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Hey, Canvas Community!   Happy Monday! We're in the process of implementing Simple Syllabus, and I'm wondering if anyone is willing to share the training assets they made for their faculty re: Simple Syllabus and Canvas. Anyone have a deck or a prese...

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I would like to make a table that has multiple rows, however, each row will have a different number of cells/columns. I understand I can do this in HTML editor, however, for teachers who want to quickly create a table, what would be the best way? (I ...

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Any advice about pages assigned to a Mastery Path being deleted without intentional action by an ID, instructor, or student? I'm working with a few courses that use Mastery Paths. In each path, students complete a MC quiz as a pre-assessment. One ite...

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Will the block editor for Canvas Pages feature be in the December 2024 Canvas Release?  It's listed in the Q4 2024 Canvas Product Roadmap but has not been released yet, nor is there a description for it in the Canvas Product Roadmap page.

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Will the block editor for Canvas Pages feature be in the December 2024 Canvas Release?  It's listed in the Q4 2024 Canvas Product Roadmap but has not been released yet, nor is there a description for it in the Canvas Product Roadmap page.

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Is there a way to see old versions of assignments and discussions (similar to how we can see page history with any Canvas page)? This would help with a variety of issues and would be incredibly helpful!

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This was asked in a meeting today and no one really had an answer.  If the students click on notifications about grading (daily), will they receive a notification that the faculty put a comment in the speedgrader box? I have heard about a "push ALL ...

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These old eyes are starting to struggle seeing the small font sizes on Canvas.  Is there any way to enlarge the font that I can see, especially when grading online submissions. The student online submissions and my comments on the side are really sma...

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In the settings for creating a peer review activity in a Canvas Discussion, there is a field labeled “Reviews Due” to set the date for automatic peer assignments. This label implies it is a due date for students to complete their reviews, leading oft...

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We'd like to allow students outside of particular groups to read one another's Group Discussions for an assignment. Can we do this and how? Thank you!

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I have designed an essay quiz for my students for a final novel unit. There are four question banks I am using for this. Each question bank has 10 essay prompts.My question is, if I use the "Build" function for this quiz, if a student needs a second ...

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Images wont show up during exam in Google Chrome or Firefox, intermittently. How can I fix this?Thank you.

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I'm trying to import outcomes and I have found the cvs format, but I don't think I understand each category because I keep getting an error when I upload.  1) Does anyone have a teacher-friendly template of what the different categories are and what ...

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Is there any work being done to allow group assignments for an external tool?  We are using LinkedIn Learning to supplement lessons, and students are self enrolled to groups based on their choice in an video editing platform.  I would like each group...

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I need to import a canvas course export package with the extension .imscc to my course. I received this package by Dropbox, I downloaded it to my computer, and then I want to import it to my canvas course but the import fails and I receive the follow...

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I have gone through my course and all the links are working. However, I have over 1000 messages about links when I check the Link Validation.  Most of them repeat such as: 1. Links to other courses in this resource may not be accessible by the studen...

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Curious if there is a short cut to printing a whole class to put in an accreditation binder for future reference?

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Rubrics are not populating points at the top for the grades, how do I fix this?

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I don't think this is a novel request but I'd like to reiterate the need for an annotations library similar to Quickmarks on TurnItIn. This functionality seems pretty basic and I'm shocked Canvas still doesn't have it. I know they added the comment l...

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Does anyone know how to find the student email address to which Canvas sends invites? We just had a problem with a student not receiving their Canvas invite, and we wanted to double-check the email address, Canvas sent it to, but we can't find it.

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Our students have a number of optional units for each degree programme.We therefore need one virtual space where we can share frequently asked questions, discussion forums and handbooks which are relevant to all students on the programme regardless o...

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I have an instructor who has a couple of courses that have suddenly lost the modules.  It's multiple courses over multiple years that no longer have the modules that he has built.  I've tried the undelete option.  I've also checked the course import ...

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I am in the process of designing some Modules on Canvas to provide students with an interactive mock example of a client meeting. The module is designed as a "guided story" with quizzes that require students to choose the correct answer(s) in order t...

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I am adding 100 questions to a question bank and am frustrated that there is no add question button after the last qwuestion added like in regular quizes???

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Hi Canvas world,  I was wondering if there is a setting or easy way to copy a course and have that course be published by default?   Currently when I copy a course or import course content it resets the shell to unpublished.

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Hi! I've been adding equations to pages using the equation tool. The problem I keep encountering is I can't seem to resize these equations. I can do it when they're just sitting freely on the page, but when I put them inside a table it appears there'...

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Has anyone heard if Canvas will implement the ability to schedule messages using the Inbox? I use this feature in my other email programs (Outlook, Gmail) and love it.  

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Hi Everyone, We would like to create a completion PDF certificate in Canvas LMS and wondering whether we need to use any external tools to do that. Could we just create this certificate in HTML/CSS in a Canvas page and add a pdf button to download th...

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I just discovered a way students can access assignments, quizzes, and discussions that are in modules they do not yet have access to.   I set requirements and prerequisites for all the modules but then had a student turning in assignments that were i...

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I had an instructional designer ask me whether it was possible to create multiple due dates for the same assignment (for the SAME students). She mentioned she saw this in one of Canvas's release notes, but I have not been able to find anything on thi...

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