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Or is Theme Editor only accessible to Admin's and for Global Settings?Some teachers expressed an interest in different backgrounds and themes for their courses.  I"m not sure where that is set up--I don't see Theme Editor as an option inside a course...

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Most webcams students use to submit homework videos are capable of shooting in 16:9, but the video input recorded through Canvas is set at 4:3. Is there a way to tell Canvas to record in 16:9? Having students record in another program and upload thei...

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Does anyone have any code they can share to create a course role with the following permissions.  can view contentcan view gradebookcannot edit gradecan view quizzes questions, but cannot view exam questions (midterm and final exams)Basically, the us...

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I know I am! And what's worse, this investigation is never more than a confirmation of what the faculty and student are already seeing along with some additional information from page view history. None of this really helps investigate whether or not...

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I created a Pinned discussion and want to arrange the posts from newest to oldest instead of the default oldest to newest. Other than clicking and dragging, is there a way to do this?

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Does anyone know of a way to allow collapsible panels to work within Canvas? Ideally it would work with an html page in Files.

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Many people using gradebook probably need to audit their grades from time to time, indeed their institute may require it.When you exceed even a fairly modest number of grade entries in a course, gradebook history stops reporting anything at all.Quest...

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           Blackboard Teaching & Learning Roadmap (November 2015) video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbuCKEqn9JE

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Has anyone else noticed that calendar entry titles no longer word-wrap? That the titles just cut-off.Would anyone happen to know what the character length is for Calendar entry titles?Example:

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I have a master course and a live course and the live course quiz question types on some questions are different.  A student took the exam and wasn't able to answer some questions because the question types were incorrect, so an essay box and fill in...

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Has anyone heard of or found a clever technique that students can use to view/Preview course files (linked in a Page/etc. or from Files or /files) that will mask the fact that they did view/download the file? I've done things every which way from Sun...

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We have more than one unit (sub account) on our campus that utilizes a separate SIS system from the other units.Currently we appoint an SIS admin for the unit and allow them to upload the SIS update; that is being done via the UI.Given the problems t...

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As a college that uses narrative evaluation rather than letter grades,our campus would greatly appreciate the ability to customize this particular course navigation link (at the account-level).And if this is currently possible, we'd love to know how ...

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It just came to my attention that right now there is no way to delete chat messages in Canvas. We had a situation where a student posted private/confidential information in a chat session with an Instructor and since we can't delete it we are now for...

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At the University of Oslo, we are using Camtasia Studio to record and produce mini-lectures. The final product consist of a folder that contains 8 files of the following types: html, xml, css, swf, mp4, png. Is there a simple way to import/embed thes...

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I have faculty who have created quizzes in Canvas, but have later realized that they'd like those quiz questions to be added to question banks. From what I can see, it is possible to add a question bank question to a quiz, but not the reverse. Can so...

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Using Tabs in Your Canvas CourseVideo Link - http://screencast.com/t/y8kKgBuGOWT8 Utilizing tabs in your course may be a good idea for a variety or reasons.Aesthetics – Tabs can improve your course design by making your course more visually appealing...

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The  @jivedocs_unfede ​ has provided Canvas users with a guide on how to cross-list sections in a course but does not have a tutorial video for cross-listing in this community.   I was recently speaking with a Community Member and he loves the video ...

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I'm working on a Canvas Gradebook hands-on, online training session for instructors. I'd like to provide each participant access to an individual,  populated Canvas Gradebook so they can experiment during the session.

Is this possible? Any advice is...

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We just completed our annual student (and faculty) tech survey. We do it each year, then look at trend analysis. It's based on the EDUCAUSE (ECAR) research instrument. It's pretty comprehensive. (The results are 85 pages.) n= 1,100. As it relates to ...

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Is there a way to merge Canvas accounts for students and staff?  We have several students in programs outside our school who participate in Canvas as well as teachers who are in higher ed that use Canvas.  Is there a way to merge these accounts for a...

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I  just got a report from a faculty member who has been using Canvas for a while that he "had a bunch of information for students in posts on this discussion and they have just disappeared!"I checked his site and can't find the posts he said that he ...

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Is it possible to get a single canvas_course_id or an array of canvas_course_ids returned using the API? Here's what I'm running.curl -s -F attachment=@"$zip_file" -F "extension=zip&import_type=instructure_csv" -H "$AUTH_HEADER" "https://$MYDOMAIN.in...

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Is there a setting to include courses in the Report for Courses that do not have SIS IDs.  I am thinking that most or all of these courses were manually created and an SIS ID was not required, just a Course Code and Name.  *I was trying to prove that...

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All 11 of the Idea/Enhancement requests for having permissions that included add, edit, delete, remove, etc as one setting separated into multiple settings have received more than 100 votes and were moved into the Gathering Information stage. Canvas ...

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It is before the assignment due date, and one student accidentally submitted a partly completed assignment. I would like to give this one student an extra submission on the assignment, but I don't want to give the whole class two submissions. How do ...

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Hello.I am a high school teacher and pretty new to Canvas. I need to display my grades as a percentage score ( 100 point scale ) instead of points out of, for example, 25. I have a bunch of grades to record on another system this weekend and don't wa...

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Has anyone got the "comment" tags to work in a published Canvas Page?  Every time I add a comment <!-- Comment here --> to the page and publish it, Canvas wipes my code out. 

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Hi all,I uploaded a 5MB MP4 to a module in my course. When I click on the corresponding link, I'm told "Media has been queued for conversion, please try again in a little bit." This has been queued for 10+ minutes now. I've searched, but I can't find...

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If your institution opts to have a log-out period for security/privacy reasons there is currently no log-out session warning due to inactivity. This means that when a user is in the Canvas system, they are not alerted when their session expires or if...

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