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I'm inquiring about the possibility of assigning a large number of quizzes, for instance, around 50, to a specific section in a more streamlined manner. Currently, my approach involves modifying and assigning each quiz individually to the section. Is...

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In Canvas quizzes, it is possible to have Numeric questions with "Requirements" that determine how a question will be graded (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-create-a-Numeric-question-in-New-Quizzes/ta-p/986). These inclu...

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All of my courses indicates that it has not been published. I need to contact my course instructor for access. 

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Students see recent comments on their dashboards. Teacher don't (at least not when I tried just now).   I can ofcourse change course notifications so I get an email with every comment made by a student (a reply to my comment on their submission), but...

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We have been playing with students submitting videos of chemistry labs. Short technique type of things. We have Panopto but will probably drop it due to cost soon. It was clunky to submit to canvas anyway it seemed. So when panopto is gone there must...

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Instructor, basing this semester's Canvas site on last semester's site.  I've got quite a few discussions from a previous semester that I want to delete. Is there ANY kind of keyboard shortcut or way of deleting more than one discussion at a time? Cl...

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I frequently receive emails from career services, recruiters and graduate schools that include attachments. How can I forward them through Canvas?

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When utilizing HTML for tasks such as crafting an announcement, I typically replicate the HTML code and paste it into a separate Canvas classroom announcement. However, I have encountered an issue where the graphics fail to display in the new course ...

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I have searched the forums and the guides to find a definition of these terms but have been unable to find one. I did find a question by irishb in 2017 but the answer did not provide the answers in 2024. I assume that the pdf has been edited and thus...

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I (instructor) use peer review for an assignment that is a xml file submission. Students need to download the file to open it in another program, a xml editor, where they can check validity and troubleshoot encoding errors.That did not work this past...

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I am a Canvas admin for my institution. I have an instructor who cannot share their screen on Zoom while using SpeedGrader. Every time that they open SpeedGrader while screen sharing, the software crashes.  Are there technical requirements to screen ...

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Trying to figure out how to search for this topic, as it relates to a few different areas, so I am just going to post it here and hope the community can help... Trying to come up with a plan for a department that has several instructors, all of whom ...

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El estudiante envío una tarea con el archivo incorrecto, es decir, sin las respuestas, cómo eliminó esta entrega para que la pueda volver a subir a CANVAS. Sin tener que crear un intento mas.

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Question: I I am an instructor and  I taught a course 2 years ago.  Is it possible to access my old modules that I had set up 2 years ago?

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How can I move a student doc from the wrong turn-it-in assignment to the right one?  I used to be able to do this but I don't see the option anymore. I also looked on non-turn-it-in assignments and don't see the option there, either.

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CONTEXT: My university requires that we use a Canvas course to present our faculty or tenure promotion dossiers. Unfortunately, as the first group of candidates to have to do this, I'm finding Canvas to be a real pain for this use. It's not working w...

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Is there a way not to post an assigned assignment to the course calendar? We use ALEKS in our course, which provides a link for each assignment, which is posting to the calendar. We would like it to NOT post to the calendar. We created Pages in Canva...

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Canvas Discussions have a cool feature - when creating a discussion, I can choose to "Add to student to-do". This is fantastic. Naturally, this feature is even more useful in conjunction with Announcements. However, I haven't been able to figure out ...

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As a former professor, the following article inspired me to look at the vocabulary used  in some Canvas course rooms in terms of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) levels: Studie: Vissa universitetslärare inte bättre än g...

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While grading a quiz, I entered some fudge points and updated score. Then I decided against the fudge points, and deleted them. But when I then updated the score, the fudge points came back. I cannot seem to get rid of them!! (Do i maybe have to ente...

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I want to view Quiz (Classic) Action Log for each student to monitor progress, look for departures from Quiz Page, etc. I have 50 students. As far as I know, I must open the exam page itself, then click 3-dot menu and open "Slow student quiz results"...

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we have created a page with the title Course Home Header, it used to have the url   pages/course-home-header, but after some messing with the page it now has the url pages/course-home-header-13  and no matter what we do, we can't get the URL back to ...

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On Friday, half of my written assignments disappeared. They are not in the undelete folder. I spoke with a canvas representative and they said that an admin would be contacting me. Can you please get in touch with me? English 097 at Community College...

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A colleague has alerted me into a peculiar issue that I haven't seen before. What we'd like to do is get a sense of the grade distribution and, preferably, a list of students with their respective grades to that this information is available to the M...

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How I can create a new course shell in my CANVAS

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My teacher and I are trying to figure out how to send an assignment through canvas after the class was removed. Who do I contact to help send the assignment?

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Does anyone have any information about the apparent scheduled maintenance that is causing Canvas to be down at the moment? I've been through all communications, roadmap, community pages and social media and I can't find anything. We have 2 Profession...

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Hello everybody, I have built a course template for my institution and I have included a "Syllabus" navigation button at the bottom of the home page. Our institution requires instructors to use Simple Syllabus to build and present their syllabi. Sinc...

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My PI wants to allow students to pick the day they'll be taking the final exam. The assignment will be offered over 4 days. However, he wants the submission to be limited to 24 hours based on the time of download of the document within the assignment...

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Is there a way to print student submissions from the assignments they have completed?  I would like to mass print what they have submitted so they can use them like a study guide for an open note test.  

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