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Hi Admins, My institution is trialling blueprints and has run into a challenge where we cannot apply certain changes urgently (e.g broken link or clarifying assignment instructions), while defering other changes still in development (e.g. major conte...

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On a course's People tab there is a column for Total Activity which is time spent in that course for that user. Since that data is clearly tracked by course and user, is there a report that will output that data? Is this something that has to be acce...

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Dear CommunityDoes anyone have experience with integrations between Canvas and scheduling/booking systems?Here at The Royal Danish Academy of Music we are using ASIMUT as scheduling system and booking system for our rooms. https://asimut.com/We need ...

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We are transitioning to Canvas and my CIO wants to explore all accessibility tracking options. We know that Canvas has native functionality. Is anyone using something other than the Canvas Accessibiility Checking functionality?

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Hi Canvas Community, My teachers are unable to mark attendance in Canvas due to the error message in the attached image. My institution operates from a number of campuses, and we have multiple classes per course, so sections are a vital aspect of my ...

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We have several environments (Production, Integration Testing, Development... as well as their beta shadows), and I'm really trying to avoid hopping in to each one individually to remove some people who've moved on from our team.How do you handle acc...

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Hello All,We have been on Canvas for a few years and we are attempting to implement the attendance feature so that our faculty members as well as our university auditor are able to keep day-to-day logs.  However, some of our faculty members utilize o...

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Hi,     I am new for Canvas. May I know that if we want to create the course base on the SIS system and we use the API to create all the course record from our SIS system, then how can we disable to course and section creation permission from teacher...

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I'm currently unable to submit an idea in this site so am starting by looking for feedback on how permissions currently operate in Canvas. We have a situation where multiple teachers are enrolled in the same course but specific teachers will grade so...

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Hey, Canvas Community,Our institution is investigating the possibility of migrating from using the Zoom LTI app in Canvas for video conferencing to using the Teams Meetings LTI app because we already have Teams through our institution's Microsoft Off...

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How do I add an admin key 

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I have courses file with the following header:course_id,short_name,long_name,status,account_idThen the data included:COURSE1,Course 1,Course 1,active,104104 is the number for the subaccount when I hover over the URL. When I try to upload the file, I ...

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Hello Community! I am curious for institutions that employ course builders or otherwise have different people that build courses than the actual instructors that will teach them, how do you handle building courses that have LTIs and other integration...

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Did you know that your online tests are not secure and can be easily printed from your browser (although not within Canvas)? Simply open a quiz in Canvas and use the print function in your browser. According to a Canvas Product Manager, " printing qu...

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Hi there,Relatively new to canvas, still learning every day, so sorry if this is a silly question. I am an adminI am trying to use the Canvas API to return a list of all students (and their grade) who have completed a particular quiz.For example I st...

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I have created a new course in a subaccount that has been used for years by a previous employee... but the option form importing/exporting content (the right hand menu on new shells and in settings) is non-existent. I thought I was going crazy! but t...

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An instructor has a message board for students to post messages to find subs for their computer lab hours if they are unable to work in the lab during their assigned times. They can exchange hours with another student. Once the sub dates have past, t...

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In looking around I've seen quite a few posts about there being scholarship opportunities through Instructure for the Canvas Certified Educator Program. Does anyone know if there is a similar scholarship opportunity for the Canvas Certified Technical...

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 We have several assignments that are graded by SpeedGrader using an external tool. Students can exceed the limits we have set on their terms. Can submission limits be enforced? 

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Hi! I was thinking about using Canvas for the course I am creating. Is there a possibility to pay for the platform and use it in private courses? 

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I was asked to create a contingency plan in case there was a medium (days to a week) to long term (weeks to months) Canvas outage and/or internet infrastructure outage.Basic options  (medium term) were revert to paper, electronically submit papers vi...

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I am looking for some guidance for Advisors (departments, colleges) on tracking at-risk students in Canvas.  We have several of our colleges interested in what Canvas can offer them in terms of tracking at-risk students, especially at the college lev...

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NOTE: I do NOT mean Instructure plumbing that makes the whole system function.Hi all.I was reading a post elsewhere about the posters Canvas timeout settings (session maintenance/browser keep-alive's), and different admins were discussing their value...

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Would love to know how and where we are able to access a Root Cause Analysis for any degradations and/or outages that affect us.Typically the status page is horrifically opaque:We have found the cause and have applied a fix for this behavior.Which is...

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(Canvas is new to our University, learning as we go)Ex1. ENGL1300-12345 & SPAN1300-23456 are crosslistedWhen SPAN students login, they see the ENGL1300 course, it may cause confusion.Ex2. CHEM1100-10001 is crosslisted with 10 other lab sections, 1000...

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I'm new in my position and we are new to fully leveraging Canvas.Let's say I want to run the following report: I want to know all the enrolled users in a term that haven't accessed a course in 10 days.How could I find this information?

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hi all!I'm not sure if this exists - but I'm looking for the combination of course settings and user enrollment status that would show a course in "past enrollments" but have the title of the course not be clickable (i.e. course itself not viewable)....

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How do I find contact info for my CSM? I have looked the community and only see response on people who will reach out directly.  Is this not public information?

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Canvas Admin Reports provides a report of all users with their last logon dates but not when the accounts were actually created. Is there an API call to list the creation date for all users? I have very basic knowledge of API's.Thank you for any guid...

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Hello everyone, as admin we are evaluating announcements and we would prefer to set the account default for course shells to 1) display the latest announcements on the course homepage and 2) allow student replies.We encourage our faculty to use these...

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