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Hello! As a teacher in a large district, my students have found they can inbox message students from any section -- our librarian has all the students in her canvas, so they have access to students in the whole school.  Therefore they are arranging m...

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Is there any way to reformat multiple pages in a Canvas Course or does that need to be done individually? 

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When enabling tasks for specific users after the task expiration closes, these results have been overwritten for the original task. How can I recover the original results?

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I recorded 3 teaching modules on Sunday (from one Zoom meeting). I understand how to copy the link and paste into Canvas. But I'd like to download and have these for more than 180 days. But each recording is 4-7 files. I'm confused about why there ar...

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Hi there,  I'm looking for a very specific kind of function and unsure whether or not there's a good way to do what I'm looking for in Canvas. ContextI teach AP U.S. History and one of the key kinds of assessments is the DBQ (Document-Based-Question)...

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When I try to print the Item Analysis from a classic quiz, the printout is offset on the left margin (it cutoffs a portion of the left margin).     Anyone else has this problem? I believe it's a configuration of the webpage, but for its worth I have ...

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I am seeking ideas from the community about how to optimise our regulator-mandated self-assessment process. Our current process is: At the start of a course, students rate themselves in a range of skills, using a Classic Quizzes survey.At the end of ...

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Is there a way to reattach profile pictures to copied/imported course announcements? As you all know, Canvas strips out your profile picture from announcements that are copied into a new course. I get it. They want to prevent careless instructors fro...

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Is there a way to export Item Banks as QTI zip files? I am aware that quizzes can be exported. However, my question is about Item Banks. 

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I have created an "On paper" assignment and I'm not sure about the submission status.Students cannot submit an on paper assignment but I would assume that as the teacher I can record that the assignment has been submitted.When I look in SpeedGrader t...

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I seek to create the capacity to monitor and control a live social seminar in an in-person class on the Canvas platform. Testing the following functions has not been successful. Any help from the community would be very much appreciated.  The require...

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What is the process needed to troubleshoot technical issues for students' needs, such as resetting passwords, downloads, etc.  I know teachers can reset student passwords (at least I think we can), but I have not idea how to troubleshoot other issues...

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Does Canvas provide the ability to build keyboard shortcuts for repeated text (like macros in excel)?When building questions and in other rich content editor environments, does Canvas have a way to build a macro or keyboard short cut to paste repeate...

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Hello, thanks for your help. I am a teacher who has used canvas this year. I am moving to another state and that school district also uses canvas. Is there an easy way to transfer my current course with my current district/account to my future distri...

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Please can someone advise?There is a 25 to 30 second lag from my typing to text appearing in the Comment boxes on Speed Grader.This is making marking impossible!Nothing else is running slow on my laptop.  Have used Chrome and Int Exp.Windows 10Thanks...

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Our institution would like to copy all past courses (including all materials uploaded within the course) to our new term. Is there any way to use csv file to copy all courses simultaneously instead of doing manually for every single course?

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Hello I would like to find a way for a student to view an automated message (not feedback) after completing a quiz. Something like: "Thank you for completing the assignment. The professor will review the score and get back to you within a week." I ha...

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Is a function available that will allow the banking of Stimulus questions?For example, I'd like to structure a quiz to randomly select one of the following Stimulus question sets:Stimulus 1Question 1aQuestion 1bQuestion 1cStimulus 2Question 2aQuestio...

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When I try to enter grades I can no longer utilize my cursor to move from student to student because a box with auto suggestions pops up.  Using the cursor simply moves me through the suggestions rather than to the next student.  This has significant...

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Hi,    I told my students that moving away from the quiz to other windows/tabs would be cheating. Can you help me interpret the quiz log to see if the evidence there establishes this was happening? (I know Canvas itself is not a lockdown browser, but...

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Do all edits in any new quiz save to the course for future course imports?Whether it is edited before publishing, after publishing, before students take, or after students take it, will it always update as the latest quiz moving forward?This is not s...

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Hi - I'm a Canvas Admin and would like to know if anyone knows what it means.  When entering grades in Canvas, our instructor is adding/updating one grade for one student and the grade he enters changes all students in the class to that same grade.  ...

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I work as an Educational Technologist to support faculty with various learning tools; mostly Canvas. I had an instructor tell me that they had their students take a Classic Quiz with 7 questions and required them to only answer 6 questions for full p...

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Question from instructor: I’m reviewing my student’s recent test results there are a couple questions I’d like to answer: Am I allowing enough time? Too much time? Do students who take longer score better? The “Moderate Quiz” view isn’t particularly ...

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I am having an issue printing exam statistics. The view is fine in the browser, there is no change with adjustment of margins, zoom etc. I have tried multiple browsers (firefox and chrome) and printing to pdf (adobe, microsoft print to pdf) and print...

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Hello,Sequence of events;A teacher has created an assignment in Canvas.A student must have a later deadline, which was corrected when all other students submitted their answers to the assignment.So the teacher edited the assignment by, as I understan...

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I'm unfamiliar with using the Roll Call/Attendance feature in Canvas and need guidance on handling a specific attendance grading scenario for my course. We have a total of ten mandatory class events. To meet the attendance requirement, students must ...

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Hello! I'm looking for solutions for a faculty who is having issues using the DocViewer Free Draw Tool. This is a math faculty that has stated that in the past, he could free draw equations, but now when he clicks to draw, it begins moving the line (...

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