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To the pronouns can you add She/them

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Wondering if anyone else has successfully used the Microsoft Teams Meeting menu option in a course to actually create a meeting, when using Chrome or Firefox web browsers? No problem in Edge, so I'm assuming that it's a MS account sync thing that all...

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Looking at creating calendar events for class with a link to a Teams meeting. I can create an Teams meeting in pages or discussions with no issues, but I cant seam to get a link into the calendar.   Anyone got an idea?

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As an instructor, how can I find out which group an individual student is in?  Per the Canvas instructions, all groups are collapsed by design, nor is there any way to search. Groups can be open/viewed by opening each one through clicking the arrow, ...

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This symbol is on my canvas page and is very confusing.

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Does Canvas still provide technical support for Classic Quizzes?  If so, how much longer will this be available?

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Hi everyone,We have the following situation.On our Canvas environment we use o Microsoft 365 / OneDrive to host our content.For each course we create modules and items to the students as an extern url.Until a few days it worked as it should, but then...

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I have an instructor who has had difficulty staying under our institution's 2 GB storage limit per course. For a new course she is building, she wants to ensure she's staying under the storage limit, but no matter what, it is showing "0% of 2 GB used...

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One of our shell courses edited their page instead of the blueprint page and broke the sync. Normally we go to the blueprint and click the LOCKED button to fix this, but currently when we click it on the affected page it says "Locked: no attributes l...

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I am not able to get one of my module's content to appear in a course.I went into settings and moved the module to a different locationI have disabled, saved, re-enabled, savedthe module and each of the content items have green check marks next to it...

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My course meets once a week.  How can I set up the Roll Call Attendance Tool to reflect that?   Thanks for any and all suggestions! Chérie

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My name is Paul Dadosky, and I am an adjunct professor of IT and business at Ivy Tech Community College. Since about the seventh week of this semester, I started getting blank white space in my grade book columns unless I selected "Hide Total Column"...

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How can students set their personal time zone under their profile?

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Students enrolled in the online undergrad program at Regent University use Canvas for all student discussions, assignments, material, quizzes, grading, tracking, etc. Each quiz/assignment/module has a full set of instructions which outlines how many ...

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We are noticing that users are sporadically sending and receiving duplicate inbox messages. Some people are reporting that when they send a message they get an error ("error occurred while creating conversation message" - image attached) and then hit...

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is there a way to add users as batches using .csv or other formats?Im using the one at instructure.com/admin

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I am trying to import the same set of Outcomes into multiple classes that are not within the same section. I can upload the CSV just fine into one of the classes, but when I try to upload it again, I get an error that the outcome already exists in an...

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There was an error on a quiz answer. I'd like to delete the question/answer and reduce the overall point values from 10 to 9. Should I simply delete the question/answer or submit it for regrade? I only ask because I'm only finding how to "edit multip...

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I have this interesting question. Do your grades go down when you do not complete assignments?   

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I oversee a Canvas course that has a lot of different instructors. But they are each only in charge of one or two assignments. Is there a way that they can get notifications for only the assignments they need to assess and not all of the course notif...

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We are using Canvas LMS for our district's virtual academy. Many teachers use the prerequisites as part of their modules to ensure that students are completing all of the parts of the class.  However, sometimes they get students part way through the ...

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Hi everyone,I’m looking to conduct a poll on Canvas LMS to gather opinions or feedback from my students. Could someone guide me on the best way to create a poll within Canvas? Is there a built-in feature for this, or would I need to use an external t...

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hey, My ParentVUE account user name is CAOBING0106, i tired add my daughter under the same account,but, i don't know how to do.

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A student sent me an email through the Canvas Inbox.  In this message, she claims she is has a password problem and cannot get into the Canvas course, has reached out to IT, and needs a few days to complete her work because she cannot access the assi...

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Hey Educators,I want to make Flash Cards and put them in Canvas. Here are the features I am searching:Images- I want to add my own imagesTracking results- I would like to see how students didNo adsGood interface when embeddedFlash cards with pictures...

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Does anyone have any idea WHY I can't send any messages TO MY STUDENTS through CANVAS (yesterday and today) AT THE BEGINNING OF FINALS WEEK?????

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Canvas needs to add the following functionality to the gradebook: 1. An icon to apply to assignment grades that indicate an assignment is submitted and grades are pending (this is extremely important for assignments that are submitted on paper or thr...

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Hi - I am working on checking courses created by peers for accessibility. When I hover over images, no alt text appears. I have checked this in courses I know alt text exists and cannot find a way to access the alt text without a screen reader extens...

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I got a 502 error message. Is anyone experiencing this?  

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I have been a Canvas user since 2013 and always found the "to do" list of things to grade helpful.  Now Canvas fails to remove items that have been graded. Sometimes Canvas is interpreting first time submissions as resubmissions, meaning that to reso...

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