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Can we mass delete Canvas "messages" rather than one by one?I have tried the CTRL+A but that does not work for me.  I can only get it to somewhat work if I click a few messages and then hold shift to get the ones not marked for deletion.  Very time c...

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Students and Parents find the symbol for overdue work confusing. (In the Modules View) Shouldn't it go away once a grade is awarded regardless if it is overdue? Am I missing something? 

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I give students a grade of zero if they fail to complete a canvas assignment. But, I don't receive any notice when they finally submit their work. I need to know when they have submitted work so I can grade it. Previously the new assignment would sho...

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The first assignment is an individual one and the second is in a group of 4. I set up groups for the second assignment before the first assignment's due date, and the group setting applied to the first assignment submission! As the result only the fi...

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How do I send a video assessment of video comments to a student regarding their work?

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Students must be in our Testing Center to take their exam because the IP addresses are filtered for that location. After the exam closed, I adjusted the exam setting so students would be shown their answers and see which questions they got incorrect....

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I am a parent of two students and a teacher at several educational institutions, all of which use Canvas. Canvas is excellent for managing my administrative tasks across these different roles. However, I sometimes struggle to determine which institut...

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Is there a way to set up groups of students in each class, who will receive the same assignment? For example, I have students with IEPs, who have modified assignments. I would like to be able to select a particular group of students in one specific c...

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My students were working on a graphic organizer, and I am attempting to print their work so they can use it for assessment. I am trying to print their graphic organizer to show their annotated notes.

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Does anyone know how to either hide old courses or change list of courses in the View Grades tab to just show current first?  I have been using Canvas for 6 years and have not had this issue until this current school year.  I was observing two studen...

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I had recently heard that Canvas has some AI integrations and features. I was wondering what these were. Thank You

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I changed my last name with my university,  but they said they cannot make changes to my Canvas account. They told me to contact Canvas.  Who can I contact/ or how do I make changes in order to take care of this issue?

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Is there some reason why there has to be a scrolling viewing screen within the screen? It makes reading the lessons so annoying to only have a quarter of the screen to navigate with a scrolling within the webpage (and, no, I'm not looking for "just c...

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Hello- I am the Admin on our account. A student asked if she could use a different email to access our instance. (She originally gave me a gmail address). I can edit user details and add a new default email, but this does not change the login email. ...

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When an instructor enters their class calendar and drags an undated quiz or assignment to the date they want it to be due, the calendar defaults to 12:59am of that day, instead of 11:59pm of that day.  We have been able to replicate this issue using ...

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For the last 2 years, I have had the same late policy. All assignments are due AND available until their original due date. After the due date, students must submit a Late Work Google Form to get the assignment unlocked so they can resubmit it for cr...

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There are some assignments that go out to the majority of my students except one or two per class. It would be great to be able to assign to "everyone" and then have a button to select which students are exempt from the assignment. This should also b...

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Is there a way to flip the axis of the gradebook?  I would like to see students at the top and assignments on the side.  I know you can see grades by individual student, but it would also be nice to be able to flip this axis.  I looked through the se...

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I have created a rubric in a course that I have used for two paper assignments. I wanted to update the rubric slightly. When I go to the Rubrics page and click on the rubric I want to change, I get this message: "Rubrics cannot be modified once they ...

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I just had a student inform me that they could not reply to other students in a discussion that I set up in advance over the summer. I saw that threaded replies had been turned off without my knowledge, turned them back on, and announced the bug to t...

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Right now I have created appointments on Canvas using the Scheduling feature for students to sign up for. However, once all spots are reserved, the event disappears from the student's view. For example, if I create an event for October 1 with a maxim...

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In our district, we do not count late points for non-school days.  Currently, Canvas does not take weekends into account when deducting late points.  I was wondering if there was a way of having weekends not count toward late points on student submis...

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I took a test on Canvas, and on my log, my teacher is saying that it says I left the Canvas Test page multiple times, however, I did NOT leave the testing page at all.  Why is it saying that I did?  I'm very confused as to why it's saying that.  I ha...

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I have an multiple choice exam (old quiz). I set it up to give the average of two attempts. There was a technical snafu that required an extra attempt be added (all done and managed, quiz is closed). Now I want to change it to give the highest score....

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Does anyone know how to resolve this? On Microsoft Edge version 129.0.2792.52 (Official build) (64-bit) we are having real problems not being able to access the dropdown menu in Modules. When you click on the traffic lights/vertical kebob the drop-do...

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I have been developing webapps to make my course content more interactive, engaging, instructive, accessible, and responsively formatted for mobile users. I have found that it is entirely possible to save markup, media, and scripts to a file structur...

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I set up a rubric for my students to peer review 3 submissions.  I want the students to view the results from the rubric, but I cannot figure out how to enable that feature.  How do students see the rubric results from the peer reviews?

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How do I forward an email stream to a department head, since the department head is not listed as part of the class? 

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Hello! I have a teacher who was invited to 2 separate Canvas classes (two different schools) as a co-teacher. She was able to create an account for one just fine and can see the class. When we logout and follow the link to the second class/school, sh...

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I have a student retaking one of my courses. They submitted all the assignments last year, and when I re-enrolled them, they are all still in the system. Is there a way to clear those out? I tried removing him from the course and readding, but they a...

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