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In the web browser, I can't access course modules and several other pages. It's just loading the courses on the dashboard, and not showing them. When I go to my courses I can access them but when I press on modules and relating links it just shows a ...

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How can I post an assignment with directions and due date so students can see the details but not allow them to submit the assignment until a later date? For example, I want students to be able to see the directions and the due date on Tuesday, but n...

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I want to be able to issue a different file to each individual student on a course, as a starting document for an assignment. Is there a simple way to do this? I appreciate it would be possible to email / message each student one by one, or to use th...

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Hello, I'm wondering on from a teacher pov, how to download data to see assignment submission rates (like if they submitted or haven't). When students submit in our tutoring centre, they don't get marked, just either they have completed the assignmen...

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I have a goal of providing more interaction and on page activities on Canvas pages. I have been looking into a few options and just found out about Clever LMS for Canvas. Has anyone used this and what are your thoughts? Thanks Jen

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I would like to have two assignments that are conceptually linked. In particular, I want students to respond to a prompt at the beginning of the semester, and then respond to the same prompt at the end of the semester. I'd like to be able to see thei...

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When I duplicate an assignment that is only assigned once to one section the date and time also duplicates.  This is very helpful when working in a schedule that rotates.  However, when I duplicate an assignment that is assigned to multiple sections ...

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Problem Summary: I create course announcements in Word documents (up to 100 pages) that typically contain 3-4 embedded hyperlinks each. For years, I've been able to copy these announcements from Word and paste them into Canvas discussion boards or ri...

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Problem 1: I'm a science teacher and would like to collect student data after a lab. Previously, I'd use OneNote, and students would add their data via the Smart Board at the front of the room, and we'd see everyone's numbers. Is there a way to colle...

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We have installed the new Microsoft Education LTI into our Canvas instance, however we are having issues with creating recurring Teams meeting.  The calendar glitches (starts automatically moving both the start and end calendars back by a day on a co...

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I'm trying to set up a quiz/survey in which students receive credit for each question they attempt (regardless of whether they answer it correctly) but do not receive credit for questions they leave unanswered. Currently, in the Graded Survey format,...

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I work at an institution where, for historical reasons, Canvas exists alongside Moodle. One thing I noticed about Moodle which, in my humble opinion, is better than Canvas is the "Course Overview" menu. This creates a list of all sections and subsect...

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Student's generally do not seem to engage or respond to comments/replies given to them on Discussion posts or Assessment/quiz comments, so I am unsure if they are even seeing this feedback.  It would be great to know that they are notified when these...

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I think my authentication settings are wrong. We linked all students and observers with IDs but I have some parents have created new accounts by using the student's pairing code not their ID.  I see parents with emails and no ID.  Help!  Are these se...

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I would like to have students sign up to present a topic on a particular class day. Is it possible to allow them to access the calendar feature to do so or is there a way to set up a sign-up sheet other than just creating one myself and loading it in...

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Hello Canvas Community,I would like to ask if there is a way to create a midterm report for each course in Canvas.What I am looking for is:A way to summarize student progress up to the midterm point.The ability to include categories of performance (a...

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Is it possible to have a setting in the gradebook to where the maximum points deducted for late submissions can be set? I know that the lowest possible grade percentage can be set but I'm wanting late points to be deducted up to a max of 30 points. T...

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When I insert any image, doc, or item it only shows as a link. I've tried many ways with no luck. Please help.

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Our institution recently switched to a new proctoring tool from Respondus Lockdown Browser and implementation went smoothly. Since we have ended our Respondus contract, we removed the LTI from our Canvas instance. However, we found that many instruct...

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Is there a way for students to print their own completed quizzes? When I am in preview mode as the instructor, and choose a print command it only prints what is visible on the screen rather than the entire completed quiz.- I'm using new quizzes- My s...

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I need to conduct a course assessment on approximately 20 sections of one class at my institution.  The exam tool has been created and the institutional outcomes have been tagged for each item.  The tool has been flawlessly launched in all of our blu...

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Ok, if I could offer a suggestion to add submission times to either the grades tab or the assignments tab, that would a super helpful way for students to see their progress very quickly and know where to pick up with the next assignment. 

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I am the "lead professor" in a large course where I want to create independent groups (where all students use the same course site but assignment submissions go directly to group facilitators. I need to know how to create separate "gradebooks" for my...

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We have been able to implement the new Microsoft Education that was just released. We have a series of courses that use Teams spaces for group collaboration. However, with this new tool, unlike the prior tool (Microsoft Teams Classes), each section u...

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This request is to allow additional classes to be shown in the calendar view OR at least be able to synch up with ALL calendars to an external calendar OR be able to save default views on calendar (so we are not having to scroll thru and unselect/sel...

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I am the type to obsessively clear notifications. Unfortunately I have noticed that, as a student, I don't always have control of whether I am able to do that or not. Last semester I took a course with a borderline senile professor that did not know ...

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Hey Community,  We are having a first world problem in our office.  We use a portal to login to our canvas instance.. In the last month, when you click on the Canvas link in our portal, it opens the App not in Chrome.. We have this experience with Ch...

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How far can you go with this?

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I am a lecturer, and we are using Outcomes to assess if students are learning certain subjects.  Currently, we have access to individual student outcome numbers, as well as the average for our class for each Outcome.  What would be most useful to the...

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Is it possible to edit instructor comments once submitted in Speedgrader? Previously, I could do this by going into the Gradebook and there was a pencil icon to edit the comment. Now, I only see a trashcan icon to delete the comment.  When a small er...

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