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Hi, I have some students who had their quiz auto-submitted (stating that their time limit is up) before the actual time limit was up. Had anybody face similar issues before? 

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Is there a way that I, as the instructor, can turn of student notifications for annotations on an assignment? I know I can disable seeing their annotation notifications--I want to disable the notifications they get when I annotate their assignments. ...

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I'm writing a Python script that runs a series of reports daily. So far, the script successfully runs the report, waits for it to finish, then stores the link to the file in a variable called fileURL. When I run the following request:response = reque...

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I'd like to see an option when creating an assignment, that we can mark/select the assignment is Extra Credit. With that designation, the assignment is worth extra credit points, but those points are not added to the total number of points of the cou...

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Assignment Groups that have no assignments in them do not appear. If I create a group named "Test Group" and do not immediately create an assignment in it, it will disappear. If I try to create it again, the newly created group AND any other previous...

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I'm asking for a faculty member. Can she add a person (she has permission) to her course after it has concluded? She wants another faculty member to be able to access her course as a learning tool. Thank you, Heather  

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Hi! I've tried to find an answer for this in other guides but I am completely at a loss. I'm having a situation with a teacher who is actively trying to make me fail my class. As this quarter was coming to a close, I noticed he was still not grading ...

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Hi!I want to use Ungraded Surveys to collect pre- and post-course information from users. The pre-course survey would be essentially a demographic survey, and the post-course survey is a feedback vehicle.I was wondering if there is a way to view the ...

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We have different colleges that use different different grading schemes. I'm wondering if: Since we have multiple grading schemes created at the admin level... can we AUTOMATICALLY load these schemes into specific courses in certain colleges (like al...

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As the title states, I wish to create calendar events without cluttering students To Do lists. Not all events I feel need to be added as a To Do item as they are simply a reminder and no action is associated with them. An example would be a holiday b...

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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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