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How do I create completion requirements for an assignment - meaning that a student can only access a specific assignments after he completes a different one?
We are attempting to disable the Eduappcenter ("Apps"). We followed a posting from this Community about turning off LTI installation for certain roles. Namely, Teachers. But it still appears no matter what is disabled in Roles and Permissions. What a...
Why aren't I able to save my Kaltura recordings? Whenever I stop recording instead of showing a popup window to save it, I get shown an error message saying "Failed to save recording". Is there a reason why? I originally thought it was an storage iss...
Hi,Is there a way to export the data from a grading rubric by student into an excel spreadsheet (like you can do with grades)? We love using rubrics within Canvas but if I need the data for accreditation reporting I need to be able to access it in on...
Canvas LMS Observer accounts cannot view the quiz submissions of their students, even once graded.Attached is a screenshot of me in the parent's account view showing the error.
Our gradebook is divided by quarters, how do I go back to an earlier quarter? Last year we had a drop down bar that is not on my gradebook this year, can I add it?
Since there is no specific feature mentioned in Canvas LMS that allows for configuring an "ADD" option or providing multiple assignment options within a single assignment in Canvas. I would like this feature or configuration to be add. I would give i...
I do not want my grades weighted, but it will not allow any other option. When I go into the assignment category to show I do not want it weighted, there is no way to delete it. I have never had this happen before. I tried reimporting the course (...
Is there a report I can run at the district level that shows observers and what students they are observing? I want to be able to look at a student and see who all is observing that student.
Hi all,I am an instructor for an in-person class of 200 undergraduate students. I am trying to create multiple versions of a Canvas quiz to give to my students, and I noticed that this is very difficult to do with the current features on Canvas. I ...
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I work as a Canvas Administrator. If someone has the time, it would be greatly appreciated if you would review the page that is linked below - and let me know if this is indeed the best way to import materials for question banks in New ...
A few of our earners have reported that the emails containing the verification code for setting up a new account are extremely slow to appear in their inboxes, sometimes so slow that they go beyond the availability time of the code. We suggested they...
Hello! I am an instructor and I created a group assignment on canvas, but for some reason canvas is recognising the assignment as an individual assignment.So, when I try to use SpeedGrader, it's showing me that a number of students have missing assig...
Hello! We are currently using Canvas as a student activities platform at our institution. We have multiple courses with student groups (so students can be a part of more than one group), and students join the groups they are interested in through the...
What is the best way to check if a user is authorized to create a conversation via the Canvas API for a specific recipient user?
I am seeing odd behavior using this API endpoint:
https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/conversations.html#method.conv...
Hi all! So a little bit of background about the way our system works: Our courses are populated into Canvas by our SIS, but they are all dumped into our main account. Before the beginning of each semester, I manually run a CSV upload to separate thos...
Instructor wants students to see the test questions that they got wrong directly after they take their test and are sitting in the room. If quiz is opened it does not close after the test time completed, students are able to see the test for several...
We are building our SCORM package using Articulate and have run into a problem with Tabs. In one section the content is reviewed using 6 tabs across the top. Clicking on the tabs works just fine but not all the tabs are visible without clicking on ...
I am a university dean and the educational technology team reports to me. I asked them for information on automatically generating weekly reports of student and instructor activity in Canvas courses (number of postings, number of responses, etc.), s...
At our institution we have a variety of "Peer Mentor" (PM)-type roles: students who are placed in undergraduate classes as advisors/mentors/tutors to the enrolled students. The PM is a fellow matriculated undergrad, but not enrolled in the course (in...
Are there any plans to expand Outcomes from the course to the Account level?by placing Outcomes in the students' Account file under EfolioI would like to have Students' able to report their competency attainment and progression across the education p...
Is there a way to choose the "drop the lowest grade" in an assignment category but isolate it to one marking period? When you choose this option now, it applies it to all marking periods instead of only the current one. We have four marking periods...
PowerPoint embedded from a Onedrive losses it's annotation options
I am attempting to store all of my course work PowerPoint files on Onedrive and then embed them into the course material in pages of Canvas. This gives our teachers t...