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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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Hi! Is there a way to set up a grading scheme in Canvas that relies on multiple criteria, not just final point total, to assign a letter grade? I've been poking around in Outcomes to see if that might help, but haven't been able to finalize a solutio...

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As admin how do I get my theme connected to all the classes?

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Is there a way in the Canvas Gradebook when setting up a course to view the total points as a column to ensure that the course totals a certain number (i.e. 1,000 points) and no errors were made? Or, is the only way to manually add every assignment/e...

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I am an instructor and have not been able to find anything in Help about this.  I have 6 periods / sections of a course, but all of them will have exactly the same content, assignments, exams, etc.  I would like to combine them into one for student (...

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Hello!I use this code to embed HTML files: <. iframe src="link to uploaded file here" width="1000" height="600"></iframe.  >And now, after the new file update, each page has this bar across the top (which students accidentally close and lose the inte...

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Suggestion: Please make it possible to change the due date for all the quizzes in a single Assignment group at the same time. Problem: Currently, to change the due dates, I need to do it manually for EACH individual quiz, which is very tedious, as I ...

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We are working on a course template and want to provide faculty with pre-sized banners. Is there a way to add alt text to course images so faculty don't have to do it later? Or is the only way to add alt text through the accessibility checker once yo...

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With the phasing out of the old/legacy Course Analytics, I've been left trying to figure out how to quickly and efficiently determine the # of missing assignments a student has.The legacy version of Course Analytics included this information in one o...

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I find it incredible that Canvas doesn't allow the batch editing of assignment options like it does with dates or a limited setting like points. If I want all my assignments to use the same options (how many attempts, if feedback offered, keep the be...

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Hi Canvas Community! I am trying to set up an assignment where students will upload their submission but I will not grade it and it will not appear in their gradebook. I essentially just want them to upload their PPTs by a certain date then I will pu...

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I teach multiple classes every semester and my Canvas shells each have a number of pages that inform students about how something works. Many of these pages are the exact same (and I want them to be the exact same) for each class. If I make a change ...

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The top five colours in the colour palette disappeared (macOS, Windows; Safari, Chrome, Firefox). The palette is a rectangle cropped by the top row of colour swatches. How do we get the full palette back? Also, once our teachers' laptops are restarte...

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So I haven't been able to figure this out and so I am humbly seeking the wisdom of the masses. I have page where I would like to have some separation between tasks. However, I am unable to get the text to align directly underneath the headings. Unfor...

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