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I am using New Analytics Online Attendance.  Our weeks run from Monday to Sunday.  The default in online attendance is Sunday to Monday  - the Sunday of the previous week the way we look at weeks.  Is there a way to change the default Sunday to Satur...

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Hello, I'm experiencing an issue when trying to display an HTML file in a Canvas Module. I uploaded a .zip file to the Files section and selected the main HTML file as the content for a module item. However, when I try to open it from the Module, the...

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As we near the end of the year our schedule gets super weird. I might see my 2nd period once in a week for 84 minutes, and see my 3rd period 3x/week for 84 minutes. I decided to take some inspiration from the "flipped classroom" and let each student ...

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I would like to propose a new feature in Canvas.    I have occasionally forgotten to all submissions for an assignment that I have created.  It would be nice to be able to see the submission status indicated in the "assignments" view of all assignmen...

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I have created essay questions in my new quizzes several times for exams.  When I am grading their answers, we are able to type in a comment box underneath what they have answered correctly or incorrectly.  And then to justify the number of points I ...

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Whenever I try to open my canvas home page or any class it only show black boxes and squares when I log in on Edge or Fire Fox it works fine but only on Chrome it wont load.

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linked google doc assignments have disappeared from pre-created modules. Starting with this week's module, doc's that I've linked before (and used before) have suddenly disappeared. BUT, it still shows that I've linked it, it just doesn't show to me ...

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I've looked through every category of quiz but can't see one which will allow me to upload a short audio file then have the students type in the English translation as a response.  I'm a languages teacher. Any ideas?Thanks in advance

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If the instructors have four assignments leading to the final project, but have unpublished one of them, does canvas calculate the final project grade from the published assignments or does it factor in unpublished assignments (that obviously will no...

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Hello there.I am specifically asking for Canvas, and NOT Catalog. I am wondering if there is a way to block certain email domains or IP addresses.For example: If I provide a direct enroll link to a course, can we specify it doesn't account @aol.com? ...

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When we have cross-listed courses, is it possible to have separate Discussions per section in a single graded Discussion assignment? I know you can control who is assigned, but if you need all sections assigned they can all view and participate in th...

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We have run into an issue where newly enrolled students have not been receiving the email from Instructure to confirm their email address. They do get the email when we manually re-send it but that is not a sustainable workflow to do for every new st...

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I absolutely love that we can cut and past images into submission comments now. The only problem that I have is that I want it to automatically maintain the original dimensions of the image instead of it make it smaller. Instead, I have to manually c...

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David Chan 531Z In dealing with one of our M&E term contractors who is repeatedly not taking in follow-up matters assigned to him whether by managing agent or the client. I had tried to use Principle of persuasion – Authority.Using our managing agent...

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Hi Canvas Community,   Question. We have a teacher who has built a 100-line Python app in Streamlit and he would like to find a way to host it somewhere for his students to use, ideally via Canvas. Do you have any experience on this which you can sha...

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I have written several exams on my PC in Canvas via UBC's website. I recently attemped a trial quiz in preparaton for a final exam and the Canvas system was running brutally slow and jumpy. I was unsuccessful in determining why after several hours wo...

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I was previously able to indicate a negative score in the Rubric, but this function seems to have disappeared... is it possible to bring this back?I want to include/have included item(s) within the rubric to account for did/did not actions that will ...

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Whilst trying to create a role whereby tutors (TA) could grade, but not access quizzes (this might not be possible regardless), I noted that removing the three permissions to add, delete and edit quizzes has no apparent effect on the new role's capab...

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I need the join code to create an account for my student! Google says to scroll. to more options, but its not there! Help!

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It looks like Canvas retains the sis id even after deleting the record. We have built some integrations and would be re-running the same data few times as part of testing. I am unable to re-create the terms with sis id which i already deleted. I do n...

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I submitted a peer review for an assignment and it shows me what score I gave them and how I graded their rubric. However, for the instructor, it shows that I didn't submit it/or it didn't properly go through. I can't redo the peer review unless the ...

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I am currently struggling with how to automatically remove students from sections that instructors are manually creating in their Canvas courses.  Here is the current situation.  Our students are enrolled into SIS course sections via API. The instruc...

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How do I make the screen size smaller so that I can see more info on the page at one time?

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I put this idea in a while back: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Ideas/Course-Import-Export-Create-an-easy-way-to-copy-a-course-and-not/idi-p/635314 As and admin I'd like to give faculty two easy choices for course copy one being the whole ...

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When doing quizzes on Canvas, my browser (Firefox) starts to freeze, which makes it a pain to deal with when typing. The timer freezes, and I am just praying that I can finish this before the timer ends. Typing is so bad when it freezes every second....

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Today I wanted to peek at something in my course access report as an instructor (through People).To my surprise, I found that at 12:11 a.m. yesterday, there was record of me accessing 120+ items in the class all at exactly the same time. There was no...

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Hello teachers, we at Saddleback Academy have launched the MTA program and announced that we can only log in to the canvas system through the Application Portal. Now LockDown Browse is directly bound to the canvas official website, we can't log in to...

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Suddenly, when trying to open some discussion posts and assignments for my classes, I've been getting the same "Sorry, something broke" error. It's been affecting pretty much every device, computer, phone, tablet. It's stopping me from responding to ...

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Is it possible to create questionnaires by topic (subject) and, in the end, have both the students' results and the questionnaires organized according to the specific topics I defined? It would be like a group with a given name, and within that group...

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