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As quiz multiple choice questions default to 5 answer options, how can I remove one of the options and reduce it to 4 answer possibilities? 

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We have a role at the campus called "Mentor" who can be a current student. So, it would be great if there was a Canvas role who can only access lecture content, assignments, announcements, and discussions, but not able to see the grades. 'Observer' r...

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Can I replace the name ``Assignment`` as ``Submissions`` across my organization in Canvas LMS? The idea is to make clear understanding across my organization peoples about the wordings we used to call. In canvas LMS, it shows `Assignment` or `Assignm...

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Why cant I find my class day and times.

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When grading our students in SpeedGrader, it will be useful for us to compose multiple comment templates in the Comment Library. Sometimes we need to combine comments from different templates. Unfortunately, with current option, every time we use one...

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Hi,   I'm currently 1 of the field admins here, and I recieve emails when an student uses the Report an Problem option in the help facility. Problem is some of the emails which I recieve when this has been done look like they need some action from ou...

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What does the student need to choose in their notification settings so that they receive announcements and also teacher comments made on assignments?

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I'm having difficulty using groups in a large class.1) My class has 30 groups of 8 students. The page's search function only seems to work for unassigned students? As far as I can tell, the fastest way to see what group a student is in is to go to th...

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I am getting the following error message when I try switch the grading scheme from percentage to points. Range must be a valid number. Cannot have negative numbers or numbers that are greater than the upper points range. Fix the ranges and try clicki...

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Colleagues,Can someone confirm if disabling faculty from creating courses also disables their ability to copy courses from one to another?

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An instructor needs to export the questions in a quiz bank to Excel. Is this possible?

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I created several courses/modules in my initial demo account. I have recently been assigned a separate admin account & need to transfer the existing progress from the demo account to the official admin account.

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I want to use a free ready made template for my course.  I have watched the videos, but I can't seem to find them in my canvas instance.  Any help appreciated.  

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I am grading and replying to discussion board posts. I would like the ability to assign a grade to the post and reply in the discussion board section, or in speed grader be able to select whether to only comment to the student that submitted the post...

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I don't understand why some classic quizzes allow you to migrate and other do not. Help

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Hello.  I have a graded discussion that has an associated discussion rubric.  This rubric has one of my course outcomes associated with it.  I go into student view and go through the course and complete the two assignments (quiz and discussion) as a ...

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for the past several years, i've been able to simple export a gradebook, add grades, save the same file, then upload the file. has not worked for the past week.

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I am able to see, edit, and delete question banks from other teachers in my school. I have NOT shared my question banks with anyone, and now I am worried than someone could delete the banks I've made. How do I change the settings so I'm only seeing m...

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I am hoping to create a pronunciation quiz or speaking assignment within Canvas with a question prompt and an audio response.  I want my students to be able to respond with an audio recording within the app (not upload a recording). Does anyone know ...

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We have a student for whom the Canvas website never fully loads. On Safari, the dashboard will just continue loading but the course images and names will never show up. You can see a screenshot of this here: https://snipboard.io/hg2s8D.jpg Meanwhile,...

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I changed jobs to a new college with a new email. How do I merge my old Community account/login email with my new one?(I was ranked highly and had lots of articles/posts I'd like to keep.)

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MIcrosoft Word I don't have it all on my chromebook how do I get it all? I need help with this

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Okay, so my instructor has assigned each student with a peer review feedback for one other student. So I have to write a content feedback document for one student, and then I have to write a form feedback document for another. Keep in mind this is fo...

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How do you make a text available for students to annotate directly on the Canvas page?

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Are there any other Kaltura users who have noticed that when you choose My Media from the Navigator menu, that the "on-click" color doesn't change correctly, or in my case the background stays all white.It used to work correctly, not sure when the ch...

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Has anyone used or can tell me about the chrome extension "tasks for canvas"? https://www.tasksforcanvas.info/

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I'm a Spanish teacher. Can you please please please please add a few accented letters to the Insert tab?

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Is it possible to hide Discussion forum responses from Teachers if the students are Concluded in the course? We have a course in our Canvas called Faculty 101 which is a training course for our faculty. We have had many faculty take this course in th...

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I am an observer. In previous years my student could reply to messages I sent to their Inbox. As of this school year, they can read my messages but the reply button is greyed out. Was this an intentional change?

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Hi, I was just wondering if there was a way to keep the option "Calculate based only on graded assignment" checkbox found in Course > Grade, permanently on? Every time I refresh the page it turns back on which is very annoying, I would just like to h...

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