hi Everyone,  One of our school admin team contacted us. She noticed that the New Analytics>LateAssignments reporting generates a time/date format that our setup of Excel does not immediately recognise.   E.g. this is the result: Submitted DateGraded...

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A teacher at my institution is grading a quiz (New Quizzes) and when she views her students answers in SpeedGrader some questions aren't displayed in some cases. Does anyone know why? Is it possible that they are simply not shown in Speedgrader if th...

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I am the account administrator and am trying to add additional admins to our subaccounts. I've already created additional admin roles based on the directions found here successfully, but once I go to the Admin tab under settings, the additional roles...

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Hello! How can I make the video content in the Modules section mandatory to watch in full without allowing skipping?

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Buenas tardes, Me ayudan por favor si es posible generar un reporte o estadísticas masivas que pueda descargar, donde sepa que estudiante está matriculado a un curso. Muchas gracias por su ayuda.  

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Hello Community, We have recently completed our migration from Blackboard Learn to Canvas. As part of this process, we need to archive our previous courses from Blackboard, including crucial student data such as enrollments, submissions, grades, and ...

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We are having issues with our SIS sync.  I am needing to generate a report that lists ALL courses for a given term with the student enrollments (course roster) for each individual course/section.  Any advice would be appreciated!  Thanks.

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