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I very much enjoy using Canva for design work. Currently, we are using Canva to design course content and embedding that into the Canvas pages. Does anyone have a better option? We have investigated using the Canva for Campus option and would love to...

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Good afternoon! I just started a new position as an instructional designer at a university which is in the stages of transitioning from Bblearn to Canvas. I was given a task to research what new features are being rolled out to Canvas and provide som...

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Some instructors opt to put all of a module's content onto a single page (links to multiple readings, several embedded videos, etc) along with many paragraphs of text. Too much content on a single page can overwhelm learners and lead to cognitive ove...

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I’m trying to build a homepage for a course without using tables and I’m having trouble getting the banner and buttons to line up. For reference it's a banner with 4 thin buttons beneath it… I need everything to span the entire page and line up both ...

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Hello everyone,After a very successful virtual edition last year, we would like to invite you to our first in-person conference in Amsterdam, inspirED Europe 2023, taking place on June 8th.This year, we're excited to welcome David Nicol and Suzanne M...

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I would like to customize my front page based on student data. In particular, I would like to have a table of modules, with the color of each cell indicating whether a student has completed the module or not. In the course, the student's final grades...

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Hi Everyone,I am an instructional designer new to Canvas. I am noticing that there are an incredible number of online course templates available for use via the Canvas Creative Commons. I am looking to create a wholly online asynchronous template for...

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Hello there!We're using some SCORM files from a third-party content provider. Our institution would like to learners to pass these courses with an 80% on the exam and limit them to 3 attempts.We've noticed that when exam attempts are limited to 3 in ...

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I want to embed a PDF into a page where the page displays the page, not the link I uploaded from a computer. How do I do that? 

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Please put a feature to print materials / files / images from instructors (in the modules) without having to download the files firstThanks 

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Looking to see what application and /or tools that are available for embedding a video playlist in canvas as a learning material.  I know your able create a playlist in Youtube and embed that playlist into canvas but I do not like how this functions ...

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I'm working with an instructor that is deep-linking to McGraw Hill Connect assignments from Canvas. If we remove the McGraw Hill Connect option from the Canvas course menu (by going to Settings --> Navigation, and dragging it below), will the links s...

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In Canvas, is there a way to link to previous modules that have been accessed or opened previously. For example:We are in Week 5 of the course, working in the Week 5 module. I want students to be able in as fewest clicks as possible jump to module 2 ...

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Instructional designer here. A lecturer came to me recently saying that on the Moderate page for a recent quiz they ran, which was made in New Quizzes and did not have a timer, all the students' attempt durations are coming up as '00:00'. They say th...

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Hi fellow Canvas users, just looking for some advice.We have a CSS style guide that helps us produce pages that look like my example attached (#1). The Rich content editor would usually display the pages with the styling, but more recently, it has st...

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Prior to our district upgrading to the New Assignment interface, I was able to design my assignment descriptions using Canvas' CSS enhanceable_content tabs style. With the new assignment upgrade, this still works, but in a funky way as described belo...

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Hi, Colleagues.I've opened a help ticket with our local support staff here at our college, but I wanted to see if any of you experienced this issue before. The college-branded global course menu is no longer loading for me. Instead, I see the generic...

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Hi, Colleagues. It can be challenging to make attractive Canvas pages - especially for novice users. I've put together a handful of tips you may find useful for increasing the overall appearance of your course pages within a publicly accessible Canva...

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Hello everyone, I would like to invite you to the second edition of our virtual conference that will take place on May 24th and 25th. inspirED 2022 brings together educators, learning designers, and institution leaders to exchange practical insights ...

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I'm having an issue where any videos that I link to that are saved in Canvas (mp4 files) are not displaying if I make an accordion. With tabs, a video will show on the FIRST tab, but not in subsequent tabs. Looking at the code, for some reason it is ...

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How do your instructional designers set up LTI links in Canvas without having enrolling in the course or use ActAs as the actual teacher in cases of testing tools in prepping or supporting courses?  For Blackboard, for example for Original Courses, t...

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We are linking to videos on dropbox to minimize Canvas file storage.  Is there way to add a thumbnail to a video link to a cloud storage location such as Dropbox?

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Looks like Canvas has no interest in thinking about how matching questions are used by instructors.  First, as others have noted, no effort has been made to allow partial credit on matching questions.  And now I have discovered that question boxes ar...

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Did you know there are hidden games inside of Canvas? Taking a quick break from teaching and learning in Canvas can be a nice stress relief and an opportunity for a little bit of harmless fun in your day. Just make sure your “quick break” doesn’t con...

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I know this topic has been addressed many times before. I have googled, read the form and more but nothing is solving my problem. I am responsible for administering and creating a lot of small courses. This means I frequently copy modules or whole co...

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I am using SCORM packages imported from Articulate Rise and added to Canvas Modules.  Because we also use Catalog, I have to set module requirements in order for Catalog to track course completion.  I am trying to find the best settings to work with ...

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Howdy,I'm in a predicament with importing a course into a different Canvas and having the course outcomes carry over correctly.When I do the import using a course export file (because I'm going from one Canvas to another), issues come up with the cou...

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I have a Nursing faculty who wants to cross-list her courses in the future, she teaches the exact same content across two different cities. Her current process is that she builds the content in one course and then copies that same content to the othe...

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Hi IDs!My fellow ID,  @jenny_hopf ‌, and I have been going back and forth on design principles regarding videos. On the one side, you can put multiple videos on one page, and, on the other side, each video could get their own page. We see downsides a...

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Hello All,We've been using Canvas for not quite a year. Many of our teachers are using a page as a front landing page and linking from there. In the past few months, I have had a handful of teachers tell me their images have randomly resized themselv...

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