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If I download student analysis, I can see when the student submitted the quiz. If I click on moderate, I can see the list of students and there's a time column, but it's unhelpful - some students needed "about an hour", while others needed "about two...

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The menus and filters at the top of the gradebook dominates too much of the screen. I want to be able to see MORE student names and grades, and have less wasted space at the top. Additionally, the scroll bars are MINISCULE and they disappear constant...

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I like to leave my students comments on each individual rubric criteria. Is there a comment library feature for in-rubric comments, or is it only available for assignment comments in speed grader?

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I use rubrics for all of my assignments. There are two ratings: "Complete" and "Progressing." If a student gets a "Complete," a green line shows up on the rubric. If a student gets a "Progressing," a red line appears.More than 10 percent of the popul...

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Some of our faculty are already using free Canvas accounts. Is there a way to connect their accounts to our new college paid account so that everyone is under the same umbrella? 

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We are setting up Canvas Elementary for our Primary Years and while some teachers have admin rights, I would like to limit their ability to create new subjects. Is there a way I can do this at the subaccount level?

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Hello,I work at two community colleges and use rubrics to grade speeches. Is there such a thing as an auto save for rubrics as you are progressing through them while grading? On more than one occasion I have accidentally hit the wrong area and advanc...

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When I am missing a student assignment, I mark it as such.  Later, when I enter a grade for the late assignment, the missing status stays on the grade, even though there is a grade for it now.  It is confusing for the kids when they go to look for mi...

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Hey everyone! I have one more-Actually, I’m setting up an orientation on Canvas for Freshman 2025 at State University, and I’m wondering… is there a way to add some kind of checklist so students can track what they’ve completed?I’m worried they’ll ge...

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My Maths team are having a lot of issues with the equation creator in RCE as it doesn't have all the functions they need. I am currently looking into MathType as an LTI, however, as that can have a cost, it isn't necessarily our best course of action...

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I have a single "Extra-credit" Assignment Group, worth 7% of the Final Grade.  I want to give 2 extra credit assignments: one that is weighted at 2% and another weighted at 5%. In other words: "EXTRA-CREDIT" (EC) ASSIGNMENT GROUP = 7% TOTAL EC #1 (ho...

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Good afternoon,Before I reach out to Support I wanted to see if anyone in the community has heard or experienced this issue:I have had a couple of teachers that have had grades disappear from their Grade book after entering the grades. While I have n...

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I'm posting videos on several Pages in my course for my students. If a student goes back to watch the video a second time, will Canvas record that the student watched the video two times?

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I've graded a short answer quiz for my students, and some of them had to reattempt due to a glitch. For any student who reattempted, I cannot get their score to show up in the gradebook. When I click to enter, the grade they made pops up, but it will...

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Can anyone help with linking NCCER My Lab more than one level to A Canvas course?

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I am seeking feedback on how various institutions are setting up rubrics.  I am currently testing a few options: One rubric per assessment piece that a student will submit, set up in the relevant curriculum area sub account (pros - helps with naming ...

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Does anyone know if an instructor can remove themselves from a course on Canvas? If so, how?

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One of our teachers created a discussion in a course and shared it with all students. However, when students try to access the discussion, they receive the following error message: "Access Denied: You don't have access to view this resource." Here’s ...

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Is it possible to access the submission of a student who has dropped the course?In a group activity, one student submitted the assignment on behalf of their group. Since the course instructor hadn’t set up groups in the LMS, marks are manually assign...

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How can I delete the History link from my students' Navigation so they no longer have access to view old tests and share the tests with students who have yet to take it?

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I'm testing a quiz for my students and one of the questions is a file upload question.  When I click on "Choose a File" a dialog box opens and I can select a file, but when I either double-click on the file or use the "Open" button to complete the ac...

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I need to assign modules to specific students. Canvas let me assign 20 out of 50 students in my class but now keeps giving me the error message in the title. Now I can't assign this work. I'm pretty sure that Canvas and AI are going to drive me out o...

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I would like to know how I can obtain a certificate for an initial training course?

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I have several formula questions in classic quizzes whose answers require scientific notation.  These questions have worked in past years. Today, students cannot input scientific notation (e.g., 6.02e23) even though the algorithm is unchanged and the...

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New to Canvas, I did not realise that the grading was set to manual (apparently by default), so after grading many assignments, realising the problem, I changed the grade posting policy to automatic - yet the hidden icon prevails, as you can see belo...

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Hello my Institution has created a course that we offer out to individuals. We would like to offer our course to universities so that professors can teach our course to their students in a semester. How would we give professors access to teach the co...

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How do I change the settings to not have the attached image page load when clicking on literally anything.  Why can't the tab containing the item I need just load and leave the original page the way it is? It would make navigation a lot easier instea...

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We are marking students present and absent in roll call, some tutors have found that they marked a student absent for a tutorial but when they went back to the register the following day to check or update something the absent has changed to present....

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We recently conducted a mid-term test using the Quiz application in Canvas, and we encountered an issue. Individual teachers were unable to find the option to hide quiz scores from students until the scores are published. This feature was available f...

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Does anyone know of a browser extension that would allow one to color code different Canvas courses, e.g., different sidebar color minimally.  I have at least three different courses on Canvas every semester, it would help if I could distinguish them...

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