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Is anyone having any current problems with VeriCite? We have a few faculty members saying that they are not getting originality reports back.

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What is file format to populate sub-accounts with courses?

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Anybody having issues with the To Do list on the dashboard not populating?  One of my instructors said she had a problem with this yesterday so I referred her to Canvas support.  Then this morning the same thing happened to me (I am both admin and in...

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Is anyone starting to incorporate Augmented or Virtual Reality in their courses? There is a lot of buzz about it in different chatrooms and blogs. If so, what type of courses are you using it in?

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I just started teaching a course in Canvas today.  Under People, I can see who has logged into the class and who has not.  Is there a way to message all the students who have no logged in yet?  I know I can add their names to a message one by one, bu...

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Hello, we're looking for a web programmer/developer for Clark County School District. If you (or you know of someone) that would be interested in such a job in Las Vegas, give them a nudge to check it out. Division - Technology and Information System...

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How do I put a course into the "Past Enrollments" section?  Is this done by the IT department in my university or do I do this somehow when I "complete" or "conclude" a course?Please advise.  Many thanksChris

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I use groups in many different ways in my classes and have recently been getting some comments from students about the large number of groups they have to manage across all of their courses.In looking at this from the student perspective, I can see w...

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I wanted to share unexpected pitfalls I've found while working with Blueprints. My main example is using the blueprint_course_id field. Let's say you already have 100 courses associated with Blueprint_A. Next, you upload one new course using an SIS i...

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We have been transitioning from our Blackboard Managed Hosting system (ending June 2018) over to Canvas.  As a Blackboard System Administrator I could go into the Authentication Logs and view the current login activity to see if users are successfull...

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We have been set up with LDAP for over 18 months and it is working fine. For the past few months though, the "Test LDAP Authentication" feature on the Authentication page has failed to bind. Logins are flowing normally and have been. The problem we a...

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Hi there,So I've read through How do I grade group assignments in SpeedGrader?, but it doesn't really lay out the steps needed to grade a group assignment and then change individual grades, without having to look up multiple help documents.  I like t...

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Suddenly, there's something called "Test Student" that's shown in in one of my gradebooks! (It's not in all my courses...just one.) Anybody have any idea of what this is...and how to get rid of it??

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Has anyone used or heard of Verbit.ai?  They seem to provide outstanding closed captioning at a reasonable price and integrate with Canvas.  If you have any information - good, bad, or indifferent, I would welcome your feedback.  If you prefer to con...

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I have set up a competency-based course using mastery paths. I have need to export this course, or make it available through Commons, to give it to others who want to use it on their own Canvas instances. Also, I need to be able to copy the course wi...

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Dear Colleagues,Our IT staff has been tasked with ensuring that a student's preferred name and pronouns are displayed throughout our campus information systems. We would like to extend this information to the Canvas class roster and user profile as a...

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Suppose I have several quizzes, each possibly out of a different number of points. I'd like for each quiz to be given equal weight in the Canvas gradebook. Is this the default, or do I somehow have to specify this? (I can go back and rescale all the ...

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Can an admin add a person outside of our school district to view a course? They would only need access to observe the course. If so, how is that accomplished?

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My school has a rolling enrollment, as such I have a number of students who joined mid way through content at varying places. In the new grade book, I saw a handy late submission box, and checked it thinking it would make my life much easier by autom...

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There seems to be no way in Canvas to get a downloadable list of members in a group. Even for a moderately large class this is a serious difficulty. it is even difficult to compile the list manually since (a) the names are often truncated and (b) the...

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We are new to Canvas and I found out that macros in PowerPoint are not supported in Canvas.  What do you all use to create the interactive games and can be used also on the Canvas mobile app? Thanks,Stephanie

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I'm still learning Canvas, and created a group assignment without evidently setting the group component correctly. Now I have graded the group assignments submitted by one person from each group, leaving in-document feedback using SpeedGrader, and ne...

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As an administrator customizing our help menu, I would love to set up a link similar to a mailto link but to message a specific person using the internal Canvas conversations tool. This is preferable to using a standard mailto link since many of our ...

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Does anyone have a high quality example of content pages that are set up for students based upon the day of the week. I would like examples that are laid out well and have assignments, discussions and quizzes embedded in the page. 

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I vaguely remember seeing some CSS or JS trick to have a global icon only visible for a specific role, but I can't seem to find that thread anymore.  Does anyone have info on this - either the trick itself or link to previous threads about this topic...

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We have faculty who are looking for a way to tie questions delivered through the quizzes tool directly to outcomes to show mastery. I've not been able to find straight-forward information about whether this is possible. They've been told the ExamSoft...

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Hey,Is there an easy way to use the icons from the stylesheet (http://instructure.github.io/instructure-icons/ ) in pages? Do teachers need to upload these icons into there course or can they use some embed code?

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Hi everyone,I'm looking for a way to download the course roster with group membership identified for each student (e.g., a column in the spreadsheet that contains the group number/name).  I have heard that this data can be pulled through the API and ...

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Is there an LTI App integration in the works for Articulate 360 eLearning software?

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This question goes out to anyone in the Canvas community. So I wanted to try and figure out if Canvas offers any type of student surveys designed for administrators. Currently at our school we are using an a Service called Evaluation Kit to help admi...

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