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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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Google LTI assignments and linking student accounts is suddenly (as of last week) not available to my students. PLEASE HELP! At least 95% of assignments are done through Google LTI in my NINE classes.I have already tried enrolling another student in ...

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I have recently finished all of my Paraprofessional classes, and I am trying to take the ECCAT classes.  Currently I'm trying to start Kindergarten, but when I go to that course, all I am able to do is look at the standards.  On the very last page of...

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The names of the assignment submissions are sometimes given a GUID suffix. The screen snippet below is the listing of submissions from a calculator lab - the files as submitted by students were Main, calculator, lab5, etc. Some files get a dash and a...

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new quizzes does not allow student to view their exam one time after completing the test. If I allow the student to review their exam they will continue to have access to the exam after the test is completed, after the class is over, and the exam can...

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Hi, I have courses where a certificate for that course is valid for a period of 5 years. After that, the student must go over it like it is starting from 0. I did not find any way of doing it. Please advise. You can assume that we do not need histori...

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Why is it so difficult to highlight a small portion (a word or single sentence) when commenting on student work?  Students have submitted their work (google slides or google docs) and I end up repeatedly highlighting an entire section of their work r...

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I am an instructor. I have received directions from McGraw-Hill on how to upload their Test Builder files into Canvas. I tried both the Classic directions as well as the QTI New. The directions don't appear to work.  I tried uploading both types of f...

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How do I recommend for development a change to the save button in new quizzes?  Having a save button do ANYTHING other than return you to your CURRENT page is frustrating.  (not to mention I have never seen any save button in any UI behave this way.)...

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