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How do I require a training or activity that students should complete before gaining access to their current semester courses? 

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I created a free canvas account by mistake with an incorrect email and I want to delete it 

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Can Canvas identify AI submissions by students that would be similar to the Similarity Score?

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One of our instructors has asked the question below.  I turned first to the Canvas Instructor Guides before submitting here.  There was information about how peer comments remain for a student  who withdraws from a class, but there didn't seem to be ...

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How can we effectively use the Canvas Attendance feature to track and mark student attendance in regular face-to-face sessions? Are there any solutions or best practices available to streamline this process?  

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I want the option to turn off student's ability to make comments on assignments, or if this cannot be done, I want to disable the ability to attach files to comments.  Students use comments to turn in assignments after the due and late date, which is...

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I use pages on Canvas for my main set up for students. I have a page for every week and I made a template with everyday of the week. I will link assignments in the template on the page for the week. However, now, the only way students can access my a...

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I would like for a zero to automatically be applied when a student has "no submission" by the due date. I  have already went to grades, then "late policies", then checked the box that said "Automatically apply grade for missing submissions" and made ...

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Hello!   So my student's assignments are graded, and when you click the ungraded icon the score given appears. However, once you click away, the ungraded icon remains. Anyone have an explanation as to why?

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I can't access my courses. I tried logging out and logging back in, didn't work. I tried to log in from a different browser and I still don't have access to my courses.

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Hi,I suffer from really bad migraines and bright white screens make my symptoms worse/appear for the rest of the day. I noticed that you have the dark mode available for your app, but not for your website. Which I need to use to turn in my assignment...

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Is there a way to have the speed grader on an ipad to be a sliding scale? Really on either mobile or desktop version? Right now, when I move the slider it only defaults to whole numbers. If a student has earned a grade that isn't a full number I have...

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Last year using canvas I used to be able to filter by date and it the gradebook would only give me the total grade for assignments within the filtered date range. This no longer works and I cannot figure out a way to filter so that only certain grade...

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I am working with Copyleaks and wonder if it is possible to see the names of students who have submitted their work within our network. Is this a feature that needs to be turned on at the admin level? Thanks for letting me know. 

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How can I change the group weights for a single student in my class?I recently got a midyear enrollment, and I would like to add her incoming class grade as an assignment and weight it for the percentage of time that we've already been in class (in h...

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Is there a way for students to view assignments in Elementary view without the assignment being attached to a module or page?  

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Good morning! I am working with a faculty member who is trying to utilize Google Drive and Google Drive Cloud Assignments in his course. When he attempts to do it, though, he is quickly greeted with a Google Error 403 "you do not have access" We trie...

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When I adjust the width of columns in gradebook they do not always stay that width when I return to gradebook later.  How do I 'freeze' them?  (This happens a lot!)

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If one enters the equation that @James used in https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/What-is-latest-Update-on-LaTeX-accessibility-for-screen-readers/m-p/614000#M223290 Directly into RCE with \ (\small{(x+1)^{10}=x^{10}+20x^9+180x^8...

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I am writing to report an issue with the Canvas login page for our program. As shown in the attached screenshot, the page displays large text saying "Instructor" overlaid on the interface. This obstructs us from logging in properly. When we attempt ...

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Can the Canvas Inbox message be defaulted to have the box always checked for Send an individual message to each recipient? I rarely want the message I send to not be sent as an individual message to each recipient (referring to the student and observ...

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I'm new to the tech position and I'm needing to add a college student as a student teacher. How do I go about doing this?

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I am currently running a suite of courses on Canvas which have one assignment and five quizzes that students must interact with to complete the course. On the assignment the students have to upload a PDF. However, there are no tutors or teachers on t...

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Why do I get this when I try to view the quiz statistics for a quiz?  

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Our site has noticed that if we download students submitted work that they have completed using annotations, only the free drawing annotations show. If they have typed onto the document (in annotations), they dissapear when we go to print. Any ideas ...

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Hi HiveMind™, Just a note... we recently came across an incredibly interesting discovery in Canvas related to sorting student's last names. Call me crazy... but this doesn't seem right...   For a list of students that includes the following names: Jo...

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I have a course on Canvas where I heavily make use of revealjs to create HTML presentations for my class. I use HTML presentations in order to embed live code examples.  To make them accessible on Canvas I've been uploading folders containing the nec...

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for my recent geography exam, I got 39/40.the percentage for my mark should be 97% but it shows 82%I had no bad marks that would have weighted my grade downplease help me...

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If I download student analysis, I can see when the student submitted the quiz. If I click on moderate, I can see the list of students and there's a time column, but it's unhelpful - some students needed "about an hour", while others needed "about two...

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The menus and filters at the top of the gradebook dominates too much of the screen. I want to be able to see MORE student names and grades, and have less wasted space at the top. Additionally, the scroll bars are MINISCULE and they disappear constant...

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