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Hello! I'm helping faculty set up outcomes and we are wondering how to align multiple program-level outcomes to a senior capstone project. I apologize if I've missed something obvious. We're not very far into implementing outcomes, but I haven't foun...

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I received this message from a teacher in my district. This is not the first time I have heard about this issue. As an admin, I see it when moving from masquerade mode to the admin screen. Canvas seems to frequently drop my login. For example, when I...

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Hello Canvas community..   I am looking for someone with experience with Pearson textbooks (specifically for math if that matters).  We were talking with our Math faculty about how they use Pearson for testing but that students could just go around C...

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I have an instructor that says at a previous university, he was able to export all student quiz responses. He wasn't sure if he was using Classic or New Quizzes, but I'm not seeing a way to do that in either one.  I showed him the reports, but those ...

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Hi everyone, I’m experiencing an issue with the Attendance tool in Canvas. When I open the course in Google Chrome, the profile pictures of students do not appear. However, when I use Microsoft Edge, the pictures display correctly. It looks like the ...

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Hi Setting up a rubric using the import rubric template csv file, content looks like it conforms to the requirements, but when I upload the file no rubric appears. Is there any way to see that has gone wrong during the import, trying to see if I have...

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Has anyone found gaps in their course analytics ? I'm currently seeing missing last view date, last participation date, and participations at overall course level, even though the same data is present at individual week and student level. Am also see...

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I have a new React + Flask webapp. It has its own login for users to start using the app. I have added this as an external tool in Canvas. What I want initially is to see of canvas users can start using the webapp without having to login if they clic...

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Hello! I'm curious about the processes universities use to make sure apps are FERPA-compliant before setting up LTI integrations. Who initiates the process? Who is responsible for making approval decisions and what documentation is required? Does any...

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I have a question regarding hiding one particular course setting on a global level.  When you click on any course in Canvas, and then access the "Settings" for that course, then scroll toward the bottom, there is an option titled "Hide totals in stud...

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Any (possibly preliminary score) entered in the "Score" box when grading a written submission causes the page to automatically submit that score to the grade book if the instructor clicks anywhere else on the same page, without even moving to another...

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Is it possible for Canvas to act as the school's management system. Teachers and Administration being able to post notices to the whole school or to a specific year level? Also, to be able to do roll marking on Canvas instead on other programs within...

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Has Canvas recently changed their qti format? In the past I could export a quiz that used question groups and import it into Respondus 4. When I do that now I get the error when previewing the file: DynaZip UnZIP error: zip file structure invalid (pr...

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I'm currently trying to do a quiz on Canvas but it says the service is unavailable due to maintenance. How long will the site be down?

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How do I search all my rubrics without going to individual classes

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Our Elementary Sub Account is set with a Mastery Scale of FOUR Mastery levels: Insufficient EvidenceDevelopingApproachingMeets However, we have a special project with our Office of English Language Learners who would like to use the WIDA Levels of la...

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Hello, I would really like to know if it's possible to edit the icons available in the canvas navigation menu. For example, changing the icon of the "control panel" button and adding another button, an extra button in the menu. Is this possible? If s...

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I have a Canvas shell that's a decade old and am wondering which of the files are actually still being used, and where. Is there any way to go to the Files page and find out this information (such as: a list of pages where the file is referenced)?

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Creating a submission via quiz but was wondering if the students can record right from the quiz rather than uploading a video they created (on their phone)? 

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I completed the modules for the self-paced course, however, I cannot manage to locate my certificate of completion. I am supposed to receive it automatically via email, which has not occurred, and at the end of my final module I am referred to a link...

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Hi all, We are experiencing a couple of issues with our Pages Index page. For many users, when there are enough individual pages to require extensive scrolling, the displayed width of the table is shorter after the initial pages that were loaded. (Th...

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Whom would you recommend as a 3rd Party Service for remediating Adobe Acrobat PDF's?  

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I'm trying to use the Canvas speedgrader, but when I open it up the comments section is taking up the whole page as shown in the screenshot below. It seems like the pdf is behind the grading screen. Before it used to be split up where half the page w...

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Currently, we are encouraging faculty to clean up courses. Is it possible to have unpublished files be downloaded more than 1 at a time? And Is there way to distinguish files that are "scheduled" to be published, for example if they are in a unpublis...

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Has anyone noticed an issue in Speed Grader where, after leaving an overall comment on a student’s assignment, the comment appears on a separate white page instead of displaying in the comment box as usual? I’ve seen this occur a few times recently a...

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I have a TA who sent me a screenshot showing that one of the courses they are enrolled in says they have been dropped from course. However, I can see they are still active for the course when I look as an admin. What could be the reason for this?

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Technology Admin Have Google Drive LTI 1.3 in Canvas, and when trying to use as a submission type students are receiving this error. I have gone through google support and all of our Google Drive sharing settings are open and allow sharing outside ou...

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Hi. I am wondering about best practice for this issue. I can think of three ways to do this. (a) Have one quiz. Assign students to groups and manipulate start and finish times. (b) Have one quiz. Adjust student times after they have started the exam ...

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Is it possible for Canvas, to let students delete an old class off of their board, when the professor will not deactivate it. Currently the class is sitting on my card list, and I would like to clear it, but the professor will not deactivate it. The ...

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I've found that Assigning content (Assign To) to students still allows those via Public and Institutional Visibility (Course Visibility) to see content. In my testing, this happens with Module visibility as well as Content in a module. I'm wondering ...

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