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The new update to the Canvas Inbox has some issues. While it is easier to scroll through your courses, there doesn't seem to be a way to click on your Favorites, it is just one big long list depending on how long you have taught. Also, all formatting...

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Is there a feature to allow a student to automatically listen to a succession of audio (and/or video) replies in a discussion board thread?  I would like my nursing students to be able to post and listen to student discussions in a podcast-like forma...

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When setting up a discussion for the class in under options section I check "users must post before seeing replies." I found out this semester a student can actually post a reply, which then automatically gives them access to other posts, then they c...

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I have setup all the assignments of a course to be posted manually, so that students can only see their grades after the assignment of all students have been graded for everyone. That means that after I grade, I have to go to the gradebook in Canvas ...

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Hi Canvas community As a professor (instructor), is it possible to create new Canvas courses to facilitate informal teaching and discussion with my six PhD students?  I do not want the material to be part of any formal module, such as "ENVS444" (a mo...

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This is my first time posting here. For the past few years I have used the Discussion Count spreadsheet developed by James as a (very big) help for assessing student participation. But now, one frustrating week later, I can't seem to get it to work. ...

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CANVAS gradebook comes with a way to do an automatic grade reduction, but it cannot reflect my existing policies. I generally use grade reduction policies at the rate of 1 or 2 weeks. For instance, in one class, the policy is that you can turn in an ...

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In my classes, grades are determined by a student's total points. For instance, an A is 1000 points. The percentage of possible points does not matter. You can have 1000 out of 1000 or 1000 out of 4000. It's the 1000 that matters. This means that the...

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LaTeX equations are not displaying inline in the mobile app. How are STEM instructors to use equation output since the vast majority of our students are using the app?

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I have always been able to hit 'Download' within my Canvas file folders and my power points would download and be ready to go. This week in class I followed my usual 'routine' and when I hit 'Download' it took me to the 'Save a folder' and I had to r...

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Grade book allows you to message all students who don't turn in assignments at the same time. Reaching out makexender s students feel seen. I get way more replies to those messages than anything else. omegle

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Hi there, I changed the due date of a homework assignment  for three students who passed the deadline. But, now I can only see those three submissions-the submissions from all other students are gone. I wonder if I could get them back.   Thanks!   Ec...

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Greetings everyone!Our campus is migrating to Canvas for the upcoming semester and I'm working on some of the different ways to layout a course.  My question is specific to modules and pages.I have seen course modules that become extremely cluttered ...

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Students see less than (<) and greater than signs (>) in quiz answer choices. However, the Quiz Summary often removes them completely from the answers. For example, here's a question with < and > characters in the answers: In the Quiz Summary, the <...

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I enjoy using the Canvas Teacher app on my iPad to grade discussions. I find the swiping to be relaxing. However, it consistently won't load submissions for about 10-15% of the students. In a class of 120, after grading all of the posts I can see, I ...

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First time poster with what is probably a simple question. I've searched and can't find exactly what I'm looking for.  I have a published page in a live course with students.   I need to edit that page to fix something like a typo. How do I do that w...

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I've copied my course over from a previous semester and was easily able to batch update assignment due dates. But, I cannot figure out how to batch update the release dates of my announcements. Am I stuck updating the release date of each announcemen...

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Dear Reader,I am putting this out for consideration and hopefully effecting change. Could a new option be made in Canvas quizzes, in keeping with the naming scheme, Multiple Numerical Answers? This option would be similar to the present "Numerical An...

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I gave an exam in my class and it had 4 short answer questions at the end. Usually when I grade these and press update, the gradebook updates as well, however, with this one, I can see the updated score in Speed Grader, but the gradebook does not upd...

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Please allow full editing capabilities from the Module so that teachers do not have to continue to return to the Assignments page.  Our assignments are much more organized in the Module, and it would be more efficient if I could schedule my assignmen...

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Hello all! My name is Erinne Kennedy and I am a faculty member at the Kansas City University College of Dental Medicine. We will be using a portfolio as a global assessment tool for our dental students. We are planning to use a portfolio software tha...

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Hi All!I'm trying out "new" quizzes for the first time. And immediately got this error:"There is a problem with this assessment. Please contact your instructor."All I did was create it and save it. I know it's supposed to then give me all the options...

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Hello, I was helping another instructor import content from my course to theirs, that worked without any trouble, but now when I click on any of my PDfs in any of my current and previous classes I either get a "Failed to  Fetch" error or just a loadi...

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Hi there, I was wondering if anyone knew how to turn off the ability for TAs and Teachers to access and change the course settings. I can't see this anywhere in the permissions.Our institution has set content and processes so we do not want anything ...

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I'm looking for a method to add a new user to a group at the sub-account level.  The steps to add a person to a sub-account group I know.  My problem is that our users are added in by our SIS to the root account.  But then we create sub-accounts and ...

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Hi all,On the Hidden Canvas Permissions thread there was some discussion of sharing permission structures that work for people. I don't want them to get lost on the other thread, so I thought we could start this place to compare notes and give new ad...

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