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Is there a way for a Canvas Observer to view a list of missing assignments in currently enrolled courses?

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I recently heard a professor who starts each student at the beginning of the semester with a C, assuming that all students are average. As assignments are submitted, the grade goes up or down. This professor claimed that it motivated students as they...

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The recent update (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Releases/Canvas-Deploy-Notes-2022-11-09/ta-p/543801#toc-hId-852516701) has made the To Do list basically unusable for me. I understand the issue it was supposed to address - separating a us...

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Can my canvas be set up so that every type of assignment defaults to "percentage?" (rather than "points")

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I have followed all the steps listed to set a missing grade policy but not every assignment is auto graded to add zeros. Why is that? How can I ensure that ALL assignments have a zero/missing in the gradebook if a student has not turned them in?

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Can someone tell me what the colored (non-active) colored cards are in "Grades?".  What do the colors represent? 

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I have a module which has as its requirement for students to get a minimum grade on a quiz.  This quiz is locked by a Mastery Path until the student gets a minimum grade on at least one of 2 previous quizzes in the module.  However, while that requir...

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I have been trying to add a link to my syllabus within the first module.  Thus, I want to click a link and have it navigate to the syllabus page.  When I use a iframe, I still get the side bar twice.  Is there a way to remove the side bar within an e...

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Hello.  I was looking at a guide for using rubrics (it's been a while since I used one and I don't think I have ever linked one directly to the assignment).  There is an article here on building rubrics that shows a bunch of options at the bottom (us...

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Hi I am trying to set up a quiz for my students. But when I want to add the answers and possible answers in then I can't as there are no spaces. When I add in answers then in preview it shows 3 blank spaces and then only the options I gave the learne...

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Hello,I accidentally dropped a course, and I want to reregister for it. How can I do that? Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

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Thanks everyone, hoping someone can help.I copied a page into another module and proceeded  to delete the information that i didn’t require for that module.  I deleted a lot of important (time invested) resources (I know!)  I then proceeded  to renam...

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I have setup all the assignments of a course to be posted manually, so that students can only see their grades after the assignment of all students have been graded for everyone. That means that after I grade, I have to go to the gradebook in Canvas ...

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All my classes are math classes, so when I message my instructor, I need to be able to type math. I can do this in some places within canvas - there is an "equation" drop down and it lets you script math equations.However I cannot script math when me...

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I am grading exams that will take some days to finally grade. I am marking up ticks, comments as well as using my rubric. For the first few papers, these ticks, comments have saved (even though I have not submitted any marks yet). But for the later p...

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How can I sort the questions that were answered 100%?

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I (course instructor) want to pass a document through Turnitin without using the "upload" function in an assignment.(I tried to make a test assignment and to upload the document through student view but I don't see the turnitin report as instructor)

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I am coming from D2L where we had Intelligent Agents that would allow messages to be sent to all students who met certain conditions: missing a specific assignment, haven't logged into the course in the last week, have a certain grade range in t e cl...

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Hi, I wrote an announcement on Monday morning (Nov 7), and all worked well. Today, no announcements were visible, and also not the editor for creating announcements. In any course. I have updated my computer (Mac) to Monterey 12.6.1 (yesterday) and r...

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How do I find contact info for my CSM? I have looked the community and only see response on people who will reach out directly.  Is this not public information?

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Is there a way to use pictures in the categories on the categorize questions in new quizzes? or in matching?

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Canvas Admin Reports provides a report of all users with their last logon dates but not when the accounts were actually created. Is there an API call to list the creation date for all users? I have very basic knowledge of API's.Thank you for any guid...

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  One of my instructors has a conference that has been going on since before the recent BBB upgrades. He has noticed that since the upgrade, despite not having the "Waiting Room" option selected in the conference settings, students are still forced t...

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As a student taking a college course what is the required grade for a student to earn college credit in the college course.

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It seems to me that whatever the backend of Canvas is, that all it needs to do is the equivalent of a PHP htmlspecialchars call when displaying the file.This would make the grading of programming assignments infinitely easier.Other options like view ...

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What does rejected mean in the Canvas enrollment provisioning report

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Hello, I'm a lecturer at 2 universities and I'm new to Canvas. I would like to export my course from one university into my canvas account at the other university (I teach the same course at both schools)...is this possible?  thanks!

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Although students and teachers can write a new Conversation message between the course end date and the section end date, they cannot reply to a message.  I believe this problem started when this issue was fixed: Soft-Concluded Courses allow for Stud...

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A draft paper submission is set up to assign two anonymous peer reviewers to each assignment.The student reviewers can use the rubric attached to the assignment to award points and add comments. Or, they can leave comments in the box in the assignmen...

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Hello everyone, as admin we are evaluating announcements and we would prefer to set the account default for course shells to 1) display the latest announcements on the course homepage and 2) allow student replies.We encourage our faculty to use these...

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