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I have an observer whose email (@yahoo) has a "!" icon next to it and she is no longer receiving any Canvas emails. This email has worked for years prior. I removed it and tried re-adding it to the account (twice now) but she is not getting the confi...

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Solution Posted: 02-20-2024 View Solution
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I notice there's a setting named "Include students in global surveys" at Admin's Setting. But even I turn it on, there's nothing happened and I don't know what's the expected result when I enable it. I searched the key word in Community but it seems ...

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Solution Posted: 02-21-2024 View Solution
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Hi Canvas,A quiz was shared with me and I accessed it through shared content and imported it. It imported successfully into "inported assignments". Then I deleted all of it... the quiz and the assignment group.Now I have tried to inport from my share...

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Solution Posted: 02-19-2024 View Solution
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Hello,I have students submit their matlab assignments as .m files. previously this was not a issue and canvas would treat it like a text file. That meant I could comment on their program as if it was a PDF. Recently I have been unable to do so, and s...

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As of yesterday I am unable to preview any of the Java source files in the Canvas SpeedGrader that my students are uploading. These files have a .java extension. I have been able to preview these files ever since we started using Canvas a number of y...

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We have some large online programs.  If we use a blueprint and lock certain aspects of the course content, can the due dates for those items be edited by the section faculty?  

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Solution Posted: 02-19-2024 View Solution
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I have been able to add a clickview interactive video as an assignment, and the marks will go straight to my markbook if I use self-marking questions (true/false, multiple choice, fill in the blank). However, I sometimes want open-ended /short answer...

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How can I empty my CANVAS mailbox without having to delete message by message?

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Solution Posted: 02-19-2024 View Solution
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Students are getting correct answer wrong while answering matching question on quiz.  The answers are selected from a drop down menu.  So how could the answer be wrong, since there is no typing involved. What's wrong and how do I fix it? (Tried to cu...

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Regarding the price, i want to know for 100000 students what will be the price

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Solution Posted: 02-19-2024 View Solution
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I cannot find the link to my quiz on canvas. The assignment itself exists in the modules tab, but when I click on the assignment, I cannot find the link to the quiz. 

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Solution Posted: 02-18-2024 View Solution
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Is there any way to bulk remove observers? I can see a list of all of the observers in 'People' tab, but have to click on each one to try and delete them. I am asking, as we have 28 pages of users that need to be deleted.

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Solution Posted: 02-19-2024 View Solution
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Hello, Is there any way to build requisites within a module? For example, students must visit and complete a reading (build as a simple quiz with a "did you do the reading?" yes or no check) before taking a quiz. Or, complete score x% on quiz 1 befor...

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Solution Posted: 02-18-2024 View Solution
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With AI tool use so common now with students using the quiz tool for objective testing is challenging.  It appears they can copy the text and then put it in an AI tool to get the answer.  They can do this so quickly that reducing the quiz time limit ...

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I am a student in Milpark ,however I can go through website however canvas not working to browse the lessons on my MacBook Air. please assist.

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Solution Posted: 02-19-2024 View Solution
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Is there a faster way to go through Student Logs after taking a quiz to see if they logged off the quiz? It is very tedious to go into each account versus seeing all students from one class at once.Thanks!Christy Sears

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When a student needs extra time during a quiz/exam in Quizzes, due to a situation outside of their control. I would love be able to add minutes to a quiz in progress. 

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Solution Posted: 02-16-2024 View Solution
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My private nursing school denied me access to my class before final exams as a consequence of “tuition payment” misunderstandings. Are instructors allowed to unenroll students from a class for this? I have already been in the class for weeks and done...

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Solution Posted: 02-16-2024 View Solution
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I am trying to see if there is a way that I can submit assignments for my students. I always run the plagiarism checker on written assignments. I have some students who will email me their assignment instead of turning it in on Canvas. Is there a way...

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Solution Posted: 02-16-2024 View Solution
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I use the annotation tools. Just this week, all of a sudden, I am no longer able to add annotations to ".txt" submissions. Instead, I get the error message: "Annotations are not available for this document." Is this an intended change in functionalit...

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Solution Posted: 02-23-2024 View Solution
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I've seen that this has feature has been requested a number of times over the years, but I wanted to know if there has been any progress on implementing this as a feature.I would like to be able to grade submissions in SpeedGrader without knowing any...

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Solution Posted: 03-12-2024 View Solution
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Is there a way to generate emails for failing students in canvas? 

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Solution Posted: 02-16-2024 View Solution
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When I saw the "Message Students Who" feature under New Analytics, I was immediately intrigued at the possibilities. When I started to try a test run of this feature, I quickly became disappointed. It does not seem that we can set up Triggers for fut...

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Hey all, we are running into issues where we are creating courses programaticaly but there is still a manual step that we have to login and activate the Lockdown Browser for every course we create. We tried a few things but is there any API or steps ...

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As I was saying from the title ....the top listed default results by just entering the Common’s page, so that preferred results are already at the top of the page by default. It would be great for communicating with new Canvas users how to access des...

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Solution Posted: 02-16-2024 View Solution
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Hi, We have a prerequisite for our exams, which is to complete a mandatory task with a minimum score of 75% correct answers. But it seems that the very submission of the compulsory assignment leads to the exam being unlocked regardless of the result....

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Solution Posted: 02-16-2024 View Solution
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It's simple: In a module, if I add an External URL and choose to open it in a new tab, upon clicking the link, Canvas takes the student to a page with a button that they need to click to get to the link 臘 .Makes less than no sense. What's more, an id...

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Solution Posted: 02-16-2024 View Solution
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I recently had to support a staff member to share an assignment portal to 12 other Canvas course sites that featured a unique Letter Grade Grading Scheme. We used the Send To.. option to share it. Once it was shared and Imported into the other units,...

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It seems that my institution updated Canvas yesterday and now I cannot annotate any flat text files (specifically .cpp, .py, .sql). When I go to the next assignment, I get a warning box saying that I cannot annotate that file type.  Another issue I a...

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