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Hi community, I have a question of session timeout,
Can I set the session time out for different pages? I don't want student to be timeout when they stay in assignment page.
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Hi @ShaohangYuan,
I don't believe this is something that's currently possible in Canvas. It's an interesting idea, but as a Canvas admin myself, I think our institution's security team would shoot this down fairly quickly even f Canvas could do it. Our sessions seem to last at least a day, are yours shorter than that and causing issues for students? I *think* your Instructure CSM may be able to adjust the overall timeout for your instance, so that could be something you could check on.
-Chris
Hi @ShaohangYuan,
I don't believe this is something that's currently possible in Canvas. It's an interesting idea, but as a Canvas admin myself, I think our institution's security team would shoot this down fairly quickly even f Canvas could do it. Our sessions seem to last at least a day, are yours shorter than that and causing issues for students? I *think* your Instructure CSM may be able to adjust the overall timeout for your instance, so that could be something you could check on.
-Chris
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