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I want to upload SCORM packages, but need to contact my customer success manager to enable the SCORM LTI.How do I go about contacting them?I have a free for teacher account if that is an issueThank you

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Is there a way to filter assignments in the gradebook by category? For example: If I am conferencing with a student or parent, and at the end of their gradebook I see that a certain category is low, let's say their H.W. grade, is there a way to filte...

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Hi There, I'm trying to help a department set up outcomes for and end of year evaluation of their curriculum.  They have specific outcomes from an outside organization.  They will use New Quizzzes and affiliate an outcome with each multiple choice qu...

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Is it possible to add people with an external email address to a Canvas page? Can they be made Instructor, too?

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How do instructors use mobile app to grade students in Canvas gradebook for a No Submission assignment.  Looks like mobile app works fine for submission based assignments, but not for a No Submission assignment. How do instructors do this?

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Hi, The People Page (aka Course Roster), needs to have all the column headings to be sortable. Also the Total Activity header, needs to have how that information is being displayed. If it's hh:mm:ss (I would have not thought that the :ss would have a...

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Hello, our organization is implementing account-level Outcomes that we will then tie in with course-level rubrics. While we intend the outcomes to remain consistent for the foreseeable future, we are wondering what would happen if we do need to make ...

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Hello, our institution is in the initial process of creating Account-Level Outcomes for our graduate programs offered through Canvas. We are going to be invoking these outcomes in course-level rubrics. We have been doing some testing and have been ab...

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In the past month or so, I've noticed that when typing in the comment box within SpeedGrader, if I have the automated comment library turned on, my typing hesitates and my cursor disappears after a while. So I'll be typing a comment, the library will...

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I am transferring grades from another LMS into some Canvas courses. I downloaded both gradebooks as csv and copied columns from the other LMS csv into the Canvas csv file. When I go to import into Canvas gradebook, I get the Canvas page asking about ...

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So I just created my account on community.canvaslms.com, and I wanted to change my profile picture to a custom one (I was going for a cat). However, I can only see the pandas. Is this because I'm a new member?The only options I have are Pandas and Co...

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Is it possible to mark a student excused in attendance?

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Has anyone integrated the AI grading tool Cograder into their instance of Canvas? We are a 9-12 school and I've had a teacher request that I integrate this tool. It looks like Cograder is using Edlink to facilitate the integration. I'm just not sure ...

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Is there way or what is the best way to indicate a student has a medical issue (for example, due to a concussion sports injury) such that only the Canvas instructor or course director role can see only a generic w/o medical details indication of a pr...

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Hi Canvas Community.  I am working on providing my institution with support training for new canvas users who lose their “Finish Registration: Canvas” email.   What are the best ways/how do you handle it when a user reports not getting this email?   ...

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A staff member came to me with some Lockdown Browser questions and wanted to see if anyone has some experience with their requests - I think I know the answers but wanted to gauge others before giving the person information: 1.  When picking sites th...

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Hi, is there a way of running a basic report which would show me every course on my platform, and the number of enrolments on each course? Preferably active users, but I'm not overly bothered about that if it's not possible.    So one column showing ...

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I've searched for others experiencing this but not found anyone posting, so maybe it is me but.... I have never had a glitch free experience using annotation tools in speedgrader- the following are the most common:    1) When highlighting text there ...

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Am I able to go in and set opening and closing dates for each week, each assignment, discussion, etc.?

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I have an assignment that requires starting a discussion and then adding an Excel file but the only way they have available is an attach button. I can add it but it only shows the name of the file and not the contents of the file.  how do I make it v...

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Today, March 12th I can't add new students to my course. Canvas returns the message "We were unable to find matches below" I tried with emails in different courses and different studets and I get the same message. Is it due to an update?

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Hi, We sync our Canvas data from Veracross, but student images are not coming over. Is there a way to add this to the Veracross-Canvas sync or can I batch upload images to student profiles?

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I've looked through the guides and throughout the community and cannot find the answer to this question. Can outcomes be reported on a Group assignment? Does it matter if the grades are individual grades or a group grade? 

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Our primary authentication method is M365/SAML.We have /login/canvas enabled as well.(1) On the Create Account page for our public, the form asks for course code, and several things, but it does NOT ask for email or have any verification using that e...

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When I give a unit test I have to have 2 versions of the test.  The 2nd version is for my special ed students who get modifications to their test.  When I go to Assign To, I end up typing 20 or so names of students from across all sections every time...

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I have already completed the registration process and started the class. Now I  discovered that there are three additional students who need to be included. However, the system is currently preventing me from registering them. Is there a solution to ...

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I would like the grade book to have a status "Credit" in addition to none, late and missing. It would be helpful for students that have IEP's and 504 accommodations.  I would like to acknowledge that the student completed the assignment to the best o...

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Hello All... Seemingly overnight, one of my teacher's has all of their active courses set to "unpublished" and all of the assignments disappeared. When we changed their courses back to "published", the assignments are still not showing up. Any though...

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The page bumps up when I type in the Speedgrader feedback box, and my typing stops. Any ideas on how to correct this? It is very frustrating! I have updated the Apple machine to the latest Sequoia. I am using the Chrome browser, and I have cleared th...

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Hi everyone,  We're currently deploying Canvas Outcomes across one of our larger courses, and it's quite the lengthy and manual process. We're having to look up Course Learning Outcome alignments in our Curriculum Maps, deploy the right CLOs in the r...

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