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Hello! As a teacher in a large district, my students have found they can inbox message students from any section -- our librarian has all the students in her canvas, so they have access to students in the whole school.  Therefore they are arranging m...

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Hi!How can I make Canvas send notifications to administrators when a user accepts an invitation and confirms their account or what can I know it? My user role is administrator.

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Good day Kindly note my assignment upload doesn't haven't upload option, it's only submit here button but no option to upload please aKind regards Gracious 

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My use case is to search a list courses that contain Classic Quizzes and to list any Quizzes that have "shuffle_answers":true and that contain one or more questions that have "All of the above" as a answer or distractor. Unfortunately we have thousan...

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Hello,I am currently trying to access a previous enrollment course that I have an incomplete credit for but the course does not come up at all when I look at past enrollments. I can see many of the courses that I've taken in the last 3 years but this...

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I am seeking ideas from the community about how to optimise our regulator-mandated self-assessment process. Our current process is: At the start of a course, students rate themselves in a range of skills, using a Classic Quizzes survey.At the end of ...

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Is there a way to export Item Banks as QTI zip files? I am aware that quizzes can be exported. However, my question is about Item Banks. 

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I would like to add a custom navigation item labeled Eg : 'Labs' to the Course Navigation menu. Please provide guidance on how to accomplish this within the Enterprise edition of Canvas. I will also upload a sample image illustrating where I intend t...

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I've been told that there is a way to generate a warning to students who fail to access a course for a given period of time (10 days in the specific instance). Basically, if a student doesn't have activity in a course in that time frame, they receive...

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Our institution would like to copy all past courses (including all materials uploaded within the course) to our new term. Is there any way to use csv file to copy all courses simultaneously instead of doing manually for every single course?

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Hello Everyone,  I’m the DE System Administrator Our District. I’m reaching out to you regarding Canvas and development shells for professors. I would like to know if your DE department does provide more than 1 development shell to professors. If yes...

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I've been working on a pretty big overhaul of our subaccount structure, and I wanted an easy way to visualize how it's currently laid out. I started to build it via LucidChart then realized it has the ability to import data and create a chart for you...

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Hello, I'm an LMS admin and our school is new to Canvas. I've been asked to add a syllabus contract to every one of our courses. I tried adding it under quizzes through our Canvas template, but later realized the content was locked. Does anyone know ...

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Hello, Canvas Community! As part of our continuous effort to enhance the learning experience and recognize our students' achievements, we are exploring options for Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) applications capable of issuing certificates of ...

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We intend to make greater use of global announcements within subaccounts, but we want to better understand who exactly will receive these announcements. The guidance in the Instructure Admin Guide (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Admin-Guide/How-d...

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We have a couple of Pages that act as external URL tools. Somehow, URLs were added to the HTML content that redirects as soon as you try to view the content on the Page. It is impossible to edit the page because it immediately redirects. We employed ...

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Hi - I'm a Canvas Admin and would like to know if anyone knows what it means.  When entering grades in Canvas, our instructor is adding/updating one grade for one student and the grade he enters changes all students in the class to that same grade.  ...

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I work as an Educational Technologist to support faculty with various learning tools; mostly Canvas. I had an instructor tell me that they had their students take a Classic Quiz with 7 questions and required them to only answer 6 questions for full p...

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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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