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Hi. I am wondering about best practice for this issue. I can think of three ways to do this. (a) Have one quiz. Assign students to groups and manipulate start and finish times. (b) Have one quiz. Adjust student times after they have started the exam ...

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Hi everyone, We’d love to hear from anyone who has experience using ReadyTech or aXcelerate as their SMS integrated with Canvas. How was your experience, and what’s your feedback? We’re currently exploring which option to use and would appreciate you...

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In the rich text editor for a Canvas page, if I create a link to a YouTube link to using the rich text editor, it displays like a link with no thumbnail. Good. But if I do this in the HTML editory, a thumbnail displays. Looking at the HTML, the reaso...

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Hi I am a student while trying to go into canvas through my desktop I keep getting an error message stating page error. I then tried on my apple phone and it logged me out. I tried logging back in but i keep getting an error message. It says oops som...

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Hello, We are having an issue with some of the final course grades calculated in Canvas for several students at our school. Here is the context: - I performed a grade export at 8:00 am on October 16th for all the course grades in the school - I perfo...

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When some students go to access our Canvas page, they get a page saying invalid URL. I have tried rebooting, using different browsers, clearing the cache, and using different wi-fi networks (including a personal hotspot), and the error still appears....

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Hello! I'm working on Outcomes and need to build reports to show results at course, program, and institutional levels. I also need to show the hierarchy of outcomes so it is visibly understandable how they are related/nested. I haven't been able to f...

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Problem Canvas is not persisting the Google LTI 1.3 connection when editing existing assignments. This issue has been confirmed across multiple users. Symptoms Error message: "Page Error: Something broke unexpectedly. If you have a moment, click here...

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Good afternoon everyone,Is it possible for the built-in timer inside the reply button, when the dialogue box opens, to make it a little more distinct so that it is more easily readable? I love recording and uploading my video responses directly insid...

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The assignment is submitted but it's not attached to Canvas, so on Canvas it shows as not submitted. I can't unsubmit the assignment from Google Assignments, and I have tried logging out of my account and changing devices, but the assignment is still...

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When I go in to configure  external tool and  add an external URL, Canvas will not connect with and imbed my PowerPoints in my assignments for my students.  Normally when I have done this for the last 5 years it will connect the One Drive Powerpoint ...

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On the page about the learning mastery gradebook, it says that instructors can view all students at the same time. However, Canvas actually only shows me 20 students per page. I would like to see all 200 of my students on one page. It is a pain to cl...

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Is there a way for a student user to generate a complete list of assignments (missing) for ALL courses they are enrolled in? Right now they can do that by going course by course but it would be awesome if they could generate a master list somehow.

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For some reason I cannot get the fill in the blanks to trigger the dropdown. I have cleared my history, tried typing the question, copy and paste from the example. I cannot figure out why the options are not showing in the dropdown.   

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I have an instructor who wrote me about this issue: When students are taking a quiz (classic) every time they flag a question it jumps them all the way back to the beginning and they have to scroll back down to where they were. You can imagine how an...

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Is there any way to make the speed grader comment box smaller or expandable. Most times I write a word or 2 in the comments box but then have to take the extra step of scrolling down to find the submit button.

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I can't see the images in reports when we're reviewing questions in class. 

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Could someone, please, explain to me: (1) why annotated files downloaded from Speedgrader do not contain the full text of the annotations? and (2) why it is not possible to print out a downloaded PDF in SpeedGrader with its included annotations? Spee...

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Any time I click the three dots next to any item under modules in Canvas in the instructor edit view to show more options, Canvas immediately jumps to the top of the page. I have tried this across multiple different courses, browsers, accounts, and m...

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Is there any information out there about the nature of the relationship between OpenAI and Infrastructure in regards to the sharing of teacher created content on Canvas?  Does the deal preclude Infrastructure from giving access to course material and...

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We are a publishing partner and often will use mailinator accounts in our development courses for test student accounts. We have noticed over the past few weeks that our dummy mailinator accounts are not receiving emails. Has Canvas stopped sending e...

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I'm trying to upload a document from my google drive that has fillable text boxes.  (i.e. here's a question, answer it in the box below, etc.).  This is an assignment.  I want students to open the assignment, respond, and then submit the assignment. ...

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I created a small quiz and now I want delete it from a course.  But when I try I get this message.  "Cannot change the due date when due in a closed period."  I am not trying to change a date.  I want to delete the whole thing.  This is a short multi...

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Hello, has anyone used LoreeDesign (Soaring Ed) before? I'd like to know the difference between Loree and DesignPlus of CidiLabs. Thank you

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Hello everyone, I am in need of converting question banks into item banks. I used to create classic quizzes, migrate them,  and export them and then reimport them as item banks. However, the classic quizzes function has been disabled at my university...

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I have a professor who would like to use questions from multiple sources to create a new assessment. Is there a way to sample question groups and then save the result and sample from it? We have used the question group feature successfully, but need ...

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Looking for any ideas on possible causes of an LTI access problem.   One student trying to access my Java server on his laptop sends a bad LTI request. When he uses his desktop at home he connects fine.  Hundreds of students for over a decade have no...

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Dear community,A student of mine made a lot of assignments before the summer holidays.After the summer holidays upon logging in he told me he lost a lot of the made content in those assignments and it was no longer visible.Is this possible? For examp...

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This is a new issue that I first noticed on Friday. Several of my assignments, mostly quizzes, are not populating in the Gradebook. This is a huge inconvenience, as I have had to hand calculate the grades for almost 200 students. Anyone else having t...

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So I had deleted an exam column and had to recover it - and this forum helped (thank you). However, now their grades are in "blue" and I can't type over them, and they're not being calculated into the students' overall grade. How do I fix this? 

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