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The included videoplayer of Canvas automatically selects the lowest preset and doesnt support for shortcuts, like spacebar for play/pause and speed up/slow down. I would like to there be a general settings page or that embedded videos auto play at th...

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I accidentally dropped a class offered by my school and it won't let me re-enroll in it or complete any assignments. How do I re-enroll if I clicked the wrong button when simply trying to "View the Course Calendar". Please help.

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I have found access to past courses but there is a class that I took and completed but I don't see it on the list. Is there any way I can gain access to that course again somehow?

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I have many items in my gradebook, so I have to scroll horizontally in the grades window to get to all of the assignments. If I'm way on the right side of the gradebook and quickly scroll left to the far edge of the window, I'm kicked out of the grad...

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It would be great if when using the "Copy to..." function the item being copied would be unpublished when it is populated in the new course. I have same courses but different start dates and when I copy something from one course to another it will po...

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Canvas - As their instructor, how can I have a student's view of all the work they posted? She said she attached I file but I can't see it.

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A published practice quiz is missing from the Canvas Gradebook — there is not a column for it. It is in the list of quizzes under Quizzes, but is absent in the Gradebook. How do I get it to appear in the Gradebook?

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Hello,I am hosting Canvas LMS packaged by Bitname in Azure.I would like to use SSO with Entra ID.My problem is that Canvas gives me a redirect URL that starts with http and not https.Canvas shows me this redirect URL to enter in the application in Az...

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My school uses an online student planner and my classes start in a few days but it doesn't tell me what time they are.

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There are no closed captions for videos recorded in Canvas using the Media Recorder on the RCE, therefore I would like to disable the recorder so teachers will only use links to the captioned videos they create outside of Canvas. I would like to disa...

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Is there a log someplace that tells me when an instructor published a course?

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Hello! My university has self-paced courses where each student begins at different times and completes all their coursework within a set timeframe. Instructors monitor their students’ progress throughout the course to ensure they’re staying on top of...

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This one is tricky. In a particular course, students have to complete four assignments between October and April. The catch is that different students complete different ones based on their rotation. We are trying to find an automated way to see who ...

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how do i  link an app (that doesn't require sign in) in assignments?

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Can someone please post step by step instructions on how to sign-up for the one day annual refresher course for CPI. I'm new to Canvas and am a bit lost when it comes to navigating the system. Thanks a bunch,-Robert Morrison

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where do i find the due dates and descriptions of all my assignments please?

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Has anyone ever had the issue of generating an ePub but all the page content is missing/blank? I regenerated a course to ePub today. Original version was fine. New version is blank.

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I suspect this is counter-productive, but is there a way to lock modules in the blueprint so that the receiving faculty can not delete them? Meaning, after building classes from the blueprint, we do not want faculty deleting modules. If the original ...

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We have a pretty big situation. Many of our vendor items allow students to revisit them and sometimes resubmit them. However, even if the first attempt is submitted well within the due date, if they revisit and submit again it will be marked late. Th...

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Has anyone written or found some code that can be applied so that whenever  a teacher creates a new page or assignment or discussion instead of having that new page, assignment, or discussion be completely blank it can already have our district-appro...

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Colleagues, Perhaps we are not understanding this correctly. We have individuals whom we would like to have a custom account role with special permissions. So, we create that "role" under Account Roles. Great. But we cannot find where to actually app...

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Context: I'm a 9-12 social studies teacher of students with a wide variety of needs.With Classic quizzes and currently with assignments, when we excuse a student, they cannot submit work or even take the quiz.However, with new quizzes, my students wh...

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Role:  StudentI'm requesting instructions detailing how to record a video using Canvas, and then upload the video as part of an assignment.Thanks for your help.  

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How do I hide the grades/comments of just a few students. I have 2 students who plagiarized. I wrote lots of feedback on their papers before I caught it, so I don't want to delete that. I have not given them actual grades. How do I post the rest of t...

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When an individual gets enrolled into a course as an observer, is the default position on announcements switched to on?

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RE: Peer Reviews, Can you please include in Peer Reviews  a button/link to delete a specific peer review from being included in automatic assignments. Similar to emails generated and we can move or delete them. Thank you. 

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How are users notified when Commons content they brought into their Canvas course has been updated? is there anything other than the Updates tab in Commons?

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We have an issue with a former student who, when searched by name in google shows a result that is a file in our Canvas instance. When you click the result it downloads a file with sensitive information (from original course). The file had been delet...

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Hello!I am student unable to use the Canvas record video tool - the created video never actually loads or submits - the wait-while-this-submits-circle keeps on spinning; the instructors cannot access my (attempted) submission. Is this a known problem...

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I am a Canvas Site Admin and have been a site admin for other organizations. In those organizations I can reset a students password for them. On my new one I no longer have that option. What do I need to do to make it so I can reset my students passw...

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