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Good day to allIf I have 2 Accounts, can I duplicate the assignments or other activities from one account to another?Your help is required ASAP Thanks  Don Ogilvie

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Why can I not add my Canvas class group when I use Flipgrid??  I see other students videos, but when I attempt to add my own, it says I can't do so.  Very frustrating...

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I have created a new course in a subaccount that has been used for years by a previous employee... but the option form importing/exporting content (the right hand menu on new shells and in settings) is non-existent. I thought I was going crazy! but t...

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Hello,My question is about the total activity area in "people". Will that activity time continue if students remain on one canvas page watching videos. For example, if I have 2 hours of lectures for students on one canvas page and students watch them...

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The computer says my name is Rebekah, but there is a problem. I'm a recently transgender male and I want to nickname myself with my account on my school computer, but I can't. Nothing I do works, and I need help.

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Hi my name is Dominique Canteen and this is my first time ever taking online classes so I am confused on what I am supposed to be doing first.

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One of our instructors would like to see all posts by a single student throughout the semester. Lots of instructors use online discussion boards as a complement to in class discussion, and being able to easily see all of a student’s contributions to ...

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I have a google slide on my front page in an iframe with links to assignments.  By default they open in a new window.  How can i get them to open in the parent window.  https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/6145115/pages/derby-public-school-strategi...

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Good morning! A faculty member has reported an error with the audio comment option in Speedgrader (that I was able to confirm as an admin). They state it no longer recognizes when a punctuation mark is to be used - i.e., saying the name of a punctuat...

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Where is Student Analysis now? With the previous view, I went to the specific quiz, then Quiz Statistics and then Student Analysis. I don't see these options with the new view.

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I see many posts about how the Grade Posting Policy is set to Automatic by default. I also see many people asking that this be something  we can change at an admin level.I am looking for the WHY  of this policy. My staff are asking for the logic behi...

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I created an S3 bucket, then tried to create a file share using the provided role from the dropdown of the Canvas AWS Lab. The file share status remains as "unavailable" and I'm not able to copy files to the mounted volume. 

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Hello. Last semester my students used Canvas with no issues. This semester we are using the same Canvas, but they cannot reply to my discussion posts. They are logged in. I have not closed comments - comments are open. I don't understand why they can...

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When I am in unit setting and view marking scheme and manage it, it shows I have more then 10 schemes, not only in one unit but also in others units. but I never set them before.However, when I get in to marking schemes at admin setting, there has on...

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I have tried lodging a ticket with the Canvas helpdesk, and have also tried calling their Australian offices, but to date have never heard back from them.Is anyone able to suggest another way of contacting them?  We have an issue which is affecting t...

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My Canvas course is just one week in duration. It is an orientation type of course that prepares adult learners for remote learning. Both Discussions and Assignments are used in the course. My problem is that student submissions accumulate week after...

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I believe the best type of questions for the "Questions and Answers Forum" are general questions that can be easily answered by utilizing the help of others. When posting in canvas you can ask questions directed towards others who have similarly appr...

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I want to use Big Blue Button to record my screen and give student feedback. The problem I am having is that I can playback the video just fine after the recording ends—video and audio are perfect.However, when I download it, the audio goes away.Plea...

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A student says "the computer says I got a zero but I didn't take the quiz".  How can I check?

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When I was an undergrad, one of my English professors set up his quizzes the following way:Quizzes were worth 10 pointsEach question was worth 2 pointsThere were six questionsFrom the above, you can see there were 12 points possible on a 10-point qui...

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Hi, I just took an online quiz on Canvas which was supposed to be closed-book/closed-notes. I didn't realize I had another Canvas tab open which I had opened a couple of nights ago and forgot to close, in addition to the one where i was taking the qu...

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Why are my test answers are not saving?

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I have been having this problem with all my classes and all of my assignment uploads. I am not able to submit any of my assignments through Google Drive even when Google has both been authorized on my Canvas account and the file type is specified by ...

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I have allocated 32 groups in a cohort, each with 3 or 4 members. How can I efficiently have class members self establish a numbered discussion group inside the Canvas Discussion menu function?

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I kindly found a couple equation editor bugs.. Any fix to keep automatic altering code out of my face?I am trying to type:I_init subscripting the init. It changes it to greek and adds a space and won't let you edit by typing. result below. If you del...

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Recently, I have modified our SCORM packages so that once a student goes through all the content of the package, the status is supposed to stay as open, allowing for free navigation of the content. I modified the code in the SCORM package. Several we...

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We have a "Major Assessment" calendar that all the teachers have access to so they can see what other tests, quizzes, etc. are due on certain days.  I have a new teacher on campus that I want to add to this calendar and the person that traditionally ...

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We are integrating SIS with Canvas and the plan is to have user portrait images populate from SIS to Canvas.Is there a Canvas-wide admin setting that restricts students from changing their profile image?If not, then is there an alternative method tha...

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why i cant able to login with my goggle account 

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Hello, An error occurred when I tried to insert a video from the Course Files.When I press F12 to view the error information, I receive the following notification:api.js:507 GET http://rce.example.com:3000/api/session net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVEDLink i...

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