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Hi, Community! Students receive an email notification when I publish a class announcement. OK so far. Here’s my question: if I *allow comments* in class announcements, are students also notified by email every time someone comments or replies to a co...

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I'm trying to determine if there is an easier way to do what I am doing. When I grade assignments in large lecture classes, I often want to get a jump on grading by banging out the ones submitted early. However, after you grade one student, you have ...

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Caveat: This might be a highly specialized thing that only I do and might not be entertained as a feature request; but I thought I would ask.User Role: InstructorI have the habit of sending weekly Announcements - usually timed to go out at 8:00 AM on...

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In my Kaltura video recordings, the camera screen (i.e., me) always defaults to being the primary screen.  How do I change the video settings so that the presentation screen (i.e., PowerPoint) is saved as the primary screen and my camera screen is th...

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I want all of my classes to be able to see the appointment group I created. I have added both classes to the appointment group, but only one is appearing in the Canvas Calendar. When I try to "edit" group details both classes are grayed out not allow...

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I'm using Classic Quizzes. Actually, two problems: (1) Canvas is not deleting selected questions from the Question Bank.  Instead, it greys out the question -- but, does not delete it from the bank. (2) Modifying and updating a question causes Canvas...

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So now the "posted on" date for delayed announcements is when you actually create the announcement, not when it is available for viewing.In the past, I have relied on the delayed announcement feature to send an email/push notification to students whe...

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On my Canvas home page, in the centre I have  a section called 'Module Learning Path'.  It is a set of blue buttons labelled week 1, week 2, week 3 etc.  I have worked out how to edit the titles of the buttons, but how do I link the buttons to the co...

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Student To Do List Error - Not showing all missing assignments   For some reason, I have a few students whos To Do list is not counting assignments correctly.     The students go to canvas - then to dashboard view.  They mostly use the "List View" in...

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Have checkpoints been enable in discussion settings? Can you choose two dates for discussion assignments. one for the original posting and one for the response?

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What does a u with a circle when it is in front of an announcement?  u with a circle

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When a french teacher with her canvas set to French tries to set dates for assignments in Canvas, dates are not saved. Switching to English solved the problem, but language teachers need to use the target language when using Canvas

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I would like to make an assignment with MATLAB Autograder such that it has a time limit start when the students open it. Is this possible with assignments or only quizzes? 

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Is there a way for students to see assignments in Canvas when they are locked?  I have locked assignments to prevent students from submitting before the week they are due, but students are now not able to see the assignment description in Cnavas unti...

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Hello-I have set up my courses (as Admin) so that students enroll in the course via email invite. I have not set a join code for any courses. One of my users (a teacher) has asked that I set a join code for her students because they have a Canvas acc...

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One of my colleagues is teaching 17 courses this year. Yes, a lot of courses. Somehow one of the courses is not showing up on her Dashboard. But we can see the missing course in the Admin panel. Could anyone tell me why that missing course is behavin...

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I am an instructor in multiple Canvas courses. When a student sends me an Inbox message on Canvas, I receive it via e-mail.  If I reply via e-mail, the reply will eventually show up in the message chain in Canvas Inbox. However, this can take many ho...

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Hello Community,We just discovered that the group discussions do not appear in the main discussion page for faculty. SO for faculty to view the entire group discussions, they have to navigate to that groups "site" and view the discussion post from th...

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Is there a way for assignment alerts from unpublished courses to get removed from the Coming Up list on the Canvas Dashboard? The instructor only wants to see alerts from published courses in the Coming Up list.   Is this possible?

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After the new 2024 update to discussions, there is the option to assign randomly students for replies. So I've utilize this and selected that each student has to reply to automatically assign reviews per student. As the students have been working in ...

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I'm a Canvas admin working with an instructor who recently lost all of his draw annotations in SpeedGrader after he inputted a grade or navigated to a new student's submission. It turns out that he was not clicking on the check mark after creating th...

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How do I construct a quiz for my class?

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I am an instructor and recently the lines in gradebook are missing or scores are pushed all the way to the left with the rest left blank.  How can I get lines back in the gradebook? 

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Hi there,   I just posted a problem with outcomes in rubrics. I checked in courses our team has worked on the last few months to get everything up an running for the start of the semester. All outcomes that are gone from all the rubrics???? Help!!! T...

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I am encountering something strange with the Outcomes in a rubric in Canvas.I have created specific Outcomes.When I add an outcome to a rubric when I create an assignment, it works.However, if I then go to the rubric itself via 'Rubrics' I don't see ...

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I created a group assignment. Can individual students see their group mate's submissions? If they can, is there a way that they cannot see each other's submissions in the same group?

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Hello, How do I post the same announcement across multiple courses? 

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How do I see how many times a student has attempted a module in Canvas?

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We have created a survey quiz - using classic quizzes- and have a multitude of multiple dropdown questions. We are looking to analyze the variables in the dropdown menu.Here is one of our questions:Please indicate how much you agree with the followin...

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I am a learning Coach attempting to pair with multiple students.  I need help.  Please assist via email: t.cullins-clark@saiacademy.com 

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