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Hello,I wanted to know if Canvas as a tool used at my school has the capability to archive/record the grades of a previous semester and for how long. I've been using canvas since I started my undergraduate studies and there is a specific class I wish...

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SpoilerHello! I would like to export scores from a different learning software (TopHat) to Canvas Gradebook. The order of the names on the two different export files are different, but I was wondering how much of the gradebook csv needs to be the sam...

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One of my previously Concluded Conferences is no longer showing. I am afraid I might have accidently deleted it. Is there a way to recover a BigBlueButton conference once it has been deleted?Thanks!

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The assignment submission where more than one attempt was made the comments are not being returned. Here is the query being used. query MyQuery {assignment(id: "895") {htmlUrlnamepointsPossiblesubmissionsConnection {nodes {user {emailname}originality...

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Last week I suddenly found I could not edit my Canvas courses.  As it was my organisation's site, I contacted canvasadmin, who did not know why.  I also checked and found that the same thing had happened to my Free for Teacher account, so I figured i...

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Hi allI'm wondering if there is a way to generate a report by user for a subaccount showing total number of minutes/hours each user (both teachers and students) has been active in each course? I have 40+ courses in a subaccount so it would be less th...

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My course has rolling enrollment. I want to delete student responses to Discussion posts. Is there a way to delete a large number of responses at once or am I doomed to clicking Delete on each and every one?

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Upon returning from a short break, I logged in to my canvas page (Instructor) and the labels down the left side of the screen (Announcements, Quizzes, Lock Down Browser, Modules, etc) have disappeared. The content in the center of the screen takes up...

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how do i edit an assignment my proffesor gave me to do

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I do not like how I cannot restrict students from viewing the correct answers on assessments. Under the "classic" quiz function, I can choose dates and times for the correct answers to be viewed and then uncheck it. New quiz function doesn't give me ...

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How do I make grades visible to students?

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I plan to workout more and try to eat healthy foods. Will se be learnig about helthy options? 

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Hi, I had difficulty uploading my file for the assessment part and it seems to be the same case with my email as well. Regards,Margie

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I am having trouble pasting links to google classroom for my student's lessons. For some reason, I cannot add students to my classroom in Top Score Writing, so I am trying to share the teacher-led videos and interactive lessons with my class. The vid...

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Is there a way to get all groups for a user, with their user_id?The api has /api/v1/users/self/groups endpoint to get your own groups. Is there a similar way to get other user's groups using their user id?In the quiz statistics endpoint, you get a li...

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We need to get groups in a course, but we have several groups with no members, which we are not interested in. Is there a way we can get all groups with a mebers_count greater than 0.As far as we can see there are no sorting options on endpoint /api/...

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I have a assignment I have been trying to duplicate.  I click on the 3 dots on the righthand side and select duplicate.But, the working wheel just keeps going around and after a good 15 to 20 minutes I get an error message.Any one else expeiencing th...

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i can not get my video to load to be able to get it turned in today i have followed alll i can and strill can not turn in my assignment

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I created a new student group and chose membership by invitation only without inviting anyone. And I cannot invite anyone after I created this group. So, I am the only one in this group. I am wondering how I could leave this group that I created by m...

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For some reason my screen is extremely dark, and I can barely see any text or icons in front of the background. Is there a way to fix this? I've tried restarting my browser and I looked through the Canvas settings but nothing works. It seems to only ...

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Hello! Is it possible to use roll call attendance or something like that to track daily attendance but not have it create a separate grade/points? My students want the accountability of knowing when they have missed, but my grade system is a manual "...

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Hi,I would like to add some occasional students to a Canvas page as Observers. Basically I want them to be able to see the same content as the regular students soo, without needing to submit assignments. They would be "observing nobody". Other posts ...

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I have students who are uploading assignments and all I see is the work count.  I do not receive their actual document.  This is happening to a lot of my students.  What do I tell the students?

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jpg not showing up on Safari AND Chrome for one of the schools my child is enrolled in. All images shows up fine for another school he is in so it is not parental control, router issue, etc. We tried disabling cross-site tracking in Safari and cleari...

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I cant login in on my computer because I don't have an "account". I have access through my school..how do I get to the app from a browser????????? please tell me I don't have to do all of my class work on my phone.Im losing my mind over here trying t...

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I'm not sure what I did but a lot of my students grades are now showing as missing in Canvas.  I noticed one assignment was not set up to sync to Infinite Campus so I changed that setting and synced but many grades are now showing as missing.  The on...

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Unfortunately, I'm limited to the Canvas App on my cell phone this weekend. I have a module I'd like to publish this morning, but I can't. I'm really frustrated by this lack of functionality.(No, I can't get into my Canvas site through my school's we...

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I would like for students to be able to update their profile and add the name they would like to be called -- please help!!! 

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