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Hi all,  I have had a page working for some time now (well until today) where I could click on an image or button at the top of the page and it would go to a link on page. Admittedly, this link was through an accordion set up, but it worked. Today, I...

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Has anyone used Canvas to allow Faculty and/or Administrators track minute equivalencies? For example, if instructional activities have been assigned minutes, how would you track them to make sure online courses are in compliance. Any suggestions are...

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I believe there might have been a breaking change with the most recent update. I now only receive 403 Errors when trying to send API calls to our Canvas Beta server. Notes: 1. I have generated a new API key and updated the system with this new key an...

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How can I look at an assingment and know from which course it was imported? A teacher has almost all their materials imported from over 5 previous or shared courses. The teacher is noticing some were imported from the wrong course and wants to get ri...

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hi all! I'm an admin for a couple Canvas instances - one is K12 and one is a non-profit for our prof. dev. courses. From the K12 we got notified by the CSM of this:  "First, the update was pushed out last Friday, October 3rd. For any videos embedded ...

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We are having issues with our Ellucian CRM advise syncing data with Canvas. It stopped on a couple of months ago, and we cannot figure out why. We are getting a warning error saying to check analytics in Canvas but they are enabled, and there is noth...

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Imagine you are a middle-schooler, and that "missing" button is the only thing that will get you to even somewhat begin to care about whether or not you do your work. Your teacher has warned you a million times not to ask her if something will be gra...

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I've set due dates for four different differentiation tags on 50+ locked assignments in my blueprint course. Why have the due dates for the differentiation tags not propagated to the associated courses? Do I have to manually set 200+ due dates in eac...

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Hello Instructure Community, Does Cookie Run Kingdom sound familiar to you by chance? If yes, this course is just for you! This Canvas course, Cookie Run Clubbies official Wiki, informs users about the Cookie Run Kingdom-based upcoming series, a magi...

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Hello,Thank you for always helping us out. I work in user support for Canvas LMS and serve as a sub-account administrator. We often receive inquiries from students saying, “I thought I submitted my assignment, but it turns out I didn’t.” When we rece...

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Why on earth would Canvas change this feature? The comments within the same assignment allowed me to see the conversation with my student, allowed me to see what I had already typed to them, and we could communicate this way. Now I have no idea what ...

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Hello,In the process of renewing the Google SSO cert for Canvas. Wondering if I only need to point to the correct cert in Google Admin and then calculate and paste the new cert fingerprint in Canvas?  

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Why doesn't Canvas have a way for case managers to manage accommodations/modifications at the account level? It seems inefficient for multiple teachers to have to go in and manager each individual student. 

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I took my 2.5 hour exam today only to find out that none of my progress was saved. When the time limit was reached, the exam flashed a “Go to Results” on screen. Nothing was happening when I clicked the button, so I refreshed the tab. Then, it said t...

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Hi, I can filter live in the gradebook to see late submissions but when I export it, it doesn't pull through to the data. I want to know if late submissions have a trend in our summative assessment results. Can I pull a report that shows late submiss...

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The module remains locked only given 3 attempts 30 minutes but did not pass what I do now since I can't get to the other pre-requisites. It is for drivers Ed took the test in module 4.9 but failed.Cannot reach 5.1 what do I do.

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How could we retrieve auto-saved responses from our discussion post? 

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We are in the early stages of exploring Canvas LMS and see that the test environment refreshes to mimic the production environment on a monthly basis. Has anyone explored the possibility of pausing the monthly refresh in the situation that an extensi...

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In the 9/24/25 deploy Canvas Deploy Notes (2025-09-24) - Instructure Community - 656457 there was a major change in page view functionality.  Instead of being able to view a specified date range of views going back indefinitely, now only the last 30 ...

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Question or Suggestion I work in Higher Education and at our school the profile pictures that appear in the LMS are the same ones that are on student ID's. As we are setting up our new Canvas site I was told that this is not possible in Canvas. Indiv...

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All of our students do not finish at the same time. Some of them require extensions to the 3-month limit for class. How do I "close out" the students who finish so they are no longer in our count? I have been Deactivating them, but I don't know if th...

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Does Canvas LMS have any type of progress indicator to inform teachers or students of a student's progress as far as percentage of the course that has been completed?  In my Canvas course all assignments are prepopulated for the semester.

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Thanks in advance to reading my question.We created several groups for our students to collaborate.Now if you go to the home page of the group project, you'll see that it's possible to make announcements.Is it possible to:Disable that option (for eve...

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I'm an administrator and had a question regarding temporarily suspending a student. When a student is suspended in Canvas, what can they still view or have access to while suspended in Canvas?

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Hello! I'm trying to help an instructor make his materials accessible. He teaches math and statistics, and uses Latex, tables, and images of formulas in his materials. He's trying to make these things accessible for students using screen readers and ...

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I have students who use Google Docs to develop essay assignments. We require essays to be formatted in APA style. When a student submits a Google Doc to an assignment in Canvas, Canvas converts the document to be read in Canvas Doc Reader, but change...

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Hi there! We frequently have Students in multiple sections of the same course. For example, we have an "Internship" course, and students are allowed to be in two or more internships, which result in being in INT101-01, INT101-02, etc... To make thing...

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Hello everyone, I'm wondering if anyone has found a solution to "track" what learners do on a course page? If a course page has a video, I-frame, or a link to an article, is there a way to see who has accessed them and how many times? Perhaps through...

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Hi,I am trying to delete an old integration from our canvas account. But it does not allow me.I see a request failing in the network tag complaining about invalid dataCould you please take suggest how to resolve this.

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Hello All:I have a discussion post/forum assignment, that requires a slight twist.  In addition to creating their initial post, I am asking my students to also post a 2 questions (based on readings) for class discussion. At the end of the posting per...

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