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We have an annotation assignment where the students are supposed to type their name on a document. We have a list of instructions on how to accomplish this, however when a student clicks on the assignment, the page jumps straight to the annotation po...

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Is there a way to easily and efficiently move multiple students from one section of a class to another? We have a vocational program with continuous enrollment. I have created a section for each learning unit in the course. When a group of students i...

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My power school grades are still showing up as points instead of percentages. I have made sure ALL my canvas assignments are to record percentages...I have gone in and manually edited the power school grades when they didn't convert and it will do it...

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Are all campus emails filtered through Canvas, or will I also need to login to check my email on outlook?

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who came up with Canvas and how to use everything on canvas.

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How do you know who the group leader when looking at who is in the group?

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Canvas Free for Teachers Platform. The student has had to request a password reset multiple times because she has been unable to access the class after the first login. Subsequent logins are not being recognized. Now even when she follows the reset y...

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Hello,Could someone please share how to make uploads (ie bio and mug shot), on the behalf of a fellow colleague?We will both instruct the course, bur she currently has not access to canvas free for teacher and we need to get ready for our launch next...

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  Ideas /Topics/ From Discussion/1 "What are the Factors Affecting the african entrepreneurs to meet global market "the idea launched from Quest Fellow"From my perspective there are many  factors affecting African entrepreneurs to join the global mar...

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Hello!  I have a teacher who is trying to link to Canvas pages from her Canvas course home page.  The links work when you're in Canvas through a web browser, but on an iPad through the iOS app, clicking on a link just brings up a blank white page.  D...

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I noticed an issue in the styling of some of the buttons on our canvas community.I believe this is a result of the update to the external link icon. I can't seem to fix it though.I've tried text-decoration: none in the css styling but this didn't sol...

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A quiz for a large class was given. Some students did not have access to computer, the reason I turned the quiz into a group (students on same desk) quiz. An ideal group work assignment exists on canvas- I'm aware of that.Now, I graded one submission...

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I'm trying to facilitate exam reviews for students in my class. I'm using Classic Quizzes for my exams. To take the exam, a password and LockDown Browser is required. I realize that there is apparently a glitch and LDB doesn't work with letting stude...

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I have been unable to locate within Canvas (as an instructor) a way to get a list of assignments that have outcomes attached or a list of which assignments are using a specific outcome.For instance: Which assignments did I use Outcome 2A with?Current...

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I am new to Canvas, and I am using a template. A button on our template links to the Modules page, and then jumps to that specific module on the page. I can see that the link references the module ID, but I can't determine how to find the ID numbers ...

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Just accidentally uploaded my Discussion board post as a reply to another student instead of replying to the main thread. I would like to delete this erroneous post to prevent spamming the board but I do not have permissions to do so.

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I need to invite a guest to a conference on the Big Blue button.  How do I give them access to a class so they can observe ? Thanks, H

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Where do I find the excel sheet to do my Budget Framework assignment for my Bus 117-3162 course? Class Resources Module in Canvas ?  I do not see where I can find this excel sheet; I have viewed many videos, I just do not see where I can access it. I...

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I have been posting Announcements all semester, but I was still receiving emails about something I had already posted an Announcement about. I finally asked a couple of classes about it and most of them were unaware that Announcements were being post...

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When I give students a timed quiz, and they fail to answer in the time limit, no grade is entered into the gradebook (just a weird notebook symbol). I can't override the notebook and it seems to count as "excused" because it doesn't affect their grad...

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Why do I get a 'too long' error message in Canvas when I try to save the page with my daily agenda?

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Hi! I am using an aXcelerate and wanted to integrate Canvas. Upon integrating, I see this field called "Canvas Integration Type" and the choices are Assignment Group, Course Moudle, and Course. May I know what are these? Thank you!

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I want students to post on a discussion board and then reply to 3 other students posts. Can Canvas allow a different grade for the post and the reply? For example posting on the discussion board is 25% and replying to 3 posts is 20%. Or can this be w...

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I am trying to create an LTI RCE integration.Followed this guide https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/The-Product-Blog/oEmbed-Token-Guide/ba-p/389707?search-action-id=110979401100&search-result-uid=389707I generate the return url similar to this :https...

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My team just starting building in New Quizzes. When I send the other teachers a quiz I've built and they publish to their students, students get a message that says "There is a problem with this assessment please contact your instructor." Does anyone...

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How are other instructors handling inactive student's in groups? Right now instructors have to expand their groups to find them and manually remove them from a group. They take the place of active students and the instructor has to manually remove th...

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Why is Canvas automatically awarding points for students who've not submitted assignments? I have 2 different assignments where this has happened. I haven't even looked submissions in SpeedGrader.

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Hello!I only see Canvas guides for new quizzes, etc.Is there a PDF guide for an instructor so they can edit a course where they could edit a pre-existing course survey to start earlier? I'm assisting an instructor, and he is wanting me to help him fi...

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I need to sedndd a picture of my i need to know how to upload it 

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I want to have different versions of the same test (questions and answer choices scrambled) so that no students at the same desk have the same version. However, I want several students in the class to have the same version so that they can work in gr...

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