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In the Files Redesign page, it is showing incorrect information for Blueprinted courses. I have a situation where a course was copied into and then associated as a blueprint all from the same course course. This duplicates items. All I have to do is ...

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I cross-section my classes every year, and I always use Speedgrader to grade by section. Up until this year, I could click between the different sections and the new section will load. Now, for the first time, when I open a section/period in Speedgra...

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How are the students suppose to access the canvas assignments?

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Hello!  I have a problem transferring grades from one section of a course to another taught by a different teacher within the organization. I know how to find grades from concluded sections of the course offered in previous semesters. However, I can'...

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Dear all, We have noticed that some course discussions do not appear to students in the Discussion section of the course navigation menu even when they are pinned. Do you know why this happens? This is before course launch, so the discussions have no...

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I wanted to bring to your attention an issue related to hiding grades from students in Canvas. At first glance, it seems that setting the Grade Posting Policy to "Manually Post Grades" would be sufficient to prevent students from viewing their scores...

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I just ran into an issues for my fall semester courses. SpeedGrader has always worked fine showing .sql files, which are plain text files. However this week they stopped rendering in speed grader. Thinking this is a file issue I had a student resubmi...

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Hi, I am thinking to create questions within question bank using an API. As these questions are already available with me. Can you help me with Question bank API information, so i can use and push all the questions in the respective questions bank. A...

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I’m using a Canvas Observer account to track my student’s progress. Right now, I only seem to be able to click into each course separately.Is there a way for parents/observers to see all grades/assignments across classes in a single view?

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Students are unable to reply to a discussion. The "Reply" button does not appear for them, even though the discussion is published and visible. This issue occurs even when the option “Allow students to reply to this topic” is enabled in the discussio...

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I don't have an assignments link in Canvas to complete the peer reviews. 

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I have faculty who want a certain file to be available to students AFTER their second attempt on a quiz. I cannot find a feature that allows that in Canvas. We can do it after the first quiz attempt, but not the second. Am I missing something? 

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This issue is with the resolution used by the Canvas Speedgrader when rendering PDF files. Canvas will "refresh" the pdfs at different resolutions depending on the zoom level chosen in the speedgrader pdf viewer, but also depending on the zoom level...

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I have created an assignment that was in a locked module (open August 26th). I created self-sign up group set in the People tab a week before and also created a Discussion board that I then set to group assignment and connected the group set.As of to...

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How do I remove scheduled recurring zoom meetings set up by another instructor who is disignated as the host?

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Seems like I stumbled across a place last year to link all of my assignments to our gradebook system rather than syncing each assignment individually.  Did I dream that?  Thanks.

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Hello everyone, I’ve noticed that when I create a course manually in Canvas, students do not receive notifications for announcements. However, when courses are created and loaded through SIS, students do receive those announcement notifications. Is t...

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I'm using checkpoint discussions not sure if it applies to those who don't use that feature. If you use the speed grader and look at the individual posts view the history feature is missing. However if you switch to viewing the full discussion contex...

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In 2 courses my books are grayed out and not able to be clicked on, what do I do, who do I contact? Everyone I have reached out to so far blames it on a different dept.

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I have a new faculty member who created a course and began creating Question Banks in it using the Classic Quizzes engine. He had hoped to build question banks in this "Quiz Banks" course during the term and be able to use Find Questions to populate ...

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Canvas is putting in assignments that are not due yet in as zeroes in PowerSchool. I have set up all the sync categories and checked the due dates. It isn't effecting all of my classes and the classes it is effecting it's not doing it to all students...

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I was updating point values in a couple of assignment that some students had already submitted and now I can't get the point values to match, for example if you add up all of the possible points in a quiz it adds up to 8 but the assignment says its w...

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Google has rolled out a new "Homework Help" button in the URL bar of Chrome, and I just tested it out. During a Canvas quiz, if I click that button in the URL bar and select a quiz question in Canvas, it'll spit out the answer right in a sidebar with...

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Hi , Im currently updating the assessment materials for the whitecard course CPCWHS1001 and I have noticed all of the new courses online have video recorder inserts to allow students to orally record answers as part of their assessments. It looks lik...

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In the new update, I am finding a frustrating glitch when I enter a typed comment to a student submission via SpeedGrader.I type my comment, then click "Submit"--but when I move to the next student submission, SpeedGrader has created a second blank c...

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How can I remove a course from Canvas that I am not teaching?

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I have created the letter grading scheme below. I want to give students a 4.1 on their assessments to show that they exceeded (A+) expectations. In the past, I would give students a 5 instead of a 4.1, but that pulled their overall grade up too much...

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There was a recent filter change in Canvas, and I thought I was going crazy. Turns out, my department was struggling too. In Speed Grader, when I moved from P1 to P2, it refused to show me P2 and kept showing me everyone. This led me down a rabbit ho...

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I am trying to give students a choice for their daily homework assignments: they can either take a quiz or do a write-up of their readings for the same 10 points. I need to figure out how to set up the gradebook to reflect that they will consistently...

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