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Hi-I have been assigned to a class as a student instead of being a parent observer of the class. How can my student be switched to the class and I be switched to an observer? 

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I am a student using Canvas, and the last few days have been pretty rough. I am able to log onto my account and my classes pop up, but when I click on a class and go to do an assignment all I see are three of the boxes they are all white and loading....

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Hello,Upon logging into Canvas on my laptop since 8/4, I have not been able to see any of the module content, and I don't know why. Has anyone experienced this before, and what is the solution? 

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Hello, Has anyone found or has been sent information regarding how or what needs to be done to update the Microsoft Teams LTI's? Thanks, Melissa

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Hi everyone, I'm currently managing a course with over 100 students, and for efficiency, I'm considering grading quizzes offline (several questions are graded by autograder). As far as I know, it's possible to download students' responses using Stude...

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Hi I have been wondering about the options in the Help menu on the side bar. As a admin of our instance, I have seen students selecting the option to Report a problem, which raises a ticket with Instructure, rather than using the Ask your instructor ...

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Instructions for New Quizzes says that Matching questions have the ability to use Rich Content Editor and HTML view. However, I do not see this ability. The first link is broken for me, and the second link presumes access to the Rich Content Editor. ...

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Every year, it continues to be a problem that learning Outcomes do not import properly when a previous course is copied.  The Outcomes themselves import under the Outcomes tab, however - the Quizzes and Quiz Questions that are tagged with learning Ou...

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A department prefers to print student quizzes with both the student's answer and the correct answer identified, in an effort to prevent students from passing exams on to the next group.  When Moderating a Quiz, clicking the students name, right-click...

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I'm a student and I'm trying to sign up for a new class on my non-school main email. I got the invitation code to the class a few weeks ago and I was able to log into the Canvas to access it. However, after maybe a day or so and I re-opened Canvas to...

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Hello community,    Is there are tool available to auto remove students from a course due to attendance?  For example, if a student misses 8 classes, this tool will auto remove them from the course. 

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Is anyone familiar with a way to setup/create default assignment group categories and weights for an entire sub-account at the Canvas District Admin Level?  Our goal is to decrease grade pass back issues with teachers creating these on their own.

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Is there a way for students to see or be notified of a comment on their assignment submissions?

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Greetings! The college I work has a couple public courses (I think that's the right term) that students can join by going to Courses -> All Courses -> Browse More Courses. One of those courses is what we call the "Study Center" course. Basically it j...

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we provide students with exemplars to aid them in their assessment, but we don't want them to be able to download the documents.  Can we do this? 

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How do I get the final grade column to display a letter grade?

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I used group assignments for the first time this semester, and I love that I can send comments to the whole group and also to individual students.  It would be great if each comment displayed a notation so the students (and I!) could clearly see that...

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This long-running problem is still unresolved. When we try to invite students to a course, the invitation email is not received. I know this is an intermittent problem - sometimes it works. Last time we had to add students manually and send them each...

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Hi there, Using Canvas LMS I want to create a page which contains a linear vertical timeline with a line down the center and attached items on each side. The kind of thing I mean is like this basic W3 Schools tutorial here: https://www.w3schools.com/...

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We are currently looking into all the possibilities to shorten the terms in which course are active. In testing it appears that, when a course is concluded via the conclude button and then is un-concluded again (e.g. by accidental concluding), the "s...

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Hi how do students whose enrolment in a course has expired - see teachers general comments for a quiz? I am not talking about comments under individual questions. But the general comments box that is visible for teachers down the right of the screen....

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when i reopen an assignment for a student everyone else's grade disappears from the gradebook on canvas...how can i get the other students grades to reappear?

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Hello, I just tried to import an old course so that I could use some assignments again from last year. However, even though the status shows that the import has completed, there are no materials in the new course. Can anyone help troubleshoot? 

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Our CSM isn't giving us the help we need. It's been a month of horrible service, slow responses, no responses, a response that includes only the information we already presented, etc.  We need help from someone else. School starts in a week and we ca...

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Our school just switched from Blackboard to Canvas. In Blackboard I could use replacement strings to personalize emails and announcements. Does Canvas have that ability? Example:Dear {StudentFirstName},You currently have a {average} in TCH100 Web Des...

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We are looking for a way to automate attendance entries for a course.  I have a Microsoft Power App that gathers the student data as they check in and puts it into a SharePoint List.  I can export the data as a CSV and manipulate it as needed.  Is th...

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I have a professor who created two versions of the same assignment as two separate assignments to allow students to submit the option that suits them best. (This assignment is for a lab course designed for online students). Version 1 is called Option...

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Hello!  I teach a shop class and want to create a "Safety Log" module where, after I demo a technique in class, students have to log in to Canvas, access their safety log, and sign off on the training.  I also want to have one Safety Pledge document ...

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I see release notes and a walkthrough for setting discussion checkpoints (multiple due dates), but I don't see it as an option when setting up (or editing) a discussion. What am I missing?

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How do I revert to default notification settings for courses. I’m not receiving notifications and earlier had blindly reset my notification settings before I understood the Canvas program and procedures.  Still absorbing the processes. Thanks   About...

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