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I have a quiz that the students have already taken. I would like to change two questions such that they are worth zero, and any students who got any amount of points >0 on them get those as bonus questions. For the one question (a matching question) ...

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New to posting announcements and I want to check that I have posted an announcement to the correct LMS course.  Where do I go to find posted announcements within a live course?  I can only post a 'new announcement' again so I assume there is a place ...

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Why don't assignments created in the Turnitin external tool show up in speed grader anymore?

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Hello, i am trying to submit an idea i dont know how to do so, i can not find submit idea button or link unfortunately. I had wanted to request a feature to be introduced in Canvas LMS where students can directly contact the teacher. Not in the discu...

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A few tasks in Canvas are ridiculously tedious with too many unnecessary steps.  When I am looking at my list of announcements, the triple dots give me one option-delete. I almost never delete an announcement, but I do edit them ALL THE TIME. In orde...

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I am trying to create an assignment so that students can upload a draft document for me to give feedback on. According to the Canvas help, I should be getting a box where I can choose the type of assignment.  And there should be a type that allows up...

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How do I forward an inbox message containing latex math? Sometimes a student asks a math question through the canvas inbox that I have already answered for another student. In this case the easiest thing is to forward the message I have already writt...

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I am trying to copy a test from a prior class (2023) to two new ones. When copied, the test does not allow edits and does not show the questions as editable. It reads Build, in fact.I tried several approaches but to no avail. I tried copying the test...

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Hi! The scroll bars on Canvas are either nonexistent or so light in color that I cannot see them. I wave the mouse around to light up the bar. It wastes so much time. How can I make them darker?I have played with settings, and the visual editing. Tha...

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HiDoes anyone know of a way my university can enroll outside people in a course with student access?They do not have university ID's and are not currently students.The reason they need access is to test their skills and knowledge so they can then enr...

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It appears Canvas has made changes to what javascript is allowed to do. I used to upload my files which consisted of practice lesson pages and answer pages. Students could then select radio buttons for each numbered question and, when done, could cli...

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Faculty are trying to pull the roll call reports from the Attendance Link for dual credit/high school reporting needs. It keeps giving him error codes. Here is an example:  You can download your report for the next 6 hours at https://rollcall-product...

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See this previous post where the idea was proposed, voted on, and approved. See the release notes from Feb 2, 2017 where the feature was deployed.   Now I can't seem to find anything about it?

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Returning after summer, I noticed SpeedGrader has changed. One can no longer see all PNG and JPG uploads a student made (oddly, they are now hidden under "Details", who would have thought?). And, even worse, there's no download button under "Details"...

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I want to sure my Canvas course with other Teacher's in my grade level so they can see what we are doing. Having the Copy To function is super helpful if we want to utilize assignments the other teacher has made. However, you have to give a teacher e...

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Edited to add: The major issue actually is that it is flagging assignments as late, even if they earned 100% at the due date/time when the grade is passedback/updated after the due date.   I have my Delta Math assignments set to "passback" the grade ...

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Hej!Kan jag själv skapa ett nytt kursrum för OM115G för VT -26 eller behöver ni göra det?Det är kurs koderna O2960 och O4412. 

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Have a subject with multiple classes. Is there a way to download just my classes assignments? 

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Use case:  I have made a classic quiz for use in Course Name.  I want to make a duplicate of that quiz, for use in the same course, that I can then modify for students who require modifications. Can this be done? Just to head this off:  Yes, I know h...

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When using a discussion board for a graded assignment, is there a way to let me know that a student has posted again AFTER I have graded it?  For example, a student posts one response, but they needed to do two.  I grade it a 5/10.  Then the student ...

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I have a teacher who created a course announcement for each day of school. Today, 10/15/25, is day 35. When he woke this morning, all previous announcements in his course were gone. I looked before he added his morning announcement, and the Announcem...

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Once a Collaboration Group is created using Google Docs, how do students use it? How is the resulting document saved in Canvas as a Word document?

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One of our teachers is attempting to copy an assignment from the Master course to a section. Once the assignment is copied, she then is modifying the Google Assignments that are attached. When the students are opening the assignment, it is still show...

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Which settting turns off a quiz in progress for a student? Scenario: A student is taking a quiz that ends at 2pm according to the Until date and time. It is timed, allowing the students have 90 minutes. If the student starts taking the test before th...

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I've noticed that more and more often these little banner notifications appear when I do things in my course shells. Add a folder? "Folder created successfully." Delete an assignment? "Assignment deleted successfully." And my personal favorite, add a...

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Gemini (AI) helped me write the code for a web page that has embedded in it an interactive quiz we made, and room for other interactive assignments.  I would like to prepare an assignment in Canvas that opens that web page.  How do I do that?  All I ...

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Good afternoon, in Beta, I was looking at how grades were displayed in the Gradebook for a particular Assignment. The Assignment setting for "Display Grade as"  is:  Letter Grade The Grading Scheme: "Enable course grading scheme" is checked (enabled)...

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Last year I taught a course and had some files uploaded to the course. I am teaching the same course this year and to prevent students from last year to download the answers to the HW and share them with this year students I want to erase the files. ...

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I have my gradebook set up to mark work as late with the grade of zero posted. When students turn in work late, it does not remove the zero and it is frustrating to both parents and students to understand if their work is turned in or not. Can this b...

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How do you remove a rubric from an on-line discussion?  I do not want to simply delete the rubric because it is being used in other on-line discussions.  I want to remove the rubric from this one discussion.  I researched but could not find a workabl...

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