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Is there a way to move past course cards off your dashboard so that only your current classes are viewed? Maybe there is an archive class option? Thanks! 

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Hello Canvas CommunityIs there a way to open up a whole course for one student to do work after the course/term end date?

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We have the Growing With Canvas page from commons imported to our instance. I noticed that several videos have been removed (the ones that were recently superceded) so I've been removing dead videos (and where the video was the only one, looking for ...

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Our designers have developed some accordion scripts for instructors to use in their courses. We recently updated the script when jquery was disabled, things were going swimmingly with the new script until the 6-22 update last weekend.   A quick dump ...

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At our institution, we recently had some hardware installed to deliver our face-to-face courses to three cities in a tri-county area. Since we are new to this technology, what challenges did your respective institutions face when you first rolled out...

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I have a Microsoft Word document that has a list of questions.  I want to bring those questions into Canvas.  How do I convert the Microsoft Word document to be acceptable to load into Canvas.  I do understand that I probably will have to use Respond...

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SIS XML to CanvasWe are moving from Blackboard to Canvas as well as moving to new ERP Workday. With limited resources from IT - they are wanting to use the same feed structure - XML files not CSV. Is this possible?

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Hello, everyone!Our institution is still new to Canvas, and to capitalize on the lessons we've learned so far, we've created a course with generic items that can be copied into blank course shells to give faculty and staff a strong starting point whe...

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Hi,I'd like to create a sub-account admin ole that would have the permission to add people to a course, but I would like the account role to only be able to enroll a particular custom course role. Is it somehow possible to restrict this sub-account a...

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After disabling and locking the course permission for the Teacher role:Users - add / remove students in coursesThe Teacher role is still able to add students to the course by going to People and select role as student.How do I restrict the permission...

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Is there a way to search for certain topics inside the content of a Canvas course?

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Does anyone know if inserting an image into a Google Slide cloud assignment is a limitation of the LTI? After creating a Google Doc cloud assignment with a Google Slide, I attempted to insert an image by searching the web. I received an error stating...

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Hi.  I am trying to design a Blueprint course that can accomplish the tasks listed.  I am piloting one this summer.  It is associated with about 18 courses.  It is failing.  I need to be able to:Lock the Choice for Choose Course Home to Pages Front P...

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I've got several videos that were produced in Camtasia 2018 that have a SCORM completion requirement to view 80% of the video. I've uploaded these videos to Canvas via the SCORM tool, and set them up as graded assignments. I've then added the assignm...

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Hi! Our students work at different paces, but we still want to give them suggested dates to help them plan their studies. One thing that we fear might be misleading/negative is when the student get red marks for handing in the assignments late. It's ...

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My time is valuable, as is, I am sure, all of yours. So, why must I spend hours managing my Canvas e-mail at the end of every semester? Why must I check and scroll and check and scroll just to move last semester's messages to an archive? Surely Canva...

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I would like to make the answers to an assignment available only after a student has submitted the assignment. I can see that I can lock an entire module until the student has submitted an assignment. But I cannot see any way to lock an individual it...

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Our school uses Canvas for both online and face-to face courses. Since the school has campuses in several states as well as online courses, the time zone for courses can vary between the Pacific, Mountain and Arizona time zones. To make it more confu...

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I'd like to create bullet paragraphs (or bold or italicize or tab, etc.) when adding a comment on an assignment in SpeedGrader.  I don't see any menu of formatting options and wonder whether any keyboard shortcuts for formatting exist.

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When I update a question in a question bank, why does it not update that question in my existing quizzes? Is there a work around to make this happen.

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Hi! One of our teachers just noticed that there's a regular page in the assignment list (as you can see "Vecka 28-31, Atomer, blandningar och lösningar" is a page, not an assignment). How is that even possible?   // Rebecca 

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I'm updating a very old Canvas course that provides help to faculty with Canvas. When I add links to Canvas guide pages, the Rich Content Editor is creating links with no link text.  I'm far from an html expert, but I finally figured out that it is p...

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I want all my assignments to be discussions. I've created discussions (with their assignment instructions in them), but my students can't see them. Why?

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I am a new - 2 weeks old - Canvas Admin. I've used Canvas as a professor but I've never been on an implementation, launch team for an organization. HELP! Where do I start? This org just purchased the Basic package a month ago and was hit with the "su...

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We have found a glitch with the "Show one question at a time" option. If you select this option in a quiz with Numerical Answer, formula question or Fill in the blanks type of questions, answering with 0 will mark them unanswered in the sidebar.When ...

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Colleagues,I'd like to distribute some personalized information to each student at the end of the semester.  Right now, it's just a customized analysis of each student's performance.  This year, I'd like to add a blockcert (e.g., Learning Machines) t...

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I've noticed that many of our teachers have set their Canvas course visibility to public on their scheduled courses.  Some of these courses have submissions and grades, so the students must be logging in first and then going to the course.  Public ac...

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Hello, all. This is a common enough issue that I'm sure others have dealt with.Our enrollments are primarily handled through SIS integration or manual .csv uploads, but from time to time we need to enroll a single instructor in a course.It would be f...

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Can I import contents of google quiz into quizzes?

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Hi Canvas Community, We are looking for solutions to embed a mediawiki page  into CanvasLMS,  and we wanted to know if anyone has found a good solution to embed an external webpage to Canvas (other than using the iframe method). Ideally, we want to u...

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