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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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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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