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A staff member came to me with some Lockdown Browser questions and wanted to see if anyone has some experience with their requests - I think I know the answers but wanted to gauge others before giving the person information: 1.  When picking sites th...

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I’m curious to know if any institutions are using Canvas to facilitate a course for assessing credit for prior learning (PLA). If so, how are you structuring the process? Are you using a dedicated course, Folio, or another tool within Canvas to guide...

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Hi,  I need some help and advice.  We asked a vendor to help develop a SCORM courseware using storyline, we created like text box, asking students to send their comment, we uploaded the SCORM into canvas as assignment, the graded quizzes work ok, but...

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I am in a college course and I created an e-Learning module in Canvas for an assignment. I am required to share my e-Learning Module via a link to be graded. Can someone explain to me how I can export my module as a shareable link? Thanks

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After the assignments have been submitted and the Download Submissions button is selected, the zip file that is downloaded marks the Last Modified date of all the files as the GMT time the Zip file was created rather than the time the submissions wer...

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We have set up a Mastery Path for students. The pre-test is marked as required to submit, but if they score 90%, they may move on the the next module. The modules are each setup so that the module before is a prerequisite. The path we created is set ...

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An instructor would like to grant a student additional time to finish a quiz, but the quiz has already closed and the results submitted to the Gradebook. We can grant the student an additional attempt via "Moderate this Quiz" and assign them another ...

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When creating Outcomes, there's a description field and a "friendly" description field that is supposed to display for students.  I am creating an outcome at the sub-account level, and have entered different text into the friendly description field: ...

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This is a fun particular one We're working on layout templates for Pages, Discussions, and Assignments that feature a bespoke home button. In effect, the button is simply a link back to the course home, built with the destination link found via the ...

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I've built a bunch of content as webpages and webapps and gotten it all hosted. It all meets the highest standards for accessibility. It uses responsive design, adjusting to display well on any screen, with thoughtful layouts for both portrait and la...

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Scenario: I want to make self-sign up groups that have different names - so 80 groups in total, divided into 3 lots of groupwork -Tutorial 1, groupwork -Tutorial 2, groupwork -Tutorial 3. This helps to identify for students which groups in their tuto...

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Have a Canvas site running from 2018 and we are missing a page that was mostly likely deleted in cleanup. When I go to the restore/undelete queue it only shows deleted material from 2018-2022. Is there a time period, or a refresh that I need to do to...

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Hey everyone, Just wanted to give you a heads-up that Canvas has been a bit strange lately. It seems like not all the BBB conference recordings are showing up properly (check out the screenshots and the message from Canvas). I'm wondering if anyone e...

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An instructor has an exam with 75 minutes (1 hr 15 min) set as a time limit. She has 3 students who have 1.5 multiplier accommodations for quizzes/exams. She has set the accommodations at the course level. She has set up the exam so it opens at a spe...

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I love using the hotspot feature in Canvas Quiz, however for exams that have many questions I set them up as 1 question at a time but allow backtracking. However I have noticed recently that whenever a student of mine wishes to backtrack to review th...

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In this documentation article, it says, "Some external app LTI tools such as Google Drive and Office 365 do not retain tool configurations in exported courses." What are the "tool configurations" that it refers to? Does it refer to the configurations...

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Hi!I would like to be able to embed short, non-instructional, decorative video clips on some pages. We are using clips from Adobe instead of static images as decoration. However, when uploaded to Kaltura and then embedded, a user has to click play. I...

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Hi I have several rooms imported from SIS with different users, they all have a unique SIS ID. Is it possible to put the same template on all of them at once? The template is manually created. Since the rooms af different users I do not think that I ...

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I have a course that often needs to export their rubrics for review. Since there isn't a built-in feature to export rubrics as a document or CSV, I came up with a workaround. I just wanted to know if there were plans to add an export feature in the f...

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When copying multiple questions from one item bank to another new or existing item bank, I have to copy each question individually or else duplicate the entire item bank and delete unwanted questions individually.  Can you create a group copy feature...

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I know this is a minor problem, but why are the posting times different? I didn't post these at 11 AM or 9:35 AM. This could be a case of the time zones, or correct me if I'm wrong.

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What is the best solution for grading student assignment submissions in a large enrolment course where each teaching assistant is assigned to a subset of student essays? Thank you for your help!

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I keep getting a notification that says launch error when I try to open Mobius from a Canvas assignment posting. How to fix? It says "We apologize for the inconvenience, but an error occurred while launching the tool. Please try launching the tool ag...

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Hello - We are processing whether or not to enable the Content Security Policy in our Canvas instance. Is there any process that can tell us whether or not there are current Javascript tools running in our canvas instance?  Thanks Neil  

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We have create 2 question banks in New Quizzes and now cannot find them in the question banks.

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I read that CANVAS decided not to allow this to be an option. It would be great if this feature was live. I needed to make changes to a quiz, but I have no way make changes for the students who took the quiz early. 

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Several accrediting bodies require lesson plans at audits, but the content often has changed. Is there a way to have a Lesson Plan built off current canvas shells, as an exported file that captures various aspects of the course?

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Random question, what if an instructor deletes or stops using their account? What would happen to their courses and accounts? Is it like the Inactive Google Account manager?  

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Has anyone experienced unauthorized access to their Canvas account through external email phishing or hacking attempts? What steps were taken to resolve the issue, and what recommendations do you have for preventing future security breaches?

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I am an instructor teaching an on-demand, self-paced course using the Free Canvas platform. Is there a way to automate certificates of completion when participants finish all portions of the course or will I need to issue the certificates manually?Am...

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