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Last year I taught Bio 046. This year I am teaching Bio 196. When I send out an announcement it comes from Bio 046 even though I am in my new course dashboard.  How do I fix this?    Thank you. 

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If a student is working on an annotation assignment and loses connectivity or steps away from the assignment, is their progress saved? My annotation assignments are have a very long open window (open for over a week)-- can they work on them and come ...

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How do I get in contact with my CSM? I'm looking to add canvas commons to my account so I can import some modules from Catie Center. 

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Hi, my school has run into a problem that we're not sure if it is a bug or if there's something that we may have incorrect in assignment/course settings.An instructor reached out letting us know that students were able to see comments that he was lea...

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I'm trying to set up new Collaborations Teams before the semester starts.I made a group with 4 students.Then when I click on the link to "collaborate" I'm given a blank screen. Is it because I, too, need to be a member of the group?If so, I cannot fi...

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I have trouble copying work written in LaTeX to Canvas because I cannot simply copy-and-paste it, otherwise Canvas will paste equations as unicode characters, not an editable equation.It would be very useful if Canvas could create an editable equatio...

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We post events to a course group calendar, and I've recently realized that students can edit/move and delete these events. Recently, we had two events disappear from the calendar. Is there a way to see calendar activity to identify who might have don...

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Hi, Our institute is looking to remove old grading schemes that are no longer in use. Despite being outdated, these schemes continue to be visible to users when enabling the course grading scheme. To streamline the user experience, we would like to e...

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Helle to the my teacher and my classmates.  My name is Ewaz Ali Danesh, originally i am from Afghanistan, i am 38 years old, it has been two and half years since i came to the united states. I have worked with the US government in Afghanstan as advis...

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HiCant complete discussions.Using safari and cleared history.Read other postsUsed other laptopsSomething is wrong with profilePlease help!

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I created a quiz (new quizzes) with mostly formula-based questions. I exported the quiz from the New Quiz menu and received a .zip file. I was going to share the file with someone, but wanted to test it first. When I imported the zip file into a sand...

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My dashboard keeps loading and doesn't display any content. I can access the course page via "course" button. But the home of course is blank. They do have content on the mobile app. I have cleared the cookies and cache for canvas, but it doesn't wor...

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We are a unified K-12 district, and we use both classic Canvas (6-12) and Canvas for Elementary (PK-5). Some of our courses are an alternative format, including two different types of online schooling. One of those options is in the Canvas for Elemen...

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Hello,I want to set up a quiz, which uses randomly generated numbers for Financial statements (Balance Sheet and Income Statement). I want to use these numbers to calculate several different variables (eg: Current Ratio, Quick Ratio, Inventory turnov...

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I just imported a course over from one instance of Canvas to another. The modules are - as far as I can tell - set up correctly with all pages, assignments, etc. in the order that they should appear in the navigation. The navigation works fine until ...

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Canvas used to have a feature in the Discussion Forum settings that prevented students from editing their text once they submitted a post.  Students were required to post their responses before seeing any of their classmates' posts (this feature is s...

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I'm trying to upload files for Canvas, but it is not working.Can someone assist?Dr. Leighton952-256-4851

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I am hoping to embed a typing test into a course. Has anyone successfully attempted this?  

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When I try to access the eportfolio by clicking the 'open eportfolio in another window' option, I get the error message 'invalid user'

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Hello, I want to create a quiz that students take individually and then take a second time with a group. Then I want to average the scores together for each student. How could I do this in Canvas?

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Is there any way to see the course name on all pages, or at least on the browser tabs? I am an admin, need to work on many courses at once, and need to know what course I'm currently viewing. In the example shown you can only see the course code on t...

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How can I write my answer for activity 1.1 on Technology Landscape?

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I’m currently teaching a large class and I’m looking for ways to automate certain aspects of the grading process for group assignments. Specifically, I’m interested in the following: Group Assignments: I’ve been using the Group Assignment feature...

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 Newly added Admin Role is not appearing in Account Admin Dropdown while creating an Admin

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I want to be able to add students to my course before the course starts but I don't want them to have access to the course materials until the course starts. Can someone explain how to do that please? If I don't publish the course or have the dates s...

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Hi, We had previously uninstalled Canvas Commons by following the steps in the provided link.https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Commons/How-do-I-remove-Canvas-Commons-from-my-institution-s-Canvas/ta-p/533232 Now, we intend to reinstall Canvas ...

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How do I send a photo to an instructor, because it only lets me send videos not photos

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I want students to submit a PDF, but also add additional information in the "Comments" text box. Then, I want this assignment to be peer-reviewed, and have the reviewer see the information that the submitter put in the "Comments" text box. Will their...

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Are there any plans to add the ability to reorder rubric criteria?  I just had to start a rubric over that I was a third of the way through.  Talk about a bummer...

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