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how to add the Recent announcement to the home page and how to remove it from the home page 

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how do i find the domain of my canvas to connect to dropbox?

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Hello, Everyone! I am relatively new to being a Canvas administrator, and I have an instructor who would like to add rubrics to their quizzes/exams. They want to add a rubric to a 10-question/20-point multiple-choice quiz. Would there be any benefit ...

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I'm enrolled in the Caring Science, Mindful Practice "Canvas Free For Teacher" course. I have access to course, but missing key elements. For example, going through the modules I'm missing the completion circles to the far right and don't see a place...

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How can I find a student that have been deleted?

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Is there a way for students to translate the quiz questions on the new Canvas Quiz?  I tried using the extension, but it only translates the directions, not the questions themselves.  

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Does anyone have any recommendations on how to format the works cited or reference lists in the textbox within Canvas for an assignment? I have lost points on almost every assignment because the professors find something wrong with the view they see....

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Is it possible, to set discussion boards so that students have to post their comment, before that can see what other students posted. As currently set up, it appears students can see everyone's response before they respond. This causes an obvious pro...

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My Canvas Outcomes have been working amazing on linking them to test questions. All of a sudden random test questions will not allow me to select an outcome to align with. There are no broken outcomes links. Has this happened to anyone else? 

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Does anyone have a workaround for the Gradebook feature "Set Default Grade"? It doesn't seem to work anymore.  Except when it does. Let me explain. Sometime this semester, since January '25, "Set default grade" stopped working. Invoking the feature, ...

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I have an individual assignment and individual quizzes that are only showing student groups in the SpeedGrader.  I cannot remove that filter and any individual assignment defaults to group grading.  This means that I cannot grade 130 individual assig...

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Hi,I'm having trouble saving the information on the course program page. When I save, the previous layout turns completely white. When I click on "edit" again, I can see everything I wrote, but once I save, the information disappears, and my students...

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We have had embedded student mentors in our science engineering and math courses. We need to find out what courses these mentors were in but there is no role assigned to them. Is there a way to find these courses and mentors with in the canvas system...

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Last semester when grading discussion posts in Speedgrader you only saw the students post and who they replied to...now you have to click through all replies to record how much they contributed. Why did canvas change this? It is very cumbersome for t...

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This issue with Microsoft OneDrive LTI integration has come up again today in Edge browser As with before, I have checked our cookies settings and they have not changed. They are still the same as before and set to allow the LTI to work. Anyone else...

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Hi there, my institution has guides on how to create Group assessments and they have this warning: "Ensure that you do not change the membership of groups *after* you have created the assignment. This will cause the assignment to revert to an *indivi...

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We are trying to access the quiz logs for our students. I noticed that when we review a quiz in speedgrader the quiz does not have a Quiz Logs button available to us to check those logs. Reading some of your documentation, I understand that this need...

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I keep getting the message "There is already a grade sync job running, please wait for that job to complete before you schedule another grade sync job." How can I end it so that I can try the sync again? I can't seem to find any way around the messag...

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In finance subjects (eclass) there is a type of question called Stack question, which allows partial grades to be awarded when a procedure is correct, but not the result if there are several answers. For example: A+B=C is the correct answer in answer...

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Hello! I have been trying to delete my account with no success. I would appreciate if someone could help me delete it. Thank you in advance!

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The feature in Speedgrader allowing for instructor to record video comments seems to have recently updated. I can see that some additional feature, such as recording the screen are now available, but the process now takes a lot longer and seems to be...

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Hi! I'm wondering how I can position my video as embedded alongside the text in the discussion session. Thank you for helping.

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I need to confirm the date and time when a student first clicked to access a Quiz. I would also like to do this for every other Assignment for a particular student. How do I do that? 

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Every time I do an assignment I try to leave the assignment and save my data, but I can't. Every time I leave, it makes me start all over again. Canvas people, PLEASE MAKE IT TO WHERE I CAN LEAVE AN ASSIGNMENT AND NOT LOSE ALL MY PROGRESS. Thank you ...

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We had Nearpod LTI setup in Canvas LMS year ago. Recently a user reported some modules with Nearpod content returns a message "Information > This code or link is no longer valid > OK". After clicking OK, it returns an error "error "Nearpod.com refuse...

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My computer files were corrupted. I need to download all of my course to my computer due to lost files.  Can I do that with one action rather than file by file?  I am not wanting student submissions.  Course content.  Thank you.

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Hello, I'm working on a process to remove courses/sections that have already been deleted in Jenzabar but are still present in Canvas. When I run the process, I have the courses files and the sections file with a "deleted" status for the courses/sect...

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So this is a real headscratcher. I have some quizzes that are not graded, but I am finding that several students are seeing zero questions on the quiz. The issue is that I can't ever replicate this issue and most of my students have taken the quiz ju...

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We are just beginning the implementation phases of Canvas LMS. We uploaded standards from CCSS, NGSS, and our state department of education. The standards have imported in an odd sort order... something like:third gradesecond gradefifth gradefirst gr...

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I am an instructional coach. I create ACT material for my teachers and share it with them. Recently, I created a stimulus quiz in new quizzes. The passage is on the left and the questions on the right. On my account, it previews correctly. When I sha...

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