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Students want to resubmit assignments. Settings show the assignment uses external tool therefore resubmissions not available. What is external too, can I change this so that students can have unlimited submissions? 

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When I have 100 questions in my test bank, I don't want to add all 100 of them to a quiz. So I need to select specific questions to add to quiz from the bank. Therefore, I hope to create New Quizzes with specific questions from an item bank, while en...

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When I try to upload a video on to canvas in a quiz my camera is always inverted. Is there anyway to fix that?

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I was grading a group assignment. Students were allowed to work on this assignment without being in a group. However, I came to find out that my comments for those solo students were not saved. My "solution" was to put those students in their individ...

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Our school recently switched from term courses in Canvas to year long courses. In a lot of ways, this was a great move. However, my gradebook is now cluttered with excessive empty assignment group total columns. This isn't an issue if you look all gr...

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The Teacher Reviewer role has similar access to the Teacher role, but does not have permission to add or edit content in the course. The teacher reviewer can see everything the teacher can, including student grades. However, the teacher reviewer is n...

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I always use Safari when using Canvas and usually it works fine, however, for about a week now I have not been able to view PowerPoints/presentations while on Safari. This has never been an issue before, so I am confused. In the meantime, I have been...

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I am admin and Added as a unit coordinator for a canvas site. The other unit coordinator added students as teachers because there was a delay in getting the students into the site. How can I now remove the users teacher role and leave them as student...

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I would like to add a word document with my course description and syllabus in its entirety into Canvas, and excerpts from syllabus into Modules.  Modules seems to ask only for download.  How do I get an excerpt of a words document into a module?

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I am an instructor and am wanting to edit the access of modules to allow different groups of students to view specific modules. I am aware that I can create groups for different assignments, but not modules.   

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I posted a DISCUSSION topic for my students.The "green lights" were on - on my end, however, my students could not see/access the Discussion.I'm not sure what went wrong.

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Will Canvas automatically introduce weekly discussions as assignments in the Fall 2023 course calendar, or do I have to add them again to the Calander?  I ask, because I am setting up assignments in the practice shell that I hope to migrate over for ...

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Hi, I co-teach a couple of university classes. We split up the grading and so my "to do" list on my dashboard is constantly flooded. I am wondering, if I "ignore" the notification on my Dashboard (i.e., click the 'X'), will that also remove it from m...

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Hi, Students took exam and it automatically calculated the grade; however, when I go into the grade book, the grade is not visible and can only see it once I click the box. The screenshot is attached.

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I was just wondering if you can add a media button so I am able to submit my mp4 video?

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I am a student enrolled in the ATA Prerequisites Course. I am currently working on the Module 5 Methods Problem in Vocareum. I am stuck on Step 2. The instructions are as flowsDefine a method named printResult (below the comment for this step). It sh...

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It's a great idea to have a bank of common comments, something I have long used ClipAngel for, but it appears that you can only enter one comment from the library and when you do it makes everything else you have written disappear forever.I learned t...

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Hello, As the heading say, my Notifications for @ Mentions are Not Working.I checked the guide for solutions. Also, I confirmed my notification settings are marked (ticked to receive a daily summary) and they are--in both my global as well as course ...

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HiI'm missing compulsory courses on Canvas- BEd in Foundation Phase: Teaching Practice 1, Grade R teaching, Beginning Knowledge and Arts Education1: Visual. Please assist.

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I'm having trouble embedding photos in my reply where the image saved looks fine and when I embed it, the image is just a gray block.  Is there a file size limitation or something similar that is causing this? 

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I'm having trouble with a Canvas Quiz setting, in the Moderate Tab there is an option to Add Time for a quiz - however when I add the time to a particular student Ex: + 5, 10, 20, minutes or an hour Students still receive a Times Up! Message and cann...

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Let me preface this by saying I'm new to Canvas -- like only a few days in, so please forgive this potentially dumb question, but is there a way to designate multiple assignments as "passing grade is required to pass the entire course"? More specific...

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Hi,I am our Canvas Admin in my school. We use New Quizzes (NQ) in some of our course masters. The NQ are set up to draw questions from the Item Bank(s) and we have LockDown Browser & Monitor (LBM) enabled.When we import the master content into a new ...

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Could someone please clarify the difference (or confirm there is none) between the following.1)  In course settings there is an "Import Course Content" 2) On the homepage there is an "Import Existing Content"When I follow both paths they appear to do...

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How do I block student view of the left sidebar options (people, modules, etc. etc.)

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When i tried to access my exam, after pressed begin, the screen show that:Error: Course (UNKNOW), Exam (NOT ATTEMPTED)- Unable to connect to Respondus server (AWS) for the course or exam settings.- Unable to obtain exam title to determine webcam requ...

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How do I delete a course in Open Source?  

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I would like you to add a "Turned In" option in the gradebook like the "Exempt", and "Missing" options. If I haven't graded all the assignments yet, I want parents to know that it's been turned in but not graded yet.  I do not want to "hide" the assi...

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