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We’re interested in how other institutions that moved from Moodle to Canvas handled the historical content that was not migrated. If you’re one of these institutions, we’re wondering:Do/did you host a retired version of Moodle on site?Did you outsour...

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How could I export quizzes, with correct answers, from Canvas to an MS Word doc? I would like to use something like a Common Cartridge or QTI export and convert it to an MS Word doc that shows the text of the questions, their responses, and which one...

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Does anybody have experience with using SIS feeds to reorganize our subaccount structures? I'm looking at some very big top-down changes in our system. From testing on beta as well as production servers with small sample sizes, I've noticed the feed ...

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Is there a way to make an export of all courses that are used as templates for specific subaccounts?   I am looking for all course numbers that are templates in our rootaccount en subaccounts. I have admin rights.   Thanks!

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Hello, we're an NGO that are the official advocates (translators) of Khan Academy to the Bulgarian language. Recently we wanted to curate our own course offered to students for free, and are looking into using Canvas as a platform for it. As our targ...

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I'm unfamiliar with using the Roll Call/Attendance feature in Canvas and need guidance on handling a specific attendance grading scenario for my course. We have a total of ten mandatory class events. To meet the attendance requirement, students must ...

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I need to upload a PDF that is designed to be viewed in two-page view.  Is there a way to edit the Canvas PDF viewer so that the document appears in two-page view, rather than single page view?  Attaching a photo of what this view looks like in Adobe...

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I'm the Canvas admin for our district. We are a K-12 school with an alternative education program for students who have been suspended. The Alternative Education Instructors are requesting access to the Act As feature, since the students they have co...

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Update #2 (5/7/24): The original functionality has been restored! Our tech department wrote to me yesterday saying that Instructure had pushed a solution for this issue. Once again, we are able to drag the sidebar to resize the rubric in the Canvas, ...

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I am an upper level Canvas admin and testing center administrator.  I'm guessing that there are nightmarish logistics involved, but I am just wondering if anyone has an idea if it would be possible to use some sort of password override feature on an ...

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Why am I not able to link my Canvas course and Schoolnet?

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We have a case of a large course with multiple Instructors and TA's where an assignment was deleted.  The Head Instructor would like to determine who deleted the assignment and provide a training opprotunity.  Perhaps the TA didn't realize what they ...

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This was brought up years ago and really should be fixed. Why, why, why would you assume we wanted to sync course settings (thus swapping out the home page) on the first sync? Who thought taking away this control was a good idea?Current workflow:1. N...

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Our teachers have been reporting issues with student submissions where the text is 'invisible', and the issue for them is becoming more frequent. They are seeing this in SpeedGrader, on discussions, when students submit to essay questions, etc. Basic...

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Testing out the Zoom LTI in Canvas and it's really great - but would love for students to be able to use it in Groups. Right now it's just BigBlueButton. Is there any way to replace that with the Zoom LTI instead of the BBB tool?  Edit: although you ...

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I have a new canvas school that had its test version converted to the live version.  However all the dummy data for users and courses is still there.  How can an admin bulk remove users and courses?

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Does anyone have a good online attendance solution? We don't believe the State of Ohio would accept Roll Call or New Analytics attendance tool data for online school attendance. (If you want to look the rule is here). There is a new product called Pu...

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I have a published course that I am trying to enroll students in, however when I enroll students it says Canvas cannot send enrollment emails to students because the course is not published. I have verified it is published and their are students who ...

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Students are seeing assignments that have not yet been graded as 0's. Why don't they show up for students with the paper icon that is in instructor's gradebooks? It would reduce so much panic from students if they saw something other than a 0 on thei...

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Hello wonderful community. I have just stumbled upon something very weird.... Teachers in a course could not edit unless I disassociated it from the Blueprint. Blueprint and associated course located in the same sub-account.Teachers have with Teacher...

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The Canvas Attendance feature, while useful, is a little clunky. As it currently stands, for a teacher to look at the report they have to request it, wait for it to be emailed to them, download it, and then apply filters to make sense of the .csv fil...

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We are updating our themes to represent a university logo change. We have a couple of different accounts within Canvas that we use to organize courses and training. We are wondering if we change an account theme, if it will override some of our sub-a...

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I have hundreds of students and dozens of teachers who have graduated or are no longer employed by our school district.  I'd like to know how other districts handle this.  Do you suspend the user account or do you delete the account entirely?  When I...

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I have been using Canvas for years and for the past 24 hours it has been unable to perform basic functions such as uploading files or links from my computer. It begins the operation but then it stalls, gives a "Wait or Stop" prompt and, when you clic...

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I have a course that uses a single web page. The web page links to a quiz, two SCORM module assignments, and then a final quiz. One of the SCORM modules contains a Next button on it that looks very similar to the Next button at the bottom of the page...

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As I was saying from the title ....the top listed default results by just entering the Common’s page, so that preferred results are already at the top of the page by default. It would be great for communicating with new Canvas users how to access des...

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Not sure if this is temporary but we're seeing issues with jQuery not loading in Beta. Is this just us?

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Hello there, I would like to know this:Is it possible to distinguish roll call attendance from in-person and online?Thanks, 

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We found out we were using a course as a template / structure (not Canvas Template) that had a quota of 500 mb, when our default quota is 2000 mb.  We copied this course to 200+ courses.  Is there an easy way from our Admin side to correct this?  I w...

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Hi, I published a quiz and students have taken the quiz.I want to regrade one of the questions such that all students have full credit.I follow the guidance on the regrade page, by making a modification of the question, and then chose "give full cred...

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