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I need the consumer key and the shared secret so I can use the lockdown browser.Please help. 

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I no longer see the option to "find a rubric" when creating a rubric.  I would like to use a rubric that I already created from another course. 

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I'm trying to import my courses from last year and they don't show in the drop down menu of choices of courses to import.

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I was just updating a single assignment item in a course in Canvas.  I selected “Save” and Canvas did nothing.  Then I saw there were no dates at the bottom of that screen?  I selected “Manage Due Dates and Assign To” and discovered that there should...

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Hello, When setting up a Quiz there are three adjustable dates: ' Due At,'  'Available From' and 'Available Until' I understand that the 'Available Until'  date will allow students to take the quiz until this date. Question:  Can students still see t...

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I was supposed to copy in my actual Chemistry I course a file sent from my academic coordination, but instead I copied my Chemistry II course from the last semester which does not matches with the one I had to copy. How can I undo or eliminate or can...

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I see posts from teachers from up to two years ago (2022) asking Canvas if and when they plan on developing a feature to allow teachers to view student assignments in real-time. Microsoft and Google have this feature embedded in their platforms, and ...

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Hello-With AP courses going all electronic starting next year, my school is starting to require students to take assessments using the Respondus lockdown browser on their iPads. Is there a way for students to annotate documents for multiple-choice qu...

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When adding new assignments, is there any other way to move them in the instructor gradebook other than dragging them one by one through all of the other assignments in the gradebook to get them where you want. I would assume that if I put them in th...

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I have formatting requirements for assignment submission, but Canvas will sometimes distort the font and spacing when rendering the submission in the Gradebook.  This makes it impossible to check the formatting without downloading the document.  I al...

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When I run the Link Validator I often get result messages I don't understand: E.g, it will say:       download?wrap=1  or      Non-existent content referenced in this resource:  gc9122a6cadcd158cbff96b2017ee3ba5 or          download?download_frd=1 I ...

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Is there a way to globally set accommodation settings for one student for a whole Canvas course? For example, I have a student who is to receive 1.5x the normal time limit on all quizzes and tests. The course has weekly quizzes. That is a timely task...

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I often use the external tool option in my assignments, so students have their own document, chart, slide etc..to type on.  However, I have 13 students who are unable to use the external tool feature.  When they click on the blue letters to access th...

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Why is speed grader all messed up?  My classes are in reverse alphabetical order.  It drives me crazy.  I need my canvas grade book and speed grader to be set up the correct way.  

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I have a teacher who has assignments with greyed columns. When you click to add in grades , you can't put in anything. If we click the arrow and go to speedgraded, I can enter a grade. I checked the due dates and the module is published.

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I have a teacher whose course is published, but the parents cannot see the content in the canvas parent app. Any suggestions? 

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Hey all-Looking for some help for myself and other teachers in my building. When creating assignments in Canvas last year, the boxes to enter dates, calendars, etc. were just at the bottom of the edit assignment page. This year, we now have to click ...

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Hi,I hope you can provide a solution to this problem.I am adding new questions to a new Question Bank (classic) but it only saves a single question!It retains the last question I have saved to the Question Bank.It is extremely frustrating to lose tim...

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There used to be an option in Canvas to add a rubric from another course. It would allow you to scroll through a list of rubrics and select one. Is that option gone now? Is the only option now to import existing content from another course? 

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Previously in speedgrader I was able to have students resubmit assignments and quizzes.  That option has dissapeared.  Any suggestions on how to have the students resubmit.

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I have various sections for one course. I want to combine all these sections when taking attendance instead of selecting each section for attendance. How can I do this?

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I am in my teacher dashboard and there is no to-do list showing up on the side. I've tried to search settings and I can't see any option to "turn it on" per say. I've tried different sizing of my browser to see if it's just hidden because the window ...

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Is there a way to code a link in a course blueprint that automatically links to the Canvas Inbox of whoever is assigned as the instructor of the course when the course is published and populated? I'm not looking for how an instructor can create a lin...

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My gradebook will not load on traditional. The wheel just keeps spinning. I only have three or four assignments posted, and it used to load really quickly under those circumstances. What do I do??

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I would really like to hear your personal experience with the Canvas inbox in regards to two points. The first being how it is mostly used between parents, students and teachers. Who uses it the most and for what purposes? Secondly,  in your district...

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I might be asking too much of the system here but....here it goes. I want to make a page that links to the assignments due for a student that week. But I am also using learning mastery and prerequisites/requirements, so not all students will have the...

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I just set up the new Google Meet LTI 1.3 in my Canvas instance.  It was a very easy and straightforward configuration.  I spent some time as a teacher using it to create a course as well as a student seeing the created meeting.  However, upon checki...

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As an institutional Canvas admin, a common complaint teachers who teach courses synced with Blueprints is that the see unexpected shifts in the order of items in modules. Are there best practices which would minimize this problem? The blueprint syste...

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New to Canvas Admin and I think I messed something up.  All of my teachers and students have open access to classes from several years past.  I thought I had archived the classes, but I'm not sure if that worked.  How do I clean up the list of classe...

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Students took an exam that I assigned them but I had to assign it to 1 student and instead of adding that 1 student in the assigned to link I accidentally assigned it to everyone (but closed it immediately). The previous gradebook I have has records ...

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