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My published course lists Assignments and Discussion Boards as "disabled," even though I have populated both with a discussion prompt and Assignment descriptions/assignments, complete with deadlines. I can't figure out how to make these visible, or h...

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Hi,I would like to get in touch with the Customer Success Manager for our organization.I am currently facing an issue with uploading files to a course. As the IT support for our organization, I have investigated the problem and tried every possible w...

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I am petitioning to keep most of the current Canvas Overview videos or for Canvas to update them.  The "shorts" in the Guides are not the best.  A lot of them are AI-generated and basically read the Guide.  It takes forever to find videos for the sam...

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I have recently started a new job that made me a Canvas administrator, and I need help understanding a discrepancy involving Outcome Proficiency Ratings. Context: I am an admin in two different instances of Canvas. One instance belongs to my company,...

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I have a course with each assignment given to two sections. My 25/26 course will be identical to my 24/25 course with the exception of changing the due date. When I import the 24/25 course into the 25/26 course I lose all my due dates even when check...

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Is it possible to share stock banner/header images in a way that they are available to ALL courses? We'd like to have a collection of stock banner images that IDs or faculty can insert into the home page and other pages of their courses for consisten...

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When we started using Canvas a few years ago, we set up a pretty simple account and sub-account structure for our institution. Under the root account, we created a sub-account for Catalog, one for training courses, and one for migrated courses of the...

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The Total shown in gradebook factors hidden assignments into the grade shown.  This means that what students see is artificially lower grade than they really have, because it includes possible points into the total for assignments that are hidden (an...

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Greetings. I'm curious about mouse focus when adding content tabs. I was hoping to remove the underline on the active state tab, but Canvas strips out the .css <style>.enhanceable_content.tabs ul li.ui-tabs-active a {text-decoration: none !important;...

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We designed a self-paced course in Brightspace and have imported it to Canvas, our new LMS staring in September. The course pages are pretty rudimentary (maybe ugly) and the course needs a facelift. There are 12 modules about 50 submodules including ...

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I am planning on sending bulk emails to all of our teaching staff members on Canvas; however, they are enrolled in different courses, so it would be time and labour consuming if I jump into different courses and send the emails. So, I was wonder if C...

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Unlike submitted “paper” files for assignments, media recordings with the new media player in Canvas doesn’t have a very noticeable link to download student submissions, whether they be audio or video recordings. I happened to spot a way that teache...

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It would be helpful to add a feature to the moderate screen that shows each student's quiz progress in real time. Specifically, I’d like to see how many questions they’ve completed out of the total number in the quiz.

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Does anyone have experience with creating courses that students can test out of assignments in a module after completing passing a test?After our students complete a module pre-test, we would like for our students to test out of assignments that they...

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Hello!  For those of you who use some kind of templates (or maybe you don't use templates at all) to give your instructors a sort-of “starting point”, do you make a custom home/welcome page and set that as your “Front Page”, or do you set your Module...

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I am building medical education courses which have multiple modules in one course which focus on a specific content area (3-5 content areas per course). I need to have each content module require 73% pass for the module, in addition to the total grad...

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Syllabus needs to be exportable/printable. The linked post proposes solid explanation of problem and solution. how do I "like" this post/solution? I want to vote to have this changed or propose the same thing. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canva...

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When a discussion has the checkpoints option enabled the discussion no longer appears in the bulk date editor. This makes it more difficult to update all the dates for items in a course and makes it more likely a date will be missed. Practice quizzes...

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Is there a way to hide discussion board responses until a certain date? One of the courses at my institution has a challenge. Each student is to make a post to the discussion board of their presentation. They are then required to watch the videos of ...

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A professor would like to revise a previous quiz to allow students to re-attempt the quiz.  I searched through the guides and see that there should be options to allow for this (see attached image), but our Canvas is not giving us the option to moder...

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I would like to create quizzes that I am calling "progressive".  In other words, the first question is easy, the student answers it and sees if he got it correct. If not, an explanation comes up.  Then he can do the second question, which is maybe sl...

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We're planning to conduct assessment using Canvas Outcomes, and I'm hoping to find a way to do so using external evaluators. Has anyone used the method of creating an Assessment Shell, uploading artifacts, and assigning roles to evaluators?  Were you...

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Our institution has two courses that use Mastery Paths in one module. We have two issues coming up. The first is that in one course using it, all of the assignments in that modules appear for all students in the gradebook instead of just the ones des...

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Hello, I would like to request that Instructure add the `main` HTML element to the allowed list of HTML elements as seen on this Canvas HTML Editor Allowlist page. It's odd to me that they allow `aside`, `footer`, `header`, `details`, and `picture` w...

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Anyone knows how the total activity is calculated for students. Since it's not clear where these numbers are coming from. Preferably if there's a way to calculate them using the data available in the database. 

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As of last week, audio files are not playing on Canvas in the iPad application.The files are all mp3 files and regularly play on Desktop/Windows, but when students try to access them on their iPads they do not have the "play" feature or button.Has an...

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I need to unlink my Softchalk account from my Canvas account in the External Tool Softchalk. I used the wrong login for the external tool Softchalk cloud. I need to change the Softchalk account.

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When using a blueprint, with blueprint settings configured to lock the content attribute, but NOT the availability dates attribute, for locked pages, instructors still can't change the to-do date on locked pages in their associated course when those ...

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Hi I would like to make one of the elements on the left side an external link. I currently have one called study update, it was made by a former employee, how do you make them? so they can be on the left side, like files, participants, files etc. See...

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