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Is there a way to reorganize my imported announcements? I imported my Blackboard announcements, would like to reuse them, organize them and be able to only port certain announcements at a time.

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How can I customize the Login credentials email that is sent from Canvas ?

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I imported a previous course and changed the dates in the syllabus. However, the course summary is showing the previous course dates and I don't know how to change them. Any ideas??

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I made a "quiz" in canvas to use a unit test. I would like to now copy the questions straight into another quiz to make check-in quizzes to use as CFAs of students' progress during the unit. I would also like to be able to move questions that are alr...

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I am starting next semester on Canvas with the same material as the fall plus new material for the spring. I have four assignment groups : fall assignments, fall assessments as well as spring assignments and assessments. All of the fall assignments a...

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Is it only me or anybody else has noticed that in the editing mode of course page, the links linking to any sites or files no longer has the underline or being colored?  If you hover your mouse on the link, the underline will appear, but the link col...

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Is there a list of what each Canvas icon means?

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Our school has uniform Term dates and Admin is wanting to limit permissions to those.  Are Term permissions controlled under Course State?  Meaning, if Teachers do not have Course State permissions, will they be unable to change Term settings?Thanks!

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I'm new to Canvas, and I use Google Forms to collect student info that I like to have as a required assignment with points given in my course. Right now I have my google form embedded in my course, but I also have a requirement set that students must...

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I recently switched all quizzes to Quizzes Next and I have a couple of essay questions at the end of my courses. Since my courses are self paced it's important I receive a notification that grading is needed when any assignment requiring grading is s...

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Is there a way to allow a student to move forward even if he or she hasn't finished an assignment?  

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I receive this message (below) when trying to link a yt video using the external link feature (not embedding in a page). Anyone know what the problem is and how to fix?

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I need to set a quiz with sub questions. For example, question 1 has one general description of the question and I want students to answer three different questions (e.g.Question A,B,C ) based on this description. Students need to answer question A,B...

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How can I create a video to walk students through my Canvas course?

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Hola Canvas Community,Today I'm trying to make changes with the ORDER of my ANNOUNCEMENTS.I'm digging into past semesters for announcements I have already developed to copy and paste into my current semester.* I want to learn how to arrange my announ...

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I am updating a syllabus. I have a word document with a table in it. When I copy the table from Word to Cat Courses, the borders disappear. I can't figure out how to add borders within Cat Courses. I select a row and format the border (dashed) and no...

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I am trying to replicate a course into a new empty shell.  The courses that I am exporting/importing have been successfully cloned in the prior term using this same process & this error/issue did not appear.1. These courses have Mastery Path (they ar...

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Hi.This is new territory for me. Our Admissions/Enrollment team uses Hubspot heavily to monitor their application process. We're about to start offering something that basically amounts to "continuing ed/enrichment" through Canvas.The team would like...

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We are looking for a way for the students to stop doing the what if feature so they do not annoy teachers and tell them that if they get "x" they can do so much better in the class? Anyone else tried disabling this feature either on a global level or...

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I am creating a homepage template and have images that I would like to overlay with text so they are editable to the user. Is there a simple way to do this? Example, if I have a blue square image imported and would like to write text in the box.

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I am creating questions with Fill in Multiple Blanks in a quiz.  I was wondering if there is a way to make the answer box smaller when the students take the test?  Here is the question I created.  The size looks great when I create the question.Here ...

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One of our faculty needs a hardcopy of a student's exam results to talk with them about plagiarism.I can see how to print just a quiz (no student interaction) from the Teacher perspective, but how to print the results of a quiz for an individual stud...

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Can I use music from iTunes in a Canvas course, if I have permission from the publisher?

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Hello All,  Have you integrated or are you using apps such as Slack, Pronto or What's App in your courses?  If so, we would love to hear how you are using it, and has it increased student and/or faculty experience? How satisfied are you with it? What...

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We are running a self-hosted installation of Canvas on Google Cloud (using Bitnami deployment).  We would like to use the Roll Call attendance LTI.  Are there any instructions on how to set up Roll Call in this kind of environment?  On the GitHub pag...

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Like perhaps many of you who don't work in higher ed--and particularly those of you in a non-profit or corporate environment--I'm trying to figure out best practices for setting up courses. I'm working in a non-profit that uses Canvas for programming...

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Greetings Canvas Community!My institution is looking to purchase 15 university level courses for online delivery. We'll hire the online course instructor - we're just looking for the syllabus + course materials.How would you tackle this challenge? An...

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Hi, I'm hoping someone may be able to assist me with an authentication issue in Canvas, using the SAML config, I'm having difficulty passing federated attributes. Basically, this issue is that some attributes are working others are not, however, all ...

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Hi everyone,I am a Digital Learning Officer and I am trying to help academics with an issue relating to large file submissions (see below).Has anyone had any experience with students uploading AutoCAD files for student submission?Academics I work wit...

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I give in-class exams in Canvas to larger classes (~200 students).  In our last exam, we discovered as student using the Mac dictionary function within the Canvas exam.  This means that the student was clicking with 3 fingers on her trackpad while ho...

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