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Can you apply a ready-made-template to courses that have already been built? I want to start building my courses now and just learned that a ready-made-template will take some time to arrive in my instance. Any advice on this is appreciated!

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As far back as 2023, Instructure and Khan Academy announced that KhanMego teacher tools and writing coach would be integrated into Canvas. A little less than a year ago, the teacher tools finally showed up. Is the writing coach still slated to be inc...

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The captivate classic lessons that I have on canvas (Free account) will no longer play. Some lessons are several years old, some were new in 2024. When we try to open the lessons, they initiate the spinning circle that signals it is starting, but it ...

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I have started using video feedback on assignments using the embedded tool in Speedgrader. A student says that they aren't able to view my video feedback on their phone. Is this possible? Is there a guide to walk them through how to access instructor...

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Does anyone have any recommendations? I’m having trouble importing quizzes from the D2L zip file. A notification keeps appearing, stating that there are issues during the import process, but I haven't figured out how to resolve the problem. 

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When you put a lot of videos on a single Canvas page, the page can become very slow to load due to several common reasons: Each embedded video loads separately. Every video you embed (especially from platforms like Canvas or similar) requires its own...

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I have my students placed in groups in Canvas, and I want to assign a Google Doc for the group to work on. I can create the assignment and then select Google LTI and upload the Google Doc. Then, when I scroll down, the checkbox for "This is a Group A...

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I'm probably just missing it, but how can I see which students have viewed an Assignment?  I know how to go to People and look at details for a specific student, but I want to be more proactive and look at an Assignment and see who has, and hence who...

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I see that in the Admin > Permissions view, I can disable the ability for students to create web conferences in Courses. This is valuable, since I don't want students in group project courses to create a conference and unknowingly invite the entire c...

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I turned in an assignment on 6/20, and have a screenshot of the submitted assignment. The Instructor is claiming they can't see it under submitted assignments. I have messaged the instructor three times (in inmail) with the attached screenshot of the...

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I have imported the QTI file however when I go to my quiz/assignment, I am unsure how to import the file into the actual quiz. How do I get this file into my assignment/quiz,  I have the free version so I do not think I have quizzes. Thank you!      ...

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Instructor saved and published Modules, syllabus etc and made an announcement but it all appears to have disappeared. Any advice on what the glitch might be? Urgent thank you!

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I'm a very news Canvas user and admin. We have a combination of external students and internal employees who are required to interact with Canvas LMS as a student. We use SSO/SAML to log employes into Canvas. When we enrol employees into Canvas, they...

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Hello,I'm an instructor creating quizzes with short answer and essay-style questions in Canvas. These questions require open-ended responses because students may phrase correct answers in different ways. However, there are still definitive answers th...

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I set up the plagiarism checker for an assignment.I am not getting any response from the checker except a grey exclamation mark. When I resubmit the assignment, here is the response--You don't have enough credits to complete the request (required 11 ...

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Hi, from my subaccount admin access, I set up an alert admin functionality to send a reminder to multiple roles when an activity is submmited and more than a day has passed. As the days go by, no alert is sent. Do you know if there's anything else I ...

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Hi everybody When I want to create a report in settings. e.g. Provisioning, Canvas I will send a mail when it is finished. I never receive any email, where can I see which email it sends to? Best regards Flemming

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  Where can I find my access code to take my final exam? 

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In updating my links to Canvas videos for students, I noticed that the suggested replacement for the "Feedback Overview" video for students is “How Do I View Annotation Feedback Comments from My Instructor Directly in My Assignment Submission?” Howe...

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I have this issue all the time and it's SO frustrating. It just started happening this year (2025, maybe 2024), but never happened before. ISSUE: While typing in Speedgrader, the page briefly bounces (as if a quick refresh has just occurred). Then, n...

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How do you submit a discussion board assignment in canvas? 1) Modules2)the chapter discussion board I need to submit3) a page comes up with a notice "You  must post before seeing replies. Edit history will be available to instructors. Below that is a...

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Hello, It's very possible this question has been answered elsewhere, and I am just not looking in the right place.  Any guidance would be greatly appreciated! I'm new to New Quizzes.  I have been using Classic Quizzes for years and feel I might need ...

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How do i have access to LMS and how do i know my group leader because they said it is only the group leader that can submit the assignment on Lms

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I thought that this had been covered in the past but I couldn't find anything while searching this forum. I'd like to know if anything is being done to streamline the student Access Report so that it doesn't show each and every embedded image as thou...

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Did the topic about having a choice for module headings come up in the past? I'd love to visually color-code different parts of my classes. Any suggestions?

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I was wondering how this information on underling HTML is useful for plain Rich Content Editor users - especially if the formatting is present in the toolbar too in a way which is more insightful. Do you have a specific reason or use case why this wo...

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Someone asked a question about the Chrome extension Canvas Quiz Solver already (https://canvasquiz.com/) but the reply from Canvas was not very helpful. Is Canvas itself doing anything about this? Can Canvas make it so extensions don't work while in ...

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I remember seeing a webinar presented by Instructure (maybe a CSM webinar) a few years ago (between 1 and 3 years ago) about doing some rearranging of your Canvas instance to "archive" courses. It did not actually archive them, it just designated old...

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