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I'm completely new to Canvas (as an Instructor) and have been setting up a calendar for a course. It charts activities for each and every day of the course.Logged in today and the calendar events have moved times and days without user input.I need to...

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Hi there, not sure if this is from a new Canvas update, but whenever I create my announcements, I usually select the delay post option. I believe the option is now called "Available from". Whenever the announcement is published and students are avail...

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Why did the assignment and quiz due dates change locations? Extra clicks? "Manage Assign?" It doesn't make very much sense.

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Fly-out page for Assign To is unneeded and unwieldy, it's just an extra step to do the same thing Fly-out page for rubrics in Speedgrader is unneeded and reduced functionality so much that faculty just stopped using them until the rollback So many re...

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I am trying to build an ungraded survey to score complete/incomplete. I was unable to use Classic Quizzes because I was not able to see the results in Speed Grader. I would like to use Microsoft Forms to embed a form in an assignment and have the res...

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We have several courses that our learners can complete for repeat credit, so long as there are at least 12 months between completion. Is there any way to set parameters in Canvas to prohibit learners to self-enroll in a course for repeat credit befor...

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We offer 2 different multi-course series and are interested in utilizing self-enrollment. However, in each of these situations, courses must be taken in a certain order throughout the series. Is there a way to set up a "prerequisite" course before a ...

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I recently found some typos in a quiz bank I built years ago. I want to go into the original quiz bank and fix those so that I don't have to do it separately every time I use those questions in future quizzes. So, how do I edit questions in a quiz ba...

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I created a student annotation assignment. I want to download the students' work on this assignment. I have looked for the download option in the gradebook and in the assignment and it does not exists. Is this something that cannot be done in this ty...

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I am importing quizzes via qti files created using a quiz template for excel spreadsheets. They are saved as csv and converted to qti using the Kansas State Classic to QTI 2.0 converter recommended by Instructure. Works great, import is smooth except...

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Since it's very typical for course/instructional designers to develop course content in Canvas, how do you get around your name/profile showing on the discussion prompt?  This is assuming the instructor doesn't want students to know that a support pe...

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Greetings Everyone: I am trying to create a critical thinking exercise for EMS students.  What I would like to do is present a scenario and then a series of questions.  Each correct answer would allow them to progress to the next question, but incorr...

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Can we modify Canvas default Welcome Tour? We are trying to add custom links and videos to the Default welcome tour.

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Hi Instructure Product Team and Engineering Team,I want to provide feedback on the new tray for Assign Access in Assignments.An instructor said that she couldn't save her assignment when clicking on the Save button. The reason why she couldn't save i...

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I've noticed that every time I edit an announcement or make a change (not publish date related), I get an email notification. I need a notification when my announcement pushes out on it's "available from" date for verification that it went out correc...

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I copied a couple of assignments and discussions from other courses (they had similar format to this course).  They had due dates from 2022, which I then removed. I then copied the format for the entirety of the course.  Canvas is still showing that ...

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I would like to receive a notification when a student does not submit an assignment past the due date and time. Is there a feature for this already? I'm struggling to find it. I can only see when students submit things on time and late, but no notifi...

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I was wondering if anyone knew of an easier way as an admin to add people to past courses. For example, our spring term ended a month ago and the course end dates reflect the same. I have a new faculty member who needed access to one of those past co...

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Would love to hear from campuses using Google Assignments LTI 1.3 within Canvas that run two Google Tenants (employees and students) Does the Google Assignments LTI 1.3 feature within Canvas work with multi-tenants? Issue: When an instructor creates ...

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I'm a contract lecturer and found the Course Roster (I think that's what it was called) useful for identifying students and some info about which Masters course they were doing.  The only tab now is the "People" one, which is far less useful 

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Hello, I have created a quiz at the end of my Articulate Rise360 course and uploaded the SCORM file to Canvas as a graded assignment. I can see that a percent score is recorded in the gradebook, but is there any way to see data for the individual que...

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There seems to have been a Canvas update a few days ago, and ever since then the discussion pages are loading really choppy and it's making doing the assignments difficult. For reference, I'm working from my home computer 64g ram 24 core processor, o...

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Like many others here, I am frustrated at the lack of TurnItIn integration for Discussion boards posts. I am wondering if anyone has tried to create an assignment that requires peer review as an alternative?From what I can tell, it would fail to prom...

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Has anyone else come across this issue? When creating an ungraded Group Discussion, the availability dates won't save unless I leave "This is a Group Discussion" unchecked and first "Manage Assign To", assign it to everyone (not sections), apply the ...

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Is it possible to export the list of active/inactive participants (or both) in a .csv or Excel file from Canvas?

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In Pages, there is an "Assign To" function that allows you to assign a page to a student/students.  In the student view, however, the page does not appear on their "To Do" list.  How do students know if a page has been assigned to them?

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Hi - I recently concluded a course and have now been notified that I need to save each quiz (with full question detail, i.e., the correct answer and what students see when they answer incorrectly) for purposes of submitting evidence to CACREP.  In th...

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While editing an announcement in my course, I encountered the following warning message: "Students have already submitted to this discussion, so group settings cannot be changed." I'm curious about how this warning applies to an announcement. What ex...

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My course is set up so that students must complete all items in a module before they move to the next one.One of the items in each module is a quiz. But the quiz has a deadline after which it is closed.I have not been able to determine if students wh...

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Hola, buenos días! donde se puede deshabilitar o configurar para que un estudiante NO PUEDA COMENZAR (crear) un nuevo curso???? Gracias!

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