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I am an instructor in the Greenville County Virtual Program. I have copied the current coursework materials of the courses I taught this year. I need to know how I can access the copied coursework in the future. How do I retrieve a copied course? The...

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I see that when I create an assignment that needs an upload, I can limit the file format types that students are allowed to upload. But when I create a new assignment, I either have to type out (or copy and paste) my list of file formats again.Is the...

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Hi everyone, I am wondering, after setting up a requirement, for example, 'mark as done' on specific pages, if I need to report on how many students have completed which pages, is there any data or a download available that shows how many students ha...

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I have a number of course for which I need to export or otherwise download the assignment brief pages (the descriptions of the assignments, NOT the submitted student assignments). How can I do this ? I'd like them to be saved in some human-readable, ...

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How do I print out class grades with assignments included? I am the class instructor and am suppose to print out each semester grades for each student with assignments included, but do not know how to do this.   Also I would rather not use too much p...

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The update completed in the last 24 hours, reduced the size of the vertical and horizontal scroll bars in the gradebook.  They are VERY hard to grab with a mouse and are increasing the time it takes to grade my student's work.  All the teachers in my...

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I tried for a while to request this in the proper spot for Feature Requests but could not do so. So, I was hoping to post it here, and someone would help it find its way to the Feature Requests ...I use points when grading in my class. However, the d...

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I tried for a while to request this in the proper spot for Feature Requests but could not do so. So, I was hoping to post it here, and someone would help it find its way to the Feature Requests ...In our department, about 50% of the professors use pe...

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I understand that page view data is not 100% accurate, and it is even stated that it should not be used to assess academic integrity (here: How do I view the page views for a user in an account?) But I have a user whose page view report shows absolut...

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Hello, I want to show YouTube and Stream videos to my students through Collaborate live teaching session, but when I tried last time they couldn't hear the volume at all. Any tips for making sure students can hear and see videos I play through collab...

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Once upon, in the Edit Assignment Dates feature, all the assignment titles were displayed so I could use command-F or a similar search feature to find a specific assignment and quickly change the title. Then, the feature was changed and it no longer ...

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Hi Everyone!We are in the process of starting a new school, and we will be using Edmentum Courseware for our curriculum and building it into Canvas.  I’ve already set up the LTI link between the two, and I’m able to populate content into Canvas using...

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I have assigned quizzes to my students and when I go to the Moderate section and  I press "View log" it says There are no session events to display yet. 

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Is there a way to get the quizzes feature on Canvas to take the first attempt grade for quizzes and also complete the quiz to 90%? I'm interested in this feature, because I want to incorporate competency-based learning, but I want students to study p...

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Does the presence of unexpected HTML in a Canvas quiz essay question answer indicate content was pasted - meaning plagiarized? This can be seen using a browser inspectors https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/Tools_and_setup...

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I am building a course and the Admin. want my photo and name remove. It has no students at this stage but I cannot seem to remove the photo or name. I understand it will not likely remain at after the course copy stage but this is causing stress from...

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I have added content to the Pages, but it is showing the student visibility icon as marked out along with the message "no content, not visible to students". Please help.

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I came here to suggest a feature (batch edit add ability to set specific dates for all selected tasks at once, not just shift or remove them), and as per the system requests I had a look at similar requests already made. I found my exact idea, articu...

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For my courses, I have a syllabus module where I break down syllabus information into a series of pages (25 total: each page dedicated to a specific FAQ or set of policies) that make it easy for students to find the information they need, rather than...

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Is anyone using Canvas for rank, tenure, promotion?   We have been using a commercial product which is a considerable financial outlay as well as a substantial cost in human capital.  We think Canvas could be a solution to the issue.  We could ideall...

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My home page brings me directly to Modules even though I have a "Page" set as "Home." Why???

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Is there any app for pronunciation feedback and practice that can be added to Canvas?Thank you!! Patricia

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Hello! While participating in an open-access course, I came upon a submission panel (widget?) that enables drag and drop file uploads. I've attached a screenshot. Can anyone point me towards the source? I sent the screenshot to my college's Canvas ad...

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I like to have my students read a chapter and take a quiz on what they read. I like to keep them a standard 15 questions, but sometimes I find more than 15 that seem like good questions. Can I make a multiple choice quiz with 20 questions and then Ca...

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Anatomical term assessment question 3, 4 images are not showing or visible. is someone else Having this problem? I am using google chrome and canvas and laptop but still not working. any ideas please

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 I have a rubric set up in my final paper assignment and I would like to be able to provide feedback and grade the assignment without the students seeing the assignments grade. If the grade is hidden if I use the rubric in the assignment, will the st...

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I am the instructor. I can see it in my records, but my students told me today that they do not see their overall percentage. Is there something I can do to fix this? I checked all the guides and FAQs I could find. Thank you

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Hi - I have multiple students who are not receiving repeated email invitations for them to join our class (we've checked the inbox and spam folders). I tried removing them from the course and adding them back in, but they still are not received anyth...

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I am an instructor trying to turn on LockDown browser for a test we are to take tomorrow but it has been saying "Please Wait" with the wheel of death for about an hour now. Any suggestions on what could be causing this? Thanks  

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