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From a mathematics perspective, adding functionality for Lockdown Browser on open source "assignments" is a major need. At our high school of 2000 students, this functionality is greatly needed. So our Algebra I and Geometry classes use Savvas as an ...

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If I have a student cheat and  I want them to retake the exam. Is there away I can delete there submission? Or if I am enabling to build on last attempt, is there a way to change all responses to wrong so they have to retake the entire thing again? R...

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Instructors cannot tell which files are linked and which aren’t. The idea of going through a cleaning all of those out just isn’t feasible time-wise. Would be great if there was an option to purge the orphaned files in Canvas. Like, if when you copie...

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I'm an administrator and had a question regarding temporarily suspending a student. When a student is suspended in Canvas, what can they still view or have access to while suspended in Canvas?

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The student is having a problem uploading material that she has already done, but when in Workspace and submitting the generated PDF is missing certain sections

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I was beginning to grade an assignment in Canvas. I assigned a grade to the first student, then opened the second student's submission. Canvas will not let me move my cursor to open submissions for other students. It is not an internet issue. 

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Hello, During my recent exam, I accidentally clicked on a pop-up notification, and the activity log recorded that I was away from the exam page for about 20–30 seconds. However, after that click, I did not interact with anything outside the exam page...

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I have completed my Knowledge check, but it is still not showing as completed in my account.course name: KC (amazon virtual private cloud)Issue: The status/progress is not updating even after completion.Kindly help me resolve this issue.Thankyou.

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Is there a possibility that modules accessible by students will be limited to reading only and they will be restricted in downloading the files in the modules? 

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In Speedgrader, if the student has a long name, the right arrow to move to the next student is not visible. Expanding the sidebar by dragging from the left does not make it appear. The only solution is to go back to "marks" and then click click and c...

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Today I was trying to keep up with my work in high school and I realized that they don't show you the work they give this exact day 

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Posts in discussion forums that have been deleted are being included in email summaries even if the email summary is generated after the post was deleted. Only the first n characters are displayed in the email, but this is still a potential issue if ...

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I teach over 500 students a week. I often use exit tickets, which include both typical and modified assessments. To assign students to one or the other, I have created "modified" and "non-modified" sections. However, this requires me to go to each st...

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Hello! I'm trying to help an instructor make his materials accessible. He teaches math and statistics, and uses Latex, tables, and images of formulas in his materials. He's trying to make these things accessible for students using screen readers and ...

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Is there a way to take a quiz as a test student without publishing the quiz? I would like to test the quiz prior to assigning it to students, or making it visible for them. But, once I take the quiz as a test student, I am not able to unpublish it.  ...

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Is there a way to create a Master Question Bank so that when I make an update in the Master, it updates all of the active courses using that question bank? 

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As an instructor, I would like a one-click option that, when I publish a Page, also offers the ability to publish all linked or related unpublished items (e.g., module items, assignments, quizzes, discussions) so students can access everything at onc...

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I have students who use Google Docs to develop essay assignments. We require essays to be formatted in APA style. When a student submits a Google Doc to an assignment in Canvas, Canvas converts the document to be read in Canvas Doc Reader, but change...

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Hello,I'd like my students to be able to use two class periods to write a full literary analysis essay while using the respondus lockdown browser with Canvas. Respondus says this is a canvas issue. Does anyone know how to set up an assignment so stud...

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I am an instructor at Woodland Community College I have some discussions that post the score from the rubric and others that do not. They look like they are all configured the same way. Dr Jiménez  

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every time I go to open one of my assignments it denies me and tells me that google workspace is not set up correctly and I just don't know how to fix this issue

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I want to make my class innovative and fun for my students. I want them to have lots of interaction with the modules and each other while learning. I am also writing a paper about technological tools that are effectively used by teachers inside the L...

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The box and whisker plots on assignments are not appearing for myself or my students despite:the box being unchecked in settingshaving at least 5 submissions gradedhiding and unhiding the distributions in settingsThis is true of all assignments, with...

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Hi there! We frequently have Students in multiple sections of the same course. For example, we have an "Internship" course, and students are allowed to be in two or more internships, which result in being in INT101-01, INT101-02, etc... To make thing...

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MY course has been working fine up to a certain point. All of a sudden, it is not allowing students to progress or view assignments. I haven't changed anything, and this is a copy of a previous course that did not have these issues.

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A student is reporting that discussion board due dates are not showing up in their To Do list, while assignment due dates are showing up. The due dates are set for the discussion boards in the course. Is anyone else experiencing this issue or know ho...

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Hello,     Teachers at my school are having issues with their gradebook on canvas. We operate on an A/B schedule. Beacuse of that, many teachers need to have multiple due dates on canvas. When they assign multiple due dates it causes the gradebook on...

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I have a number of pages (pre-authored, we are new to Canvas) that contain dynamic svg--and thus use an object tag. These files, and the html files using them, are then hosted on Canvas, but embedded in an iframe. Whereas <img src=a/b.svg> tags (file...

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As an instructor, when grading student submissions in SpeedGrader, I am able to click View Rubric and use that as a means of grading each rubric item. However, on this particular student submission, I cannot view the rubric. I've emptied cache, hard ...

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