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Can a New Quiz be set up as an anonymous survey?

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A few of my assignments are not fully syncing to skyward. For example, one of my classes has the assignment and grade, but another one of my classes only the assignment is appearing with asterisks for all the grades even though they have grades in Ca...

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So here I am trying to create a rubric for an assignment, and twice I have forgotten the extra, added step of "updating the rubric" at the bottom of the screen. Twice, I have lost all of my work. Twice, I have been left frustrated.Why can't the rubri...

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I've had an issue that is driving me bonkers. I have created some assignments that are set up as text entry only. Students were instructed (as clearly and completely as I could manage) to either type their answers directly in the text box OR they cou...

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My professor is asking me to respond to them on canvas but they deleted the course now I can't reply to them.

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I get my child's grades every week, but when I go in to look at the assignments to see what he got wrong, I can't see the questions or his answers. I can't see anything to be able to review the material with him and talk things over with him about wh...

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Hi Everyone,My online students need to submit a journal entry for each lecture video they watch.  I have been using a Google link for my students to use, but I would rather have it all in Canvas.  Each journal per lecture video is worth 4 points.  Ho...

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Is there a limit to the number of students assigned to an observer to view on the dashboard?We have a need for observers to have 200+ students assigned to them and are finding Canvas will not show all students in the dashboard. Currently our observer...

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Goal: I'd like to be able to crosslist sections of courses spanning two semesters that are generated by an SIS sync without students who are in separate sections each semester appearing in both sections at the same time. This will allow teachers of y...

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How are you handling permissions for ESE/SPED teachers who need to monitor student progress for IEPs, etc? During our pilot at a single school, they had the Act As feature turned on, but since we've gone districtwide, that has been turned off for all...

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I'd like to attach a private note with each question on my quizzes that only I can view.I update the content on my syllabus at least once per year and have associated content questions on my quizzes. However, there is no way (I can find) in Canvas to...

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I am a university student in Virginia, and also have an anxiety disorder.  My anxiety is peaked when I look at my Canvas app on my iPhone to see it's telling me I have four "to-dos".  Then I spend a few minutes and find that I have already submitted ...

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Is it possible to use both a rating scale rubric and free-form comments that save (much like the saved comments in the free-form rubric)? Unless I'm overlooking something, it currently seems to be one or the other. The ability to have both would be a...

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My course has co-teachers. If I turn off notifications, will this action affect their notifications for my course?

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I'm at a loss on how to create grade passback. I've used the Canvas Live API tool to check the course ID, Student ID and assignment ID. All seem to work fine.When I try to use Score using those ID's, I keep getting errors.I've filled in all the requi...

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hi I submitted my assignment but couldn't get any submission confirmation email plaza help 

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How can you create a list of resources, including videos, elearns (scorm files) and readings for students? It would be helpful for students to see their progress of which one they have completed. 

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The Assignment Batch Edit feature needs a major overhaul. I would like the ability to increase/decrease the due date OR the available date, why is it just both? Same for remove dates.  I would like the ability to manually enter a date that applies to...

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Hi All,I have maybe a newbie question.  I've been using the Canvas APIs to do some data replication and ran into an issue that has me stumped.  We have one course where Assignment Groups (Weighted Grades) were specified and then later removed, howeve...

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In English (High School) there is sub criterias for each Criteria. Is it possible to create the sub-criteria for each criterion. E.g. Criteria 1 would have 3 sub criterias 

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Can I keep a discussion post in rough draft while I finish it?

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 Attendance feature is not showing in my menu. How can I make it available?

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I am putting together an open-access public course and am wondering if there are any ways to improve the SEO of the course's individual pages.I've look around at the course settings and for anything that can be inserted into the page's HTML, but have...

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I'm trying to change the ending date for multiple courses on canvas from 12/19 to 12/20. but once I change the ending date and save it, when I check the course setting it is still showing 12/19 as the ending dateSaving as:Course settings are showing:

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Hi there, I don't have access to blueprints. What should I do?

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I have course content on a large number of Power Point slides to accompany class time. How do I upload the Power Point presentation onto Canvas so it is also available to students? 

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How do I assign partial points to an essay or file upload in the new Quizzes? When I try to do so (enter a point value, say, 29 of 30 possible pints) and click the check button, Canvas changes the score to the total possible points (30). How do I pre...

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This morning, my entire team noticed that pasting anything from a Word doc -- even a newly opened one -- is causing a few odd things to happen to the code in the RCE and the look of the object itself. A 600-700 line of code is appearing in the HTML e...

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I have recently finished a course with lots of material posted on Canvass, primarily from YouTube. I am now about to repeat the course. Is there an easy way to just transfer the You Tube and website material from the old course to the new ? Or do I h...

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Once we have started a Canvas Assignment using the external tool feature with Google Docs, is it possible to change the template before students go into the assignment?

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