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I've seen that using Canvas Commons as a template enables one to make a change in Commons and push it to a live course. Is it possible to do this any other way besides using Commons? 

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First level list element jump tags remain after saving, and work. Jump tags on second level list elements are deleted after saving. What gives?     <ul style="list-style-type: circle;"> <li> <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #000000;">...

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I made my classes as Dev classes first.  Looked great with all kinds of screen shots.  When I copied it into my live course, everything looked fine to me.  But no student could see any images because they were linking back to my dev course and the st...

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When creating Outcomes, there's a description field and a "friendly" description field that is supposed to display for students.  I am creating an outcome at the sub-account level, and have entered different text into the friendly description field: ...

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I've clicked on the New Message alert button in Chat, but when students send a message in Chat, I haven't been notified.  Where should I see an alert?

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I’m looking for—an archiving solution that allows us to remove old courses from Canvas while keeping backups of everything, including files. So far, I haven’t found a solution outside of K16. Have you come across any reliable process or vendor for th...

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When wrapping HTML page code in comment tags <!-- Some lines of HTML page code here --> and saving, the commented-out code disappears for good. This is bad, what can one do?

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I had an teacher to accidently remove a student from a course.  If I add that student back into the course, will their submitted work remain in tact?

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This is a fun particular one We're working on layout templates for Pages, Discussions, and Assignments that feature a bespoke home button. In effect, the button is simply a link back to the course home, built with the destination link found via the ...

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I am hopefully going to explain this as clearly as possible. My course is grade with percentages, not points. For example my Exams are worth 60% of the grade and I have 4 of them, thus they are each worth 15%. My exams do not have the same amount of ...

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We are identifying courses that do not have an associated blueprint or that, even with a blueprint, have pending synchronization. To resolve these issues before users raise complaints, I would like to know if there is a way to perform this check in b...

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I would like to know if it is possible to condition the completion of an assessment based on the scores obtained by the student in previous evaluations.For example, imagine we have three tasks: an Activity worth 40 points, a Test worth 60 points, and...

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When I complete a reply to a discussion post it duplicates itself.  This forces me to delete and reenter my response to correct the issue.

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Hi Community! Does anyone know if there is any sort of feature or LTI that would show me a dashboard of live data from the platform? I'm after some sort of screen showing graphics of how many active users we have on courses/course completion/assignme...

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I've built a bunch of content as webpages and webapps and gotten it all hosted. It all meets the highest standards for accessibility. It uses responsive design, adjusting to display well on any screen, with thoughtful layouts for both portrait and la...

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Scenario: I want to make self-sign up groups that have different names - so 80 groups in total, divided into 3 lots of groupwork -Tutorial 1, groupwork -Tutorial 2, groupwork -Tutorial 3. This helps to identify for students which groups in their tuto...

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Have a Canvas site running from 2018 and we are missing a page that was mostly likely deleted in cleanup. When I go to the restore/undelete queue it only shows deleted material from 2018-2022. Is there a time period, or a refresh that I need to do to...

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I cannot seem to find an answer to this question: but my students grades are showing as over 100%, even some who did not get 100% on every assignment.  I am wondering why that is?  The "total grade" has two numbers 1800/1500 - so the 1500 is supposed...

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On my dashboard the spacing of the font is triple, this goes for everything that is linked to canvas- the quizzes that are on canvas also have triple spacing. I must've clicked on something that made the spacing be so wide. 

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Please Help! I am helping a teacher move her courses from Moodle to Canvas. All were fine except for this particular group of courses. I upload the course using Moodle file upload. It looks like it is going to work but I receive a error that say, "Un...

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I used the html code to embed the Google form in my Canvas course and students were working on the form. One student was almost done and then all of her answers seemed to disappear. Because it was embedded she did not open it by itself which means th...

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Is anyone aware of a way to prevent (turn-off) the "Import Course Content" option for the "Teacher" role from the administrator side. As an administrator and per some recent questions via a committee, we are wanting to temporarily prevent faculty fro...

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Hey everyone, Just wanted to give you a heads-up that Canvas has been a bit strange lately. It seems like not all the BBB conference recordings are showing up properly (check out the screenshots and the message from Canvas). I'm wondering if anyone e...

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Years ago, Speedgrader allowed you to toggle between assignments in the top banner menu. It made it convenient when grading make-up work for a student who had been absent. Now you have to return to the gradebook for each assignment and re-enter Speed...

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OK so this is a pretty strange question (actually it's more of a discussion) so I will make sure to give you background and context first.   I am the Director of Educational Technology and my school's Canvas Admin at my high school (grades 9-12).  W...

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When editing a Canvas course DELAYED announcement, every Save of that announcement draft sent a notification to all course users. Created much confusion and chaos.Why would that happen and how to avoid?

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first off, i was directed to Canvas Ideas to share feedback but there is no way to post there. (ironically, my criticisms are about how awful unhelpful the Canvas interface is).on to my feedback: every platform (including this one) has a notification...

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How do I delete a student that is no longer in my course?

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I'm trying to add a criteria into a rubrics. I only see an option to add a criteria at the very end. Is there a way to re-order the criteria within the rubrics? Thanks

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An instructor has an exam with 75 minutes (1 hr 15 min) set as a time limit. She has 3 students who have 1.5 multiplier accommodations for quizzes/exams. She has set the accommodations at the course level. She has set up the exam so it opens at a spe...

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