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I would like the grade book to have a status "Credit" in addition to none, late and missing. It would be helpful for students that have IEP's and 504 accommodations.  I would like to acknowledge that the student completed the assignment to the best o...

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Hello All... Seemingly overnight, one of my teacher's has all of their active courses set to "unpublished" and all of the assignments disappeared. When we changed their courses back to "published", the assignments are still not showing up. Any though...

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The page bumps up when I type in the Speedgrader feedback box, and my typing stops. Any ideas on how to correct this? It is very frustrating! I have updated the Apple machine to the latest Sequoia. I am using the Chrome browser, and I have cleared th...

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Hi everyone,  We're currently deploying Canvas Outcomes across one of our larger courses, and it's quite the lengthy and manual process. We're having to look up Course Learning Outcome alignments in our Curriculum Maps, deploy the right CLOs in the r...

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I am a pre-algebra instructor and really enjoy using quizzes with multiple attempts and building on last attempt features for students practicing skills. I encourage students to treat their first attempt as an actual test for me to see what they trul...

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We're trying to get students to edit a Powerpoint document as an external tool assignment and it seems to be extremely temperamental whether it launches or not. Students can sign into their OneDrive to access the Powerpoint but about 50% of the time ...

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It sure would be nice to have the Submit Assessment button located on the left of the screen directly under the rubric. As it is, we have to scroll over to hit it, which disrupts flow. Is it just me?

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When moderating a quiz, why can't we have the ability to filter into sections?  It would be much easier to track the students of a single class taking a quiz instead of having to search through all the students enrolled in my course.

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Our district has told teachers to hide the Grades page from students since we're not using the Canvas gradebook as our "gradebook of record." Because of this, I'm struggling to figure out how students can view my feedback to them on a Discussion.I op...

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Hi, I'm writing a quiz and I'd like the students to submit comma separated questions.  For example, a rectangle has an area of six inches and the long side is one inch longer than the short side.   What are the lengths of the sides? I'd like them to ...

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Thank you for helping. I have four Assignment Groups in Assignments totally 100%. Within each group are multiple quizzes, writing assignments, etc., as per normal. I just entered a grade in one of the groups after so far having entered ten other assi...

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Someone changed a Canvas Theme in a subaccount, causing several CSS issues. Is there a way to determine who made the change?

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I’m curious to know if any institutions are using Canvas to facilitate a course for assessing credit for prior learning (PLA). If so, how are you structuring the process? Are you using a dedicated course, Folio, or another tool within Canvas to guide...

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There used to be an option for downloading submissions next to the assignment title on the grade book, and now it's gone.  How can I download a zip folder with the students' submissions?

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Hi,  I need some help and advice.  We asked a vendor to help develop a SCORM courseware using storyline, we created like text box, asking students to send their comment, we uploaded the SCORM into canvas as assignment, the graded quizzes work ok, but...

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How do you prevent or allow faculty course title editing by an admin?  We create all courses via .csv upload and are moving to ILP.  On the Canvas Admin, I want to adjust settings to allow faculty to edit the course title.  I have been unable to loca...

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HI Is there a way to enroll a user in multiple courses in bulk? I have to assign advisors to courses and one advisor has 15 courses so wondering if there is a better way to do this than individually enrolling her in each course. Thank you!

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Hello,  Multiple students have reported issues when trying to access an assignment. This assignment is an MS 365 Cloud Assignment. The error message: "An error occurred, please try again." Click "Load" to load your Cloud Assignment". The students are...

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Greetings, where do i find Turnitin?

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I have a student who has to be reactivated in a class daily. What do I need to do to fix this to ensure he remains active?

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I am a TA for a course. When I click to a new page in the course, it always says I'm logged into student view at the bottom in a pink banner. I have to click every time to exit student view. How do I default to TA/instructor view? 

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I was recording screen capture videos on SpeedGrader so I could read student submissions aloud and provide detailed feedback on their individual pieces. I've done this before, and had done about 20 today without incident. On my penultimate submission...

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I am a student, I opened my account to pass my assignment but when I go to my subjects there is already submitted and it's appeared my classmate name, even though she didn't know my account. Also my classmates can see my assignments

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I am in a college course and I created an e-Learning module in Canvas for an assignment. I am required to share my e-Learning Module via a link to be graded. Can someone explain to me how I can export my module as a shareable link? Thanks

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I can not see this course is Canvas nor its assignments. Anyone else having this issue?

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Each time I enter information in the Comments Section of an assignment, the screen is either shaking up and down or flickers.  This happens in both Canvas environments of the Colleges I serve.  It is very hard on the eyes and makes me dizzy.  It also...

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i am trying to build a todo list app for personal use. however it returns assignments that i've already submitted and i can't find how i need to filter them  import requests from datetime import datetime, timedelta # Use a pipeline as a high-level he...

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Alpha and beta are sections in my canvas course and I would like this to be real-time, so as graded discussions are posted by alpha, beta can review them without assigning a grade to beta. Can this be done?

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I NEED ASSISTANCE IN CONTACTING THE REGISTRAR'S OFFICE TRINITY LAW SCHOOL IN THAT I HAD AN UNFORESEEN ILLNESS ONSET AND WAS LATE IN TURNING IN AN ASSIGNMENT.Outlined in the [Spring 2025 MLS 541 8915 Torts Class Syllabus Last Updated March 4, 2025]. I...

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