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I teach at a high school and my class periods are 48 minutes long. I have students that receive 50% and 100% extra time on everything. I would like to know if there is any way to provide those students with the time they need to finish a test in the ...

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I have used EdPuzzle integrated through Canvas for several semesters and different classes.  I assigned a video lesson that has open-ended questions that requires manually grading, which I have completed.  This is my first assignemnet for this course...

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Our institution recently switched to a new proctoring tool from Respondus Lockdown Browser and implementation went smoothly. Since we have ended our Respondus contract, we removed the LTI from our Canvas instance. However, we found that many instruct...

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I am loving the dyslexia friendly font as a designer. The hard part is knowing if the text will update. I have noticed that things like headers, link, and lists don't always present with the font once the page is saved. Hopefully learners are seeing ...

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Hi All,As an instructor, is there a way to force Canvas to display assignments as sorted by type? Right now, my classes are defaulted to sort by date and student have to manually tap (iPad) "sort by date" every time they go to view assignments.Please...

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Ok, if I could offer a suggestion to add submission times to either the grades tab or the assignments tab, that would a super helpful way for students to see their progress very quickly and know where to pick up with the next assignment. 

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We have been able to implement the new Microsoft Education that was just released. We have a series of courses that use Teams spaces for group collaboration. However, with this new tool, unlike the prior tool (Microsoft Teams Classes), each section u...

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Good afternoon, I worked with a faculty member today who experienced an issue during a course copy, the error message was something I hadn't seen before. When clicking on what the error referred to: it's a Question Bank with 333 questions. I looked...

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Hello!I am an instructor and account owner and trying to import a course into Canvas Instructure and am receiving an error message "Zip file would exceed quota limit."Is this the quota for the course or for our Canvas account? What can I do to remedy...

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Good morning, I am running into an issue when trying to make accessible tables. I attempt to add a caption to the table, which shown in the community post Table Accessibility in Canvas ,  should appear above the table.   In my attempt to add a captio...

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Hi there,I need help as I am the Admin of two schools using Canvas. I oversee over 50 courses at a time and can see them all in one of my schools' Dashboard, but for some reason, I am limited to 20 in the other school. Is there a way to remove the ca...

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The Announcement dates feature is a royal pain. Why can't you add a publish or unpublish button without having to add a future date to avoid publishing? Why can't you add a batch edit feature for the dates like there is for assignments? It's very inc...

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How do you make students re-view content if they do not complete their assignment to 100% completion mark? I have an e-learning course they must watch then answer a quiz and if they do not get 100 % I want them to be taken back to the content to rewa...

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I'd like to be able to test that the correct assignments are (or are not) showing up for students in each differentiation group. How can I test/preview this? The 'test student' does not show up in the People section, so I'm not able to assign a tag t...

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Ok.. I am trying to figure out the best way to create a form that students can fill out directly.  I have used Adobe Acrobat to create a fillable form but I am still having difficulty making it work in Canvas. Does any have any experience with this o...

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In the Module Knowledge Checks, instead of providing the answer to the Live Class Presentation Knowledge Checks, it should only be in the Instructor's deck, instead of the students to force a stronger understanding of the material

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I am having a new problem.  When I upload a video to a new assignment, it just spins. I have let it go for an hour, and still no video.  I will see the title of the video, but not the actual video.  Is there anything I can check to tell if I am doing...

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After transferring material from a previous course to a new course (last year's course to this year's course), my students and I are getting a "invalid request" where the uploaded content should be.  This is occurring for Google Slides and Google Doc...

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I just wanted to recommend adding the "publish at" (a later time) option for assignments like there is for pages. It get so cluttered in the canvas modules with the assignments visible but "not unlocked" and even if you lock the module, once the modu...

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Hello, Has anyone found or has been sent information regarding how or what needs to be done to update the Microsoft Teams LTI's? Thanks, Melissa

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Instructions for New Quizzes says that Matching questions have the ability to use Rich Content Editor and HTML view. However, I do not see this ability. The first link is broken for me, and the second link presumes access to the Rich Content Editor. ...

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Every year, it continues to be a problem that learning Outcomes do not import properly when a previous course is copied.  The Outcomes themselves import under the Outcomes tab, however - the Quizzes and Quiz Questions that are tagged with learning Ou...

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A department prefers to print student quizzes with both the student's answer and the correct answer identified, in an effort to prevent students from passing exams on to the next group.  When Moderating a Quiz, clicking the students name, right-click...

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I have a professor who created two versions of the same assignment as two separate assignments to allow students to submit the option that suits them best. (This assignment is for a lab course designed for online students). Version 1 is called Option...

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I am trying to create a quiz in which students will read a passage that has missing sentence parts.  Students will need to click a drop down list and choose the correctly worded sentence part and then continue reading.  Each passage would have 4-5 se...

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Our instructors report that when they: Go to CalendarGo to Undated AssignmentsDrag and Drop an Assignment to a Due Date Square The default time is off. Most are set to 1 or 2 in the a.m. I have checked the Default Time setting for the course and it i...

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I have looked at a number of LMSs for self-paced compliance courses and a common feature is a view which shows the percentage complete of the course in pages or assignments. Does anyone know if this is possible in Canvas through the native interface....

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I had a student delete another student's comment in a discussion board. That removed the comment entirely and neither I (the teacher) nor the original student author can now see the original comment. This seems like an ethical issue—having the abilit...

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With the change in the Files Structure in the latest update, is there any chance a similar set up could be put into the View All Pages format?  It would make things a lot easier to run a search for pages and even arranging pages a little more into gr...

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When creating a discussion Podcast Feed, I am not able to edit the button next to reply to link the Topic: Podcast Feed button. How do you edit this and link your podcast?  Currently when I click on that button it shows:  <?xml version="1.0"?> <rss v...

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