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I'm facing a recurring issue in Canvas. While uploading 30 quizzes—12 of which contain images—I used Course Media to insert the images properly. However, after exporting and re-uploading the package, an automatic folder named "assessment questions" i...

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I am petitioning to keep most of the current Canvas Overview videos or for Canvas to update them.  The "shorts" in the Guides are not the best.  A lot of them are AI-generated and basically read the Guide.  It takes forever to find videos for the sam...

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Hi all, I understand there is no quick way to transfer grades from one class in an account to another for the same student who has swapped classes with the same assignments. I know it can be done using an export and import (this is the method we use ...

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Hello, This is the first time in 5 years that I am creating a subaccount admin role and wanted advice from others. The default subaccount admin role has all permissions enabled. I've gone through all the permissions and although I know everyone's nee...

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I am a student, and I have a problem. Whenever I am doing an assignment, if it was already graded, it doesn't tell me when the assignment was graded, and I want to figure out if there is a way to see that.I've already done a couple things to try and ...

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I'm wondering what it means when the quiz log says a student answered all these questions at one time.  Is this AI use?  Or an error in the log?  According to this log the student answered most of the final exam questions within the first few seconds...

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I have recently started a new job that made me a Canvas administrator, and I need help understanding a discrepancy involving Outcome Proficiency Ratings. Context: I am an admin in two different instances of Canvas. One instance belongs to my company,...

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Hello community: For starters, I'm not a developer, but have a general understanding. For context, we are a for-profit trade school. As a SIS, we are using a CRM called Method.Me. Method uses REST APIWhat we are trying to accomplish is to pull grades...

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The Syllabus tab is no longer available, and I would like to include the Course Summary to the Font (Home) Page. The information is very useful to a student and required by the College. The Course Summary feature is not available as an option in page...

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When I follow the directions to deactivate a student from the course, I click on the gear and am only given the option to delete the student. No prompt for deactivation.

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Trying to sync my gradebook from Canvas to Blackbaud Portal as I normally do but I am getting the following error code:ExistingAssignmentMissing. I tried to delete the assignments from Portal and remaster my gradebook to no avail. I can share logs/sc...

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I have a course with each assignment given to two sections. My 25/26 course will be identical to my 24/25 course with the exception of changing the due date. When I import the 24/25 course into the 25/26 course I lose all my due dates even when check...

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Is it possible to share stock banner/header images in a way that they are available to ALL courses? We'd like to have a collection of stock banner images that IDs or faculty can insert into the home page and other pages of their courses for consisten...

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When we started using Canvas a few years ago, we set up a pretty simple account and sub-account structure for our institution. Under the root account, we created a sub-account for Catalog, one for training courses, and one for migrated courses of the...

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Hi,I frequently have Excel spreadsheets submitted that have print areas set - when Speedgrader displays these to me, there is currently (to my knowledge) any way to override the print area, so a lot of the time I can't see most of the spreadsheet.  O...

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Is there a way for students to create a digital notecard they can reference during tests/exams/assessments?  I want to have a few open-note tests, but want to limit the notes they can reference to a word count limit.  Is there a way to do that in Can...

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I believe there is now way to schedule a course's publish date. Am I correct?

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A wish: being able to use a minus-function when inviting students for assignment in the case that it is for a class, but with the exception of for instance 2 students: For exampe: class2425_1, -Mildred, -Henry

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I am an instructor on canvas.instructure.com (free version) and my student has already successfully logged onto one of our organization's courses. She is using the same email and link, but can't get back on the course all of the sudden. She recently ...

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I have two courses that are the same meaning that the content is the same between them. However, when I imported one course's content to the other, there was an issue with the quizzes. All of the quizzes in the imported course are showing blank quest...

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The Total shown in gradebook factors hidden assignments into the grade shown.  This means that what students see is artificially lower grade than they really have, because it includes possible points into the total for assignments that are hidden (an...

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In addition to method laid out in this article, another option that a Teacher has to Export their course, is to click on the Export Course Content Button from the top of the home page of their course. However, when they select this option, they are ...

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How do I disable the "summarize discussion" feature and all other AI features for both myself and students?

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Hi,I am a teacher and am inquiring about being able to adjust the location of criteria on a rubric on Canvas.  I have an existing rubric that I want to add to, but I am only able to add criteria to the bottom when I need to add multiple throughout th...

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Greetings. I'm curious about mouse focus when adding content tabs. I was hoping to remove the underline on the active state tab, but Canvas strips out the .css <style>.enhanceable_content.tabs ul li.ui-tabs-active a {text-decoration: none !important;...

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As of this morning, we are seeing "credentials" repeated 5 times on every course navigation menu.  We are seeing this only in our production environment.  It does not exist in test or beta.  What changed??? 

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Although I have my assignments and their due dates written in my planner, the one thing I really enjoyed about Canvas was that it provided green check marks on assignments that were finished to show they were, in fact, complete. However, this semeste...

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Good Morning,My name is Brian and I'm very excited to be a part of this community.  I see that you can offer ideas to this community.  I am currently a student at Germanna Community college and I use Canva to obtain literature that helps me prepare f...

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