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ibagdasa

Grade column statistics

It seems that the option to display the grade statistics for the assignment in New Gradebook is gone (the old "Assignment Details" option that displayed AVG, HIGH and LOW scores, and number of submitted assignments). I couldn't find any other way to ...

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02-12-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 02-13-2018 View Solution
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dblunk

To Do List Missing from Sidebar

I have two sections, and in one section the To Do List and Upcoming shows in the Sidebar, but in the other section it does not. Is there a place where I can turn it on? I have both home pages currently set to "Syllabus."

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02-12-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 03-03-2018 View Solution
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kstack

Printing clean pages that contain links

I have created a multi-page online textbook using Canvas Pages. Some students need to be able to print these pages for offline studying or because they do not have access to the online site from home. When Canvas Pages are printed, any links in the p...

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02-10-2018 Canvas Question Forum
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heather_edwards

Can I link directly to a Canvas page or assignment from a message?

Is there any way to send a direct link to a student from a message (Canvas inbox) that will take them directly to a page or assignment? 

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02-09-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 02-09-2018 View Solution
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jlbryan

Late policy with multiple attempts on a quiz

When using the late policy, If a quiz has been allowed to have multiple attempts and is set to take the highest score, If the newest submission is late the late policy overrides the highest score function and applies the policy to the newest score on...

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02-09-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 12-06-2020 View Solution
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andre_hargunani

How can we calculate a course grade from the Mastery Learning gradebook?

I can only find a way for an overall course grade to be calculated from the traditional gradebook.  How do we set up the gradebook to calculate the overall course grade from the Learning Mastery gradebook?  I have all of the Outcomes set up in the co...

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02-08-2018 Canvas Question Forum
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wanfareed

'Question' option in Quiz is missing

Hi,I am preparing graded quizzes in Blueprint course. I have prepared the question banks to associate these quizzes to. But it seemed the 'Question' option is missing. Can anyone advise please? Thank you.Quiz with 'Questions' option available  Quiz w...

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02-06-2018 Canvas Question Forum
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dchilders

Gameification: Displaying / Extrapolating GradeBook Data

Hi all,I have successfully gamefied my World Lit class and have Main quests, Side Quests, Item Shops, Achievements, Leaderboards (thanks Badgr for making this easy) etc.I have a non-graded category called "Hero Points."  These are the points they are...

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02-06-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 02-10-2018 View Solution
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heather_edwards

Can I view who has viewed/accessed a page?

Is there any way to see who has viewed or accessed a page? And I don't mean by looking at each student individually, but rather by looking at the stats for a given page and seeing a list of students who have viewed it...

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02-05-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 09-09-2021 View Solution
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lars_vemund_sol

Is it possible to embed a discussion, module etc in a page?

To create true rich content and save click I would like to embed content in difference to linking to them.Especially i would like to embed discussions and modules in a page.Is this possible?(I've tried with Iframe but you get the full page including ...

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02-05-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 02-05-2018 View Solution
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bwarner1

Override Quiz Grades - Human vs. Machine

Hi All, yesterday marked my first attempt to build a quiz, and the first problem that I found is that if students didn't write the answer exactly as I created it, it marked them wrong. In my case, working with ESL students, many students might have s...

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02-02-2018 Canvas Question Forum
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jherring

Quiz/Exam: Fill in a grid

I'm in the process of converting my written tests over to canvas and I've run into a snag for my end of semester final. Is it possible for students to fill in a grid?I can build this in the question using a table. My final has 40 questions for 80% of...

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02-01-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 02-02-2018 View Solution
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r_layden

Duplicating folder structures

Hi - I'm a canvas newbie here but I have lots of Moodle and Blackboard experience.I'd very much appreciate any help with the following little problem.I'm playing about the different ways that we might be able to share 'template courses'I want to crea...

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02-01-2018 Canvas Question Forum
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sgilbertusa

Changing username

How do I change my username?  My current email address is going to be decommissioned and I need to start using a different one.

(Community Novice)
01-31-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 01-31-2018 View Solution
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meisenhauer

Import quiz question bank from spreadsheet?

Is there some way that I can import a quiz question bank from an existing spreadsheet, so that I don't need to manually create quiz questions one by one within Canvas?  For example, I have vocabulary lists that I would love to turn into Canvas quizze...

(Community Novice)
01-30-2018 Canvas Question Forum
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cally_trosclair

Allow students to edit submitted assignments?

