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I need to add an unfiled question to an existing question bank. When I click to manage my question banks, the page only shows my bank of unfiled questions (not the other banks; see attached pic). Also, when I try to move an unfiled question to anothe...

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My student roster was emailed to me. How do I add it to Canvas?

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In the assignment, I can add a rule to drop the lowest grade in the final grade calculation. However, I do not want to drop the lowest grade (say, a zero) assigned for academic dishonesty. I would like to add an exception to the rule for a particular...

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I created a new account and the course I am working on will not allow me to change the visibility to public. It says "If you need to make your course public please contact your administrator/support." I am the only person associated with this course ...

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I have assigned a Delta Math test through Canvas.  I would like to set up the test corrections.  Is there a way to set these up so that the students' test grade automatically updates once they complete the corrections?

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My school had us reset our passwords but I forgot to and I am now logged out of my account. Thankfully I am still logged into my canvas but I do not have access to my email, google drive, etc. I tried logging back in but it says that my password was ...

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Hello,We have institution-wide memberships of both Google Workspace and Microsoft Office 365. Hence, all instructors and students have access to the Google and MS Office cloud products. Since both also offer good LTI's for Canvas, we actually can int...

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i accidently posted the incorrect rubic.  How do I remove or replace or replace a rubic?

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There are two of my daughter's classes that do not show up when I go into my observer account.  When I go to "all courses" these two are listed but are gray.  How can I pull them in?

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I added some Chrome extensions and then started a quiz for my class.  The quiz would not load.  I logged off Canvas using the Chrome browser and logged in using Microsoft Edge and was able to complete the quiz.  I deleted those Chrome extensions from...

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I am an assistant principal reviewing some teacher page views and have come across a teacher that has multiple entries with the following ending with assignments query string redacted.   These views are occurring at the same time throughout the day f...

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I'm new at this. How do I assign weightings for different types of work - e.g., homework counts for 30%, tests for 50%, class participation 20% - so that Canvas calculates the overall grade the way I want it?

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We are considering using "Folio" within our Canvas instance, the ePortfolio built by Portfolium.  When our students graduate, they lose access to Canvas. Does this mean they will lose access to the Folio (ePortfolio) they built while they were at our...

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Hi,  We give our advisors an admin permission set in Canvas.  It seems when they register themselves in Banner for a course as a student, ILP rebuilds their account and they lose those admin rights but I'm not 100% positive that's what's happening.  ...

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I am working with our IT admin on a project, and think this might be the right place to ask it.We’ve had our Teams integration (sidebar access) disabled in Canvas since we started using it because our college still uses Exchange 2013 for our email ba...

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Hi,I've manually assigned peer reviews to a group of students, and it shows up in their To-Do list.  However, they are getting 'access denied' error while accessing it. For context -The assignment is created for 'everyone', but only half of the class...

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I used a test bank that does not import test files to Canvas but does offer to export test files (exams) in format MIS QTI 1.2, How do I import such files in Canvas, please? ROLE: Instructor

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Our course quizzes are not currently accessible with Jaws when using Chrome and Edge. The screen reader skips over the question answers, making it impossible for students to complete the course quizzes successfully. We want to make Canvas and others ...

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If I enable "Shuffle Answers" in the Settings tab, that means ALL question answers will be shuffled, right? Does that mean if I only want just a few questions's answers to be shuffled, I'd use "Shuffle Choices" in those questions?  

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Hello All,  My team and I are currently having an issue with the resume behavior of our Rise lectures when we import the SCORM package into Canvas.  We post Rise 360 lectures as pages with SCORM 1.2.  The LMS seems to be tracking student progress wit...

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As I am adding questions to a question bank, how do I count the current number of questions? It's kind-of awkward to scroll up and down while manually counting them.   BTW the captcha is an annoying waste of my time. I'm already logged in using my sc...

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My gradebook is in chaos in a way I have not encountered before. in the "assignments" and "Total" columns, I am seeing numbers such as 645% and, for a student missing about 1/2 o the 20 points of work assigned so far, a grade of 453%.  What is happen...

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Is there a way to change the time displayed on canvas from the 12-hour format to the 24-hour format? Although it is an easy mental conversion, I have grown accustomed to reading time in the 24-hour/military time format rather than utilizing AM/PM, an...

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I have my gradebook set to automatically mark work not submitted as missing. When work gets submitted and graded (both for manually graded items and auto-graded quizzes), it is still marked as missing even though there was a submission and a grade. I...

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Hello!  A teacher here is using OneNote through his Canvas course. It was working fine until a new student was added recently (added in Canvas) and now he is unable to adjust the settings on the collaboration space. This is the error: "Failed to get ...

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When creating a Quiz that checksLet Students See Their Quiz Responses (Incorrect Questions Will Be Marked in Student Feedback)Only Once After Each AttemptLet Students See The Correct AnswersCanvas needs to also automatically check the "Grade Posting ...

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Would it be possible to alter the file type the canvas app generates when it scans? Currently, it takes scans and uploads the files as a Jpeg and not a PDF. The jpegs are attached as individual files and are very very difficult to grade. Many of the ...

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Hello!I was wondering, is there a way to change how far into the future the "To Do" bar shows? As of now, it only shows this week, and I was hoping it could show longer periods of time, mostly to help me with planning how long I have to get projects ...

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Hi there Canvas Community!When building assessments is there a way to break out assessment scoring and grades by two custom dimensions such as topic and skill/problem solving method?Thank you! 

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