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Hello all,Recently on my devices, when I try to complete/submit a canvas assignment, I get a screen that says "launching session." This pop-up completely freezes the canvas page (not my computer screen).I could reload the page, but whenever I go into...

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Please provide steps to change the pairing External Tool (Follett 1.3) with a different course id in mymathlab to Canvas. Note: students have already started assignments

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I need to change the order of sections in the index. I want to move Modules to follow Announcements. 

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In my course, I have students submit a "contract" as an assignment which is not assigned a point value, so it is to used to calculate the final grade. However, I do mark the assignment as COMPLETE once it is received. Once the assignment is marked CO...

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Hello all, I would like to add bits of text to my modules - just plain text, not as a header in the module or a link to anywhere. My students have a mix of electronic and physical course materials and I would like to list all of the materials there. ...

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Hello, I can not see my assignment on canvas.  When I look on the modules I try to click on a assignment but it does not load.  Its completely blank, what should I do?

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I have consistently had requests from students asking how they can mark pages "complete" in their Canvas calendar after working through them. The "Mark Done" option is okay but it doesn't show up on the calendar for assigned pages and so they are oft...

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whenever i open up an assignment for any class, i get stuck with the following screen below:so far, i have tried clearing cookies, restarting, logging in and outthis is on a personal device (laptop). using chrome browser.

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Hello everyone,I'm currently using LaTeX to render equations in Canvas pages, but I've noticed that the equations are rendered as images. I'm concerned about their accessibility for students using screen readers.I've heard discussions about MathJax b...

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My two kids are in the same grade, same school. I set myself up as an observer for both of their accounts.  When i log into canvas and view their pages, the UI is almost completely different. On the left panel, Student A has Home, Subjects, Calendar,...

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I'm pretty sure that I used to be able to see all of the comments that I left on a single students submissions for a single assignment.  Here's an example of how SpeedGrader use to work to try to remove ambiguity: 1. Student A submits a PDF of Assign...

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Hello all,I am trying to find the feature in Theme Editor to Edit/Upload a custom CSS/JS file.I read I need to contact our Customer Success Manager? We have no idea what this is.Appreciate any advice we can get!

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I accidentally created a student account instead of a parent account. Now, when I try to create a parent account with my email address, Canvas won't let me do so because it says the email address is already in use. How do I resolve this error?

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My college is no longer going to pay for access to Studio. How can I easily move the hundreds of videos I have in my Studio Library to Course Files or as Embedded Videos?

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Is there a way to separate only missing assignments in the Dashboard view or any other view in the application?

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I have published my course, but when I go to the "People" tab, there is no option to "Add People." This is what the guide says I need to do to add students... am I missing something?

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I am in the IT department and an admin for our school's Canvas account. An instructor informed me that students have been trying to contact instructors by navigating to the teacher's profile via the People list in the class. However, when either a st...

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"He creado un curso de 10 módulos. Quiero que 3 estudiantes tengan acceso a los 10 módulos, y que los otros 7 estudiantes solo tengan acceso hasta el módulo 4. ¿Cómo puedo configurar esto?" Translated from Google Translate: SUBJECT: Segment student a...

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Our participants or Students are not receiving email notification when new announcements are posted.  Any suggestions? 

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I teach programming courses and get my students to upload files(.py, .cpp, .h) into Canvas for me to grade. When I am grading in SpeedGrader, it pulls up the files for some of my students and buffers (endlessly) for other students. Before anyone says...

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I keep getting this error when I try to link a MasteryConnect Assessment to an existing Canvas Module:Uh-Oh!This assignment is already linked to a Mastery Connect assessment.There is no way that I can see to override this error.

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I realize this has been discussed to an extent before, but I believe this should still become a feature. There are certain moments when it is convenient for the teacher to be able to do this. For instance, I published an assignment before realizing I...

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In the past, when a student sent me a message in Canvas, I would get a copy of it in my work email. When I replied to it in my email (either by Outlook or by Apple Mail on my personal laptop), the student would receive the reply in Canvas, and my rep...

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I've not seen this before but in the new school year that has started late last week, a few students are seeing not just their homework but homework assignments from other classes. I have confirmed with looking via Student View but can't figure out w...

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Context: I run a large scale apprenticeship with hundreds of users. Since i took over, ive essentially been doing what was thought to me.... copy a canvas course and assign people to it whenever i needed a new course. And i run 4 courses 4 times a ye...

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This is not a question but rather a shout out to Canvas Support for going above and beyond helping one of our faculty. Tlhoriso M at L1 Canvas Support assisted one of our faculty and I got a copy of the interaction and the tech was very detailed and ...

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Hello! I began embedding my daily slides into Canvas using the plug-in tool and choosing Google Apps. I then select the file. The first time I did this, I was required to log in to authorize the connection to Google. I did and I can see the slides. U...

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We have disabled access to Classic Quizzes for our entire school as we want them to use New Quizzes. However, they still have the option to create and edit Question Banks, which are no longer useful because they don't work with New Quizzes. This has ...

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Hello,I am an AP-Literature teacher. My students will take the AP test digitally this year. College Board's platform for the test is called Bluebook, and for multiple choice questions, students have the ability to make answers they believe are incorr...

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We are having trouble importing a Canvas quiz shared from an different teacher. The import content report under current jobs shows completed, but it isn't showing in a module selected or in Quizzez. However, it only worked if downloaded as a zip file...

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