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How do I edit the number of attempts in an assigned assessment after the assignment has been published?

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I am a middle school teacher, mt students recently received Chromebooks that flip into tablet mode. I am having the upload photos of their work, however they are unable to turn on the rear camera and take a photo in tablet mode. This is creating a fr...

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Apologies if this question has been posted or answered in the guides and I didn't find it; the keywords are a bit tricky as you might imagine. I'm new to Canvas and trying to work out policies and resources for our K-12 district ahead of our August 2...

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In a classic quiz, I want the ability to have a specific number of each question type included (random questions pulled from several banks so that all question types appear in the quiz). The main reason is that I want to ensure essay questions are al...

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I am having a problem in Canvas where I will add an image to a page and it will look fine at first. But then when I go to "Image Options" and edit the alt text, as soon as I click out of there, the image will suddenly get huge. It will still show the...

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When I attempted to login this morning from this saved link - https://canvas.instructure.com/?login_success=1_ my saved login and password were not accepted.  I reset my password using the link that was emailed to me.  When I log in with the new pass...

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Our institution (Pepperdine) recently transitioned from the Sakai LMS to Canvas.  In Sakai, we had the ability to configure Turnitin default settings when setting up an assignment. But in Canvas, it appears we don't have that ability.  In particular,...

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My school district is requiring us to issue letter grades based on course outcomes. I have my summatives linked to the course outcomes in Canvas, but the letter grades seem to still be based on their formative work that's being recorded in the tradit...

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Good morning all,   I am working with one of our teachers in her Spanish classes and we are trying to get it set so students are able to record audio as a submission type on a canvas quiz.   The teacher is creating her quiz and creating each question...

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In Speedgrader, what is the point with the button "Reassign Assignment"?A student can resubmit an assignment anyway. It does not matter if I "Reassign Assignment" after I have done the grading and submitted.This means a student can submit again even ...

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After I post my lectures to my modules tab, in power point format, when I review them the original formating of the power point that I have designed is changed. The fonts are different and some of the image layout has also shifted. This is only in th...

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I used New Quizzes for an introductory survey (all short answers) for students. I set it up where I wanted students to earn the point only after I have reviewed their answers (this makes it easy to see whose responses I've already read). I set it up ...

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The course announcements are located at the top of my homepage. I'm attaching a screenshot. How can I rearrange the page and move them to the bottom? Thank you.

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I have numerous courses in the unpublished list of my dashboard.  How do I delete a course from the list?

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When copying an assignment to another class within the same calendar year, the list of courses to choose from includes old, unpublished classes. This makes copying an assignment tedious as you have to look through so many old classes to find the curr...

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I am an itinerant music teacher, and I work at two schools. Both Principals have created assignments where I need to submit my lesson plans. One school is my home school, where I regularly see students, but the other school is not showing up in the s...

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Is there a way of uploading a image that the students can annotate separately?

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I have a large course with >1000 students. During the course, there are both group and individual assignments, same as last year. Today when using SpeedGrader for a group assignment, it does not change the dot (indicating there is a submission for th...

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I create custom pages to introduce my students to each Module in my class.  I want to be able to set these module overviews as the Front Page a few days before the Module starts.  The only way I have found to do this is to remember to manually set th...

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Hi, I missed the Intro to "Ingnite AI" presentation last week - does anyone have the recording? Is it active yet and if not when will it be available? Any information you could provide would be great. Cheers 

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what if i dont use this plateform is it apart of my grade

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For the CME group simulator page, I noticed that Stocks like MNQ and NQ does not really reflect their shown price. Like MNQ is 2 * index of 23.7k so should be 47,506, but in the simulator I could buy more than 10  Or like in NQ which is MNQ*10, but I...

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Gradebook view is incorrect- the status of missing or excused assignments are not shown correctly. the grades are not center alligned.

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Can a variable be placed inside a math object for formula questions? I want something like \dfrac{x}{`a`}, where `a` will be a variable I define? If not, how am I supposed to create fractions with a horizontal bar?

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 Posting grades in a letter format on the Canvas "Grades" site is messy that it requires a guidance of a Canvas representative. After the grades are posted, they do not appear automatically in students' transcriptsThe grading system on Canvas is appa...

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I'm relatively new to using Canvas, but I have been trying to use Canvas Teacher on my MacBook Pro M1 for giving comments to my students' recent assignments, which seems to be working well to exchange comments with them. However, when I use the "swip...

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I often need to link to an item WITHIN a module. I can easily link to the module, but I cannot link specifically to an item WITHIN the module.I highlight the text I want to link, I click on the LINK icon and select COURSE, and I get a list. Modules a...

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Hi, The names in the bulk donwload rubrics file do not match the names in gradebook.1. The order is different, making it difficult to match students who have 4 or 5 words in their name, and it is not clear which ones are the last and middle and first...

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Hi all,Due to the new changes to Canvas (2025), I am struggling with the total column in the grade book. I entered grades for students and the total assignment column is providing the percentage (i.e., 97%). However, the total column that always prov...

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I have had an increasing number of students over the past couple of semesters report that when they use the Canvas video recording tool within the rich text editor to create videos as part of an assignment, the video does not save. It hangs up with t...

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