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I have in-class assignments that ask students to co-author a file in real time.  The catch is that I want them in different groups for different assignments. My plan is to create a group set, allow students to self sign up, randomly assign a leader, ...

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Is there a way to copy rubrics from one of my course to another course? 

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Hi everyone, I'm trying to update the Syllabus for my course, but the changes do not save. I'm wondering if there are restrictions on editing the Syllabus page? Is there a maximum length? Anything else that would keep it from updating?  Here's what i...

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In html styles in general, "position:sticky" (combined with other formatting) enables a div to remain visible even as the user scrolls down. (For an example of this in the Canvas UI, see the behavior of the left-hand navigation menu as you scroll dow...

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With the new filters feature, is there a way to select more than one section filter to display at the same time? I have eight cross-linked sections, and toggling to each one individually is time-consuming. 

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When creating a quiz, do I have to upload each question one at a time (single QTI file) or can I upload 1 QTI file that has all of the quiz questions? 

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How do I get started?  I am an adjunct faculty in the School of Nursing and my class starts in a week.  I am going to teach the clinical portion at my work site but need to mark the students' assignments.  I am lost. Please help Nina Chychula

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I am a student, and wanted to know if there is an easy way to check and see what assignments I'm missing from all my Canvas Modules, rather than going through each one and looking for missing check marks?

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My university has just switched to Canvas from Moodle. We will officially switch in Spring 2024. Currently, in Moodle, I (admin) use Meta Linking as an enrollment option to populate some non-academic courses. For example, our Biology Lab has a separa...

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I cannot find the pairing code in the student account settings as indicated in your guide video. Can you please help me?

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I copied my course over from Spring 2023, but my Fall 2023 Discussion Posts no longer have a read/unread button by the student's post nor are there boxes surrounding each student's post.  Did I miss a setting or is this something new?

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Carl J. Rogers Jr.    (C.J.)                                                                                                                                          BIB106 Interpreting the BibleProfessor Ronald RiceMy Homework for week #7Bible Study...

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HiMy institution is new to Canvas and we've only been using it for less than a year and want to start using assignments.We'd like to create an assignment on a course and restrict the access to view and mark them via the Speedgrader. Specifically, we ...

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How do I upload a Go To page for review on module 6 SP9CPE Activity:least restrictive environment and there's no text box?

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how do I download JAMOVI (specific version available on Canvas)?

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Has anyone seen the the attached file before? It is occurring for one student at  my institution. I have reached out to Canvas Support, but I think they are stumped as well.

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I am enrolled in a dual credit course. My instructor posted a video to watch and take a quiz over. I am not able to watch the video. 

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How do you edit the last name of an observer in Canvas? Last name was spelling wrong. 

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Hi! I'm wondering if there's a way to add contact information to your profile. My Theatre professor wants us to add an email to our bio, but everytime I go to upload it doesn't get presented in my profile description. Any suggestions?

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I decided to try the Speed Grader annotation tools.  Hovering over each tool, a label pops up.  Unfortunately it is partially hidden and the visible part of the description is not always sufficient to tell what the tool is.

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Several of our instructors are departments leads and are automatically enrolled as TAs in each course in their department. This leads to their receiving an enormous number of notifications and To-Do List items for these classes, in addition to the on...

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My children have transitioned from Middle School to High School, but I keep getting notifications for their old middle school. How can I eliminate these notifications? I don't really care about what is happening at a school they are not attending, an...

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If you need to prevent users from logging into Canvas, you will need to suspend them. Instead of doing it manually you can simply enter a list of students into this spreadsheet, hit a button and it will do the job for you Instructions: Enter a list o...

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How do I submit an assignment on behalf of a student as a TA role? Can do it as a teacher role, but would like this role as a TA role

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I often remove points from rubrics, but when I copy a rubric it automatically adds them in.  It would be good if Canvas kept the rubric the same - without points added. Sometimes I forget to tick the 'remove points button' when copying or reusing rub...

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Hello, I have noticed that there has been a recent update.It appears that since the update that any new data entered into the Notes Column in Gradebook is not holding, ie. it disappears when you leave the page and come back in again. Is this a known ...

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Hi. I am a teacher. I see there is now an option in each Canvas module to "Unpublish module and all items", but it's almost useless because it doesn't unpublish files. Is there any way of unpublishing files too? Or would it be quicker to just delete ...

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Can you make it possible to convert a discussion to an assignment and visa versa? Sometimes a teacher will make a discussion and then realise it would be better as an assignment or visa versa. It is tedious and time consuming to have to copy and past...

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I was told by the teacher to sign into the cottonwood/granite school canvas account. I don't know how to do that.

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