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Hi there, I changed the due date of a homework assignment  for three students who passed the deadline. But, now I can only see those three submissions-the submissions from all other students are gone. I wonder if I could get them back.   Thanks!   Ec...

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Greetings everyone!Our campus is migrating to Canvas for the upcoming semester and I'm working on some of the different ways to layout a course.  My question is specific to modules and pages.I have seen course modules that become extremely cluttered ...

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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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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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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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