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Last year, I could print out an entire discussion thread using the browser print function. That no longer works. Is there a work-around? Or has Canvas removed that function?

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I have an assignment in a course which has had a single set of questions for over a year now, and only recently upon grading a secondary attempt for a student have we detected that the questions are in different order for some students and in most ca...

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My Institution has apprentices and when their results are sent to them, their boss also needs a copy to be sent for his records. Is there anyway I can add another email to the apprentices enrollment? Thanks Lynz

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I need 1 student in my course to resubmit his file. I don't want the other students to be able to submit multiple files because this creates chaos for me as an instructor. How can I do this.    Sometimes I want to be able to reassign the assignment t...

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I have completed ITIL 4 Foundations Training via Knowledge Academy. They provided me with a code to access the certification test, but I cannot figure out where/how to access it. There doesn't seem to be an option to do so in PeopleCert, even though ...

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I am a CTE teacher, and I have been added and listed as a "teacher" in other courses for different reasons, but the main premise is to be able to help these teachers post assignments if they are out of the building and/or help set up their Canvas cou...

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I have a 'quiz every day' for my students to optionally take for review and keeping content fresh (College Chem courses).  I have used this system for 6 years flawlessly, including last semester (each day quiz is title, e.g. Wk2Tues, etc).  These qui...

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Most of the time when I call up a course it brings up the material dated from the previous course (previous year).  I have updated all the due dates and saved everything so it should bring up the newest content but it doesn't always do that.  It will...

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Good afternoon, I have two courses in Canvas: one works perfectly fine when creating and posting Assignments, the other not so much. The problem with the latter one is that the Submission Type option does now show at all when creating as Assignment. ...

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Hello, Recently we have has a few instructors and myself login as the Test Student and submit a paper to an assignment configured with the Turnitin Plagiarism Framework option https://app.screencast.com/41Ee4o8zFlkMu Historically this has worked and ...

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I am getting an error when trying to publish all modules and items when I am in the Modules in my Canvas class. I get the following error "undefined is not an object (evaluating 'e.items.forEach')" after it gets about 75% of the way through.

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@chriscas we use CanvasID authentication and have a paid subscription for higher ed. Half the students are in, but others are complaining of this issue. The student keeps getting the error message attached. "It looks like you may have already complet...

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I have a student who was assigned in Canvas as a designer so that she had access in order to upload lectures. She wrote an exam (was able to access it as a designer) but now we can not access her exam through "moderate this quiz" or speedgrader in or...

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I created an assignment using Google LTI and I uploaded a rubric in the Google Assignment. Now my students cannot access their scores or see the rubric at all. Here is what they see: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QD6wmNJzoUSyCYTiFHqpyCyLqfzw6bJg/v...

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Hi everyone,I’m exploring ways to add custom JavaScript to a specific course in Canvas LMS. I’ve looked into the Theme Editor, but that approach applies JavaScript globally or at the sub-account level.I’m trying to inject custom JavaScript that runs ...

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Hi - any idea why when creating a new quiz i just get spinning circle of death and nothing loads  

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Hello everyone, I’m looking for some guidance on how to analyze results from tests conducted through Canvas quizzes, specifically for: Question-wise attempt analysis – I want to review how students performed on each individual question to identify w...

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I am in a course where the discussion instructions are very long. I used to print out the discussion instructions but haven't been able to since they added a scrolling page inside the discussion page. Is there a way to disable this? It's so long that...

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So I've noticed a bug (or feature?) in Canvas when you go to assign students to groups "randomly" where if you have two students with the same surname, they will always be put in the same group. I tested this across two Canvas classes in multiple tes...

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Our school currently has a trial version of Canvas for our district. Our teachers are trying to enter the students into their courses but it wouldn't allow them.  I was allowed to enter mine, then was given the optional boxes of entering students' fi...

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Hello,  I am trying to create an excel template to add SIS IDs (which are Salesforce IDs) to current users via their login  ID's. I used the following sheet structure to attempt this: user_idintegration_idlogin_idstatusSalesforce IDSalesforce ID We u...

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We have group assignments, how about group quizzes? Problem: Students meet together to take a quiz as a group activity. Currently, one student (or more) will be the "sacrificial lamb" and will take the quiz and learn which answers are incorrect. Some...

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I have set up a group in which assigned students are to post their class notes under the heading "Files" and a subheading I created called "Class Notes." I put all students into this group. But my students have been unable to upload their notes, beca...

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When I hover over the equation, it gives the message "clickable math" and does not read it. I have tried both Access8Math and Math Player Math Reader without any luck.Do you know the best equation settings to use, such as Math Renderer, and Show Math...

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Hello, I am teaching in a cross listed course shell (4 sections, 2 are mine) and I have my gradebook filtered to show sections 3 and 4. This is working correctly. Navigating to grades and selecting speed grader from the hamburger at the top next to t...

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I have student features because I wanted to use an alt account as a student account to complete assignments for my course. But, since I was using the alt account's email, it connected my account.      Or maybe I need to delete the course?  

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Hi Everyone,  One of our school admin team contacted us. She noticed that the New Analytics>LateAssignments reporting generates a time/date format that our setup of Excel does not immediately recognise.   E.g. this is the result: Submitted DateGraded...

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A teacher at my institution is grading a quiz (New Quizzes) and when she views her students answers in SpeedGrader some questions aren't displayed in some cases. Does anyone know why? Is it possible that they are simply not shown in Speedgrader if th...

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