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A few of our earners have reported that the emails containing the verification code for setting up a new account are extremely slow to appear in their inboxes, sometimes so slow that they go beyond the availability time of the code. We suggested they...

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Hello! I am an instructor and I created a group assignment on canvas, but for some reason canvas is recognising the assignment as an individual assignment.So, when I try to use SpeedGrader, it's showing me that a number of students have missing assig...

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Hello! We are currently using Canvas as a student activities platform at our institution. We have multiple courses with student groups (so students can be a part of more than one group), and students join the groups they are interested in through the...

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Is it possible to create an outcome for students to use to assess themselves and be tracked in the learning mastery grade book? 

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What is the best way to check if a user is authorized to create a conversation via the Canvas API for a specific recipient user?  I am seeing odd behavior using this API endpoint:  https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/conversations.html#method.conv...

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Hi all! So a little bit of background about the way our system works: Our courses are populated into Canvas by our SIS, but they are all dumped into our main account. Before the beginning of each semester, I manually run a CSV upload to separate thos...

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Instructor wants students to see the test questions that they got wrong directly after they take their test and are sitting in the room.  If quiz is opened it does not close after the test time completed, students are able to see the test for several...

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We are building our SCORM package using Articulate and have run into a problem with Tabs.  In one section the content is reviewed using 6 tabs across the top.  Clicking on the tabs works just fine but not all the tabs are visible without clicking on ...

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I am a university dean and the educational technology team reports to me.  I asked them for information on automatically generating weekly reports of student and instructor activity in Canvas courses (number of postings, number of responses, etc.), s...

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At our institution we have a variety of "Peer Mentor" (PM)-type roles: students who are placed in undergraduate classes as advisors/mentors/tutors to the enrolled students. The PM is a fellow matriculated undergrad, but not enrolled in the course (in...

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Are there any plans to expand Outcomes from the course to the Account level?by placing Outcomes in the students' Account file under EfolioI would like to have Students' able to report their competency attainment and progression across the education p...

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Is there a way to choose the "drop the lowest grade" in an assignment category but isolate it to one marking period?  When you choose this option now, it applies it to all marking periods instead of only the current one.  We have four marking periods...

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Is it possible to have a "not applicable" column to a rubric that will automatically lower the total points?

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I have not received another email with a backup email to use for my login and I also cannot see the green box for accepting the program

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PowerPoint embedded from a Onedrive losses it's annotation options    I am attempting to store all of my course work PowerPoint files  on Onedrive and then embed them into the course material in pages of Canvas.   This gives our teachers t...

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Hi all, I seem to be having issue with accessing the skills map google sheets with my registered email address, can someone help?

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It says my login details are invalid, I cannot access kritik with my canvass login

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As a K-12 teacher, I regularly cut off assignments about 1 week prior to the end of a quarter to give me time to grade work, re-grade late submissions, and account for student absences causing them to miss a due date.  This means that there is overla...

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If we have a course with 2 components (ie. a lab component and a lecture component), and we have the two components weighted as 80% of the grade and 20% of the grade, is there a way to also set a threshold for each component in order to pass the cour...

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In the past when I attached a Google item (slide or doc) using the external tool Google Assignment LTI 1.3 I was able to modify and edit the slides in my Drive BEFORE students opened the assignment and made a copy of the document. Once they did, it s...

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In Blueprint child courses, when a Page that synced from the Blueprint parent course is set as the home/front page it displays as blank.Has anyone else seen this? This only seems to happen for Pages created after early October, so I'm wondering if it...

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Our courses are randomly put up for auditing by the Administration and in order for the auditors to have temporary access, we a calendar to keep track of who, when, and where each has to be.Is there a way to set an expiration on a specific user's enr...

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I dont have the Green Accept Button on Top of Canva Home screen , I know it's important to click accept , but I can't find it

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Is GA tracking working still on your instance of Canvas? I changed nothing but is no longer works.

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Students have uploaded pdf files to a quiz and the annotation tools are not in the Docviewer. I have tried Firefox and Chrome. I have attached a screenshot. 

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I am asking this question on behalf of one of the teachers at my school, as the technology specialist.The learning mastery gradebook is repeating outcomes without alignments (see attached photo), so it is repeating the outcome in the gradebook multip...

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I am looking to see if anyone here has found a way to pull a report out of Canvas Analytics that would give me just a list of courses in [TERM] that aren't using or updating their gradebooks? 

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I can access other 3rd party applications, like McGraw HIll but not Pearson. I am able to access Pearson from my laptop with no problem. 

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If I import information from Banner to populate the integration_id, is there a way to have the integration_id field visible in the people list or the grade book?

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Admin is given a UI function as well as an API to suspend users and reactivate them. But from the user's perspective, it's unclear why their access was suspended, because the error message simply says "Canvas does not have an account for user: <login...

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