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I love to use ungraded surveys with choices such as:Strongly disagree | Somewhat disagree | Neither agree nor disagree | Somewhat agree | Strongly agreeHowever, with the quizzes this seems an impossible feat. I checked out the Community answers and t...

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When I want to delete a person, I click on the "Delete from ararge" section in the first photo, then I confirm, but I get the error shown in the second image.

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Hello everyone, I'm using New Quizzes in Canvas to conduct assessments and I need to download a report that shows each student's responses in detail, ideally as an Excel or CSV file. I've tried accessing the “Moderate” and “Reports” sections, but I c...

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Can the formula question type handle negative numbers for multiplying and dividing questions? I have been trying to put in simple multiplication questions and can't seem to get negative numbers to work.I have done (`x`)(`y`) and then set x to be 1 to...

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Is there a way, as a district Canvas admin to run the remaster grade passback process for all courses at once?   I'd like to do this to get an accurate snapshot in time of the current sync issues, by downloading the sync log from the SIS Integration ...

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I am trying to select multiple files I have already uploaded to the "Files" section in Canvas to submit them for an assignment. At present, I can only select one at a time to turn in.If I need to submit multiple files I've already uploaded, I need to...

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I am trying to import content from the iCEV platform in the form of a Common Cartridge. Everything shows up in my modules and looks fine until I try to open something. I get the error message,  "Couldn't find valid settings for this link." Any sugges...

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When using SpeedGrader, if you add a comment from the Comment Library, then move your cursor to the grade box and type in a number for the grade, the number will appear at the top of the comment box instead of the grade box.This did not happen until ...

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When we do the automatic course creation process from our SIS, our current process is that all courses default to being Published. I'm curious as to what other schools (Higher Education) do and pros/cons. For us, by having the courses default to bein...

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Hello team So I have come across a specific field while I am creating a quiz (New Quizzes). That is the "submission type" field which is not edible. Please see the attached screenshot. Does anyone know its functionality and if it can be edible how we...

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I'm an ID trying to assist an instructor who wants to be able to put a quick True/False question in a Canvas Page to check for understanding. She'd like it to provide immediate feedback as well. There are plenty of options that would take the student...

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How can students see my comments on ungraded surveys? Thank you. 

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I accidentally deleted the wrong version of a quiz. I deleted the quiz that the students had already taken. Can I recover their grades or work? It was a quiz and an assignment. I have tried the undelete trick. It does not bring back my students' resu...

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I would like the instructor to create a classic quiz whereby we are being tested general knowledge, often focusing on historical, cultural and educational topics. Format should be online quizzes

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Hello, I'm looking to change my dashboard from list view to card view. I've searched the canvas guides to see how I'm supposed to be able to change the views, but I don't have the options menu. Did I somehow make the options menu disappear? If so, ho...

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I created a matching question for a quiz and made the question worth 8 points (there are eight vocabulary words in the question).  I added it to a test bank.  I then created a second, similar quiz using the test bank but now the item in the bank says...

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I have a teacher who sees the following attached image on one student's submission and not on all the others.  Has anyone ever evaluated this question before?  Does anyone know why this happens?  Why does it have a box around it?  Why does it grey ou...

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Students are posting their original response to a discussion assignment, then they delete it which allows them to see their classmates' responses.  After reading the other students' responses, they write their own. This completely defeats the purpose...

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I need to submit 2 PDF files and a URL for an assignment. I upload both PDF files and paste the URL and hit submit in the URL section. Then I checked the submission details, it doesn't show my PDF submitted. Do I have to re-submit the PDF files? Than...

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Hello there, I am currently experiencing a problem on Canvas where the webpage for the site itself breaks to the point where it's impossible to navigate the site using provided text links in random parts of the page. I don't believe the reason it doe...

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I have courses in multiple languages. The grades view fine in all languages that read left to right. When I use Arabic, everything gets flipped right to left per how the language users read (that's not the problem). When I go into the grades section ...

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I set up an anonymous discussion board for my students to discuss the Electoral College during this election week. With how polarized the election is, I wanted to make students couldn't see their peer's responses, but I didn't realize I also wouldn't...

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I can't enter letter grades. Regrade options are wonky. These and several other issues sit for years, but they're pretty basic. The process of submitting something to a community vote or whatever is abysmal.  I shouldn't have to run a campaign to ent...

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I'm looking to create an orientation course for 200-300 new students who join my institute. We have 2 campuses, and two intakes each year. Our orientation course currently runs for over two weeks, but I want to extend it for up to a month and spread ...

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This just started a few hours ago.  When I try to assign something (discussion, assignment, etc), the assign box is greyed out.  I have logged out and in.  Nothing seems to be working. 

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How does one add a video to a course?  I can see a tag on the home front page on my phone for panopto video but I do not see it on the computer

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I was reading about the Canvas Late Submission Policy.  https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-apply-a-Late-Submission-policy-in-the-Gradebook/ta-p/965  How does it work with external tools such as SIMnet when it syncs its score...

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Good morning,In the last week I have had two students submit assignments that they shouldn't have been able to since the assignments were closed.In one case, the assignment isn't set to open till next week, but one student has already posted their wo...

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Hi, There are some inherited developer keys where the names have leading spaces resulting in some issues (e.g. sorting, odd results in Canvas Data). Is it possible for Instructure to remove these spaces, considering that inherited developer keys can ...

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Hi  I have discovered that the download button has been removed from Canvas, when you are adding PowerPoint slides to a Canvas modules, using iframes from OneDrive. It is no probem when you are attaching other Office365 files (Word, Excel, pub etc). ...

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