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Is there a way to have a student start a quiz, save it, and then come back to it later?   I would like to be able to do this for students with accommodations, so they do not have to take the quiz all in one sitting. Is this possible? If so, how?

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In the 9/24/25 deploy Canvas Deploy Notes (2025-09-24) - Instructure Community - 656457 there was a major change in page view functionality.  Instead of being able to view a specified date range of views going back indefinitely, now only the last 30 ...

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Question or Suggestion I work in Higher Education and at our school the profile pictures that appear in the LMS are the same ones that are on student ID's. As we are setting up our new Canvas site I was told that this is not possible in Canvas. Indiv...

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I have a student reporting that when she takes a test (Canvas New Quiz, timed) on her MacBook, using Google Chrome as her browser that "every time she clicks a text box to provide an answer, the cursor unclicks and goes to the next question." I (the ...

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All of our students do not finish at the same time. Some of them require extensions to the 3-month limit for class. How do I "close out" the students who finish so they are no longer in our count? I have been Deactivating them, but I don't know if th...

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In the past, a message popped up that I had unsaved edits, but this time that didn't happen when I closed a tab inadvertently (with Canvas still open). Is there a trick for recovering my edits? In this case, it is a dscussion I was editing. 

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Does Canvas LMS have any type of progress indicator to inform teachers or students of a student's progress as far as percentage of the course that has been completed?  In my Canvas course all assignments are prepopulated for the semester.

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I am an instructor and I use Canvas Free for Teachers (Canvas Instructure), and recently I have been hearing from students that they are getting an error message "access denied" even though they have had no trouble accessing Canvas in the past. Some ...

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Spell check is somehow disabled, how can I re-engage?

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Where can I locate Turnitin to check my assignment before submission?

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Thanks in advance to reading my question.We created several groups for our students to collaborate.Now if you go to the home page of the group project, you'll see that it's possible to make announcements.Is it possible to:Disable that option (for eve...

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Hello, My name is Jeremy Brown. I’m writing because I’ve had the most challenging time finding feedback from my instructors and seeing reply’s from my classmates for our classroom discussions. I do get a notification saying that my instructors have g...

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From a mathematics perspective, adding functionality for Lockdown Browser on open source "assignments" is a major need. At our high school of 2000 students, this functionality is greatly needed. So our Algebra I and Geometry classes use Savvas as an ...

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If I have a student cheat and  I want them to retake the exam. Is there away I can delete there submission? Or if I am enabling to build on last attempt, is there a way to change all responses to wrong so they have to retake the entire thing again? R...

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Instructors cannot tell which files are linked and which aren’t. The idea of going through a cleaning all of those out just isn’t feasible time-wise. Would be great if there was an option to purge the orphaned files in Canvas. Like, if when you copie...

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I'm an administrator and had a question regarding temporarily suspending a student. When a student is suspended in Canvas, what can they still view or have access to while suspended in Canvas?

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The student is having a problem uploading material that she has already done, but when in Workspace and submitting the generated PDF is missing certain sections

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I was beginning to grade an assignment in Canvas. I assigned a grade to the first student, then opened the second student's submission. Canvas will not let me move my cursor to open submissions for other students. It is not an internet issue. 

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Hello, During my recent exam, I accidentally clicked on a pop-up notification, and the activity log recorded that I was away from the exam page for about 20–30 seconds. However, after that click, I did not interact with anything outside the exam page...

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I have completed my Knowledge check, but it is still not showing as completed in my account.course name: KC (amazon virtual private cloud)Issue: The status/progress is not updating even after completion.Kindly help me resolve this issue.Thankyou.

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Is there a possibility that modules accessible by students will be limited to reading only and they will be restricted in downloading the files in the modules? 

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In Speedgrader, if the student has a long name, the right arrow to move to the next student is not visible. Expanding the sidebar by dragging from the left does not make it appear. The only solution is to go back to "marks" and then click click and c...

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Today I was trying to keep up with my work in high school and I realized that they don't show you the work they give this exact day 

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Posts in discussion forums that have been deleted are being included in email summaries even if the email summary is generated after the post was deleted. Only the first n characters are displayed in the email, but this is still a potential issue if ...

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I teach over 500 students a week. I often use exit tickets, which include both typical and modified assessments. To assign students to one or the other, I have created "modified" and "non-modified" sections. However, this requires me to go to each st...

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Hello! I'm trying to help an instructor make his materials accessible. He teaches math and statistics, and uses Latex, tables, and images of formulas in his materials. He's trying to make these things accessible for students using screen readers and ...

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Is there a way to take a quiz as a test student without publishing the quiz? I would like to test the quiz prior to assigning it to students, or making it visible for them. But, once I take the quiz as a test student, I am not able to unpublish it.  ...

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Is there a way to create a Master Question Bank so that when I make an update in the Master, it updates all of the active courses using that question bank? 

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As an instructor, I would like a one-click option that, when I publish a Page, also offers the ability to publish all linked or related unpublished items (e.g., module items, assignments, quizzes, discussions) so students can access everything at onc...

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