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Has anyone tried to integrate Survey Monkey with Canvas?  We're looking to use Survey Monkey for our course evaluations.  It'd be nice to have a way for the survey to pass the course, section, and instructor info into the survey and/or data.  Just wo...

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This is a follow-up to an earlier post I made about contact methods for students in Canvas: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Admin-Discussion/Is-it-possible-for-students-to-use-the-Contact-link-for-a/td-p/504401 I discovered that the Canvas ...

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Is there any way that course Admin can recover deleted videos in Canvas Studio that another user deleted? Would be super helpful. I know it's possible in Canvas, but not sure about Studio. 

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Hello all. I was contacted recently about the spring 2022 NSSE survey that requires unique links sent to several thousand graduating seniors. This page has some information about how this is accomplished in Canvas using an excel with formulas and a s...

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Have any of my fellow admins explored the possibility of having Instructure's diffing engine treat absent students or teachers as "suspended" rather than "deleted"?  (If so, how would we go about it?) We might like to have these accounts set to "dele...

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Hi Is it possible to allow observers to have access to the Analytic feature (view pages and students) they want to know how much time students have spent doing a course ? I have tried creating a custom role but then I cannot link to learners who need...

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This question is related to my post from yesterday about adding student phone numbers to Canvas: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Admin-Discussion/Adding-student-phone-numbers-to-Canvas/td-p/509538To learn more about how the "text/SMS" commu...

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We are using a LTI tool called Dropout Detective, which they say can pull phone numbers from students' profiles in Canvas. If the phone numbers are set in Dropout Detective, then the person using it can call them if the students are having academic i...

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Hi Admins- In your experience, what are the differences between the user's 'Default' email address and other user-added email addresses in Canvas, and have you seen these differences change over time? More background: We would like to clarify for our...

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I noticed some odd behaviour today in our beta instance in regards to a course with visibility is set to institution. Multiple accounts who can view the course in PROD could not in BETA and were given the error "Students are not allowed to access tes...

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Is there a way to have Teachers in a course view all students' names but only have a certain set of students assigned for grading? Right now, we have Teachers in our courses that are assigned to different sections of the course, which each have diffe...

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Hi there, i want to download a report where i can got all the detail like student sis id, course code and section in one file for a complete term. Please help me to get it.

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Is the RollCall LTI included in Canvas (Attendance tab) part of the base package or is there an additional charge? Also, is the BigBlueButton integration on the Conferences tab part of the base package or is there an additional charge?

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We need a way to have student attendance at Zoom meetings count toward their Last Participation date in the Students report on New Analytics. We need this so we can report Last Date of Attendance accurately to the US Department of Education for finan...

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Is there a report in Canvas that shows student Last Participation in real time? I learned today that New Analytics is delayed by 24 hours. We would like to have a way to check on this in real time because we need to know the accurate information when...

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If an instructor manually grades an assignment, does that change the student's Participation Date in the course?We have Assignments in our courses that are set to have a file upload, but which most students will fulfill through attending a live Zoom ...

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We are a consortium of eight colleges.  Most of the colleges use ADFS SAML for SSO.  We want to add our Google domain to the options for SSO authentication.  I read through the instructions and it stated that Google SAML SSO does not have to be in po...

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Currently, we generate flat files as CSV files for users, courses and enrollments. The files get pushed every 2 hours between 6 AM and 6 PM, then get processed by Canvas. Canvas does the diffing in the files and creates users, courses and enrollments...

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Hi Awesome Community! Instructure is looking to hire a Canvas Expert to join the Solutions Engineering team -- supporting technical discussions with institutions across Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, and other areas of Europe.  We're looking for a b...

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We are using Outcomes for course and program level alignment and reporting.  It is not that fabulous, but with enough work done in Excel after downloading data, it works.  What is better?  

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Can the login + password method of logging in be disabled in the Canvas Student mobile app? All of our students are created in Canvas via an SIS integration, so they do not have passwords in Canvas. When they use Canvas on the web, they always log in...

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Is it possible for students to use the Contact link for a Teacher in a course?When we go into any of our courses as administrators, then click on the course-specific profile page for a Teacher from the People page, there is an icon under the Contact ...

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Canva  is a free editor that lets you create arts hassle by phone. This application can be used to produce greeting cards, invitations, covers for social networks, and even resumes and collage audio from your phone. The great advantage of canva mod a...

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Administrators at our high school want to be able to turn off messaging for just certain students.  I can do this by manually deleting their current "Student" enrollments and adding them back to their classes as our custom course user role "Restricte...

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The guide for Microsoft Teams could do with some clarification as the Teams icon doesn't appear in the RCE by default. This might be because the New RCE is being used over the Old RCE. However, for the New RCE, you are required to follow the guidance...

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I have instructors using New Quizzes and several of them are trying to design a quiz where students have the option to answer four or five out of ten available questions. How do they adjust the point values either in the Build section or during the e...

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We are using the Canvas-delivered APIs to integrate course and enrollment information from our SIS to Canvas. Note that I'm referring to the APIs that are direct, one-off calls to update data in Canvas, and not the API call you can use to transfer cs...

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Hello Canvas Admins!  I'd love for there to be a notification sent whenever a profile photo is updated and pending approval.  Otherwise it may sit there for while, unknown.  Does this option already exist and I've just missed it? Thanks in advance!

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The Canvas Surveys were a great option to administer one-minute papers in large classes.  With the transition to New Quizzes,  Surveys will no longer be available. I do not think ungraded multiple choices are a real substitute, as they do not allow a...

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We have been testing adding email addresses using the Canvas API in our test environment.  I found that I'm unable to delete certain email addresses using the UI and acting as a user, even when the email address is not set as the default.  I don't ha...

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