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I create custom pages to introduce my students to each Module in my class.  I want to be able to set these module overviews as the Front Page a few days before the Module starts.  The only way I have found to do this is to remember to manually set th...

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Hi, I missed the Intro to "Ingnite AI" presentation last week - does anyone have the recording? Is it active yet and if not when will it be available? Any information you could provide would be great. Cheers 

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what if i dont use this plateform is it apart of my grade

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For the CME group simulator page, I noticed that Stocks like MNQ and NQ does not really reflect their shown price. Like MNQ is 2 * index of 23.7k so should be 47,506, but in the simulator I could buy more than 10  Or like in NQ which is MNQ*10, but I...

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Gradebook view is incorrect- the status of missing or excused assignments are not shown correctly. the grades are not center alligned.

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Can a variable be placed inside a math object for formula questions? I want something like \dfrac{x}{`a`}, where `a` will be a variable I define? If not, how am I supposed to create fractions with a horizontal bar?

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 Posting grades in a letter format on the Canvas "Grades" site is messy that it requires a guidance of a Canvas representative. After the grades are posted, they do not appear automatically in students' transcriptsThe grading system on Canvas is appa...

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I'm relatively new to using Canvas, but I have been trying to use Canvas Teacher on my MacBook Pro M1 for giving comments to my students' recent assignments, which seems to be working well to exchange comments with them. However, when I use the "swip...

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I often need to link to an item WITHIN a module. I can easily link to the module, but I cannot link specifically to an item WITHIN the module.I highlight the text I want to link, I click on the LINK icon and select COURSE, and I get a list. Modules a...

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Hi, The names in the bulk donwload rubrics file do not match the names in gradebook.1. The order is different, making it difficult to match students who have 4 or 5 words in their name, and it is not clear which ones are the last and middle and first...

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Hi all,Due to the new changes to Canvas (2025), I am struggling with the total column in the grade book. I entered grades for students and the total assignment column is providing the percentage (i.e., 97%). However, the total column that always prov...

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I have had an increasing number of students over the past couple of semesters report that when they use the Canvas video recording tool within the rich text editor to create videos as part of an assignment, the video does not save. It hangs up with t...

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I used the annotation tool to set-up the assignment and they are able to use the drawing tool. However, when they submit, I cannot see all of their drawing. I can only see parts of what they've drawn. It's like I can see parts of the math problem and...

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Has anyone noticed inconsistencies in the Page Views data available within the User Profile page, and Gradebook History? I am looking at an instructor's Page Views and it shows the first login of the day at 6pm, while the gradebook history indicates ...

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It would be very helpful if, when inserting a saved comment from the Comment Library when using SpeedGrader, the new comment did not erase everything already in the Comments window. That way we could stack the appropriate comments as needed. I need t...

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Hi Folks,Our school has a schedule full of class periods that do not meet on the half hour. I was hoping to speed up my assignment creation process by changing the default values in the drop-down menu that lists the due time. It would be so much more...

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Since AI tools make it terribly easy to generate a text - for instance an answer or a short essay - teachers at my school request a text box in which students can submit their response only by typing, making it impossible to copy-paste the work of ot...

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We had a student whose file quota was massively over limit.  Turns out, this long time student had downloaded zip files of all assignment submissions several times over the years using the feature in Account/Settings.  Unknown to the student, and not...

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How do I display test results as a letter grade in Canvas?

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I am trying to set up a mastery pathway option for students in my course. It's self select, so there is a "quiz" where they pick which option they want to complete. Option A is worth 2 points, Option B is worth 1 point. I have the mastery path set to...

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I typed my quizzes into a master course and each semester I copy it into the semester class. When I copied the master quizzes into the new course 5 copied and three did not.  They show that they are there but when I open them up they are blank.  I ha...

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Can you set a quiz in Classic Quizzes to have a fixed point value? For example, I want my quizzes to be worth 100 points, and then I want Canvas to automatically distribute those points evenly between whatever the number of questions is in the quiz. ...

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In the Files Redesign page, it is showing incorrect information for Blueprinted courses. I have a situation where a course was copied into and then associated as a blueprint all from the same course course. This duplicates items. All I have to do is ...

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I cross-section my classes every year, and I always use Speedgrader to grade by section. Up until this year, I could click between the different sections and the new section will load. Now, for the first time, when I open a section/period in Speedgra...

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How are the students suppose to access the canvas assignments?

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Hello!  I have a problem transferring grades from one section of a course to another taught by a different teacher within the organization. I know how to find grades from concluded sections of the course offered in previous semesters. However, I can'...

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I wanted to bring to your attention an issue related to hiding grades from students in Canvas. At first glance, it seems that setting the Grade Posting Policy to "Manually Post Grades" would be sufficient to prevent students from viewing their scores...

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I just ran into an issues for my fall semester courses. SpeedGrader has always worked fine showing .sql files, which are plain text files. However this week they stopped rendering in speed grader. Thinking this is a file issue I had a student resubmi...

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Hi, I am thinking to create questions within question bank using an API. As these questions are already available with me. Can you help me with Question bank API information, so i can use and push all the questions in the respective questions bank. A...

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Students are unable to reply to a discussion. The "Reply" button does not appear for them, even though the discussion is published and visible. This issue occurs even when the option “Allow students to reply to this topic” is enabled in the discussio...

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