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Has anyone else noticed that calendar entry titles no longer word-wrap? That the titles just cut-off.Would anyone happen to know what the character length is for Calendar entry titles?Example:

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I have a master course and a live course and the live course quiz question types on some questions are different.  A student took the exam and wasn't able to answer some questions because the question types were incorrect, so an essay box and fill in...

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It just came to my attention that right now there is no way to delete chat messages in Canvas. We had a situation where a student posted private/confidential information in a chat session with an Instructor and since we can't delete it we are now for...

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The  @jivedocs_unfede ​ has provided Canvas users with a guide on how to cross-list sections in a course but does not have a tutorial video for cross-listing in this community.   I was recently speaking with a Community Member and he loves the video ...

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Is it possible to get a single canvas_course_id or an array of canvas_course_ids returned using the API? Here's what I'm running.curl -s -F attachment=@"$zip_file" -F "extension=zip&import_type=instructure_csv" -H "$AUTH_HEADER" "https://$MYDOMAIN.in...

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We're considering moving to the new UI over Christmas break to minimize disruption for our students. I have a few crowd source questions Is your school using the new UI? If so, for how long have you had it turned on? Can anyone share any pros/cons t...

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The original Idea for   was Archived (with 306 votes) as we were asked to separate it out by tool and open individual ideas. Which I did but with less than 15 days to go in the voting period none of them have reached the necessary 100 votes to be con...

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I increased it from the regular 500 mb to 999 mb and he's already filled that up.  Now what do I do?

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Hey all, I'm very new to canvas and I'm looking at ways to add things to the bottom part of the sidebar (the far right). Basically I want to be able to add a javascript chat-with-a-librarian widget that is always available as a place for students to ...

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Has anyone successfully integrated the survey tool Class Climate with Canvas? We are just starting this process.

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I was in a meeting last week demo-ing Canvas to some folks from SOCOM, and they asked a question I feel I should be able to answer, but was not.  Is Canvas successful at my institution?   More to the point, by what metrics are we measuring Canvas?  ...

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Since many of our instructors have been on Summer break, I would like to send out an e-mail relatively soon with a brief summary on what they may have missed ... especially if they haven't been checking their e-mails or have not logged in to our inst...

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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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We love what we've seen so far with Commons and have outlined some interesting ways we're going to use it for courses from templates, but the way Commons copies permissions and the way our institution combines departments has us nervous about launchi...

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Why is this and how do I explain this to my faculty?  "You can view quiz statistics for quizzes that have been published and have at least one submission. Quiz statistics are only valid for quizzes under 100 questions or 1000 attempts. For instance, ...

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Bringing over an old question from the old forums,"We use the master course model, and use the API to copy our courses for new sections. That way the master never gets mucked up if an instructor tinkers at the section level. Is there a way we can set...

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Is there any way to have work still appear in speedgrader when students have turned it in to the new turnitin TLI?  Right now we have the old plugin running and it works perfectly for us.I have JUST gotten my faculty on board with using speedgrader a...

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We will be integrating Canvas with TurnItIn this summer. What issues may crop up during this process? How helpful is TurnItIn support?

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Hi fellow Canvas admins!I'd love to know what LTI/Other integrations people are using with Canvas....both from the App Center and from other vendors who have unlisted LTIs.  We spend so much time going back and forth with vendors about what integrati...

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I'd like to start by saying that this new interface is completely useless. I am looking for a simple answer to the question of why my students cannot seem to see the annotations that I make in speedgrader. I would greatly appreciate an answer to the ...

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