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I am teaching a new-to-me course this fall. I copied a section of the course from a different instructor to use as a base for mine. That instructor used weighted grades, but I use a points system. I have edited the Assignments page to not use weighte...

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Changes made to the time portion of an assignment due date on the Edit Assignment Dates page aren't saved.Here's a demo video: https://www.loom.com/share/29b6e86d0d8642538e5627f3b4339ae1Note: if there's a better place to report issues like this, plea...

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How do I delete a mistake posting on a Discussion Board? 

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As a long-time Canvas Community member, I've been watching conversations about this topic at least as far back as this 2016 question by @John_Lowe. My working understanding has been: To support "convenience" combinations, manually apply (to each st...

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I do not understand why Canvas won't allow you to use points, instead of only percentages, for a grading scheme? This seems like the easiest addition in the world to make? I hate using percentages. When you're using extra credit to really messes thin...

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I am an Canvas Administrator. When copying a course, what does the "Security parameters for external tool <name> need to be set" mean? I am having difficulty finding "Security parameters" in course settings. Is this instead referring to Settings->App...

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I am an administrator trying to complete the Growing with Canvas: Canvas Teacher Training Couse. However, I got stuck on the 2.9 Home Page Submission.  When I went into my sandbox and clicked on Modules, I did not see the customizable options to add/...

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Hi Canvas Community,I am facing issue with the link received via email (using outlook) to review the submission comments received by participants. But when I click on the link, it takes me to the login page, repeatedly and doesn't open the actual lin...

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If a student emailed an assignment separately, how do I move that assignment to Canvas in order to grade and give the student credit for the assignment? 

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i would like to prevent a user from seeing any detail regarding other users in a course. I would like to be to release certain files and send emails to specific groups of users throughout the semester. However, I do not want the users to know that th...

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Hi there,I am having trouble linking a course page to a button on the home page.  I go through the process of:1: editing home page to allow to link2: clicking on button and then select the link button and select course links.3: select page that want....

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HelloI run workshops for students on behalf of a university organisation, and I have a searchable blog in Collaborate Ultra where I post information useful to the students. It's not related to assessment, and they are not expected to respond to the p...

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It would be much easier to navigate through so much information if there was a search bar at the top to take us right to where we need to go. Thank you in advance for your consideration of this request!

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Why have we lost the ability to link to course material in the New Quiz format? I want to be able to add, "Please check the assignment guidelines before you answer the questions in this quiz," along with a link to those guidelines. We're trying to ma...

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I use a previous course for access to resources. I would like to update pages but the edit button is gone. I was able to edit pages last April, but now I am unable to make changes.

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HELP! Today (July 28, 2022) I noticed the Outcomes interface is different. I can click on the outcome to edit or remove it, however, I can no longer click on the outcome to see the aligned items and artifacts. I need this info so I can do my SLO repo...

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I just had my colleague create a new course shell for me, and I am trying to copy in content from last year's cohort for the same course. I have tried to import the content from the existing course a few times, but all I get is one Page from the exis...

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I mistakenly put a video in the banner section. How do I move it to another section on the home page? 

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I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for collecting gradebook information for a full term. I know I could go to each course in the term and export the gradebooks from there and combine them, but was hoping there was an easier way. We use a block...

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My county is (I am) using a Virtual Virginia outreach course as a base. Within the base VV course are over 100 exit slips with pre-set point values. To avoid student and parent confusion over the math conversion to a 100-point system prior to enterin...

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Hi all,   We have an issue with out how terms are setup going into our next year with Blackbaud as our SIS and Canvas as our LMS.   Our terms coming through as only fall and spring terms, individually and different classes for year long classes.  How...

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Hello there, I can not take IEP Exam, and my teacher told me to reach out to you.Thank you

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I have two canvas accounts in email. 1 is old and other 1 is new. The new i merged it to my old one and i can't log in it anymore because if i I signed in it the email and password then press log in, the old canvas that opens not the new one. what sh...

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Is a way to create a "n/a" score option for a criterion in a Canvas Rubrics. I am attempting to create a rubric that can be used across various assignments, and there will be instances where some criterion is n/a. Is there an easier way than duplicat...

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There is no "add Email Address" icon on my settings page.

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Hi, I'm trying to research whether it's possible to create custom dashboard designs with dynamic content for students in Canvas. Some of the things we were hoping to include in the dashboard:Welcome message specific to the course the student is compl...

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Como puedo lograr ver los módulos como adjunto en la foto y no en forma de lista.

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I am a district administrator and I need to create a list of student pairing codes so that we are able to help parents create an account during our registration events.  I can only find how to do as a student or instructor.  Is it possible for an adm...

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Is there a way to specify prefer_sis_email when using LTI 1.3?

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I imported content from another canvas course, but specific files listed in the Modules have a red eye icon with a slash. What does that red eye mean? And, why is it appearing?

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