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Is there a way to include a question on Classic Quizzes where students can input their birthday?   Right now I just have an essay question so they can type it out, but I was hoping for one with less room for error.

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I am attempting to transfer from maryville to another university and want to transfer credits but they are asking for course info on those classes (eg course description and course syllabus) to identify whether maryville’s course content on those cla...

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I am having trouble finding the new faculty training (6 week onboarding onboarding course.) Can you please tell me how to get there?   Maura McGuinness Denver College of Nursing email: maura.mcguinness@denvercollegeofnursing.edu

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Hi, Codetantra is a coding and proctoring tool. Can it support integration with Canvas LMS?

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HiPlease will there be an instance when am gonna need the DMACC Canvas URL for my online courses? Please for your information I already have access to Canvas through the DMACC student portal and I already have my student account. thanks

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Any ideas how to resolve this Unexpected Error - 925587657 - when I try editing the title for a quiz item?  I am unable to edit the title. The item is from an imported quiz - and the error DOES NOT always occur.  Within the same bank, I can sometimes...

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I am trying to conclude two courses and I am not able to do so.  I am the admin and teacher for the course.  I also have checked that there is an end date for the course that has passed.  From what I can read that is the requirements.  The "Conclude ...

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Is there a way to use Turnitin when using discussion forums? What about AI detector when using Discussion forums?

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Hi!  I am restructuring a course to make quizzes worth fewer points.  There are 11 quizzes of 10 questions each in the course.  Originally, each question was worth one point, so each quiz was worth 10 points.  I'd like to make all the questions worth...

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I saw that a couple of years ago there was a multi-part question that included whether it was possible to bulk-change the point value of assignments. I followed a response to add that feature as a request, and it seems that the request was archived -...

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Is there a way to lock the students into the Canvas tab when they are taking a test/final so they don't cheat? 

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Pretty simple--   want to shift a bunch of rows at one time... how is this done?  

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Merry Christmas!  I made a change in the Beta site and I want to run a Grade Export to see the effects.  I ran the Grade Export and while it looks like it went through, I am not receiving it.  Is it actually possible to run the Grade Export in beta m...

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We have students and staff who are added manually into Canvas courses with either their email or SIS ID.Is there a way of obtaining distinguishable data for users who have been added into their course by either ID or Username, even if they haven't ac...

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I am a new instructor to the Canvas LMS. I love the new quiz format, and the build on feature seems awesome to allow students multiple attempts and not have to redo the same questions they get right. That being said, I do wish that if a student were ...

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Question is the same as the title.Is there a discord server for Canvas that can be joined? I am a student looking for a community that specializes in Canvas.

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Hi everyone, I'm looking for basic documentation for the Ally Course Accessibility Report. I have some basic questions that I'm trying to find answers for, but I can't find anything other than local school documentation from various colleges and univ...

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In Speedgrader, the comments now allow teachers to use the RCE tools; however, they can now only see comments made by teachers and students for the current submission.  It used to be the comments made for all submissions still showed up on the new su...

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Hello!  I am about to launch a self-paced course that people can take at any time (no start or end dates).  It is also ungraded.  I do have modules that are set as prerequisites and parts of the modules are set as requirements.  If I need to update/s...

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Hello team   So I am familiar with the reset content button. On the official Canvas guide it states that "Course details and enrollments will remain intact within your course. "My question is which course details will remain intact? Is there a define...

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I want to require students to complete an assignment before proceeding to a group meeting. Currently students are skipping the assignment until after meeting with their group which makes them unprepared for the group meeting. One solution we came up ...

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We are getting ready to do a CSV upload of users, courses, and enrollments. We have are authenticating through SAML. We have the user file set for no notification so that we can send out an email with clear instructions for use.Will users still recei...

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Is it a possibility to give a moderator certain restrictions such as the moderator ONLY being able to see certain students and modules? We have a course where we need our moderator to check ONLY 2 modules of 3 specific students within the course.   C...

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As the house substitute for a high school that uses Canvas, I am given modules to teach to the students everyday.  The problem is that I spend a lot of time searching for answer keys and the teachers edition.It would be great if you could install lin...

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How much lag time is there between making a change to Canvas, and having that change register in the link validator?

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In 2022 it became possible to message observers matched to students from the Gradebook.  We use this feature to message academic observers (advisors) or students.  However, there is no way to automatically include the names and/or emails of the relev...

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I am trying to fix this: Links to other courses in this resource may not be accessible by the students in this course: 254541?wrap=1  I have several pages (Pages) with the same error number and comment but when I go in either in Teacher View or Stude...

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In the New Quizzes, there is a way to attach a question to a stimulus.  Is there a way to randomize the questions, but ensure that the questions that are attached to that stimulus come as a set rather than an individual question? For example, if a ma...

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Hello, Wanted to see if anyone else has encountered this weird issue. An instructor at our institution had an assignment due on Dec 14 at 11:59 PM and saw the next day that multiple students were marked as late in Grades and manually gave them 0s. Th...

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