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Hi everyone,I've been scouring the internet for any sort of information regarding the integration of the online proctoring tool, EduSynch, within Canvas.  I have been unable to find any reviews or usage cases and was curious if anyone here has used i...

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If you need to prevent users from logging into Canvas, you will need to suspend them. Instead of doing it manually you can simply enter a list of students into this spreadsheet, hit a button and it will do the job for you Instructions: Enter a list o...

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Our district has moved to standards based grading and while we have our teachers using Mastery gradebook, I have been trying to figure out how to import Outcomes in mass so that our teachers do not have to do these individually. Anyone else tried and...

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I am trying to get the total activity time of the students on the platform using the Canvas tables.I have thought of obtaining all the student's actions from the REQUEST table, and calculating the interval between the first and last access at the ses...

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If you go to profile/settings in Canvas, you can enable the option: Include Byte-Order Mark in Compatible Spreadsheet Exports. This option is turned off by default for our users. We would like to enable this option by default for all our users. Is ...

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As an admin of paid account, I don't find the option SCORM in the menu of a course. I saw in the community advises to contact with CSM. How he will enable this option? 

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Is there any way to give a role the ability to moderate quizzes without also giving it the ability to edit quizzes? Both permissions seem to be tied to the "Assignments and Quizzes - edit" option. We have a situation where we'd like users to be able ...

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I have inherited some customization in Canvas which displays a banner at the top of the dashboard page. Although I cannot currently see it displaying any info, I believe it to be reaching out to a webapi that has been setup here. A studentid and some...

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Has anyone used either of these instructions, or some other process, to complete a bulk import of student profile photos? https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Developers-Group/How-to-bulk-load-and-update-avatar-profile-pictures-with/ba-p/410101 ...

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I'm using the Canvas API to retrieve enrollment information. I'm specifically interested in a student's enrollment status for a given point in time (i.e., on a given date, what was this student's enrollment state?). Is there a way to capture this? 

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I am trying to figure out how to find the Canvas event for when an assignment is Reassigned. I have watch the SQS monitor for 15 minutes to make sure they weren't just delayed. Nothing showed up for that event. Any guidance would be appreciated.

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We are working on policies to help manage user accounts for our non-credit courses.  The licensing model for our non-credit courses is based on the number of users (not FTE).  Thus, we are trying to figure out efficient ways to ensure the users we ha...

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Baylor University is experiencing issues with 2/3 of our Box integrations. The integration for RCE and External Tool seem to be blank and this is for Chrome and Firefox. This was discovered when Box links for both were forcing students to do the clou...

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Hiya,There's a tool we've been working on that gives each student a file space inside a Canvas course where they can place files. The files are accessible to the student and any instructors or teaching assistants on the course. This allows students t...

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I am an admin of our district's Canvas instance.  I understand how to see how much storage space a user has taken of their allotted quota, but I was wondering if there is a way to see the sizes of individual files to know exactly what is taking up st...

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Hello,Has anyone had any experience integrating Ready Education  services with your Canvas instance. If so, please provide any feedback, such as the integration process and resulting user experience. Thanks in advance!

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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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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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