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Is the Feedback Release Date only applicable if using GradeMark, or does it work if SpeedGrader is being used?Thanks!

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Hello fellow instructional designers and Canvas-ites!We are putting together a series of bite size, low stress, chunks of faculty development. These are going to be called Teach & Share and will be 45 min Google Hangouts.I was wondering if anyone in ...

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Is anyone using an online registration tool, such as GoSignMeUp? If so, what are you using and are there pros and cons to what you're using?Thanks!

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Hi,I would like to know if there's any report or other ways that I can find out those user account has no enrollment in Canvas.(i.e. a user account is created but not assigned to any of the Canvas courses)Thanks.

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I  am designing a Canvas based college level course for a start up institution that does not have instructional designers. The course is 90% completed but, while I am fairly proficient on Blackboard, I have struggled with finishing this canvas course...

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It is a discriminatory practice to only show the first 50 courses on this page, and then make you "use the finder" for the rest.  PSYChology & ZOOLogy are tired of being slighted.How about an A-Z Navigation Menu for this area so that I could quickly ...

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Can you assign a quiz or assignment to everyone in a class except certain people?

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How can a SCORM file that has been created by Articulate Storyline 1 or 2 can be integrated into Canvas LMS?Does Canvas LMS cooperate with SCORM (and what version) in order to track and report user progress?

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I have had a student request for a developer key in order to do a Senior Project developing a Canvas app. His intentions are good, and this seems like a worthy project, but I have concerns about doing this. If he creates an app (and presumably his in...

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I would like to integrate the full function of Khan Academy in my Canvas. This would include their comprehensive practice, quizzes, and progression tracking tool. Has anybody in the Canvas community had experience with this, and what do you suggest?

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I'm having a tough time getting Canvabadges to work right. Is anyone having any luck with any of the other 3rd party badging apps or have an idea of how I add the javascript to Canvas to make the badges viewable? I'd like users to be able to see thei...

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We are currently piloting Canvas, and all of my instructors are looking for a feature that we had grown to rely on in Moodle, and I am having no luck trying to replicate it in Canvas. Hoping someone here might have a suggestion or idea. For all cours...

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In working with Canvas Support about a permissions issue (I was trying to remove the masquerading privileged from a sub-account admin), it was brought to my attention that, "The reason that this "Become" option is showing up for you when it should no...

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Thanks to  @millerjm ​ we just noticed that our TAs have gained access to items that they did not have before and that Teachers still do not have access to.We have the following setting turned off for TAs:Change course stateOn the Course Settings Pag...

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Before the new year, my Jive community newsletter would include a list of 5-8 trending discussions taking place in the community.   Now, my community newsletter is completely empty and only includes my contributions and tips/tricks section (both of w...

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Something really weird happened and we found this:- We ran SIS import with courses.csv and enrollment.csv- It created a course.- We added a teacher in manually ( not via SIS Import)- Then ran a SIS import for student enrollment, Canvas created a Sect...

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This is a fun one! Background:I had an instructor tell me that she set her quiz to "Show Correct answers at" a specific time, but that students were able to see their correct/incorrect answers before that time. This didn't sound right, so I tested it...

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Anyone out there have Premier/Tier 1 support from Instructure for your institution?  If so, how did you integrate it with your existing user support system?  Any tips to get the best bang for your buck with this service?  Any pitfalls that others sho...

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I've run into an exciting new problem - when Banner determined that a term had ended, it no longer kept those enrollments on the export.  Canvas decided this meant it should delete the enrollments from the courses from that term, and I'm not really s...

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Is it possible to embed an already existing Wix site into Canvas?

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I had quite a few students who had trouble doing a quiz on canvas recently. When students attempt to take quiz (using the app from an iPhone) the quiz time starts but no questions show. There is an error message that gives the code 8947. Students who...

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When a page is printed (either to PDF or paper), any internal course links display the source of that link. I can see this as being great for accessibility purposes and knowing the source of those links, but can cause formatting issues when trying to...

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Hi all,Since the Canvas Beta Release Notes (2015-12-28), which will be in place this Saturday, our beta instance doesn't work as expected. For some reason when I use the Theme Editor to pick colors when I click the Preview button the colors revert ba...

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Hello!We're fairly new to Canvas, and have installed an LTI tool for What Do You Think? course evaluation. Having installed the LTI tool we get a message saying our institution isn't configured. We contacted their support and they have said it's some...

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I have a faculty member who wants to use the rubric as a self-evaluation tool  for her students, but they don't have access to rubrics in Canvas. Any ideas on an online solution that would work in the same way? It can be within Canvas or an app.TIASt...

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I apologize if this is a repeat question (I did do a search). I am new to the admin role in Canvas.....new to Canvas as well! Our campus is piloting Canvas for a few select courses this Spring. As such I have a few faculty who want me to preview thei...

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Hey Admins!  We noticed a change and I'm not sure when it took place.  Our first term on Canvas was Fall 2015.  We spent a lot of time figuring out how to configure our term dates and student access/participation settings to have it work how we neede...

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According to the Canvas Production Release Notes for Jan. 9, 2016, students' enrollment types can now be set to "inactive." In the SIS Import Format documentation, enrollment status can only be set as active, deleted, or completed when using SIS impo...

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Has anybody heard of a way to temporarily turn hosted Canvas "OFF" for local admin maintenance purposes (like a custom page users would see when under maintenance that we control).  I envision this as something in the Admin settings and we would use ...

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Hi All,I am trying to create a new role that will give a facilitator the ability to view all student submissions (assignments, quizzes, discussions) but not have the ability to grade the rubrics associated with them. I am not sure how to do that in t...

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