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I'm an administrator and an ELA teacher in my school shared with me that after we imported course content from her previous course, for each Assignment that used Google Assignments LTI as the external tool, she had to do this: Edit the Assignment to ...

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How do I edit the number of attempts in an assigned assessment after the assignment has been published?

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Apologies if this question has been posted or answered in the guides and I didn't find it; the keywords are a bit tricky as you might imagine. I'm new to Canvas and trying to work out policies and resources for our K-12 district ahead of our August 2...

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In a classic quiz, I want the ability to have a specific number of each question type included (random questions pulled from several banks so that all question types appear in the quiz). The main reason is that I want to ensure essay questions are al...

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Our institution (Pepperdine) recently transitioned from the Sakai LMS to Canvas.  In Sakai, we had the ability to configure Turnitin default settings when setting up an assignment. But in Canvas, it appears we don't have that ability.  In particular,...

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I uploaded videos to the SCORM page and added them to the Assignments page. When I view them, the videos appear shortened. How can I expand them?  

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Is there scope to be able to make pages into a more systemic way to store and locate information? At the teacher level, a systemic file management system would be good (similar to files). I'm not if it needs to be its own thing or have the ability to...

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The course announcements are located at the top of my homepage. I'm attaching a screenshot. How can I rearrange the page and move them to the bottom? Thank you.

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Hi, I missed the Intro to "Ingnite AI" presentation last week - does anyone have the recording? Is it active yet and if not when will it be available? Any information you could provide would be great. Cheers 

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Since AI tools make it terribly easy to generate a text - for instance an answer or a short essay - teachers at my school request a text box in which students can submit their response only by typing, making it impossible to copy-paste the work of ot...

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I am trying to set up a mastery pathway option for students in my course. It's self select, so there is a "quiz" where they pick which option they want to complete. Option A is worth 2 points, Option B is worth 1 point. I have the mastery path set to...

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How do I uncross list my class when the "De-cross List" button is not available? Thank you!

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In the Files Redesign page, it is showing incorrect information for Blueprinted courses. I have a situation where a course was copied into and then associated as a blueprint all from the same course course. This duplicates items. All I have to do is ...

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I wanted to bring to your attention an issue related to hiding grades from students in Canvas. At first glance, it seems that setting the Grade Posting Policy to "Manually Post Grades" would be sufficient to prevent students from viewing their scores...

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Hi, I am thinking to create questions within question bank using an API. As these questions are already available with me. Can you help me with Question bank API information, so i can use and push all the questions in the respective questions bank. A...

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I have faculty who want a certain file to be available to students AFTER their second attempt on a quiz. I cannot find a feature that allows that in Canvas. We can do it after the first quiz attempt, but not the second. Am I missing something? 

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This issue is with the resolution used by the Canvas Speedgrader when rendering PDF files. Canvas will "refresh" the pdfs at different resolutions depending on the zoom level chosen in the speedgrader pdf viewer, but also depending on the zoom level...

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I have created an assignment that was in a locked module (open August 26th). I created self-sign up group set in the People tab a week before and also created a Discussion board that I then set to group assignment and connected the group set.As of to...

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Hello everyone, I’ve noticed that when I create a course manually in Canvas, students do not receive notifications for announcements. However, when courses are created and loaded through SIS, students do receive those announcement notifications. Is t...

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Google has rolled out a new "Homework Help" button in the URL bar of Chrome, and I just tested it out. During a Canvas quiz, if I click that button in the URL bar and select a quiz question in Canvas, it'll spit out the answer right in a sidebar with...

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I have created the letter grading scheme below. I want to give students a 4.1 on their assessments to show that they exceeded (A+) expectations. In the past, I would give students a 5 instead of a 4.1, but that pulled their overall grade up too much...

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There was a recent filter change in Canvas, and I thought I was going crazy. Turns out, my department was struggling too. In Speed Grader, when I moved from P1 to P2, it refused to show me P2 and kept showing me everyone. This led me down a rabbit ho...

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I have 2 Canvas courses, and then I am also added to 9 other courses as the coordinator.  Is there a way to prioritize my 2 courses so that my student work appears on the top of the To Do list?  Yes, I can "x" out the other 9 courses worth of work, b...

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Hello Canvas Community, We’re running a professional education course with two enrollment options: One with a final assessmentOne without a final assessment All other course content is identical. We decided to try cross-listing the two versions of th...

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When courses need major revisions, it would be helpful to export the content into a word document to share with the subject matter expert to reiview and suggest edits. Is there a way to download all course content and export it into word document for...

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I am wondering if anyone has a workaround to set up blueprints so pages automatically lock when saved? I am experiencing an issue where staff are not locking their pages and their courses subsequently become unsynced. This is then creating other file...

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Hello, Our instructors have encountered a recurring issue with the SpeedGrader word count. When students submit documents that use the Aptos font (the new default in Microsoft Word), the word count displayed in SpeedGrader is incorrect. For example: ...

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So...I had been checking out the lessons (Since this is my first year at SUU) and I didn't know that when I had clicked on a quiz it had started. And my teacher hasn't gotten back in the past two days. is there anything I can do to reset the quiz? Pl...

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Prior to the ILP, our Course Titles included the Course Name Day and Time. (example: Art Appreciation MWF 1230) and our SIS ID included the Course Code, term, and CRN. (example AR1323-202430-30111)Our faculty members are missing the Day/Time in the c...

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I'm developing some course for electronic engineering student who are doing a 2 year diploma. Been asked if it is possible to create a quiz which the student will have to produce a series of formulas for, for example the answer to 1 of the questions ...

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