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When I am copying content from one course to another, and use the select content feature, why is the content in the parent course (the course I am copying from) not alphabetized. I spend a lot of time hunting for the content. Seems like this should b...

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If I posted an assignment to an unpublished course, would students receive an email notification?

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I accidentally set up a student account instead of a parent account to observe a course. Can anyone help me switch it? I really don't want to have to use a different email to make a new parent account.

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Hi I was wondering if it's possible to remove the menu on the right-hand side of dashboard for students/ admin as we want (see image1 attached ). Also, can you please tell me can we remove only a section of the menu (see image 2 attached)Does anyone ...

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I have created the quiz and assignment and published it but it doesn't show up under modules?  Some of them do and some don't but the only way they can view it in student view is under assignment or quiz, but I want it to show up under the modules so...

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 I just finished doing a practice quiz but after submitting it the module froze on the assessment result screen which is preventing me from moving onto the next module. I've tried leaving the page, restarting my PC, clearing my cache and re-signing i...

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Hi, I am working with a faculty member who is trying to solve a specific issue for his course. He wants to have the Automatically apply deduction to late submissions option enabled.  He wants to have deadlines for assignments be due at 11:59 PM but s...

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 As the image attached says, the Proctorio extension may soon no longer be supported because of this Google change but does it mean it will be disabled?  We still use Proctorio on all our exams and we use Chrome by default so do I either switch brows...

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 Hi everyone, I just embeded this audio from Google drive on my Quiz (Rich content editor) but the embeded audio player is way too big. I tried but couldn't find any way to adjust the size. I hope someone can help me with this. Thank you! My role: te...

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Hello. Is there a way to disable the To Do list for student view?

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I am working as a TA and am working to make some matlab assignments. I want some sections of this assignment to be simple short answers and some to be autograded by MATLAB Grader LTI. Is it possible to have all this in one assignment? 

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Is there a way to change the default "Hide grade distribution graphs from students" from not being 'checked' to being 'checked'? Without having each teacher remember to select that option? We have been told by both student and instructors that this f...

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We use a course for our student handbook.  I want to connect our policies via our Google docs so we can update them in real time.  My question is, if I put it in as a link, can the student edit the online file?

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We are preparing a new program and are considering enabling "Improved Outcomes management." I cannot find any documentation of how this affects existing Outcomes. We tried enabling this tool a few years ago, and it messed up the exisitng outcomes and...

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I've had discussions in my courses for years, and as I'm preparing copied courses for publication in the coming semester, I've noticed the option to click "This is a Group Discussion." What does that mean? I thought all discussions were "group" becau...

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We use Talis integration to show resource lists for various courses, and generally it works reasonably ok. Is it possible to attach multiple Talis resource lists to one course? The use case is that for their final project course, students are permitt...

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I've been using Canvas for several years at multiple organizations using PC and Mac and various web browsers such as IE, Firefox, and Chrome, currently using a Mac with Google Chrome. I've never seen this before ---My Canvas pages all show the icons ...

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I have a problem with my Canvas LMS for a class the community has no solution for. I need help from a professional IT person. The thread directs us to "contact the Instructure Help Desk," but a search of this site shows no link to that thing if it ex...

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Greetings,  Students are mistakenly enrolled in Canvas, Course 3 instead of Canvas, Course 2. To avoid assignment overlap, the students must be transferred to the correct course. What are the steps to solve this issue?  Thank you 

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Wir sind ein Weiterbildungseinrichtung und würden Canvas gerne als LMS nutzen. Was kostet es im Jahr für rund 100 Nutzer? 

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Currently, I have CANVAS set up to give an automatic 0 for assignments not completed by the due date.  Previously, assignments that had not been attempted showed up with a ' - ' mark in Grades. Now, students get a false impression of their grades, as...

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Is it possible to do Grade Passback when using Canvas Elementary and one course has been assigned as the homeroom for all the subjects (ELA, Math, Science, etc). It looks like the subjects don't give me the option since they don't have a SIS ID and n...

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Hi We have an integration set up with Microsoft so that Teams groups can be used with Canvas primarily for the purposes of OneNote administration.  Previously, when the integration was activated at the course level, the Teams classroom/course was cre...

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I have a question/problem related to due/available dates and access to materials course materials.   I have already consulted the Canvas community resources (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/What-is-the-difference-between-assignmen...

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Hi all, I need to copy my master courses from one canvas school instance to another canvas school instance.  I am the Canavs IT Admin for 2 schools (same parent company), and I would like to copy all the master shell courses for a few programs from 1...

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Have new enrolled student(s) and need to forward Class Zoom sessions (Meeting Notices) to them so they appear on the students calendar in Canvas.

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We have in Canvas courses that have no enrollments; is there a way to send a file with those "wrong" sections and have them deleted/removed from Canvas?

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We are testing a self enrolled course which has three sections (A, B and C).  Whenever our test students use the enrollment link they are automatically sent to section C.  Is there a way to indicate which section the student should be enrolled in via...

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Hi all,I know anyone who uses the One to One model of Canvas with Blueprints Enabled runs into the issue where you will need to see the markbooks for multiple courses that were populated from a blueprint We are of a site where we have over 30 one to ...

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Hi Last autumn 2023 the teachers created classes as usually through SIS. Now they are creating courses for autumn 2024, and want material from autumn 2023, but it is gone. They can still find the courses, the students are still enrolled, but all the ...

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