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Hi,Is there a way to Hide "Unpublished" status before the Start Date so students don't get confused that the class doesn't have content.Instead, can we hide the title totally until the Start Date?Thanks

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There doesn't appear to be a quick way to delete multiple course rubrics.  I imported about 25 rubrics into a test course trying to see if I could get the more detailed descriptions to come over.  The descriptions didn't come over, but now the irrita...

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Our students have been extremely happy with the Canvas calendar. So happy in fact, that they would like Canvas sites for all 90+ clubs and social groups that they have created. Currently, we can only offer official courses with enrollment coming  aut...

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Hello Canvas Admins!  Please post use cases and other documentation in each of these features if you can in order to help justify these requests.  " modifiedtitle="true" title="In Permissions, Separate "Manage (add/edit/delete) assignments and quizz...

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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,We have both SIS script run and manual import at the same time. So how can I see the logs from UI ? right now when click on the UI, SIS Import, the only one shows is the Last Batch of Import.Thanks

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Hi All,I'm noticing that there is some differences in terminology that is already confusing staff in my office...and if you see the last screenshot for some reason the term name goes away from the user's enrollment list when a user is inactive in the...

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Is there a way to pull a list of each user's contact information including any additional contact methods the user has added? The user report only contains the default email address. I did not see anything in the Canvas Data schema that might support...

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In working with Canvas Support about a permissions issue (I was trying to remove the masquerading privileged from a sub-account admin), it was brought to my attention that, "The reason that this "Become" option is showing up for you when it should no...

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Thanks to  @millerjm ​ we just noticed that our TAs have gained access to items that they did not have before and that Teachers still do not have access to.We have the following setting turned off for TAs:Change course stateOn the Course Settings Pag...

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Anyone out there have Premier/Tier 1 support from Instructure for your institution?  If so, how did you integrate it with your existing user support system?  Any tips to get the best bang for your buck with this service?  Any pitfalls that others sho...

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Hi all,Since the Canvas Beta Release Notes (2015-12-28), which will be in place this Saturday, our beta instance doesn't work as expected. For some reason when I use the Theme Editor to pick colors when I click the Preview button the colors revert ba...

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Hello!We're fairly new to Canvas, and have installed an LTI tool for What Do You Think? course evaluation. Having installed the LTI tool we get a message saying our institution isn't configured. We contacted their support and they have said it's some...

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Hey Admins!  We noticed a change and I'm not sure when it took place.  Our first term on Canvas was Fall 2015.  We spent a lot of time figuring out how to configure our term dates and student access/participation settings to have it work how we neede...

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According to the Canvas Production Release Notes for Jan. 9, 2016, students' enrollment types can now be set to "inactive." In the SIS Import Format documentation, enrollment status can only be set as active, deleted, or completed when using SIS impo...

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Has anybody heard of a way to temporarily turn hosted Canvas "OFF" for local admin maintenance purposes (like a custom page users would see when under maintenance that we control).  I envision this as something in the Admin settings and we would use ...

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Hi All,I am trying to create a new role that will give a facilitator the ability to view all student submissions (assignments, quizzes, discussions) but not have the ability to grade the rubrics associated with them. I am not sure how to do that in t...

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Initially, there is a course created in Semester 1 and Terms is set to Semester 1. Semester 2 will start soon and just received notification from the teacher that the course is for 2 semesters (i.e. Semester 1 & Semester 2).The teachers want the cont...

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I tried to customized the Help menu by adding in a link through "Settings" >> "Custom links to include in the help dialog popup". And this new link appeared as the "third" one among the 5 links in the popup menu. I want to move it to the "first" pos...

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Hi,Is there a way to email or reminder to all pending instructors who we already created accounts and courses for them but they never log in to claim the courses?Thanks

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Hi,- Where can I enable recurring calendar option so it will show the REPEAT option when I create a EVENT?- According to the manual it will show under the date and time, here is my screenshot and I can't find a place to turn that feature on.- My Sett...

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Someone already created some Sub Accounts ( Departments) in our Canvas Portal, and here is my question:- Can I find out what that account_id is so I can add that line to my account.csv file? - When creating sub-account in UI, there is no way to add t...

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We are planning our first semester in Canvas next summer, and are working through some of the options available in SIS imports.  I have been struggling to determine a protocol for applying the short_name (aka Reference Code, aka Course Code) and long...

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Is there an option to control the "Report A Problem" in Canvas link on the Help menu?I would like to use an external web form to collect our user needs (that feeds our own support team).  I am guessing this may be in place for larger institutions.  A...

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Tired of having to use a post-it to make sure you're checking and unchecking items in the right column? Tired of losing the row title because the permission page doesn't move with you as you scroll right?Now's the time to help change this! Please vot...

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Is there a way to find out who copied a course and the date?  There were some course copies made of Master courses and I want to be able to find out who made the copies and the date.

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On Friday, December 4th UAB experienced intermittent issues with CAS authentication to Canvas.  Over the course of the day there were recurring periods of 60-75 seconds where no CAS validation traffic was returning - each was then followed by flurry ...

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Is there a way for students to type in the accents in Spanish other than copying it from a word processing program? 

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So I suddenly have teachers who can't see grade totals when they pull individual student's grades. I know this has to be part of the recent release but I cannot find it except 1 area that says in the grade book totals can be changed to points/ percen...

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