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When importing pages, assignments, quizzes, etc., from an old Canvas course to a new Canvas course, I already know that I can have canvas update the due dates on my behalf.But I'll often put the due date in plain text in the description of the item, ...

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I use Canvas's passback to PowerSchool and have run into a problem with staggered release quizzes and tests in multi-section courses. What happens is that the quiz or test will sync to PowerSchool in one section of the class but not the other, and it...

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On my Canvas, when I use Turn it in, there is an AI check, I can generate a report telling me what parts of the paper are similar to what was written in a journal article but it does not include the percentage of the assignment that is AI. I can see ...

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I'm working with an instructor who needs to migrate content from HTML pages created many years ago to Canvas.  These pages contain tables that were used for layout, and we're trying to remove them to improve accessibility.  However, they are quite co...

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We are implementing a SIEM in our environment and want to do log shipping from our hosted Canvas instance to allow us to monitor account elevations, account creations, bulk data downloads etc. Does anyone know if this can be done? I had a quick look ...

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How do I assign quizzes in Canvas?

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I'm not sure if it was a mistake on my end or not, but I don't believe my post belongs on the Dev board, my question was from the perspective of an end user with the student role?  I just checked the community guides but I don't see any mention of bo...

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Hi,Can a teacher reopen an assignment that has already been submitted by students so that they can continue to work on the assignment?  If not...why don't we have that option because it seems like a valuable option for a variety of reasons.Yes...I un...

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1. I can't seem to find a tab to open a Paid account. How can I do that?2. How much space does a Paid account provide per video and per course?3. What does it cost to use Canvas Catalog?

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What is considered a passing grade in Health Studies Courses? Or what do you think is considered a passing grade in college? 

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Greetings, I'm new to the instructure program and LMS as a whole. Is there a basic beginners course somewhere?I'm trying to create a list of true or false questions but i can not figure out how to do them as a group. Thanks in advance!

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I have inherited some customization in Canvas which displays a banner at the top of the dashboard page. Although I cannot currently see it displaying any info, I believe it to be reaching out to a webapi that has been setup here. A studentid and some...

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What is the vacation policy of when your going on a vacation during the school year ?

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Why does PowerPoint sometimes show the entire slide and sometimes only show part of the slide? See attached images. Thank you for your help!      

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In a Canvas quiz, I would like the ability to set the quiz to one question at a time, but to have two short answer fields in a single question. Use CaseIt's pretty simple, the first field will be where the student responds to the set question. The se...

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Hi,I'm using the external tool - matlab grader.The student can take the matlab quiz, hits submit, but then gets an error "Canvas Gradebook cannot be reached"(I get this error with a real student and the canvas fake student view)Any thoughts?

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Good eveningI would like to find out how to check if I have done a quiz. There have been so many surveys and quizzes that pop up and cant keep track. I remember doing some but when scrolling down to see if I have answered it, my name does not pop up ...

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i have this bug where i cant text other fellow mates (not teacher and helper a.k.a adults) I cant text with other students!!

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When I logoff of CANVAS and recall the login page, my username and password are still in the window.  I want them to be blank when I log back in.   

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Colleagues, Although I have been through this migration many years ago and under different circumstances, I'm back at another institution that is considering a switch from Blackboard Classic to Canvas. There are options for migration from Instructure...

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When I am writing a quiz in Canvas, I am having an issue that random sentences of text are faded.  I copy and paste the question and answers from a Google doc.  There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason for the faded text.  But, it occurs by line.  ...

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Is it possible to set up permissions so that teachers can access a Blueprint course and pull information as desired, instead of having content pushed out to all connected courses?We are in the infancy of rolling out and a common structure for content...

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This is an issue one of our teachers is facing. Below is the description of the issue - a bit complicated so I will do my best to be clear.The teacher saves a file in Course Files. The file then is hyperlinked in the relevant part of the course. The ...

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Hi All,I have a SCORM package developed in Captivate. Everything works as planned but we recently found that if a user re-attempts the score resets to Zero. It doesn't preserve the previous attempt as with the normal quizzes (built-in).

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Why are some of the green checkmarks indicating published assignments within a module now lightened (lighter green than others)? This is a new development. What does the lightening mean? I'm attaching a screenshot to show the difference between the c...

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I found that when I include a semi-colon in the body of an add_message request, Canvas truncates the message body at the semi-colon. Is there a way to escape or encode the semi-colon so the body doesn't get truncated?Are there other special character...

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When trying to sync my grades to SIS in the past I have always had access to every assignment that I have published and marked to sync - so that way when students turn in work late, I can re-sync the grades. Now when I go to sync it only shows me two...

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