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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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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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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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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?

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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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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...

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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...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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...

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

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I would like to assign a quiz to students to take that is for class preparation, but I would like the score to be based on completion. As far as I can tell:Graded Quizzes report the score earned on the quizGraded Surveys award fixed points for comple...

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This is happening in the new and old version of the gradebook in the individual student gradebooks.  it is calculating a final grade, but it no longer shows the calculation for formative and summative. This was working fine before our winter break (D...

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I would like to upload a file to Turnitin as a Tutor. The current stage of my students' essay assignment is on a preliminary stage, and I don't want them to extend their concerns with Turnitin just yet. Nevertheless, I would like to analyse some of t...

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Grades/Assignments:  I have unweighted my assignment groups, and have configured the grade total to show as points rather than percent.  I would like to have each Assignment Group view the same way: points rather than percentage.  I would also like t...

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I am a student and my canvas instructure pages won't load the content of any of my classes. I click on every assignment, pages, courses, dashboard, and nothing comes up. No one else seems to be having this problem. It's got nothing to do with the wif...

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I am trying to set up the Roll Call Attendance feature in my course. I do not have students loaded yet (new course development) so I am not able to get the Roll Call assignment to populate.My question is: Is it possible to assign a rubric to the roll...

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I'm a bit frustrated with adding LTI-tools that always have default course navigation = true. I don't have any possibility to manually switch this to false?My wish is that we can turn it on course by course, but authenticated on the institution level...

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I have created groups for a class project. Is there a way to export the groups and the members in the form of and Excel spreadsheet? ThanksAnne-Gi

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I am planning to take an online class while being out of the U.S. Does anyone know if Canvas works in other countries?

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I'm trying to reuse quiz questions for a final exam. When I click on "find questions", it shows a little box with the first few words of quiz questions, listed by question number, for the entire course, so,14 questions number one, 14 questions number...

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Using a Quiz in Canvas, can students who previously submitted (especially essay questions) "unsubmit" and continue working on the questions?  I have allowed them to see their previous answers, but I would like them to be able to continue working, or ...

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I have successfully created a new quiz/assignment using the beta LTI but can't seem to view any reports regarding said assessment.

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my dashboard keeps flickering and I cant submit any of my homework assignments, is there an update or something I can do to fix my problem?

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On the syllabus page, in addition to my link to the course syllabus, is a Course Summary.  Is it possible to hide this information?   I am using Canvas for a on-site class.  Most of the items in my grades are Exams, Tests, and other hard copy assignm...

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If a student has completed an assigned peer review, but then wants to go back and add to it, or change it, is there an option for them to do that? If not, how - as a teacher - would I enable them to redo the peer review as if the first peer review ne...

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I know you can download all submissions of other types of assignments in a .zip file, but this feature seems disabled when the submission type is from an external tool.  When looking at a Google Doc Cloud assignment, there is no button to download su...

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No issue before--the toolbar that allows me to make in-text/inline comments on student assignments will not appear for ANY student for a particular assignment.Settings, browser (Chrome), and everything else exactly the same . . . will appear on previ...

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In Speedgrader > View Rubric you have the option to "Save this comment for reuse" under the Ratings column.I've done this a few times.Now I'd like to remove some comments or edit them.How do I at least delete, if not edit, these items in the drop-dow...

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There are still a lot of courses from last semester on my dashboard. I am no longer in these classes, and they are distracting and clutter up the dashboard. How do I remove these courses from my dashboard?

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