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I am meticulous in documenting my feedback on each assignment. It's such a pain in the fingers to copy and paste generic comments as you cycle through each student who did not submit an assignment. I know there is a message feature from the gradebook...

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It should be an OPTION to have CANVAS override the (in my case, carefully specified) names of the students' submitted files, when I come to download them. (They are computer m-files; I need to run them through a program that depends on the naming con...

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Hi all. I'm an ID new to creating Articulate 360 assets and using them in Canvas. We have created faculty onboarding material with Rise 360 that includes 5 quizzes that users have to pass with a minimum score of 80% in order to continue to the next m...

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Is there a way to have students take a pre-test and have the results broken down by subject?  If so I just need to know how to tag the questions for the subjects. Thank you

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Our site is currently having issues where the grade that students are viewing for some of their courses is not in line with the grading scheme/final mark that the teacher has assigned in that particular course.I have attached an example where the stu...

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Why can't Canvas allow the individual students to view their individual Activity record through the People tab just as they are able to view their individual scores through the Gradebook?If this feature is provided, I won't have to be copying and pas...

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Hello,Long time user of Canvas, first time poster here (I think? or it has been a long time)Is it possible to do the following actions:Select specific student or students from the gradebookBulk download all / selected range of multiple assignment sub...

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In the gradebook, is it possible to email multiple observers of students that have a certain percentage in a course? I can e-mail from a specific assignment but not from their overall course grade.

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Is it possible to require a .xlsx (Excel) file upload to a quiz question?

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Hi everyone, I've been importing grades to Canvas successfully for years which is why I'm stumped by this one. Like most of you, I exported the gradebook as a CSV file, then added the new grades and now am attempting to upload the updates CSV file ba...

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To get an (total) overview of the results of 12 quizzes we've changed the practice quizzes to graded quizzes. Unfortunately a lot of submissions of students disappear... in the Gradebook we see them as 'missing submission' (red cel with a dash). If w...

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Can anyone offer any advice on why Canvas would not allow a school to view the historical grades/enrollment of a student who has transferred out of a district/school? Background: We are a PowerSchool/Canvas school. Our IT Department does NOT sync gra...

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I have added a co-instructor to my course and wish to remove myself as an instructor - she is willing to be the sole instructor. I don't see any guidance about this.

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Здравствуйте, я проходила обучении на онлайн-курсе «Образование будущего», мне нужен сертификат об окончании курса. Translated from Google Translate Subject: Obtaining a Certificate of Completion Message: Hello, I was trained in the online course "Ed...

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Hi there,I know how to hide totals from students and how to make them visible again. However, I need to hide the subtotals under the assignment types but still show the total points column. (Having both confuses students, as I'm assigning final grade...

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Hi All! I'm trying to get the Parent App to work. I've paired the observer and the student. But the Parent App is showing that the learner has not submitted ANY work, when the learner has submitted a lot of work. Logging on from the browser shows the...

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I created a 45 question quiz and I cannot retrieve it. It seems to have disappeared. How do I retrieve my quiz?

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Hello,As a teacher, I was had this situation:There was an assignment due the day before Q1 ended, but I had a personal emergency that day until 3 days after Q1 reports had come out. All students automatically were graded 0 out 25, and that showed up ...

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How do I find the flashcards I made in canvas?

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How can we push Canvas through Clever faster. We requested the application through Clever already, waiting on Canvas to accept so we can set our rules and get started, looking to open this up by next week at the latest.

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A student of mine just took a test in which the essay-type questions didn't make a text box available. The multiple choice questions worked fine, but she couldn't enter anything for the questions that required written answers. No other students had t...

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Hi, I'm new here and I have to make a quiz for my students, but I don't completely understand it and it is having glitches I think.

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New to Canvas and already lost and/or having difficulty. Trying to complete 1.5 test, where it ask you to show proof that you know how to upload your picture and customize your settings. Well, they provide you with two different ways to prove yoursel...

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in previous learning platform when a student did not attend clinical for a week i was able to enter an "exempt" grade in grade book for that week and points redistributed. Does the "excused" option perform the same function in the grade book??

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Where do I find the legend telling me what these color coded flags in my course grade book mean?ty

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(Canvas is new to our University, learning as we go)Ex1. ENGL1300-12345 & SPAN1300-23456 are crosslistedWhen SPAN students login, they see the ENGL1300 course, it may cause confusion.Ex2. CHEM1100-10001 is crosslisted with 10 other lab sections, 1000...

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I like to prepare a recap announcement for my virtual office sessions (VOS) ahead of the VOS, to facilitate faster turnaround for the students. This includes a link to my video recording of the VOS (including their questions and our discussions), lin...

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Interactions in Canvas are included in reports "when you contact the student via Conversations or when you leave a comment on an assignment." [source; I'm pretty sure Conversations means Inbox in this case].Comments on rubrics to students as well as ...

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