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I looked back and saw that there are 2 separate posts on this topic from 2023 and it appears that the issue still has not been resolved. An import today, with adjusted due dates, resulted in an email going out to 350+ students notifying them that an ...

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I have test banks from the textbook that publisher I'd like to import as question banks. I downloaded the files for Canvas. These appear to be zip files for each chapter, which contains 2 html/xml files, all zipped into one big file.Where can I impor...

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My Institution has apprentices and when their results are sent to them, their boss also needs a copy to be sent for his records. Is there anyway I can add another email to the apprentices enrollment? Thanks Lynz

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I need 1 student in my course to resubmit his file. I don't want the other students to be able to submit multiple files because this creates chaos for me as an instructor. How can I do this.    Sometimes I want to be able to reassign the assignment t...

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Hi - any idea why when creating a new quiz i just get spinning circle of death and nothing loads  

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We have group assignments, how about group quizzes? Problem: Students meet together to take a quiz as a group activity. Currently, one student (or more) will be the "sacrificial lamb" and will take the quiz and learn which answers are incorrect. Some...

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We are a law enforcement institution. We need to be able to display all course categories to our learners, with the ability for them to open a category and see the courses available within it. Is this possible? We are moving from another LMS that doe...

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I have just received another last-minute class due to registration at our campus. I will need to roll in my course content (I know how to do that). However, can I first delete the other teacher's content, since they are so different? The book remains...

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Hello Community, We have recently completed our migration from Blackboard Learn to Canvas. As part of this process, we need to archive our previous courses from Blackboard, including crucial student data such as enrollments, submissions, grades, and ...

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Hello, New to New Quizzes here. My teammates and I have noticed that any content styled in the Instructions section or a regular question using the RCE changes in appearance once saved (Build is clicked). It seem minor, but squashing the line-height ...

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I would like to put some thumbnail images on a page that can be clicked on and expanded. I tried to use code in a lightbox effect post by Chris Hofer, but some global css kept it from working correctly. Do you have a suggestion on how I could make th...

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Has anyone experienced an issue with the Canva integration in Canvas where it appears in the menu but displays an error message when clicked? Any suggestions or solutions to resolve this?

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Good afternoon Community,  Is there a way for copy and paste to be disabled for students Thank you 

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Hello,I've recently joined a program in eLearning and IT, and I've noticed that our current setup in Canvas integrates with Microsoft SharePoint. This integration creates individual SharePoint sites for each course every year. Over time, this results...

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I teach Classical Greek online. Can I change to the Greek alphabet in quiz questions?

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We'd like to share a set of 2 interacting modules into Commons.These modules are  a part of a course that we share in commons module by module. But we need to share these two modules as a set.Is there a way to share the set as one commons item?So far...

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We work in PLCs at our campus and one of our members has copied over assignments for us, both by sharing and in our team Canvas page and it is not correct. Please help!

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Hi friends-My University is migrating from Brightspace to Canvas. Some of the courses have a lot of extranal links, images, etc. One of our faculty members is looking at close to 140 missing/broken links, mostly to .jpegs and .pngs. Does anyone know ...

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Is there a way for two teachers to mark the same quiz? Also is there a way to hide the teachers feedback/ marking until it has been proofread and checked?

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Why can't we embed images in Canvas group emails?

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I am wondering about best design practice for an instructor to place multiple images with text below each image on a page. Here is a demo Canvas resources page that does just that:  https://resources.instructure.com/courses/11/pages/course-home-page ...

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Colleagues, Do you include the wording (or wording to the effect) "Use the Previous or the Next buttons to navigate through module materials." when designing Canvas content? (Noting that there is a Next and Previous button on every page.) Is it neces...

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What is the maximum number of people visible on the screen on BIGBLUEBUTTON conference session?We have 50 students for a course. How will they see the Faculty & all the students? We have video mode mandatory for all students. Please advice. 

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Hi everyone. I'm an Instructional Designer at a university, and I'm working with a professor to create an online Latin course. She wants her students to be exposed to new Latin words on a daily basis, and would like the course homepage to display a n...

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I am doing some research and trying to see if there are any viewable logs for admins that may indicate that an instructor has changed a student's quiz answer submissions as the student was taking the quiz in Canvas. Would this be possible?

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Hi, Codetantra is a coding and proctoring tool. Can it support integration with Canvas LMS?

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Is there a way to use Turnitin when using discussion forums? What about AI detector when using Discussion forums?

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I saw that a couple of years ago there was a multi-part question that included whether it was possible to bulk-change the point value of assignments. I followed a response to add that feature as a request, and it seems that the request was archived -...

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I want to require students to complete an assignment before proceeding to a group meeting. Currently students are skipping the assignment until after meeting with their group which makes them unprepared for the group meeting. One solution we came up ...

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As the house substitute for a high school that uses Canvas, I am given modules to teach to the students everyday.  The problem is that I spend a lot of time searching for answer keys and the teachers edition.It would be great if you could install lin...

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