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I have some students who are assigned weekly homework lessons and some who are not. I do not want to "excuse" those students, I just want the assignment to NOT show up for them. When I copy an assignment, it does not retain the "assign to" list and w...

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I entered a quiz question that has 2 VERY similar answers... the students have taken the quiz, and after additional thought on my part, I'd like to grant credit for either answer. Multiple correct answers doesn't appear to allow one or the other... I...

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When clicking into an assignment from the calendar, no content will load. I added 2 screen shots from FireFox, that until yesterday, worked JUST fine. Also from the Main Canvas Dashboard Canvas courses will not load.What is the fix for this?

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When I copy one Announcement from one Course to another Course in the same term, I'm baffled why the "Posted On" is left blank. Isn't this cause for confusion among students? According to the Canvas Teacher Guide... ...Copied announcements display on...

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I am a staff member at a college and an instructor in my department wants to show letter grades as well as percentages in the Total column of the gradebook. Is there a way this can be done?

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Student Group option not listed under Filters but SpeedGrader will not open until Student Group is selected

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When I set an assignment in a mastery path I put in a due date. When students are assigned that assignment it creates an new assigned to without that due date. So I have to remember to go back in after the first student is assigned and reset the due ...

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I have added an LTI app to the Canvas system and am using it in the course menu.However, when I disable the LTI app menu in the course settings under "Navigation," the menu completely disappears, making it inaccessible even to instructors and adminis...

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I am an administrator. We need some faculty doing work for the program to be able to see student work from courses but not see their grades. Is there any way to give someone access to all submissions but not grades or feedback? I am not sure if this ...

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Courses offered are PD courses and typically run for 7 days at a time. Usually, courses start at NOON on a Thursday and end at NOON on the following Thursday. We then have the main settings for the start date to match, but the end date is for the Mon...

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I would love to open the quiz bank and search for any question that references a specific concept--the Greek idea of phthonos, for example, or any reference to "deconstruction" in any quiz question.  If this is possible, I have not found out how to d...

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I had a teacher complete annotation on a group of papers and now the annotations are gone.  Students have not resubmitted.  Both teachers added comments that are still available within the assignment, but all annotations are GONE! - am I missing some...

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I need help understanding how the Canvas grade book decides which grade to include for a classic quiz with multiple attempts and a late penalty associated with it. I have a classic quiz with 2 attempts, which is supposed to take the highest score. I ...

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I am trying to add a PlayPosit assignment to my Canvas class. It allows me to set the bulb, fill out all the things, but when I click SAVE, I just get the white foggy screen of doom. If I reload, I lose all of it. Any ideas??

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Is there a way to reassign an assignment to just one student? I have a student whose computer died, and his assignment got submitted without any answers.

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I give students a grade of zero if they fail to complete a canvas assignment. But, I don't receive any notice when they finally submit their work. I need to know when they have submitted work so I can grade it. Previously the new assignment would sho...

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The first assignment is an individual one and the second is in a group of 4. I set up groups for the second assignment before the first assignment's due date, and the group setting applied to the first assignment submission! As the result only the fi...

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How do I send a video assessment of video comments to a student regarding their work?

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Students must be in our Testing Center to take their exam because the IP addresses are filtered for that location. After the exam closed, I adjusted the exam setting so students would be shown their answers and see which questions they got incorrect....

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I am a parent of two students and a teacher at several educational institutions, all of which use Canvas. Canvas is excellent for managing my administrative tasks across these different roles. However, I sometimes struggle to determine which institut...

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Is there a way to set up groups of students in each class, who will receive the same assignment? For example, I have students with IEPs, who have modified assignments. I would like to be able to select a particular group of students in one specific c...

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I had recently heard that Canvas has some AI integrations and features. I was wondering what these were. Thank You

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When an instructor enters their class calendar and drags an undated quiz or assignment to the date they want it to be due, the calendar defaults to 12:59am of that day, instead of 11:59pm of that day.  We have been able to replicate this issue using ...

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For the last 2 years, I have had the same late policy. All assignments are due AND available until their original due date. After the due date, students must submit a Late Work Google Form to get the assignment unlocked so they can resubmit it for cr...

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There are some assignments that go out to the majority of my students except one or two per class. It would be great to be able to assign to "everyone" and then have a button to select which students are exempt from the assignment. This should also b...

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Is there a way to flip the axis of the gradebook?  I would like to see students at the top and assignments on the side.  I know you can see grades by individual student, but it would also be nice to be able to flip this axis.  I looked through the se...

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I have created a rubric in a course that I have used for two paper assignments. I wanted to update the rubric slightly. When I go to the Rubrics page and click on the rubric I want to change, I get this message: "Rubrics cannot be modified once they ...

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I just had a student inform me that they could not reply to other students in a discussion that I set up in advance over the summer. I saw that threaded replies had been turned off without my knowledge, turned them back on, and announced the bug to t...

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Right now I have created appointments on Canvas using the Scheduling feature for students to sign up for. However, once all spots are reserved, the event disappears from the student's view. For example, if I create an event for October 1 with a maxim...

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In our district, we do not count late points for non-school days.  Currently, Canvas does not take weekends into account when deducting late points.  I was wondering if there was a way of having weekends not count toward late points on student submis...

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