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Hello!  Has anyone used a Canvas site as the home for a mentoring community?  Any references or examples would be greatly appreciated.Gratefully,Joan Combs Durso

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I have saved points for 1.4 and 4.4 of the EDU 5822 Trine Course yet are not showing in "Grades".  I have updated my browser. Please advise.  Dawna Clawson 

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Hello,I created four courses in Canvas that all used the same template.  However, three of the courses are missing the navigation tab found in Course Details, under Settings.In the image below, there should be a Navigation tab between Sections and Ap...

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I must object to the use of paginated lists in the listing of students names in the grade book, rosters, Peer review assignments, groups, etc.   This is making my job harder not easier. How can I switch back to complete lists and get rid of the annoy...

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Is there a way to have students take Canvas quizzes and then canvas takes their quiz percentage and converts that to a 4321 Standards Based Grading Scale? 

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Hello, For the past couple of days, I have noticed that I can no longer click on the icons in the grade book (such as the ungraded icon) to get a quick view of the comments on the submission, etc. Has this been discontinued? Or am I missing something...

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Our students are using Canvas on an iPad in Safari or Chrome. We are unable to use the mobile version due to using Google SSO.  Previously, we have not had an issue when assigning an annotation assignment using the free draw annotation tools. Student...

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On 11/1 turn it in was functioning in my canvas assignments.  Today, 11/2, Turn it in is not appearing at all within the assignments that I have already created.  As a result, I don't have access to any of my submitted assignments from my students.  ...

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Howdy, amazing Instructure Community!  What issues may arise if a Blueprint course and all associated courses live in a subaccount and the owner of the BP course requests to change this and all associated courses to a different subaccount?  Thanks! 

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Our enrollments are created/updated by automatic SIS import every 2hours. I recently had a situation where an enrolled user needed to be immediately removed from a Canvas course (not be able to access anything). Obviously I can delete the user or dea...

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When a student is unenrolled, the anonymised identifiers in Assignments change. Can these be made constant? Anonymised identifiers are not associated with a specific student they are associated with a randomised order:   Student B = Student 1 Student...

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In speedgrader, When entering a comment then hitting the submit button, a pop up dialogue box with "Your comment has been submitted" covers the zoom controls.  Now that's annoying!  Any fixes?

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How can I import one existing module from LumiNUS to Canvas? Thanks. 

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I would like to have Canvas have more than 50 questions where you can see the answers in a Question Bank. This would make it so much easier when looking for duplicate questions.

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I am trying to test out grading periods on a free version of Canvas LMS, but I can't find the setting to view them. What do I do?

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I have my account settings to notify me by email if a student comments on an assignment submission. However, these notifications are not being sent/received, and comments by students on submissions are being missed as a result. Is this a bug within c...

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Hello, my name is Ananya Dhar. I am writing in regards of if I submitted a quiz assignment that was due on October 6th at 11:59 p.m. because on my end or if I recall I believe I did submit that quiz. So please could you looked into this matter as soo...

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We have setup our courses where students must progress through the modules in order.   Lately we are getting a large number of students who complete the requirements of a module, but that not "catching" in canvas so that the next module unlocks.    I...

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Hi!  I am looking for guidance regarding outcomes/rubrics and the learning mastery grade book. When giving a math assessment, I want to have an outcome for each question. I am running into an issue where I cannot add the same outcome/criteria more th...

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I found documentation regarding *how* to set the Course Format in Settings, but nothing regarding where that information surfaces in Canvas. So if I set a course to "online"....what happens? I can't find anything.

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As an admin, we must proactively go to People - Manage Profile Pictures - Submitted to approve those pending.  However, there is no notification sent making us aware that there has been a photo submitted.  This is easily forgotten and at times could ...

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I purchased Day 1 Access for my history class and I've not needed to access it until now.  Can someone please tell me how to do that? 

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I assigned an assignment to student groups. When one student submits his part, it submits on behalf of the group. In some cases, this works well, but in cases where each student in the group is responsible for a different part of the group project, t...

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Bonjour à tous, est il possible de mettre des points négatifs aux mauvaises réponses d'un quiz ? et si oui comment ? merci 

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I created student groups that reflect the students assigned to each grader we have for a large course. This works fine for graders to grade their specific students for writing assignments. However, for quizzes, the pre-existing section assignments in...

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Hi,  an export of one of my courses was made and my course is not shared on the commons.  Is there a way to find out who may have expored my course content?  Thanks.

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I'm new to the community and just started using Canvas a few months ago. There are some nice features, but overall I've been mostly disappointed. There are numerous basic features that all teachers would want that are missing or do not work the way t...

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Hi,I downloaded examsoft but I can't find the app to start taking a practice exam.  Where is it located?  Thanks.

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Simple question - what time is stamped when a student clicks submit? I had someone ask what happens if a student attempts to submit an assignment a minute before it is due, but because of the size of the file and slow internet, it takes 2 minutes to ...

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Are questions from old quiz compatible to new quiz format? In other words: can you pull questions from new quiz format as well as old quiz format in a single quiz assignment?  

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