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All,Maybe I'm missing something, but as I see it now, students cannot see details / feedback on older versions of an assignment submission.  Consider the following test case:1) Test Student - submit assignment2) Instructor - grade assignment 3) Test ...

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In canvas I'm now missing my Math tab under courses. Why would it be gone? I haven't been able too see any of my grades for my summer course I just took my final in 3 days ago. Please help

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Help a future Admin searching for the top 20 things they should know when they jump into Canvas head first!We're excited that they have an amazing group like you, but we are also interested in providing them a Getting Started guide likeGetting Starte...

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Not the easiest to explain...but how would one get the content on a page to shrink relative to the entire page?Say you have a header with text and a video embedded.  When you "restore down" or otherwise shrink the page by grabbing a corner and pullin...

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I didn't get a comment on the actual Production Release page, but I was curious if anyone else saw this:Grades and Concluded Grading PeriodsWhen the multiple grading periods feature is enabled, instructors cannot assign or edit grades for an assignme...

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Is there a way to change the background color on a page?  I have tried HTML code & it doesn't work.

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Hello,For my class I am hoping to use a threaded discussion board so students can post responses to initial prompts (call this a post), and then also respond to their peers' responses (call this a response). A student might make both a post AND a res...

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A few questions about organizing terms and data storage:How many terms on average are active/fully available (vs read-only) in your production instance at a time?How long on average do you tend to leave a given term active in your production instance...

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Our group is looking to implement Canvas and come up with best practices on interface design.  Does anyone know if Canvas has conducted any user experience testing on course designs?I saw the following, but wanted to see if there was any more Canvas ...

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Have any of you dealt with questions from faculty concerned about grades going out via email, text, twitter, etc. and the possibility that this violates some aspect of FERPA?Heidi

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Hi all,On the Hidden Canvas Permissions thread there was some discussion of sharing permission structures that work for people. I don't want them to get lost on the other thread, so I thought we could start this place to compare notes and give new ad...

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Is there a list of the current issues with various browsers? I've seen the guide regarding browsers (Which browsers does Canvas support?​) but about 75% of our user problems derive from browser issues. Firefox works the best, and we've had no problem...

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I'm looking for ideas for an assignment in which students post videos describing a potential group project & then students vote on the projects to create a top 5 list. The idea is to replicate a formerly in class activity in the online environment. E...

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I am totally clueless. I hit add as the FRONT PAGE and I really didnt want it to be the page people are directed to and that comes up first in pages?can anyone help?

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We finally got the go ahead to create the integration with TurnItIn LTI. We followed all the instructions on Help Center site but we keep getting this error when setting up an assignment. Any ideas? Deactivated user​. Looping Deactivated user​ in thi...

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Is there a way to change the subtotals in the grade book (created through assignment groups) be changed from percentage to points?

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Hi,Received a strange error while previewing a quiz after importing a simple canvas package. the message says - This question was imported from an external source. It was a '' question, which is not supported in this quiz tool. The canvas package was...

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Hello all,I am hoping that you can give me some ideas here, or at least alleviate my fears.Situation:We only add students in our SIS to CanvasWe use an LDAP system for authentication and only users in our SIS is in the LDAPAssessment department wants...

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I received the following error when importing the Sections into the courses.  I have looked at the guides and cross-checked my csv file with the sample and I cannot find the error in the file. Here is the error that I am receiving "no course_id", how...

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Hey everyone,I'm not sure if this is the appropriate section for this (I cross-posted with Canvas Developers), but I'll just put it out there.We're trying to deploy the open source version of Canvas on Heroku. It seems that others (in the Google grou...

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Has anyone tried to come up with some sort of basic Admin Console to hold all of their various web-based API tools?  For example, you have a web-based tool that looks up instructors-by-term or another tool that looks up how many courses have been pub...

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Greetings,How can I add someone as a teacher/TA to multiple courses at once? or by the same token, have Teacher/TA access to a swath of courses? I can imagine that making a sub-account would take care of it. My institution is new, however, and is squ...

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After support responds to a ticket, but does not fully resolve the issue, I believe the status goes to "pending." When there's a bit more info on an issue or I'd like a bit more information, I've often needed to somehow get the attention of support s...

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Hey everyone,Is it possible to set an entire course as a prerequisite for other courses?I know this can be done at the Module level, but we'd like to implement it at the Course level.Thanks!Chris

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How have you set up elementary courses in your school? I am having trouble seeing how the grade books could be set up to make this work. Does anyone have any experience with this?

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How did you set up the grade book for elementary teachers teaching multiple subjects in one course? I would like to know if any schools have found a way to do this successfully.

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I am trying to embed a Remind widget into my course page.  I go to the HTML Editor and paste the code they gave me:<script src="https://widgets.remind.com/iframe.js?token=3d3bfc90e5d3013277eb3f9249bd17cc"></script>When I save it, the page is empty.  ...

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How long do you keep users in Canvas after a course is concluded? I'm doing some admin work at the high school level and most of the users in Canvas have graduated. Should I get this cleaned up before uploading new users?

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Hello Everyone,I am trying to embed a Microsoft 365 document into a "Page." I have the LTI for OneDive activated and turned on. The only time the document appears is when I have another window open with that window logged into my OneDrive account. If...

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Hello All!I'm new here so please forgive me if I'm posting this question in the wrong group:-) I need your genius. How do I change (gve permission) for a regular user to a course teacher. I want them to be able to create their own courses and handle ...

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