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Anyone have a suggestion on criteria for teachers to have as beginning Canvas users? I'm teaching an hour session to 20 educators. Thoughts appreciated!! I'm thinking things like:Profile settingsNotification settingsHow to access help/guides, etc.Cre...

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We have hybrid devices for staff and the Wiris Maths and Chemistry LTIs now provide amazing handwriting functionality so much that the built-in Maths Editor is redundant.Is there anyway of removing it from the list?Thanks

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Dear Community members,I have read the guide for integrating Office 365 LTI into Canvas and wanted to ask for a clarification about the following:The Office 365 LTI supports Microsoft OneDrive in Canvas and can be enabled at the account, sub-account,...

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We've started enrolling teachers in our course about 2 months ago and receive emails from about 75% of our participants saying they haven't received the invitation. Before we enroll them, we send a welcome email informing them to add notifications@ca...

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I have an instructor that contacted me today with this issue:> I have a question regarding closed captioning in Canvas. In adding closed captioning to my videos, I've noticed that the captions are OK if the videos are played at normal size. However, ...

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Can students begin a quiz, save their progress and finish it at a later time? I am setting up my online course using the quiz feature more as an exploration, and not a traditional quiz. It will take them longer than one sitting to complete the entire...

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I will be leaving the country for 11 days and was wondering if I can access my Canvas Courses overseas? 

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I have links to YouTube videos using the href tag in HTML. Whenever I save the page, a thumbnail shows of the YouTube video, however, I just want the link to show as text and not show as a thumbnail as well. How can I achieve this?

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Is it possibe to create an out of office notificaton for messaging? It has become apprant this something we need to be able to do withlin canvasIf not - is it the case that if X messages Y in canvas and Y is away, an out of office notificaton from Ys...

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What does the analytic about 'Total Activity' (hr:min:sec) for each student actually mean?

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I have created assignments, quizzes and discussions for students. Students can see assignments and quizzes in their calendars but not the discussions. Why is that? All the discussions have due dates set for them,

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Encounter unexpected error when starting a collaboration (At course level > Select Collaborations > click ‘Add Collaboration’ > click ‘Log In’ > “An unexpected Error occurred”).This error continue even after clicking the "Log in" button. Wondering th...

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How can I hide my "inactive" students.  Those who were no-shows will not require a grade like those who drop after the deadline so I can't see any reason to have them on the people list.  Any ideas?  (I did a search for this question but it was answe...

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Hello, I am teaching several sections of a computer science class.   My colleague is also teaching several sections of the same class.Can I create a discussion that can be accessed by all students in all of our classes?Can I restrict access to only s...

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Does anyone know if there is a way to check discussion board posts for plagiarism?

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I uploaded grades in a CVS file but my "Course Grade" column is blank -- I just want to post Letter Grades

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I am working with someone who has quiz questions with feedback for each possible multiple choice response.  These materials are currently in a Word format, and I'd like to import them into Canvas using Respondus.  To attempt to do so, I formatted the...

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For accreditation purposes one of our departments needs to track rubrics for 7-8 assignments for each individual student. Currently, they are using paper rubrics for grading and then scanning those into Evernote into a notebook for each student.Is th...

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Is there a way to delete files on canvas once they have been uploaded?I have duplicates that I want to delete.

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In my course I have 10 discussion boards and 30 students.  When I select People and an individual student I can see the student's most recent 8 to 10 posts to any of the discussion boards.  When I select a people (a student) I would like to see and b...

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Bug when adding youtube videos with time codesteps:Create new modulecreate new text pagetype in a paragraph of textpaste in URL to video URLhttps://youtu.be/zC-fjTuLl1c?t=7m0ssaveview pageresult:  video shows up, but click play (>) and it does not st...

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I teach computer science, specifically the Python language.  In Python, spaces at the beginning of lines of code have important meaning.  I give a lot of comments about my student's code using the Speed Grader.  However, I have found that spaces at t...

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I am doing a discussion forum, and I need to use hanging indents but I can't figure it out.

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Does anyone know if Explain Everything is available as an app in CANVAS?

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Does Canvas allow for the use of wildcards when searching for a course in the "Find a Course" field?Our school has extremely long course names and the year is at the very end.  It would be incredibly helpful to be able to enter SOC 101 * 17 and get a...

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We have a concern about possible cheating in a discussion board.  A Spanish teacher pointed out that certain discussion posts have a strange colored box around student responses.  We are wondering why this might be,Example:Compared to this:

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My husband and I both use Canvas at our institution--Houston Community College.  He is experiencing a problem.We spot check averages to be careful.  Tonight, we discovered that his end of the semester grades are averaging approximately two points hig...

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I do not want Canvas to calculate my students' final letter grade. I want the freedom to issue the semester letter grade in an additional grade center column. For example, a student earns 895 points out of 1000, a B on my grade scale--but the student...

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I'm working with an instructor that has a quiz where students must view and identify images. The instructor is, of course, concerned about students simply right-clicking to do a reverse image search and get the answers, so I am working on easy method...

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My courses upload capacity is only 524.3MB but the content that I need to upload is a lot larger than that. How do I increase the storage so that I can upload all of the files (including video)

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