I am grading student submissions, and for some of them, I would like to allow students to read my comments and revise their submissions. However, I cannot figure out how to allow students to do this. Is there a setting that I have to change?Thank you...

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01-30-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 01-30-2018 View Solution
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lhuckaby

How do I automatically forward messages from my Canvas Inbox to my school e...

I would like to be able to check messages from my students via my school email account.  The program my school previously used allowed professors to link their email address so we could have messages automatically forwarded to their school email acco...

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01-25-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 01-25-2018 View Solution
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gasstationwitho

How do I turn off "new gradebook"

I made the mistake of turning on the "new gradebook" feature for my course.  Now my TA can't enter grades.I can't find any way to turn the "new gradebook" off again.  (It looked like a toggle before I turned it on, but the toggle disappeared.) How do...

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01-24-2018 Canvas Question Forum
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craiggines

Moving questions from a quiz to the question bank

I have created a quiz already but none of the questions are in the question bank, how do I move the questions from the quiz I created to the question bank so I don't have to retype the whole quiz

(Community Novice)
01-23-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 01-14-2021 View Solution
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withers_joshua

Can't change grade on an expired course?

I have a student who has an incomplete grade.  She recently completed the course after the semester expired.  I went into the course to change her grade and it is locked.  I can not make any changes.  I need to update her grades for a new final grade...

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01-22-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 04-07-2022 View Solution
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alexking

Canvas Formula Question: Setting decimal precision

Hi all,I'm currently working on a chemistry course in canvas (migrating from blackboard), and I've hit a bit of a roadblock on Formula type quiz questions.I need students to calculate solubility from an equation, however the Canvas platform only allo...

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01-21-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 02-24-2018 View Solution
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jsc

Is it correct, that attachement disappears when replying to a Canvas messag...

As a teacher I send a message through Canvas to my students. It gives them a notification in their own email software, lets say Outlook in this case. A student replay to the notification (notifications@instructure.com) and attach a file.I can read th...

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01-19-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 01-19-2018 View Solution
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ed_hall

Displaying total grades as whole numbers?

I want to calculate grades without any decimals, thus rounding to whole numbers only. Is there a way to set that up in a shell?

(Community Novice)
01-18-2018 Canvas Question Forum
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breklis

Bulk Assign Late / Missing Status in Gradebook

In the new gradebook, teachers can flag assignments as late or missing.  However, this has to be done student by student.  It would be much more efficient if teachers could fill multiple students' scores as late or missing using "set default grade". ...

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01-18-2018 Canvas Question Forum
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galey

Discussion Board posts--word count feature

Typically, when we assign discussion board posts in a class, there is a word count minimum,such as 250 words. I don't see the students' ability to know what their word count of their post is. Please tell me where they can see this in Canvas. Surely t...

(Community Novice)
01-17-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 01-17-2018 View Solution
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frankel

Export Names of Group Members

Is there a way to export or download the names of students in groups?  As Speedgrader doesn't arrange students by groups, it would help to have a list of names so that I and the TAs (each of us grading different groups) can easily see who we should g...

(Community Champion)
01-16-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 05-11-2022 View Solution
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jennifer_mcgee

Removing Unused Assignment Columns in Gradebook

Hi all,I rotate class projects from semester to semester.  I have created three 'Assignment Groups' in Canvas to organize the three different projects and nest the individual assignments for each project within each group. Let's call them Project 1, ...

(Community Novice)
01-16-2018 Canvas Question Forum
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laura_r_hamrick

Can you add specific Kaltura videos in My Media directly to a module?

Hi all,We use the Kaltura integration with Canvas on my campus, and it seems like the only way to share content from My Media with students is to embed the videos into a page and then add the page to a module. It would be much more efficient to just ...

(Community Novice)
01-16-2018 Canvas Question Forum
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giusco81

Downloading and printing the "Assignment comments" box

I marked for the first time using the SpeedGrader and I was wondering whether there is a way to download the "Assignment comments" box which is in the sidebar, together with a student's submission, as it is possible in Turnitin. Alternatively, is the...

(Community Novice)
01-16-2018 Canvas Question Forum
Solution Posted: 06-08-2021 View Solution
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waitingtofade

Giving automatic full points for certain assignments

Is there a way to automatically give full points to all students who submit an assignment?

(Community Novice)
01-12-2018 Canvas Question Forum
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