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Hello,   I'm looking for information on which account statuses and/or enrollment statuses for a user affect their receipt of notifications. For example a user whose account is suspended, however their enrollment status in a course is active - do they...

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I opened my Canvas account for my course about 5 years ago. In my courses I made myself the Teacher, but now I need to add new roles in the courses and I can't because I don't have admin status. I don't even see the admin link in the Global Pane. Wha...

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I need someone to send me a copy of my math 122 class notes from today. I wasn't able to attend class today because, a shooting unfortunately occurred at my apartments today. Thank You. I messaged my professor about it but she hasn't answered me back...

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My Kaltura has completely stopped working after my computer ran out of battery in the middle of a recording. When I try to open Kaltura Capture, it shows up but never finishes loading, so I can't actually click any buttons to start the recording. It ...

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Hello,I have recently been alerted to a potential bug with the Discussion Board Peer Reviews feature. When the "must respond before viewing other replies" option is turned on, I found that some students are unable to access their Peer Reviews from th...

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Can a students submit/upload more than one document for a single assignment without the second one replacing the first one?  I need two different documents from each student for one assignment.

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I have 360 students who attend labs on different days of the week, I'm not going to grade on attendance, but I want to track easily which students are missing lab. Without having to page through many calendar days or individual students, I'd think th...

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A large number of my gradebook entries have been wiped away to zero (used speed grader if that helps)  How can I revert back to a previous backup to recover these grades? 

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how do i create a question group that allow students to select three out of five possible essay questions?

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Having the option to switch to a dyslexia-friendly font is great, but there needs to be more options. The one that is available does not help me for readability. Specifically, it does not effectively differentiate capital "i" from lower case "L", and...

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 As a parent, I’d like to be able to more easily see how my child is doing in class without having to repeatedly log into Canvas and navigate multiple steps.Current ProblemI have email alerts enabled for graded assignments, which results in 2–3 messa...

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"Do not allow instructure to alert you when you delete a question" - I was getting this alert multiple times in editing a quiz and I checked the box to not let it alert me. Now I cannot even delete a question from the set in the Quizzes. How can I re...

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I have a "Daily" which students are to do every.single.day and so there is a grade associated with it. Thus, I enter an assignment for each day so that I can record the grade. However, one student is rather unnerved by all the assignment announcement...

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Hi everyone, I'm Winford Fowler. I am currently studying for a Criminology degree and my goal for this course is to strengthen my writing skills and communication skills. Outside of school, I run a local business in Tampa and want to learn somethin n...

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I am experimenting with using Canvas for Teachers iOS app for grading on my iPad. I teach writing and, in the past, have used various PDF apps which allow me to leave comments, stickers, highlight, underline, and circle words. The iOS app allows most...

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Suddenly I'm hearing from instructors that their flashcard embeds from Quizlet are not loading. Is this happening elsewhere? What could be the issue? Our institution is not blocking quizlet.com because we can get to the website, but the <iframe> embe...

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As an educator who actively seeks technology solutions that benefit student learning and streamline course management, I'm genuinely puzzled by my Canvas experience after five weeks of use. Having previously used other LMS platforms, I'm encountering...

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I'm new to Canvas (having come over from D2L) and have multiple questions that the help team at my institution has been unable to answer. Does Canvas have affiliated professionals for hire to help learn the app? If not, I can use a third-party freela...

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Hello,I'm sorry if this in an obvious question but I'm trying to find an answer and struggling:One of our members of staff has created a course and published it. It has now been decided that all of students and staff should be able to access this cou...

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Hi all! I've created a theme in a sub-account. I cannot find a way to enable this theme in the main account as the theme does not appear (either as a template tab or in the +Theme option). Is my only course of action now to copy every single field ma...

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Once again, the simplest of tasks wastes time. I have a 2-column table in the homepage of a Canvas course. I want to add a row below, but this produces an additional row with the leftmost cell divided into two rows. I cannot access the bottom of thes...

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One of my professors has their Canvas profile picture apparently embedded right in the text of their syllabus, basically the same circular format that the photo is cropped into as your account profile picture. How do I replicate that on my end? Can't...

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Hello Community, We’re trying to use the Outcome Results report available under the Canvas Default Account Reports, but we’re facing an issue: the report is returning empty, even though we believe all necessary configurations have been made. Here’s w...

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I am an instructor and created my course for students at my higher education institution. Someone outside my institution is seeking access to it and is required to use a "join code." What is this, where do I find it, and how do I make it available?

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Hi, I find the emoji in submission comments annoying as it often gets in the way when I am typing important comments about a student's work.  I know I can turn it off under the settings for a course.  However, I teach 5 to 6 courses a semester which ...

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Olá, comunidade do Canvas. No momento, estamos trabalhando na modelagem de cursos práticos para avaliar as competências e habilidades dos alunos e nos deparamos com algumas perguntas: É possível vincular uma competência ou habilidade a uma tarefa sem...

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For our institution's canvas (with a short-term license) do self-enrolled users (joining by a QR code) count towards license seat usage, even if they are only in public or self-enrollment course and not a full private course? Also, do users who view ...

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Dear Yamaha Support Team,I recently registered and paid for the NPC 1 program for my child (age 3). After successfully downloading Canva Student and completing the Yamaha registration inside Canva Student, I found that the LMS (Learning Management Sy...

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I teach a Continuous Improvement/Six Sigma/Lean class at UCLA Extension.In one of the exercises, I ask my students to evaluate the constraints of Canvas-as they relate to the students' experience-and using the Six Thinking Hats framework (Edward DeBo...

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