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Hi, While using an access token belonging to a student profile I tried out the submit assignment API. POST /api/v1/courses/{courseId}/assignments/{assignmentId}/submissions The response for the API is  {     "status": "unauthorized",     "errors": ...

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How can I view the old Analytics instead of the New Analytics?  The New Analytics doesn't give me all the same student information I'm searching for at a quick glance and requires much more clicking around. I just want to continue using the older vie...

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Hello all! My name is Erinne Kennedy and I am a faculty member at the Kansas City University College of Dental Medicine. We will be using a portfolio as a global assessment tool for our dental students. We are planning to use a portfolio software tha...

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I was wondering if there is a way to have the dates of "available from" and "until then" show up on the line with the assignment name on the module list?  The due date shows up and the points show up on with the name of the assignment on the module l...

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I am unable to preview shared content shared directly with me by another teacher. I keep getting this error message when I click preview:  External Tool Content Can't be PreviewedIn order to use this resource in Canvas, the external tool must be inst...

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I am attempting to submit a grade for an assignment but for some reason they do not show up for the cells that are colored green. When I double click on them, it shows that they have a 100% but it just doesn't show up directly already like the rest. ...

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I have used "if" statements successfully in older Canvas quizzes, but for some reason, I have not been able to get New Quizzes to take this one -- IF(x-y,IF(1+(x-y)/ABS(x-y),-1,1),0) I just want my students to be able to identify if a trend is decrea...

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I am using SCORM packages imported from Articulate Rise and added to Canvas Modules.  Because we also use Catalog, I have to set module requirements in order for Catalog to track course completion.  I am trying to find the best settings to work with ...

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I have an instructor who has two sections of the same course, section 23 and section 26.  Section 26 was created by copying section 23 when it was finished and ready to be published.  Both sections are exactly the same.  In section 23, unsubmitted as...

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When parents/observers receive email notifications, there's an embedded link that says Click to view. When parents click this, it brings them to the student login page. Is this a dead end for parents/observers?

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I was writing notes on instructor provided pdfs last night. All of a sudden, canvas spazzed out and when I logged back in, it had deleted the majority of the notes I wrote on my pdf as well as previous pdfs's notes from weeks ago. I've already transf...

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I am an instructor. I assigned peer reviews, and insisted that students use the rubric. Now, when students go to look at their feedback, they're seeing blank rubrics. I can see the feedback, but they can't. This student shared a screenshot of what he...

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We are in the middle of setting up Canvas ALLY for Stanislaus State, and part of the support we want to set up is a team lead by a supervisor (myself) and a group of student assistants to support remediating content for accessibility. In the "Ally Re...

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I use a PowerPoint template to create all of my Storyline 360 presentations and then publish them as "Web" and use iframe tags to embed them into Canvas. Without changing anything on my end, the content area is now appearing blank in Canvas on my rec...

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I'm editing the syllabus of an existing class that someone else has set up. The column widths of the table are off. The 4th column with links should be big and the 1st & 2nd column with dates and names should be small, but the opposite is true. I'm v...

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Hi,  every time I sync Canvas to Powerschool my grades are posted in Powerschool as points.  We use percentages.  Then for each assignment in each class, I have to go in and manually change from points to percentages.  Is there a fix for this?  Thank...

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I am an academic technologist helping a faculty member organize her Canvas site. We have a large class with 500+ students and 37 TAs. We are creating small active learning groups and would like to assign one TA per group. Is that possible? We have se...

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Is it possible to assign different version of assignments to individual student without having to enter each student's name manually?  I have 21 students who need modified assignments and 160 that do not and don't want to manually enter each name eac...

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Good afternoon Canvas pros, I am new to Canvas this year.  I successfully synced my grades to Infinite Campus but they are showing up as raw scores.  I would like to sync grades to Infinite Campus as percentages so all of my assignments have equal we...

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I have a new class with 6 sections (plus a "test" section that I used to experiment this summer). I had my kids respond to a graded discussion in class yesterday. The discussion worked fine. Kids responded. The discussion shows up in my "to do" list ...

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Hello, I want to change the lock_at date of quizzes/exams for individual students via API. In Canvas LMS - REST API and Extensions Documentation → Create an assignment overrideOne of the required parameters is "assignment_override[title]". I don't kn...

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Canvas Catalog, Is there an ability to receive an email alert or confirmation that someone has registered for a catalog course instead of pulling the analytic reports @catalog

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I copied a course from last semester. The image files that were copied over will not publish even when I click on the publish button. It just keeps the default "Only available to students with link". The folder that the files are in is also hidden an...

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I teach 2 periods of the same courses so I created my Homepage and content in one course of each with the intent to copy it over to the other course so that I only had to do the work once.  When I import the course, the image files are not copying ov...

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Although my student has successfully generated a pairing code for me, every time I attempt to create a parent account using the system generated pairing code I receive an "Invalid pairing code" error.  Yes, I know the pairing codes are case-sensitive...

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I use a labor-based grading contract in my class rather than numerical scores on assignments. I don't see how to use a grading scale in the gradebook in Canvas.

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Hello, I was helping another instructor import content from my course to theirs, that worked without any trouble, but now when I click on any of my PDfs in any of my current and previous classes I either get a "Failed to  Fetch" error or just a loadi...

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I got all the way through the Canvas guide but the last step is not correctly labeled and I think that's my issue. See screen shots. What goes in that field?

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I'm configuring a self-hosted canvas lms install and need to add the chat feature. According to the documentation this is an external app developed by instructure. I seached in eduApps but doesnt appear available to install. Is the chat app open sour...

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Is it possible to embed a fillable PDF to Canvas, one that students could answer within Canvas and submit?

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