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I need to conduct a course assessment on approximately 20 sections of one class at my institution.  The exam tool has been created and the institutional outcomes have been tagged for each item.  The tool has been flawlessly launched in all of our blu...

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Ok, if I could offer a suggestion to add submission times to either the grades tab or the assignments tab, that would a super helpful way for students to see their progress very quickly and know where to pick up with the next assignment. 

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I am the "lead professor" in a large course where I want to create independent groups (where all students use the same course site but assignment submissions go directly to group facilitators. I need to know how to create separate "gradebooks" for my...

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Hello everyone!How's everyone first two days of classes going?

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In the Classic Quiz the questions have been assigned points. All questions have a total available points total of 120.However, the quiz shows the following sentence 'must score at least 96.0' (screen shot attached) but at no point did I input this in...

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We have been able to implement the new Microsoft Education that was just released. We have a series of courses that use Teams spaces for group collaboration. However, with this new tool, unlike the prior tool (Microsoft Teams Classes), each section u...

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This happened last year at this time as well. The color and contrast of the Canvas pages changed to be very light and with a thin font. This is in the Safari browser only and Chrome has the same colors it did last week. After a while, maybe a month, ...

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How does one integrate "Back to the top" icons on longer pages with several sections, so the viewer can jump right back to the table of contents?

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How do I add a student to a class section on a bi-monthly basis?  Or, for only specific dates in a month?I want to keep him enrolled in only one course/class.  Is this possible to do.  He is currently in a group of two students and I only want him to...

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This request is to allow additional classes to be shown in the calendar view OR at least be able to synch up with ALL calendars to an external calendar OR be able to save default views on calendar (so we are not having to scroll thru and unselect/sel...

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I was exploring Canvas LMS for use with teaching Dave Ramsey's Foundation in Personal Finance. I added a couple classes, and then deleted them. When I tried to log back in to RamseyClassroom.com it tell me "Whoops! Looks like your account is managed ...

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Without the Rich Content Editor, Inbox Messages do not meet accessibility standards.  This has been a huge wish list item of mine for Canvas for a long time.  Having the ability to write student messages with the RCE will give us easy access to Cours...

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I am the type to obsessively clear notifications. Unfortunately I have noticed that, as a student, I don't always have control of whether I am able to do that or not. Last semester I took a course with a borderline senile professor that did not know ...

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Good afternoon, I worked with a faculty member today who experienced an issue during a course copy, the error message was something I hadn't seen before. When clicking on what the error referred to: it's a Question Bank with 333 questions. I looked...

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re:https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Student-Guide/How-do-I-mention-a-user-in-a-discussion-reply-as-a-student/ta-p/485669#:~:text=Mentioning%20users%20is%20not%20supported%20in%20anonymous%20discussions. Why can't we use mentions on partially-anonym...

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I'm a "community member", but I still can't submit ideas; when I tried, I got redirected to https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/canvas-ideas/search-before-post-mode/true with message "You do not have sufficient privileges for ...

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I used to be able to transition from section to section in Speedgrader with no problem. This school year, I cannot do so! Instead I get "Show all sections." I have to leave Canvas and go back in to get to the section I want. Does anyone have a fix fo...

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Hello!I am an instructor and account owner and trying to import a course into Canvas Instructure and am receiving an error message "Zip file would exceed quota limit."Is this the quota for the course or for our Canvas account? What can I do to remedy...

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Good morning, I am running into an issue when trying to make accessible tables. I attempt to add a caption to the table, which shown in the community post Table Accessibility in Canvas ,  should appear above the table.   In my attempt to add a captio...

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Hey Community,  We are having a first world problem in our office.  We use a portal to login to our canvas instance.. In the last month, when you click on the Canvas link in our portal, it opens the App not in Chrome.. We have this experience with Ch...

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None of the new freshman and/or transfer students are appearing in Canvas after the nightly PowerSchool sync is sent.  We have 120+ new students who don't show up in Canvas, even though the sync status is successful.  These students cannot use Canvas...

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Hello Team, We would like to understand how course sizes (i.e., the number of enrolled students per course) are tracked and reported within Canvas for customers. Specifically, we are looking for: The best way to retrieve the number of students enrol...

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How far can you go with this?

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Hi there,I need help as I am the Admin of two schools using Canvas. I oversee over 50 courses at a time and can see them all in one of my schools' Dashboard, but for some reason, I am limited to 20 in the other school. Is there a way to remove the ca...

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It used to be that after you entered a score, pressing "Enter" would move on to the next student. Now, you have to move your cursor up to the arrow to move onto the next student. I know this may seem minor, but for "low" stakes assignments that are q...

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So the batch edit allows us guess which dates in the future we want for the "available from" and "available until" date. However, there are often assignments added during the course. When I import the course, the dates don't match, so using the BATCH...

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I used to see an option for that, but don't see it now. Is this a setting my designers need to turn on?

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What are the system requirements of Canvas

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