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Hi Canvas community As a professor (instructor), is it possible to create new Canvas courses to facilitate informal teaching and discussion with my six PhD students?  I do not want the material to be part of any formal module, such as "ENVS444" (a mo...

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Hello,  Is there any Online training available about how to use Canvas Emails?   

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how do i return the graded quiz papers to the students?

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A student of ours recently completed a course and on our end scored 100% and is marked as completed. However when she is logged into Canvas, the course displays as not completed and she has not received her credits. On our end, I’m not sure how to he...

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I have a prof. who wants to set a release condition for a quiz final score.  In other words, quiz is not "complete" and grade is not released until a minimum score is met - i.e. anything below a score of 50pts, and score is not released and quiz not ...

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Hello, My students have told me that when they submit a comment or rubric for a peer review, they are unable to go back and change/add to the comment or rubric. They start the peer review and hit submit with the intention of going back later to compl...

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Hello, I automatically assigned peer reviews for a group project. Students were to peer review 5 other group's submissions. Unfortunately, students received more than 1 peer review from the same group (not their own group but 2 from a different group...

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While grading in the New Quizzes speedgrader, there is no link to advance to particular questions that require grading. Instead I must scroll through each assessment to find them. Classic Quizzes had a "grade by question" feature that was a real time...

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did not receive a digital badge for my completed course of employee motivation course.I did receive a certificate of completion but not the badge and it is required for me to receive a digital badge for all 4 courses completed for human resource trai...

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Why all of a sudden has the student view of my home page changed to this? See pic. Thanks.

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One of our instructors has a blueprint, and in that blueprint there are no due dates.  In the course associated with that blueprint, due dates are unlocked so the instructor added due dates to that course. However, when they resynced the blueprint, a...

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I can not see the grades after I edit the quiz after the exam. Now all my student's grades are under an book looking icon. How do I get ride of the icon?

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Is there a way to automatically send certificates of completion to folks who complete our Canvas courses? For each unit we like to send certificates of completion to our participants, but we've been doing it by hand and I'm trying to automate the pro...

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Is there a way that I can post the same comment to all student submissions for an assignment? I'd like to do this all at once, rather than using the comment library every single time, if possible.

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I am a teacher, and I accidentally deleted an assignment from my to-do list before I was finished, and I need it back so I know when students resubmit revised essays. I have noticed that when they submit a revised essay, it doesn't count it as a new ...

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Has anyone experienced this scenario and come up with a workaround? A student who was given extra time on a quiz is booted out of the quiz due to a network/ wifi issue. Before they can log back in (there may be a lag between the boot and the resoluti...

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The To-Do list has been both a blessing and a curse. Some students benefit from it while others do not.  What I noticed for the first time this year is that when a student clicks on the activity in the To-Do list, it brings them to a submission page....

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I am unable to respond to emails that are coming through canvas to my Gmail account- I get an "undelivered message" response.  Can anyone help me change the settings so that I can respond to the email directly through the Gmail account, rather than t...

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I have not been getting notifications when new assignments are created in my Canvas classes. I have the notifications for Course Content set on "Notify Immediately" at both the course and account levels. There is not a problem with my email address a...

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i have posted the student grades in the gradebook. now how do i return the graded quiz to the students?

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Is it possible to have a code that would allow me to indicate to powerschool (during the sync) that the student did not hand in an assignment.  Powerschool requires me to put an code that a student hasn't turned in an assignment, it assumes I didn't ...

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Hi, I'm trying to utilize Canvas Data Services and stream Live Events to my AWS SQS queue. I followed these guides:https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Admin-Guide/How-do-I-create-an-SQS-queue-in-Amazon-Web-Services-to-receive/ta-p/170https://community...

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Hello.  When students download annotated Assignments from SpeedGrader, the only file option they currently have is as a PDF.  They can then do the open-a-PDF-as-a-Word-doc workaround to be able to directly work on their annotated Assignments.  The wo...

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I have a group different course sections within my course. If a course section isn't assigned to an assignment that is in the prerequisite or requirement, can they still move on? I am trying to create a specific course section which those who are in ...

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I'm an instructor.I would like a sign() helper function.  It returns +1 if number is positive, -1 if number is negative and 0 if number is 0.The formula x/abs(x) works pretty good, except if x = 0.

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Feedback Fruits tools are available in the free version of Canvas but integrate with LTI 1.1 rather than 1.3. This limits certain functionalities such as group membership retrieval and grading by groups.Can the Feedback Fruits tools in the free versi...

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I am overwhelmed at how complicated Canvas is. Every step seems to take three pages of instruction to learn how to use.

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Last week I uploaded my assignment because the upload option displayed as I read the rubric.  This week's assignment is due tomorrow, the 19th, and an upload option doesn't appear anywhere, including when viewing the rubric.  I emailed my work to the...

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My question is about weighted marks within an assignment group.It seems that Canvas will only allow the total group assignment to be weighted if the 2 assignments are given marks which add up to 100 ( e.g. Assignment A = 70 and Assignment B= 30 marks...

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