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New Canvas Admin coming from Blackboard.  In Blackboard, faculty had the ability to create a user_s account that was auto-added into the student role via a 3rd party Building Block.  They could also manage their passwords.In a perfect world, we'd lik...

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Is there a way to move questions already posted on a saved quiz? For example, if I realize I want to add questions BEFORE the first question on a saved quiz, is there a way to "insert" the new questions?

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I want to upload a folder that I have in my Canvas Files to a RCE or even a link to a folder I have in my Files would be great.  I do not see a way to upload a folder of files, only a way to upload files.  Does someone else know?  The Canvas Tech Sup...

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I imported a class into my canvas course and I now what to delete what I imported.  How do I do this?

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Here is the use case scenario:  Faculty want to have a single student submit a paper and all other students provide feedback on that single submission.  The peer feedback should only be viewable to the faculty and the student who submitted the paper....

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How do I add the Teacher role to a manually created account?

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Is there a way to export the new quizzes for transfer between instances of Canvas?  I develop courses in my home college's instance of Canvas for use by other Colleges, and if I use standard quizzes the export packae will take them seamlessly into th...

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Looking to see what application and /or tools that are available for embedding a video playlist in canvas as a learning material.  I know your able create a playlist in Youtube and embed that playlist into canvas but I do not like how this functions ...

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Hello everyone,I am working with a follow teacher who has been using the Flipgrid LTI the past several years with no issues. She teaches ASL so her students are using flipgrid for many assignments. This Term (started last week) she created an assignm...

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When I go to the browser to enter a hex code to change the colors it works. But when I go into the app all the colors are way darker then what I entered. Why is this happening? I enter bright colors and it works but not in the app.

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Canvas is saying im missing some computer requirements

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I am in the process of creating Item Bank Questions for each week of lecture topic and also separating by points (I have 1 point Item Banks and 3 point Item Banks for Week 1 as an example).When I create the Exam, and select however many questions fro...

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Is it possible to update the reporting to show time in course instead of page views? This is a need for many schools for state attendance reporting. 

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I am on mac and do not have chrome installed, but the browser update banner pops up when I log in and tells me chrome is not up to date. I have already cleared cookies and it still pops up. Is there a step I am missing?

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Can I add the Test Student to the attendance "Roll Call"?

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Hello,I am looking for an easier way than copy & paste to make a quiz from a Google doc. Is there a better solution than "Automagical Forms" which costs $260 per year?Thanks,Dave

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After the new year, images that I embed into Canvas quizzes started to be much too large for students to see. I found a fix as Canvas allows you to edit the size of the picture to "medium." After having done that, the next day, every single picture i...

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For some reason, when I assign a practice quiz, it is not appearing on students calendars as due. Does anyone know how to fix this?

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I am a technology specialist trying to support a teacher. The teacher has some students taking a class (Macroeconomics) that has some similar/ same content as a class they previously took with him (micro). He wants to assign returning students in the...

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I implemented OpenID connect flow to launch LTI tool from canvas. After launching tool, I got id token in return. How can we use id token to get access token?

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Hi Canvas has been glitching for me only since yesterday evening. I use Chrome to access Canvas.please can you let me know how I can get this fixed as I have an exam on Friday so really urgent for my revision.thank youregardsMita

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Using the lti.frameResize postMessage to send the height of an iframe to its full content height on assignment pages. This iframe is simple html content from a self authored external resource.This works great on a desktop browser and on a mobile devi...

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Because Canvas seems be b ignoring requests for a drawing-type question in quizzes, I've been trying to find a tool that I can embed into a quiz question. I often use quizzes as lessons rather than assessments, including multiple questions I want ans...

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My classes are on canvas, but there is only one class that had the due dates automatically updated to the calendar, I cannot see the due dates for my assignments for any of my other classes. Oddly enough it works on the app but not the website. Is th...

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For my first assignment, Canvas's Assignment Dashboard/Upload buttons do not show the submission button- I can choose to upload the assignment, but it won;t let me submit it.  Same problem using Firefox and on Chrome- resizing won't help.  I suspect ...

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NOTE: I do NOT mean Instructure plumbing that makes the whole system function.Hi all.I was reading a post elsewhere about the posters Canvas timeout settings (session maintenance/browser keep-alive's), and different admins were discussing their value...

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I am staying at the same College but changing jobs. How can I remove myself from Canvas courses? I have a teacher title in the courses. I can remove others but do not see an option to remove myself. Thoughts please?

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Hi everyone,I hope all's well.We are trying to run analytics on quizzes via Student & Item Analysis.  This week we had to change some former learners' roles back to Student to get their grades visible in the quizzes. However - for some quizzes, their...

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I have some projects where students basically do multiple mini-projects--like a timeline of 10 scientists with the same 7 bits of information provided for each one. When I was grading these on paper, I used a grid rubric that let me just go across ea...

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When I open the "Status" menu for an individual assignment, I do not have the option to select "Resubmitted." What can I do to add that category back into my menu?

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