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I find that many of my online students don't watch the videos. I'd like to send out reminders to those who aren't watching. I can access the reports and find out who watched only the first ten seconds (really?) but there's no way to get a list of eve...

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What is the URL link to make payments for tuition?

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So this is my first time using Canvas, and whenever I open my Study Plan it's just a blank page. I'm able to click next, taking me to the quiz where I'm able to see the page and start. Any idea on how to fix this and start my Study Plan?

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I have been asked to post to the board and then respond to least one other post. I was able to do so for a previous board but this time, when I posted my reply and got all the other replies to appear, I couldn't find the "reply" button that allows me...

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Which apps are visible by default? Can you add or turn some off?

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My employer provides professional development courses through Canvas.I'm also a student at a University that uses Canvas for their LMS.How do I combine the dashboards so that I can see my employer-provided courses along with my academic courses?(I ha...

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My university has recently migrated from blackboard to canvas.I regularly write quizzes that have a pattern of a multiple choice question with a correct answer for credit followed by a short answer question where I would ask students rationalize thei...

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When I logged in for the first time, I noticed that there some extensions enabling us to use docs and excel. I even created a document. However, I can no longer find them. Where are they supposed to be? 

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When using Scheduler appointment group in the calender, students can reserve a time slot. Can an instructor edit the remaining time slots and fill in a student that didn't made a reservation yet? 

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We've had reports for a course convenor that they've been marking submissions then realised that one of the students they had marked hadn't passed their due date yet as they had an extension (which was all set up on the submission point correctly) bu...

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After Kaltura changed to zoom/MS teams, i can neither log in to both.

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I have a tutor who has a group project type assignment.   Setting the assignment to be a group assignment, that's OK, next we want to use the Turnitin external tool for the submission type, but when we do that it informs us that the group assignment ...

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Student scores are clearly visible in gradebook, but the total score is 0% / F. 

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As a student, how can I view my score on a placement exam taken a year ago on Canvas? It doesn't appear anywhere on my account, and my instructors are not able to view it either. Is there any way to recover this?

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I have a few students that were manually created a while ago, they do not have a SIS ID assigned to them and I want to find them so that I can assign them one.¿How can I user the API or some other resource to do that?

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I have about 50 users that were created manually which I now want to manage via SIS IMPORT.  I've added a SIS_ID (user_id) to each account manually (tedious) and am trying to suspend all 50 accounts using a csv upload.  However, when I upload the csv...

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We worked with a team of IDs from a company we no longer work with.  I want to delete their Canvas accounts, but I don't want anything they created that IS being used in any course to be deleted.  If something got used in a course, is it safe to say ...

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How can I create a spreadsheet of all student names and email addresses enrolled in my course from the Canvas people tab?

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Now I’m trying to submit a video following the instruction in my courses. I read the instructions in the page (https://odl.sais.jhu.edu/contributing-to-a-video-discussion/), but I cannot follow the Step 4 of this as “My folder” doesn’t appear in my p...

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I have enrolled in courses for hcc but they are not showing up in my online canvas.. How do I fix this?

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When you delete a message on canvas you just sent, and you confirm you will delete your copie of the message, does this mean it is deleted for both the sender and receiver? Thank you for your time.

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Hello, I am requiring students to complete a particular quiz (quiz 1) before completing a second quiz (quiz 2). It seems the best way to do this would be to put quiz 1 in a module with the requirement of submitting the quiz, then put quiz 2 in a sepa...

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Hi! I would like to know if there's a way to check the total time spent on Canvas as a teacher. I know students have this feature, but as for me I can only check the times where I logged and how many times I've seen a page. What I would really like t...

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I was assigned a peer review and I accidentally hit submit comments on the rubric before I actually finished filling out the rubric and I was wondering if I could go back and edit it somehow.

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How do I manually add a new quiz on to proctortrack?I keep getting the "Access Denied" screen with a lock on it when I try to access the quiz using proctortrack.  Do I need to add the URL to the whitelist in configurations? 

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SpoilerSpoiler  Hello,I initially imported class information from the Commons but decided not to use the information and create my own. However, because of the initial import, I have the following message at the bottom of my course.  I do not wish to...

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I created an assignment and said that it was a group assignment. I had it split the class into 7 groups, how do I see which students are in each group?

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