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Hi,I am unable to add a particular student to Canvas despite doing SIS import thrice. User gets added successfully, however, upon searching cannot be found under students.Thanks

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Is there scope to be able to make pages into a more systemic way to store and locate information? At the teacher level, a systemic file management system would be good (similar to files). I'm not if it needs to be its own thing or have the ability to...

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I used New Quizzes for an introductory survey (all short answers) for students. I set it up where I wanted students to earn the point only after I have reviewed their answers (this makes it easy to see whose responses I've already read). I set it up ...

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The course announcements are located at the top of my homepage. I'm attaching a screenshot. How can I rearrange the page and move them to the bottom? Thank you.

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Let's say I have one course with one student and one assignment with one rubric containing one learning outcome.I assess the outcome in Speed Grader and I can view the Outcome Result via the Outcome Results API. There is one result for one student an...

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Hello, I am an admin and have a request to create a survey with a Likert scale.  I've seen information regarding how to do this w/ quizzes.  What I am not finding, however, is if there is some way to align the questions to the outcomes. The teacher w...

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I have numerous courses in the unpublished list of my dashboard.  How do I delete a course from the list?

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Hi! I've submitted a jpg photo to be used for my canvas account, but it renders as an empty html image tag. When I try to go to the original file source hosted by canvas everything looks okay, so I'm wondering why it won't display on any other page. 

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When copying an assignment to another class within the same calendar year, the list of courses to choose from includes old, unpublished classes. This makes copying an assignment tedious as you have to look through so many old classes to find the curr...

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I am an itinerant music teacher, and I work at two schools. Both Principals have created assignments where I need to submit my lesson plans. One school is my home school, where I regularly see students, but the other school is not showing up in the s...

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How do i add my TAs to my classes

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Is there a way of uploading a image that the students can annotate separately?

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I have a large course with >1000 students. During the course, there are both group and individual assignments, same as last year. Today when using SpeedGrader for a group assignment, it does not change the dot (indicating there is a submission for th...

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I'm challenged in using Canvas' new quiz module in terms of providing students feedback but not access to all the quiz questions. In my environment, after students take a quiz (I proctor weekly quizzes in class while students use their laptops), I wo...

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I create custom pages to introduce my students to each Module in my class.  I want to be able to set these module overviews as the Front Page a few days before the Module starts.  The only way I have found to do this is to remember to manually set th...

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Hi, I missed the Intro to "Ingnite AI" presentation last week - does anyone have the recording? Is it active yet and if not when will it be available? Any information you could provide would be great. Cheers 

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what if i dont use this plateform is it apart of my grade

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For the CME group simulator page, I noticed that Stocks like MNQ and NQ does not really reflect their shown price. Like MNQ is 2 * index of 23.7k so should be 47,506, but in the simulator I could buy more than 10  Or like in NQ which is MNQ*10, but I...

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Gradebook view is incorrect- the status of missing or excused assignments are not shown correctly. the grades are not center alligned.

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HI, I hope someone can assist. I have a course in Canvas where all the assignments shown on Canvas are not all assignments that are actually completed on Canvas. This causes an issue while I am completing an assignment on the separate app; they are s...

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Can a variable be placed inside a math object for formula questions? I want something like \dfrac{x}{`a`}, where `a` will be a variable I define? If not, how am I supposed to create fractions with a horizontal bar?

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This has happened twice now, where I will click "choose a file" during a quiz, and it submits the whole quiz instead. Another issue is that while I'm taking the quiz and putting in my answers, a couple of minutes later, it erases my answers, and I wi...

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 Posting grades in a letter format on the Canvas "Grades" site is messy that it requires a guidance of a Canvas representative. After the grades are posted, they do not appear automatically in students' transcriptsThe grading system on Canvas is appa...

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I'm relatively new to using Canvas, but I have been trying to use Canvas Teacher on my MacBook Pro M1 for giving comments to my students' recent assignments, which seems to be working well to exchange comments with them. However, when I use the "swip...

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I often need to link to an item WITHIN a module. I can easily link to the module, but I cannot link specifically to an item WITHIN the module.I highlight the text I want to link, I click on the LINK icon and select COURSE, and I get a list. Modules a...

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Good day  Please assist in my business unit. We have the following risks:1. Technological disruptions due to AI misuse, cyber-attacks, and because we are using donor funding, we do not have adequate funding resources to upgrade technology or procure ...

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Hi, The names in the bulk donwload rubrics file do not match the names in gradebook.1. The order is different, making it difficult to match students who have 4 or 5 words in their name, and it is not clear which ones are the last and middle and first...

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Hi all,Due to the new changes to Canvas (2025), I am struggling with the total column in the grade book. I entered grades for students and the total assignment column is providing the percentage (i.e., 97%). However, the total column that always prov...

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I have had an increasing number of students over the past couple of semesters report that when they use the Canvas video recording tool within the rich text editor to create videos as part of an assignment, the video does not save. It hangs up with t...

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