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I copied the Welcome! page from the pages in one course to another course. That seems to be the issue. The other items copied when I posted like assignments with correct dates and such. Now this Welcome! page has a lot on it. I'm wondering how I can ...

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I have tried using the new feature that allows checkpoints in discussions, and don't plan to use it for the rest of the semester for reasons that others have already cited (such as the fact that the grade in my rubric is ignored and so the grades mus...

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I think my authentication settings are wrong. We linked all students and observers with IDs but I have some parents have created new accounts by using the student's pairing code not their ID.  I see parents with emails and no ID.  Help!  Are these se...

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I would like to have students sign up to present a topic on a particular class day. Is it possible to allow them to access the calendar feature to do so or is there a way to set up a sign-up sheet other than just creating one myself and loading it in...

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Hello Canvas Community,I would like to ask if there is a way to create a midterm report for each course in Canvas.What I am looking for is:A way to summarize student progress up to the midterm point.The ability to include categories of performance (a...

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Is it possible to have a setting in the gradebook to where the maximum points deducted for late submissions can be set? I know that the lowest possible grade percentage can be set but I'm wanting late points to be deducted up to a max of 30 points. T...

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Parents are receiving notifications from courses that their students were in last year.  The term dates were set to end at the end of the school year.  How can I as an admin turn off these notifications?  Do I need to conclude the courses?  What happ...

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When will our courses be published so that we can see the syllabus, assignments etc.?

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I'd like to use a daily accountability rubric to have students self-assess their durable skills, participation and engagement.  The videos I have seen online suggest that their is a self-assess check box but I cannot seem to find it.  Did it dissappe...

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I teach at a high school and my class periods are 48 minutes long. I have students that receive 50% and 100% extra time on everything. I would like to know if there is any way to provide those students with the time they need to finish a test in the ...

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I am an instructor, and I cannot find a recent post that answers this with the options I have.  I want to add a banner to the top of my courses, but I'm having trouble figuring out how.  The most recent search I can find is from 2020, and I do not ha...

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I have used EdPuzzle integrated through Canvas for several semesters and different classes.  I assigned a video lesson that has open-ended questions that requires manually grading, which I have completed.  This is my first assignemnet for this course...

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When I insert any image, doc, or item it only shows as a link. I've tried many ways with no luck. Please help.

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Our institution recently switched to a new proctoring tool from Respondus Lockdown Browser and implementation went smoothly. Since we have ended our Respondus contract, we removed the LTI from our Canvas instance. However, we found that many instruct...

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We are having issues with Canvas and need support. We have submitted ticket after ticket and made phone call after phone call with no response. Is there something we are missing? Did we not pay the bill? Are we shadow banned? What's the deal?

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I am loving the dyslexia friendly font as a designer. The hard part is knowing if the text will update. I have noticed that things like headers, link, and lists don't always present with the font once the page is saved. Hopefully learners are seeing ...

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Is there a way for students to print their own completed quizzes? When I am in preview mode as the instructor, and choose a print command it only prints what is visible on the screen rather than the entire completed quiz.- I'm using new quizzes- My s...

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Hi All,As an instructor, is there a way to force Canvas to display assignments as sorted by type? Right now, my classes are defaulted to sort by date and student have to manually tap (iPad) "sort by date" every time they go to view assignments.Please...

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I set up all my classes this year after importing my material in as usual. Ed puzzle no longer allows me to grade open-ended questions within the LMS. And I can no longer see my kids completion rates inside the LMS. I keep having to go to the Ed puzz...

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In the past, when I needed to grade free response questions on EdPuzzles, I would just click the link (red button reading something like "83 new answers"). But this school year, that button doesn't seem to work. Does anyone know how to get around thi...

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Hi, I have a student who has some intense vision impairment. We are able to zoom in on PDFs and other embedded items, but is there a way to zoom in on Canvas-created quizzes-specifically the drop-down questions so that they can magnify the answers? A...

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Quick question—would it be possible to separate the settings for students editing and deleting their replies? Ideally, I’d like students to be able to edit their replies but not delete them.If that’s not currently possible, how can we upvote or reque...

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I need to conduct a course assessment on approximately 20 sections of one class at my institution.  The exam tool has been created and the institutional outcomes have been tagged for each item.  The tool has been flawlessly launched in all of our blu...

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Ok, if I could offer a suggestion to add submission times to either the grades tab or the assignments tab, that would a super helpful way for students to see their progress very quickly and know where to pick up with the next assignment. 

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I am the "lead professor" in a large course where I want to create independent groups (where all students use the same course site but assignment submissions go directly to group facilitators. I need to know how to create separate "gradebooks" for my...

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Hello everyone!How's everyone first two days of classes going?

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In the Classic Quiz the questions have been assigned points. All questions have a total available points total of 120.However, the quiz shows the following sentence 'must score at least 96.0' (screen shot attached) but at no point did I input this in...

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We have been able to implement the new Microsoft Education that was just released. We have a series of courses that use Teams spaces for group collaboration. However, with this new tool, unlike the prior tool (Microsoft Teams Classes), each section u...

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This happened last year at this time as well. The color and contrast of the Canvas pages changed to be very light and with a thin font. This is in the Safari browser only and Chrome has the same colors it did last week. After a while, maybe a month, ...

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How does one integrate "Back to the top" icons on longer pages with several sections, so the viewer can jump right back to the table of contents?

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