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Has anyone used either of these instructions, or some other process, to complete a bulk import of student profile photos? https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Developers-Group/How-to-bulk-load-and-update-avatar-profile-pictures-with/ba-p/410101 ...

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How do you add Drag and Drop Google Slides to assignments?  I need the students to each have their own copy and to be able to move the items on the page. 

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I'm using the multiple dropdown feature in Canvas quizzes to run a survey for students. When I export the survey results using "student analysis," the order of the dropdown items is scrambled within each question. For example, if the dropdown items a...

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Hello,Is it possible to change the course navigation's "People" tab to say "People/Groups"? How can it be accomplished with CSS/Javascript? Thanks!

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Is it possible to customize and rename the default submission types? The built-in options are Online, No Submission, On Paper, or External Tool. Obviously "on paper" and "no submission" accomplish the same thing, but "on paper" indicates that student...

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Is it possible to edit grades to an unpublished assignment? 

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I would like Canvas to add a feature allowing instructors to see an access report for entities such as assignments, announcements, and rubrics. Currently, we are able to see individual student access reports to determine if a student has accessed a g...

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Hi, I don't think there has been a question exactly like this - I'd like to create a set of announcements that I can use across different sections but the posting date would be different.  They are going to be things like reminders 3 days prior to an...

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I have an assignment is which students submit a Draft of their paper, have Peers Review it, and then submit a Final version using the feedback from their peers. My question is, is it possible to have the Draft and Final submission be the same assignm...

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Hi, I have set up my course and created my first section.  I added students and was able to add them to the section only ie they are not added to the course as well.  What are the implications of this such as what they cannot see?  Do I need to add t...

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I create severeal assigments under one group. But students were required to submit just 5, how can I grade just the ones they submit without damage their grades with the excused option?

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I'm searching for a way to have a dynamic template for a single type of page, like a discussion. The point would be to have the ability to make global changes to this type of page but not have to redo the content that would be unique to each page. On...

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My students are completing a graphic organizer in preparation for an essay, and I want to grade several steps of the process. Here's some information: they will be working within one graphic organizer.  We will start by grading their claims and reaso...

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 Dear Support , Please advice how I can complete it . SSL Certificate Security Updates Hello Admins,  As we mentioned in our April 6th communication to you, we are making an effort to implement best-practices for authentication providers in Canvas. W...

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Hello, I am requesting a feature be added to Canvas to fix a very annoying weighting and grade sync issue between Canvas and Synergy.When creating assignments in the Synergy Grade Book, we are able to assign a "max score" and a "point value". This ma...

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I have been trying to get into canvas and even trying to restart the email. when looking for the code i notice i forgot a letter on the email and now i cant get in. Someone send help my way.  

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Is there a way to observe students working on assignments during class period?When I taught face to face, I was able to glance at student's work to check for understand and help them stay on track>

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We have a number of senior capstone projects that are also group projects.  We have a need to use Moderated Grading with a Group Assignment, but that does not seem to be possible.  Is there a work-around that anyone has discovered?  Is there any chan...

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I am trying to reopen an assignment that is from last grading period and cannot figure out how to do so. I am unable to edit the due date, I have tried duplicating the assignment and sending it to another Canvas course, but both methods still keep th...

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It would be extremely helpful to search for a student under Courses and then identify the course in which the student exists. Or, from inbox, navigate to the student’s course.if you have five sections of a course similarly titled and a student messag...

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I'd like to assign an Assignment to all member of a Canvas Group.  This is not a group assignment; I want each student to do it individually, however I only want certain students in my class to do it.  I thought I'd be able to do this by selecting a ...

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It would be nice to add a next button to the Canvas announcements as we have under pages in order to move from one announcement to the next.

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Hello wonderful community One of our teachers has noticed that a couple of their tasks are behaving strangely. This only started this past Friday (28 Apr 2023). These tasks span a few courses and were all created in the related Blueprint courses befo...

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How do I move a quiz that lives in Assignments to Quizzes? My quizzes somehow ended up in the wrong place, and not only is it visually distracting, student scores are not appearing in Grades.

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i don't have admin option in my canvas

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Hello, As the professor, if I have dropped an assignment such as an exam that is worth 100 pts. and "unpublish" the assignment, does this remove the point value of that assignment so that it is not counted inthe total for all assignments that were pa...

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Hello, everyone. I am new to Canvas Free for Teachers. I would like to ask if I can use software called Hot Potatoes to make interactive content for teaching English to students as a SCORM package. I can't see a SCORM option in the first place. How c...

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Equation editor used to allow for the complete entry of the math problem that was being done. Now it only allows for the smallest amount of characters. WHY? Please program equation editor the way it used to be. On Timed tests, this new version wastes...

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Hey everyone.  I suspect some of my students are using autofill feature of web browsers or extensions, to create their own database of answers based on practice exams which have the exact same wording as the actual exam. When the prompts are the same...

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I realized late that I assigned 100  instead of 150 for the total possible points (not weighted). I already took attendance (more than once). Now I need to correct my mistake. However, the guides that I could access all said that I couldn't do it. I ...

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