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I am a teacher and I signed up for trainings on Canvas. Some of these trainings require me to sign up for Zoom meetings through the Training Servicing Portal. However, the Portal randomly shows up. Sometimes I can access it through "Help;" other time...

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I have a student who seems to get a blue icon displaying next to some of the courses they are enrolled in. They do not appear to have any missing assignments but these blue dots display in the dashboard. Is there a way to remove them or hide them?

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The new discussion redesign allows students to report a post if it is "inappropriate; offensive, abusive; or other". However, it seems that the reporter is anonymous and if they choose "other," they are not asked to explain why. Is there a way to ens...

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I have used Canvas for a number of years.  I use the calendar feature religiously each year.  In addition, I copy my class template from year to year.  Although I plan on the weekends, sometimes I think that I have gone in and "published" an assignme...

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Is there a way to make assignments upload to a Google Drive Folder when uploaded in Canvas? Each student would have their own specific Google Drive Folder. Thanks.

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Flip is moving inside the Microsoft Teams environment. Will we still be able to use it in Canvas or no?

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What is the best way to train a new instructor on canvas? Can I connect with a live trainer? 

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Good morning, in reviewing the tracking of page activity of a Canvas user, I have come across URLS using the notation roos.   A partial example follows: https://xxxxxxx.instructure.com/courses/xxxx/pages/roos/..... Does anyone know what the roos is a...

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Somehow, I suspect data were deleted from a course. Is there a possibility to restore data / reset the course content to an earlier date?

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I have just swap to another section of the same course yet their canvas classroom is already published. So I am still stuck on my previous section's canvas classroom. Will canvas update it?

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I've recently been exploring Observer Accounts and Pairing Codes.  We have a program at our school where some students have a mentor who comes along with them to classes (physically and virtually) and assists them in understanding and completing assi...

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I am teaching a co-requisite course (two courses taken by all students simultaneously) and would like to use a single Canvas course to more seamlessly organize the assignments. Students have reported that it is confusing to have to work from two sepa...

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I want my students to upload their assignments into Canvas directly from Google Drive, but when I grade the assignment, I do not want to download the assignment and then open it to grade it. Is there a way that the assignment opens in Canvas that I c...

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Is there a way to create group assignments so that everyone can see the grades and the feedback provided on an assignment?

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Our school is moving from Moodle to Canvas.In Moodle, we can use data fields to populate pages. For example, here's a common greeting on welcome pages: "Hello {USER_FIRSTNAME}! Welcome to {COURSE_FULLNAME}!"Does Canvas have the ability to do this too...

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We have created program learning outcomes at the root level and then assigned the outcomes to an assignment rubric. We have the PLO set to not be included in the score. We are using the PLO (outcomes) for us to score the program and not for students ...

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Hello! I've been working on a request for a course for students to submit clinical preceptorship forms. I initially created a course with distinct assignments for each form, as not all students had to submit the same set of forms.  My colleague who i...

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We are interested in enabling some form of multi-factor authentication for our local sign on (the /login/canvas URL sign on) for accounts that use the local sign on to perform tasks or interact with our instance of Canvas. I've looked at a few differ...

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Folks, See https://github.com/1EdTech/openbadges-validator-core/issues/257 for more details. In short: verification of badges fails due to a false redirect. This severely impacts the reputation of OpenBadges. When I try to import one of my badges in ...

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Are the messages that I send to my students / fellow students are private? Or I have access to them (if so, how to check) and other administrators

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I have built a quiz by finding and importing items from multiple question banks into the quiz. When editing a question, is it best to do so in the question bank or the quiz? Moreover, how do I keep them in sync with each other? (Should I edit in the ...

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Example here: [rank1][rank2} Only meYoung of a siblingOldest of a siblingYoungest of threeLast of fourLast of fiveLast of sixThird out of fourSecond out of fourSecond of threeThird oldest of fourThird oldest of fiveSecond oldest of fourSecond oldest ...

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Our district does not allow us to create our own courses. I want to create modules for the upcoming school year but I can't because all of the current courses (including my sandbox) won't allow me to because the dates are past the end of the course d...

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I was hoping to get some suggestions to help implement an assessment submission checklist in my course. I do not have administrator privileges, so this needs to be something that can be implemented at the course level. Requirements: An interactive ch...

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I'm looking for a way to create a quiz where it's not graded based on points or the answers to individual questions. I want to use the quiz as basically an interactive coversheet listing the various parts of the weekly packet that they need to turn i...

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Hi, I am a new instructional designer with Canvas account support role. I made an error creating Canvas course template that was populated into all courses for next Fall by Canvas admin. My mistake was housing a course homepage in an unpublished modu...

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Our library is looking at a resource called Sage Campus. Does anyone have experience with this product?

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We are setting up a non-academic course shell where students (and faculty) will upload IRB requests as part of research projects, and those are documents will need to be retained even after the submitter has been unenrolled from the course (e.g., aft...

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We have visually impaired students who are assigned quizzes through Canvas. Because the immersive reader doesn't work with quizzes, we've had difficulty making quizzes accessible to students. From other community questions and my own testing, I know ...

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 Hi, I am dealing with an issue where I keep consistently seeing the same message within the assignment page of a course every time I add in content to it (attached screenshot). It does not matter if it is from the vendor's external tool or TCC. It a...

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