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Hello, I am having trouble with Canvas on my laptop. I am able to log in, but when I click on things such as Discussion, Modules, Assignment, etc. it does not load and it just shows me a blank screen. This is very frustrating as I am unable to comple...

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My students are all encountering a red error bar when they attempt a second attempt on an assignment. I suspect it's related to "Enable Build on Last Attempt" because I made an edit on the assignment that coincided almost to the minute with them bein...

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I am trying to use a SIS ID for a new course I'm building and am getting the error that it's already in use. I have searched for this SIS ID in all of our accounts and can't locate the course it's associated with, which leads me to believe the course...

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I have occasionally copied assignments from old Archived Courses and never had this happen.  This year when I copy the assignments and change the due dates (before publishing with updated due dates). It automatically gives every student a 0, I have d...

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Hello all!I am a high school teacher and my students use ipads and the Canvas app. Up until this week, I have had no problems with Canvas, but all of a sudden, my home page won't load in the app (but just one out of my 4 courses). It is still accessi...

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Good Morning! I am currently working on compiling a list of the screencast releases within our Canvas course that is designed to help teachers.  Instead of embedding the entire guide, I would like to find the embed code for just the video. There used...

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We have been using this great solution by James for counting discussion posts in Canvas. A number of our faculty members like this overview file. Our school is switching from Google to Microsoft - and I wondered if there was an Excel version of this....

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Hello, I am aware how to have a test student, and how to anonymize student names in the gradebook in speedgrader. But, I would like to study and grade AI driven answers in my course to see how I would treat it as a student. Of course I need to not kn...

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As quiz multiple choice questions default to 5 answer options, how can I remove one of the options and reduce it to 4 answer possibilities? 

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We have a role at the campus called "Mentor" who can be a current student. So, it would be great if there was a Canvas role who can only access lecture content, assignments, announcements, and discussions, but not able to see the grades. 'Observer' r...

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Can I replace the name ``Assignment`` as ``Submissions`` across my organization in Canvas LMS? The idea is to make clear understanding across my organization peoples about the wordings we used to call. In canvas LMS, it shows `Assignment` or `Assignm...

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Why cant I find my class day and times.

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When grading our students in SpeedGrader, it will be useful for us to compose multiple comment templates in the Comment Library. Sometimes we need to combine comments from different templates. Unfortunately, with current option, every time we use one...

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Hi,   I'm currently 1 of the field admins here, and I recieve emails when an student uses the Report an Problem option in the help facility. Problem is some of the emails which I recieve when this has been done look like they need some action from ou...

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What does the student need to choose in their notification settings so that they receive announcements and also teacher comments made on assignments?

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I'm having difficulty using groups in a large class.1) My class has 30 groups of 8 students. The page's search function only seems to work for unassigned students? As far as I can tell, the fastest way to see what group a student is in is to go to th...

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I am getting the following error message when I try switch the grading scheme from percentage to points. Range must be a valid number. Cannot have negative numbers or numbers that are greater than the upper points range. Fix the ranges and try clicki...

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Colleagues,Can someone confirm if disabling faculty from creating courses also disables their ability to copy courses from one to another?

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An instructor needs to export the questions in a quiz bank to Excel. Is this possible?

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I created several courses/modules in my initial demo account. I have recently been assigned a separate admin account & need to transfer the existing progress from the demo account to the official admin account.

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I want to use a free ready made template for my course.  I have watched the videos, but I can't seem to find them in my canvas instance.  Any help appreciated.  

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I am grading and replying to discussion board posts. I would like the ability to assign a grade to the post and reply in the discussion board section, or in speed grader be able to select whether to only comment to the student that submitted the post...

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I don't understand why some classic quizzes allow you to migrate and other do not. Help

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Hello.  I have a graded discussion that has an associated discussion rubric.  This rubric has one of my course outcomes associated with it.  I go into student view and go through the course and complete the two assignments (quiz and discussion) as a ...

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for the past several years, i've been able to simple export a gradebook, add grades, save the same file, then upload the file. has not worked for the past week.

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I am able to see, edit, and delete question banks from other teachers in my school. I have NOT shared my question banks with anyone, and now I am worried than someone could delete the banks I've made. How do I change the settings so I'm only seeing m...

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I am hoping to create a pronunciation quiz or speaking assignment within Canvas with a question prompt and an audio response.  I want my students to be able to respond with an audio recording within the app (not upload a recording). Does anyone know ...

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We have a student for whom the Canvas website never fully loads. On Safari, the dashboard will just continue loading but the course images and names will never show up. You can see a screenshot of this here: https://snipboard.io/hg2s8D.jpg Meanwhile,...

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I changed jobs to a new college with a new email. How do I merge my old Community account/login email with my new one?(I was ranked highly and had lots of articles/posts I'd like to keep.)

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MIcrosoft Word I don't have it all on my chromebook how do I get it all? I need help with this

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