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Is there a way to mark a student who has left early from class?  I see that a student can be marked late, but not that they were present at the start of class and left. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z7g1KZngo6V5WkIa93MbfWlWPWvqovkY/view?usp=drive_...

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Is there a way make it so when you hit unpublish all it also unpublished the pdfs? It takes so long to unpublish each individual pdf.

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Canvas currently does not support disabling announcements without deleting them. If I don't want to send an announcement but I want to still keep it so I can copy it over to the next semester, there doesn't appear to be a good way to do it. As a work...

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I recently had an exam which is untimed, since it is untimed I have been taking it with breaks here and there. But , I am not sure if I have pressed the submit button. My question is will these untimed quizzes auto submit by due or submit has to be p...

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Hello. I am a current Canvas user as a PT instructor at a university that uses Canvas. I have two current courses through that institution in Canvas. I will soon lose access as I am not contracted to teach in the Spring or Summer semesters, but I wil...

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I am an instructor and have dropped the lowest two assignments within a category. I am getting emails from students asking if this has been implemented. How can the students tell which of their assignments have been dropped?

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Hi -  An instructor using classic quizzes has more than one student who took a quiz and received a score that is either in conflict with the score in Speedgrader, or is a total that cannot be achieved with amount of each quiz question. Examples: Stud...

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How do I locate a student's ID, since "People" is no longer an option?

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If I assign a test in Canvas, do the students have the ability to open other websites or is there a setting I can use to lockdown the browser?  

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Is it possible to send messages to all people in a course using the "Inbox" / "Message" function that can include hyperlinks or formatted text? If NOT, could that functionality be added? 

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Hi all, Any time I import a previous Canvas course, I have to manually unpublish every single assignment - this is very tedious and time consuming. It would be nice if there was a single button to click to unpublish everything - or, alternatively,  i...

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I have a quiz which starts with a couple of multiple choice opinion questions, which are worth 0 points (e.g., How motivated are you to complete this course?) The problem is that Canvas makes me select a "right" answer, but there isn't one. Students ...

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My students responded to 15 different Discussion Posts that I created this semester.  My plan was to view each student's entries collectively to grade them--i.e. I'd view all 15 of the responses that "John Smith" wrote over the semester.  Is it possi...

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Hello Canvas Community, What if your Canvas account gets hacked? Is there any way to get it back? 

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students using Macs are submitting assignments using Pages.  Their assignments appeared completed before.Recently submitted assignments with the .pages extension are appearing blank now.

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Can I, as a teacher, upload a student's assignment to CANVAS on their behalf? In other words, if a student sends me an assignment via email, can I upload their work to CANVAS? Or that something only a student can do?

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I set the grades to be hidden for one of my assignments and graded it using the speed grader with a rubric, I typed my comments and grade in rubric. However, I received emails from students questioning their grades. It seems that they are still able ...

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When in Gradebook, I click on a student's name, and the side panel opens with their grade, how missing tasks, and how many late tasks.Could Canvas develop a link that shows a hyperlinked list of the missing tasks?This would be useful for teachers to ...

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I have a Canvas quiz where a student has every question wrong, I've marked all the items as zero, and Canvas is giving full points--even after adding negative fudge points. How is this possible? Below, there is an example of an item scored zero (this...

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Is this feature available in New Quizzes?  See picture below.  Thank you for any feedback.  

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Our district creates 1st semester and 2 semester courses for each teacher.At the beginning of 2nd each student is rerostered into their new courses.However, some teachers teach whole year courses.One teacher has created an ongoing project within Canv...

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Some students are using Dell Touch-Screen capable Chromebooks.  When they attempt to use the touchscreen to complete a Student Annotation Assignment the touch-screen just scrolls with the touch.  The students have to use the track-pad or a mouse to u...

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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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