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I am planning to create a Mastery Path for certain competencies and lesson but I am having trouble in the Path or sequences. My initial plan was to have a pretest, that will determine the path lesson or track. If the pretest was great it will proceed...

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Hi Brains Trust...Does anyone know if there is a way to update information between shells....?I am a teacher, and we teach a course which is broken up into 3 different phases. The students have a "home shell" which has assessment records for the enti...

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How can I invite fellow colleagues who are also teaching AP African American Studies.  Tried on "people" page for the course but could not find them.

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I think I am able to set an access code for a "classic" quiz, but I don't see that same option for a "new" quiz. Is there a way to set an access code?

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I set a default grade for an assignment but now I would like to delete it.  Is there way to do that?

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I don't think any of my browser settings/computer settings/custom Canvas Themes are causing this. I'm a bit sick of having to press enter/insert newline to get the g, y, p, etc. glyphs to display fully. Anyone else have this problem? Seems like an ea...

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I assign a specific number of points to my assignments, yet the Gradebook does not show the points.How can i get the Gradebook to show points?

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Looking at creating calendar events for class with a link to a Teams meeting. I can create an Teams meeting in pages or discussions with no issues, but I cant seam to get a link into the calendar.   Anyone got an idea?

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As an instructor, how can I find out which group an individual student is in?  Per the Canvas instructions, all groups are collapsed by design, nor is there any way to search. Groups can be open/viewed by opening each one through clicking the arrow, ...

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Does Canvas still provide technical support for Classic Quizzes?  If so, how much longer will this be available?

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One of our shell courses edited their page instead of the blueprint page and broke the sync. Normally we go to the blueprint and click the LOCKED button to fix this, but currently when we click it on the affected page it says "Locked: no attributes l...

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I am not able to get one of my module's content to appear in a course.I went into settings and moved the module to a different locationI have disabled, saved, re-enabled, savedthe module and each of the content items have green check marks next to it...

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My course meets once a week.  How can I set up the Roll Call Attendance Tool to reflect that?   Thanks for any and all suggestions! Chérie

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My name is Paul Dadosky, and I am an adjunct professor of IT and business at Ivy Tech Community College. Since about the seventh week of this semester, I started getting blank white space in my grade book columns unless I selected "Hide Total Column"...

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is there a way to add users as batches using .csv or other formats?Im using the one at instructure.com/admin

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I am trying to import the same set of Outcomes into multiple classes that are not within the same section. I can upload the CSV just fine into one of the classes, but when I try to upload it again, I get an error that the outcome already exists in an...

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There was an error on a quiz answer. I'd like to delete the question/answer and reduce the overall point values from 10 to 9. Should I simply delete the question/answer or submit it for regrade? I only ask because I'm only finding how to "edit multip...

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I oversee a Canvas course that has a lot of different instructors. But they are each only in charge of one or two assignments. Is there a way that they can get notifications for only the assignments they need to assess and not all of the course notif...

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We are using Canvas LMS for our district's virtual academy. Many teachers use the prerequisites as part of their modules to ensure that students are completing all of the parts of the class.  However, sometimes they get students part way through the ...

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Hi everyone,I’m looking to conduct a poll on Canvas LMS to gather opinions or feedback from my students. Could someone guide me on the best way to create a poll within Canvas? Is there a built-in feature for this, or would I need to use an external t...

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A student sent me an email through the Canvas Inbox.  In this message, she claims she is has a password problem and cannot get into the Canvas course, has reached out to IT, and needs a few days to complete her work because she cannot access the assi...

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Hey Educators,I want to make Flash Cards and put them in Canvas. Here are the features I am searching:Images- I want to add my own imagesTracking results- I would like to see how students didNo adsGood interface when embeddedFlash cards with pictures...

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Does anyone have any idea WHY I can't send any messages TO MY STUDENTS through CANVAS (yesterday and today) AT THE BEGINNING OF FINALS WEEK?????

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Canvas needs to add the following functionality to the gradebook: 1. An icon to apply to assignment grades that indicate an assignment is submitted and grades are pending (this is extremely important for assignments that are submitted on paper or thr...

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I am a teacher and relative novice user of Canvas (<1yr).  I noted a discrepancy between the Android-based Canvas user interface that of browser-based Canvas. The Android Canvas menu scheme has a selection for Notifications. Chrome or other browser-b...

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I have been a Canvas user since 2013 and always found the "to do" list of things to grade helpful.  Now Canvas fails to remove items that have been graded. Sometimes Canvas is interpreting first time submissions as resubmissions, meaning that to reso...

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Would like to keep the student overall grade in first column and then newest to oldest assignments from right to left in my gradebook.  But it keeps resetting back to default settings?

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Since Google Docs added the "document tabs" feature, Google Docs uploaded by students through the Google Docs LTI have extra pages created for each tab when viewed in speedgrader. The extra pages are blank except for "TAB 1" at the top.This is incred...

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I want to create an 8 question quiz and only have questions count off 3 points a piece. When I set the question points for 3 points it count off more that that. I want them to be able to miss one question and make a 97. Right now if they miss one, it...

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Just wondering, is your mascot a panda? I've seen tutorials with a panda for it often.      

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