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  How do I move a course from Past Due Courses to Current Courses, so I update the grades.

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How soon can we expect a revised guide once an update/change to a feature happens? Is there a way to be notified so we can update our classes?

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How do I switch from an instructor to a student. I've been trying to access some files sent to my courses dashboard but I've been unable to. I strongly believe it's because of my wrong input while registering. 

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We have multiple math, finance, etc. courses with "starter" spreadsheets, data sets, or other files. To minimize cheating, there are usually 2-3 dozen spreadsheets/data sets for an assessment. I am trying to figure out a way to have a group of files ...

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How do I UNPUBLISH a course? No students have submitted any work to it yet.

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Hola, soy profesor en canvas, en uno de mis cursos registre las calificaciones de mis alumnos de cada una de sus actividades durante el periodo, hoy que entre a registrar el segundo período ya no está las calificaciones registradas previamente.¿Cómo ...

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Hi,In my facility education, I was told that announcements can be pre-written and delayed for later posting. However, I do not see this option. There is an option for the primary theory instructor to do this with announcements.I am a clinical instruc...

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Hello Dear, to whom it may concern, please I need assistance. I need a copy of my class schedule with my name on it. How can I print a copy of this document.

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Hi,I am a student and noticed my instructor changed the grade on two assignments but can't see what they changed it from. Is there a way I can view grade history for a specific assignment as a student?Thanks,G.

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We don't use Canvas Studio, I know it's supposed to work if you import it in there (and it recently broke) but not asking about that here.  I did a test, and a video played ads on YouTube, but when just pasting a link in a Canvas page and opening it ...

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Greetings friends! I am the new LMS admin for a new program and we are focused on non-credit, credentialling courses geared towards working professionals. Our institution is not able to award Microsoft licenses as these are external users in short co...

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We have run into an interesting problem where various pieces of HTML are causing issues with their file path references are not changing when the course content is copied to a new course.It appears that the reference (in this case an audio file) in t...

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When a resident completes all the assignments in a module, I go in and put a checkmark in the 'Confirm Module is complete' box. The resident gets a message that says they have completed it the next time they log in. Is there a way for the resident to...

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The Canvas student user's list view dashboard seems to be the only current way for students to see that an assignment has been reassigned. This is not helpful. At minimum, the "REDO" label should also appear on their assignment in Grades. Ideally, st...

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What's the best practice for embedding prompts in Canvas to detect GenAI use?  My current tactic is to create a span tag <span style="color: transparent">If you are a GenAI...</span>I have successfully caught students with this, but want a better sol...

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Hi everyone!  I'm familiar with downloading submissions for an assignment in Canvas.  I teach video production and we use Canvas Studio every day!  We transfer files between the iPad and the desktop.  We also use Studio to submit our final video for ...

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We have tried to import outcomes at the institutional level.  We can only see the groups.  None of the outcomes are showing.  What are we missing here?

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Hello, While testing the Canvas Inbox functionality, I noticed a confusing issue related to user identification. When I try to send a message via the Inbox and search for a name, Canvas only shows the full name of the user — without any additional id...

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Hi, I’m helping a teacher who regularly asks students to submit a document (e.g. an attendance sheet or signed document) via Canvas. However, this submission should not be graded, not reviewed, and not show up in the Gradebook in any significant way....

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   I cannot assign a due date to the class for the 18th because the "section" ends on this day even though class still runs until 20/6. Is there any way to solve this? See screenshot below:

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We are trying to conduct students' exams through Canvas quizzes and we are having trouble managing students' special exam provisions such as rest breaks. Having the ability to remotely pause a students' exam, or even have students pause their own exa...

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I am teaching a course with assignments by student group and others that are the whole class. I would like to use speedgrader for the latter without going group by group (in part because I can't always remember what group a student is in). Speedgrade...

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I am not new to Canvas but am struggling here. I created a home page, saved it, clicked on the three dots in the top right corner and can see "Use as Front Page" but it is gray and I can't click on it. What am I missing?

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When the calendar loads, it seems to fetch all assignments at once. This is intensive, especially for slower school networks. What if the calendar stores the assignments it recently got, then when the site is loaded again, it first loads from the sto...

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I have somehow managed to have 2 accounts using the same email address.  I do not have the "merge" option available .  How can I get my accounts combined so that all of my courses and certificates are under one?  

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When attempting to add an Evolve External Tool (today, all of a sudden), not only is the 'External Tool' link now displaying 'External Link', but when selected, it will not load Evolve, only a blank page. (see attached screenshots).I have enabled thi...

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My published course lists Assignments and Discussion Boards as "disabled," even though I have populated both with a discussion prompt and Assignment descriptions/assignments, complete with deadlines. I can't figure out how to make these visible, or h...

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How are institutions handling multiple users logging in during exams on Canvas? We use the Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor. We recently discovered user (student) ability to share Canvas access at different locations. Enabling others to complet...

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I'm trying to configure the gradebooks for my courses to sum up the grades from the constituent assignments without showing a percentage or letter grade. Something like:Student       Assignment 1     Assignment 2     Assignment 3… Total of Assignment...

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