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I am experimenting with using Canvas for Teachers iOS app for grading on my iPad. I teach writing and, in the past, have used various PDF apps which allow me to leave comments, stickers, highlight, underline, and circle words. The iOS app allows most...

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Suddenly I'm hearing from instructors that their flashcard embeds from Quizlet are not loading. Is this happening elsewhere? What could be the issue? Our institution is not blocking quizlet.com because we can get to the website, but the <iframe> embe...

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As an educator who actively seeks technology solutions that benefit student learning and streamline course management, I'm genuinely puzzled by my Canvas experience after five weeks of use. Having previously used other LMS platforms, I'm encountering...

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I'm new to Canvas (having come over from D2L) and have multiple questions that the help team at my institution has been unable to answer. Does Canvas have affiliated professionals for hire to help learn the app? If not, I can use a third-party freela...

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Once again, the simplest of tasks wastes time. I have a 2-column table in the homepage of a Canvas course. I want to add a row below, but this produces an additional row with the leftmost cell divided into two rows. I cannot access the bottom of thes...

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One of my professors has their Canvas profile picture apparently embedded right in the text of their syllabus, basically the same circular format that the photo is cropped into as your account profile picture. How do I replicate that on my end? Can't...

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Hello Community, We’re trying to use the Outcome Results report available under the Canvas Default Account Reports, but we’re facing an issue: the report is returning empty, even though we believe all necessary configurations have been made. Here’s w...

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Hi, I find the emoji in submission comments annoying as it often gets in the way when I am typing important comments about a student's work.  I know I can turn it off under the settings for a course.  However, I teach 5 to 6 courses a semester which ...

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Olá, comunidade do Canvas. No momento, estamos trabalhando na modelagem de cursos práticos para avaliar as competências e habilidades dos alunos e nos deparamos com algumas perguntas: É possível vincular uma competência ou habilidade a uma tarefa sem...

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I teach a Continuous Improvement/Six Sigma/Lean class at UCLA Extension.In one of the exercises, I ask my students to evaluate the constraints of Canvas-as they relate to the students' experience-and using the Six Thinking Hats framework (Edward DeBo...

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How do I duplicate a discussion that is in one module so that I can put it in a different module also. 

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This is going to be a long post, so forgive me in advance. Starting about midway through the summer session, Canvas began doing totally weird and unexpected things. First me: About 4 weeks into this semester, I had 3 different students unable to acce...

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When accessing student submissions, I am not able to select a new class in the drop-down menu. Instead, I need to select "Show All Sections," then when I repeat the process when I select a class, the correct class appears. This may not seem like a hu...

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This is a niggling observation that one of our teachers made: IF it is past the due date for an assignment AND the student has not submitted any work AND a student clicks the assignment from the course-level "Coming Up" list THEN they are sent to a v...

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I am an instructor of an introductory Bio class and I have imported my class from a prior semester.  As I have been modifying my quizzes, I have noticed that the questions I remove from a particular quiz seem to also be removed from the test banks.  ...

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Is there a way to create a group of discussion questions for one class session and to set settings for the whole group - ex. liking, publish/unpublish, etc.? Instructor

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Hello Canvas Community, Our district team is currently re-evaluating our course naming conventions in Canvas, and we’re looking to learn from others who have already established effective practices. Specifically, we’re interested in hearing from dist...

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We are hoping to add an option for partial credit with no penalty.  This way students are not penalized for marking a wrong answer AND not marking a correct answer.    

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As Canvas admin, I've set up the permission at root account level for teachers to be able to add their own courses, however, staff who have a teacher role on Canvas simply could NOT Start a Course themselves. They do not have a Start a Course option ...

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Hi, I keep getting an error message when I try to respond to a Canvas email while using my Outlook email account.  Canvas keeps asking me to create a Confirmed Communication Channel.Any insights are appreciated.- David

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It is common in certain Higher Education disciplines to create assessments that are "hurdle requirements" (i.e a student can't pass the course unless they pass the assessment). These are typically work placement requirements, safety requirements, or ...

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How do I close a teacher created course?  It is no longer an active organization.

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When attempting to assign an existing rubric to a new assignment utilizes the link "Find a Rubric". This opens a pop-up window "Find existing rubric", but the course I am currently in is not the default, is not at the top, is not evident, and is not ...

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I understand that SpeedGrader uses a 2 steps process, and can autosave entered data for a short period of time. However, too often, in particular when working with new markers who worry about posting the marks too early, all the marked data can be lo...

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I use classic quizzes, and I have quizzes that allow the students multiple attempts.  In the past (spring semester), I was able to see in the Canvas speed grader (using a pull-down menu) previous attempts.  This was useful, as it allowed me to see wh...

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I have assignments that require peer reviews. I created the assignment; and followed the instructions. The students are to complete the assignment (Lesson Plan with Rubric) first, After that, I'd like the Peer Review to be automatically generated.   ...

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Hi, so a fellow lecturer and I were marking assignments, students submitted pdfs with their answers to two questions, my colleague marked and annotated question 1 in speed grader and I marked and annotated question 2, I was the final moderator and in...

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In Canvas, I recently copied over a course from another course. I hit the edit button on a page in the newly created course to edit content (see screenshot #1 in attachment) and when I click into the edit area the content disappears except for the pa...

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