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Greetings,I follow text2qti to create QTI file to upload to Canvas.https://github.com/gpoore/text2qtiI now want to add iframe code to the text question to embed a Youtube videos on the question. Will you provide a minimum working example (MWE)?Thank ...

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I made a video but don't want comments turned on. I checked off on the video but it doesn't turn off the comments. A global way of doing this would also be logical (like google classroom)

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I work in special education and with students who display different behaviors. One of my goals is to have them self-monitor their performance as part of their data collection. How can I assign the same survey/quiz every day and then view that data ov...

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I'm not sure if this is possible, but I know students get notifications when they've received OVERALL feedback on an assignment, but I feel there should be a notification for ITEM FEEDBACK even if we forget to provide OVERALL FEEDBACK comments in the...

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Has anyone used any of the freely available online Word to QTI file conversion tools?  http://ec2-34-207-154-191.compute-1.amazonaws.com/ (San Diego State University)https://utility.lsts.edu.vn/convert-quiz (found in Canvas Community)https://site.nyi...

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I have a discussion assignment that students are allowed to complete in-person or on Canvas. The assignment is set up with a "submit the assignment" requirement in the module. In the past, when I manually submitted a grade for the discussion assignme...

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I create a quiz and set a due date/time. A student submits the quiz LONG after the deadline (2 weeks) and still gets full credit. Does Canvas not understand what a due date IS?   Back when I was a student, if you submitted an assignment well after th...

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I currently teach a large undergraduate lecture section. I recently attempted to adjust the number of points that each question was worth in several of my quizzes in the course to make all of the quizzes worth a uniform value. After inputting new poi...

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I need to implement an attendance monitoring system that triggers alerts when a student's attendance rate falls below 85%. However, to avoid false alarms at the start of a course when the sample size is small (e.g., missing 1 out of 2 classes would s...

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Hello. I have created assignments using the external tool to connect an Edpuzzle video. For most students, the edpuzzle works fine. A selected few are not able to play the video. They receive a "restricted" page pop-up on the edpuzzle. We have cleare...

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When Turnitin is enabled in Canvas, the Plagiarism Review option should typically appear when creating an assignment (see this example https://teaching.pitt.edu/resources/how-to-use-the-turnitin-plagiarism-framework-in-canvas/). However, for some rea...

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I received a call from a professor today regarding an issue with not receiving notifications from Canvas. After reviewing his notification settings, I confirmed they were correctly configured to send alerts; however, he is still not receiving them. A...

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How do I see attendance total once they have been inputed in canvas?

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Hello.  Is there a way to align Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) with Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs) in Canvas? Background: We do not currently use the native Canvas "Outcomes" tool (either at the account or course level) to put our CLOs or IL...

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How do I make the attendance appear with the correct day of the week when I open it each morning? When I go in, I go to mark all or such, and then I look to the right and see the calendar is not on the current day! Thanks

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I would like to know if it is possible to set the start and end dates of a section when creating it and assigning students and an instructor so that, on the first day of the course, the instructor automatically receives an email with the list of enro...

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I have a canvas page that contain Accordions as well as Expanders and Tabs... I am hoping to use links from the calendar that take the student directly to the appropriate Tab rather than just the top of the page.Ironically I did get this to work late...

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I am grading students' assignments in speedgrader, and have added comments directly in their word and pdf files. I have then uploaded the files back onto Canvas, but when the students opend the docs, they cannot access the annotations/the annotations...

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I work on two different institutions' Canvas installations. Across all my quizzes/question banks this week that I have had time to check, I have found issues with question banks. In one case, a question bank I wrote over the weekend suddenly has ques...

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I was trying to sent an assignment as an editable Google Doc for students so that it made a copy for each student. However, some logged in before the document was completely updated and now they are missing information on thier assignment. How can I ...

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Every time I try to upload an assignment in my Canvas web account, I keep getting this error message. I have tried BOTH the drag and drop feature directly from my files AND the "Choose a File to Upload" option. Both give me this error. This has happe...

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Is it possible to have my canvas message account receive emails sent from Pearson?My institution is monitoring student-instructor interaction. In the past, I have always had students send me emails to ask me questions through Pearson "ask my instruct...

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If I designate an assignment to be worth 10 points and to be graded as Complete/Incomplete, but the student submits the assignment late, does my standard late penalty (2%) still get applied?  (I hope so, but can't tell.)

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I would like to delete my student account and the teacher account (even though i created a teach account I cannot access it). Please delete these accounts ASAP. You can contact me a Thank you.

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Can I recover students text entry information from an in-class test that was lost because they were accidentally timed out and submitted after the time deadline 

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There was a time when I encouraged faculty to provide links to entire modules. When someone clicked such a link, the Modules tool would display AND the module that was linked to would be scrolled into view (as an html anchor #). Today? No. I believe ...

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In Modules, there should be a way to select multiple items to be indented at the same time.   When you copy an item, you should be able to select multiple classes to copy the item to at once, like with a click box where you can select multiple classe...

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I have a class with the same students from the previous course site. Since there are more than 60-80 students, I would like to use the groups from the old course site, which has already ended, and simply upload them to the new, current course site. H...

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I am an instructor reaching out for the Canvas team to allow for time modifiers in multiples of 1, 1.5 or 2.  Both for regular Canvas and new quizzes I used to be able to just add in a time modifier as per the Canvas instructions (such as 1.5x or 2x)...

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