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​Is there a setting in Canvas that opens up more/less for parental access?    I saw a parent account this weekend where they could see only 'Assignments' for some courses, but 'Assignments' and 'Front Page' for others.    Does the parent h...

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When using the grading feature, the screen jumps quickly left and right about 1/8" or more. It's like trying to hit a moving target just to click Submit. Keying and then editing is an impossibility with the jumpy screen.

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Hi, I can filter live in the gradebook to see late submissions but when I export it, it doesn't pull through to the data. I want to know if late submissions have a trend in our summative assessment results. Can I pull a report that shows late submiss...

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Could anyone confirm please either Sandbox Canvas Instance have Ignite-AI enabled or not? If enabled, how to get it.  

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Is there a way that I can see which grades I've left comments for in the gradebook, without having to open the sidebar?I'd like to be able look at my full gradebook and see - without clicking on individual grades one at a time - which grades have a c...

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The module remains locked only given 3 attempts 30 minutes but did not pass what I do now since I can't get to the other pre-requisites. It is for drivers Ed took the test in module 4.9 but failed.Cannot reach 5.1 what do I do.

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How could we retrieve auto-saved responses from our discussion post? 

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I have a student who uploaded a PDF file which contains several textboxes using the Canvas DocViewer Annotation tool. I can't confirm if the annotations were made before or after the assignment due date. Is there a way to view the timestamps of when ...

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Sat down to grade a quiz today and noticed that for a handful of students (5 of 30 students or so) fudge points where automatically assigned. They were always small (+/- 0.5 points) but any points being assigned by Canvas is a no no and concerning. H...

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If one group of students is given an assignment, does it automatically show up in their "assignments due" list?  I made a module and added an assignment into it that is only for one small group of students in the class. When I go to Student View, the...

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How do I change Open, Close & Due Dates in a course using one process?

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I accidentally imported "copy a Canvas course" & imported the entire course. Is there a way to undo that import so I will not have duplicate everything?

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We are in the early stages of exploring Canvas LMS and see that the test environment refreshes to mimic the production environment on a monthly basis. Has anyone explored the possibility of pausing the monthly refresh in the situation that an extensi...

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Hi. My name is Jade Champagne. Ms. Wells is allowing me to message through her portal. I am the CTE Instructional Coach for LPSD and we are experiencing a few issues and have additional questions. We have reached out to our contact for our District (...

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Is there a way to have a student start a quiz, save it, and then come back to it later?   I would like to be able to do this for students with accommodations, so they do not have to take the quiz all in one sitting. Is this possible? If so, how?

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In the 9/24/25 deploy Canvas Deploy Notes (2025-09-24) - Instructure Community - 656457 there was a major change in page view functionality.  Instead of being able to view a specified date range of views going back indefinitely, now only the last 30 ...

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Question or Suggestion I work in Higher Education and at our school the profile pictures that appear in the LMS are the same ones that are on student ID's. As we are setting up our new Canvas site I was told that this is not possible in Canvas. Indiv...

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I have a student reporting that when she takes a test (Canvas New Quiz, timed) on her MacBook, using Google Chrome as her browser that "every time she clicks a text box to provide an answer, the cursor unclicks and goes to the next question." I (the ...

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All of our students do not finish at the same time. Some of them require extensions to the 3-month limit for class. How do I "close out" the students who finish so they are no longer in our count? I have been Deactivating them, but I don't know if th...

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In the past, a message popped up that I had unsaved edits, but this time that didn't happen when I closed a tab inadvertently (with Canvas still open). Is there a trick for recovering my edits? In this case, it is a dscussion I was editing. 

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Does Canvas LMS have any type of progress indicator to inform teachers or students of a student's progress as far as percentage of the course that has been completed?  In my Canvas course all assignments are prepopulated for the semester.

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Spell check is somehow disabled, how can I re-engage?

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Where can I locate Turnitin to check my assignment before submission?

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Thanks in advance to reading my question.We created several groups for our students to collaborate.Now if you go to the home page of the group project, you'll see that it's possible to make announcements.Is it possible to:Disable that option (for eve...

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Hello, My name is Jeremy Brown. I’m writing because I’ve had the most challenging time finding feedback from my instructors and seeing reply’s from my classmates for our classroom discussions. I do get a notification saying that my instructors have g...

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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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