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Good Morning, Does any one know of a quick (relatively) way to find enrollments that were created outside of a SIS Import. I am aware I can access this by looking at /courses/:courseId/enrollments and seeing if SIS_IMPORT_ID is populated. I was hopin...

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"Admins who are given student roles in a course may still be able to view admin features. To avoidpermission conflicts, admins should create a separate account."How does you institution manage creating separate accounts for employees who are also stu...

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When importing grades via CSV file into the gradebook, does the import action overwrite the allowable fields, or does it just add or revise the contents of those fields? As context, let's say:At 10 AM, I export a gradebook in order to batch-enter gra...

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I would like to define a role where a user will be able to see content and import it into their own course but not edit it.  For example, we could have a "History 101 Repository course" that Instructor A controls and Instructor B cannot edit. Instruc...

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I created a new sub-account for a new program we're staring. I have also created a duplicate of the student role for these students. There are a couple of menu items on the Help menu that I would like hidden from the students in just this sub-account...

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I'm setting up an orientation course for a specific program, and would like to have the students complete this orientation course before their other courses become available to them. Is this a possibility? Something similar to adaptive release in mod...

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I am a new Canvas admin who has never worked with adding developer keys. I have had a teacher reach out asking for "access to the LTI.3 google drive."I understand this is something that I can enable, but do not know how. Can anyone advise how to manu...

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Hi, we have a custom built SIS developed by a computer programmer on staff.  Currently, I manually check the SIS for roster changes every day (multiple times a day during the first month of each school year) for roster changes.  I then export the dat...

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My students continue to get this message regarding the website is under heavy load.Interestingly, I find no advice when I search the Canvas Community for related searches.So, I decided to head to Google and this search shows me that this is a common ...

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How do you carry out deletion of student accounts from your Canvas? Because of GDPR regulations we cannot let data of students stay in Canvas after students have graduated 

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Is anyone else seeing this? When attempting to create an Office 365 Collaboration, a "your session has expired" error occurs. I have filed Case 04930126 with Instructure to see if they can identify the cause.Steps to reproduce:In a Canvas course, cli...

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I am in the process of cleaning up my Canvas Training courses. Some of them go back almost 2 years and most of the teachers can't even access them because of the date restrictions. Is there anyway to do a mass delete for this course? Some were set up...

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I've submitted a feature request for Scheduled Reports. We have reports we run on a regular basis and it would be nice to have these reports run at a pre-determined day/time on a schedule.https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/8465-schedule-reports 

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How is the “Total Activity” time that’s shown on the people page in Canvas calculated.  Is it based on total interaction time on pages?  How does “hang time” between interactions get taken into account?  If at all.

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