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When Turnitin is enabled in Canvas, the Plagiarism Review option should typically appear when creating an assignment (see this example https://teaching.pitt.edu/resources/how-to-use-the-turnitin-plagiarism-framework-in-canvas/). However, for some rea...

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I had a student report that some of their assignments on the grade page/to-do list appeared greyed out and didn't link to their assignment page (see attached image). After impersonating other students in the class, it appears that they also have this...

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Hello, I am looking for a way to pull a report that shows all student submission with a timestamp by course on a particular day. 

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If our contract is for 300 users, is that for 300 enrolled students and instructors, or 300 active students and instructors at any one time?

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I received a call from a professor today regarding an issue with not receiving notifications from Canvas. After reviewing his notification settings, I confirmed they were correctly configured to send alerts; however, he is still not receiving them. A...

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I checked my class and my assignments weren't there

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How do I see attendance total once they have been inputed in canvas?

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Hello.  Is there a way to align Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) with Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs) in Canvas? Background: We do not currently use the native Canvas "Outcomes" tool (either at the account or course level) to put our CLOs or IL...

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How do I make the attendance appear with the correct day of the week when I open it each morning? When I go in, I go to mark all or such, and then I look to the right and see the calendar is not on the current day! Thanks

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Allowing multiple editors to annotate videos in Canvas Studio would enhance collaboration by enabling teachers to reflect and share insights on specific clips. This feature would be especially valuable for video coaching, peer feedback, and instructi...

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I would like to know if it is possible to set the start and end dates of a section when creating it and assigning students and an instructor so that, on the first day of the course, the instructor automatically receives an email with the list of enro...

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I have a canvas page that contain Accordions as well as Expanders and Tabs... I am hoping to use links from the calendar that take the student directly to the appropriate Tab rather than just the top of the page.Ironically I did get this to work late...

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I am grading students' assignments in speedgrader, and have added comments directly in their word and pdf files. I have then uploaded the files back onto Canvas, but when the students opend the docs, they cannot access the annotations/the annotations...

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I work on two different institutions' Canvas installations. Across all my quizzes/question banks this week that I have had time to check, I have found issues with question banks. In one case, a question bank I wrote over the weekend suddenly has ques...

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I was trying to sent an assignment as an editable Google Doc for students so that it made a copy for each student. However, some logged in before the document was completely updated and now they are missing information on thier assignment. How can I ...

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Every time I try to upload an assignment in my Canvas web account, I keep getting this error message. I have tried BOTH the drag and drop feature directly from my files AND the "Choose a File to Upload" option. Both give me this error. This has happe...

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Is it possible to have my canvas message account receive emails sent from Pearson?My institution is monitoring student-instructor interaction. In the past, I have always had students send me emails to ask me questions through Pearson "ask my instruct...

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I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas here.  We have an open case with Canvas Support, but have not received any communication from them.  A week ago, we archived our last 2 years of courses.  We moved the courses to an archived term and deleted the ...

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If I designate an assignment to be worth 10 points and to be graded as Complete/Incomplete, but the student submits the assignment late, does my standard late penalty (2%) still get applied?  (I hope so, but can't tell.)

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I have been asked to update a site reference within the course.  Is there a Canvas tool that would assist in the search rather than looking through each page?  

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Hello,  I have a group that wants to view only their athletes grades in Canvas. I was trying to create a role in Canvas, which can only view students' grades. I was trying to base it off of the Observer and student role, but nothing is working. They ...

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I would like to delete my student account and the teacher account (even though i created a teach account I cannot access it). Please delete these accounts ASAP. You can contact me a Thank you.

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I have used Canvas before and never had an issue. Basically, I am getting to the end of each module (I'm in week 2 of a new course now, and haven't been able to complete week 1's quiz due to the fact that the module "start quiz" button is grey, meani...

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Can I recover students text entry information from an in-class test that was lost because they were accidentally timed out and submitted after the time deadline 

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There was a time when I encouraged faculty to provide links to entire modules. When someone clicked such a link, the Modules tool would display AND the module that was linked to would be scrolled into view (as an html anchor #). Today? No. I believe ...

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In Modules, there should be a way to select multiple items to be indented at the same time.   When you copy an item, you should be able to select multiple classes to copy the item to at once, like with a click box where you can select multiple classe...

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I have a class with the same students from the previous course site. Since there are more than 60-80 students, I would like to use the groups from the old course site, which has already ended, and simply upload them to the new, current course site. H...

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I am an instructor reaching out for the Canvas team to allow for time modifiers in multiples of 1, 1.5 or 2.  Both for regular Canvas and new quizzes I used to be able to just add in a time modifier as per the Canvas instructions (such as 1.5x or 2x)...

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Hi. this Mahgol Alavi. I enrolled 5c class but I can not see on canvas! please help me.My student#900535141

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