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Is it possible to remove the overall percentage from showing in a Canvas course or at least make it optional. We grade on the 4 point scale and having to translate the 4 point scale to a 100% scale is confusing to parents who understand the tradition...

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Hello,I'm having a "Comment Error" issue. As I'm issuing comments in the Speedgrader and I go to press enter to save them, I'm getting an "error can't be saved" message and it just goes away. This is happening across computers for me and sometimes as...

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I am unable to get the dropdown of Associated and Unassociated choices within Manage Subjects > Assignments > More options, to show anything other than Unassociated.  I am aware that my Infinite Campus grade weights need to be set up as well as the s...

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Hi I am a student and I do not know how to see my course rosters. Like i can see them for some classes, but not for others. How do I get to them? Any information will help! Thank you so much!

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Hello,I am grading a group assignment, however one group member didn't participate. When I go in and change the individual grade for that one group member to 0, it's changing the grade of all group members to 0. Please help.Thanks, Nadine 

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I don't see the same options that are given as answers to allow students to take an extra attempt...

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It would be great if there was a way to mass deselect late and missing assignments. I have to use a linked app (Amplify) to passback grades to Canvas and each time it marks student work as late. I then have to go assignment by assignment and change i...

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Hi everyone,1 - Using the enrollments endpoint I can get the total_activity_time and last_activity_at.2 - Using the analytics endpoint I can get the time each page view happened.I need also the duration of each activity by date per StudentEnrollment....

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Because Canvas doesn't have a way to mark work due during the last week of 1st term as counting for 2nd term, I've put assignments due right before the end of term as having a due date when the next term starts (By the way, why can't we make an assig...

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We're having an odd issue with some Articulate Rise content in Canvas. A subset of students are seeing a blank grey page when they try to revisit SCORM content output from Rise. Has anyone else encountered this?

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Have a vendor that wants to know what version of Canvas I'm on (for troubleshooting their SCORM product)Local IT says the latest version of SaaS, but I was wondering if there was a place I could get a release/build number for it?

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Hello,I'm trying to set an assignment with optional questions (e.g. the best 3 answers out of 4 questions will be considered for the assignment).Is there a way to select a rubric where I can assign marks to various questions (e.g. 4) but only conside...

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Hi,How do I add my daughter's courses to my list?

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I changed my attendance to be ungraded, but still want to see how many days each student has missed. The attendance report is unwieldy. Anyone know an easy way to see # of absences per student in Canvas? Thanks!S-

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Hello, Is there any way to remove the icon that is now showing up next to all external links in Canvas, since it was updated within the 9-28-22 release? The icon is showing up on the links on Canvas login page too. We have tried a few things, as sugg...

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Hello everyone,I am an admin in Canvas and I am aware of how to see what each student and teacher is up to in terms logging in and out and the time spent in each section. But is there any way in which we can extract this data in general terms, and no...

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Hi everybody,I wonder why students can edit and delete appointment groups that I've created. When I test my appointment group with a test account as a student, this test student can edit and even delete the whole appointment group.Actually I just wan...

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Hi,I am in a situation where a very large quantity of students in my course have changed status to "Inactive". I would like to change their status back to active, but I only seem to be able to this for one student at a time by clicking them one by on...

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I want to have two quizzes that are timed.  The first one has 1 attempt and a maximum time of say 2 hours.  The second quiz will have 1 attempt and a maximum time allowed of 5 minutes. I want to start the the second quiz automatically for the student...

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How do I book a meeting with my state manager on canvas?

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Compass allows multiple choice with weighted answers. Canvas only lets you have one right answer or several, but not weighted. This is a big loss. Can you please correct it?

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I am attempting to rewrite, in New Quizzes, some formula questions that I've composed in Classic Quizzes.  The formula syntax I've used previously in Classic Quizzes all works fine except for the sort() function.  In Classic Quizzes the expressionnew...

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Hi,I was checking some outputs and left for a while. When I returned to resume my checking in a new assignment tab, it only shows Test Student. All the submitted outputs won't show, but before clicking Speedgrader, it says there are submitted and gra...

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how can check on my assignments is correct? because I have two more try until the due date.

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I've completed my instructor bio but when I go in "student view", I don't see anywhere for student to access my bio. How do students view instructor bio? 

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In my production Canvas, I have a term and a course belonging to that term. I need to upload an SIS import for users and enrollments. I want to make sure the SIS import I upload does not affect any other parts of my production Canvas. I have a couple...

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It appears that the correct answer is always first in a quiz.  Is there a way to reorder the possible answers?

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Hello, my previous student Reece Ing Chau Yeo is unable to join my new class, "Jin Gui Yao Lue: Formulae for Complex Diseases". He didn't receive the invitation email despite multiple attempts (not in junk mail), and whe he tries to join using the co...

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Hello,I am a non-matriculating student taking a graduate level course (term2 fall).  According to the syllabus, there will be many discussions in this course. How will I know when a comment has been posted? Do I need to do something in settings to ma...

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