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I'm a "community member", but I still can't submit ideas; when I tried, I got redirected to https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/canvas-ideas/search-before-post-mode/true with message "You do not have sufficient privileges for ...

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I used to be able to transition from section to section in Speedgrader with no problem. This school year, I cannot do so! Instead I get "Show all sections." I have to leave Canvas and go back in to get to the section I want. Does anyone have a fix fo...

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Hello!I am an instructor and account owner and trying to import a course into Canvas Instructure and am receiving an error message "Zip file would exceed quota limit."Is this the quota for the course or for our Canvas account? What can I do to remedy...

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Good morning, I am running into an issue when trying to make accessible tables. I attempt to add a caption to the table, which shown in the community post Table Accessibility in Canvas ,  should appear above the table.   In my attempt to add a captio...

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Hey Community,  We are having a first world problem in our office.  We use a portal to login to our canvas instance.. In the last month, when you click on the Canvas link in our portal, it opens the App not in Chrome.. We have this experience with Ch...

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None of the new freshman and/or transfer students are appearing in Canvas after the nightly PowerSchool sync is sent.  We have 120+ new students who don't show up in Canvas, even though the sync status is successful.  These students cannot use Canvas...

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Hello Team, We would like to understand how course sizes (i.e., the number of enrolled students per course) are tracked and reported within Canvas for customers. Specifically, we are looking for: The best way to retrieve the number of students enrol...

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How far can you go with this?

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Hi there,I need help as I am the Admin of two schools using Canvas. I oversee over 50 courses at a time and can see them all in one of my schools' Dashboard, but for some reason, I am limited to 20 in the other school. Is there a way to remove the ca...

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It used to be that after you entered a score, pressing "Enter" would move on to the next student. Now, you have to move your cursor up to the arrow to move onto the next student. I know this may seem minor, but for "low" stakes assignments that are q...

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So the batch edit allows us guess which dates in the future we want for the "available from" and "available until" date. However, there are often assignments added during the course. When I import the course, the dates don't match, so using the BATCH...

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I used to see an option for that, but don't see it now. Is this a setting my designers need to turn on?

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What are the system requirements of Canvas

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Is it typical for Canvas support to be so bad?  I put in a ticket requesting help because our SIS integration kept wiping out Account Admin access. I complained to my customer success team who then said I needed to get into the support admin portal t...

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I would really like for grades of zero to set an automatic status of "missing" because having to do this manually is time consuming. This is really more of a request than a question. "Late" is an automatic status which I really appreciate, but zeros ...

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I have created different groups for my class to easily extend due dates to students with extended time. While testing how grades would be displayed on my school's gradebook (Focus) I created an assignment, created different due dates using the aforem...

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Students who submit or resubmit work to Canvas after I've entered the grades into our official gradebook are expected to email me screenshots of improved grades in Canvas. I then update them in our official gradebook outside Canvas. This used to work...

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I recently copied last school year's Canvas page (Not the Sandbox) into my new classes. When my students open their page for my class it says, "This page was blocked on Dec. 20, 2004." They are able to click on the modules, but the main home page won...

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Our district is switching to Canvas LMS from all Microsoft. I would like to continue to use my OneNote class notebook content. Is it possible to have more than one Class Notebook per Canvas course so that I can have one per period. (class periods are...

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Does anyone have a suggestion concerning presenting bot proof check in activity for a 1st day of college online class?

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I am a lecturer, and we are using Outcomes to assess if students are learning certain subjects.  Currently, we have access to individual student outcome numbers, as well as the average for our class for each Outcome.  What would be most useful to the...

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The Announcement dates feature is a royal pain. Why can't you add a publish or unpublish button without having to add a future date to avoid publishing? Why can't you add a batch edit feature for the dates like there is for assignments? It's very inc...

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How can a teacher see revisions and edits for a resubmitted paper/written assignment? For example, a student receives teacher feedback on a draft, then resubmits--how can the teacher merely view the revisions, i.e. color-coding or highlighting? 

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Is it possible to edit instructor comments once submitted in Speedgrader? Previously, I could do this by going into the Gradebook and there was a pencil icon to edit the comment. Now, I only see a trashcan icon to delete the comment.  When a small er...

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Good day, My you kindly assist me with locating the text and exam schedule.MI0367960

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How do you make students re-view content if they do not complete their assignment to 100% completion mark? I have an e-learning course they must watch then answer a quiz and if they do not get 100 % I want them to be taken back to the content to rewa...

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Why is Canvas telling me I have a "Major Issue" with the YoutTube video embedded on my class Home page??The error message says, "Video is not public! Make it public so users can access it!"I'm sorry, but are the designers here completely unaware of w...

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Hello Canvas Community,As a new faculty member transitioning to Canvas from D2L, I'm experiencing significant frustration with the current training resources that are hindering my ability to effectively learn the platform. I hope the community and In...

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I'd like to be able to test that the correct assignments are (or are not) showing up for students in each differentiation group. How can I test/preview this? The 'test student' does not show up in the People section, so I'm not able to assign a tag t...

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