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Greetings! I'm the instructor for an adult, non-credit course that we offer twice a year, and after several sessions, it's now time to refresh portions of the quizzes. But I get a warning from Canvas ("Students have either already taken or started ta...

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Announcements ,discussions, syllabus ,grade everything is missing from my left side of the page .

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Can I create a banner (not an announcement) on the Home Page in Canvas to be eye-catching? 

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We're getting a resource not found error when a student attempts a quiz after three months of setting up Canvas. If we do a new Canvas installation it works for the first three months and stops again. Upon closer look, we discovered that the table 'q...

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All students are required to complete a quiz on the Syllabus before they are allowed to proceed with any other course work.  They must agree to abide by the syllabus before they are allowed to continue with the class. If they don't take this quiz the...

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Hi there, I am trying to create two certificates, each comprised of 5 courses. What is the best practice for doing this in Canvas? If I create the courses separately then there doesn't seem to be a parent object in canvas -- just the parts, which wil...

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I thought I had found a work-around, but the videos corrupt...help.I need to embed videos and/or clips into quizzes for my students. I was copying the links from 'pages' and pasting them into quiz instructions - which worked for a while - but now tho...

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the instructions keep telling me to go to "course Navigator" and I have NO idea were to find this. No very computer savy and this is my first online class, so please make it simple.Thank you

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The announcements tab shows that it is not visible to students.  How do enable the students to view the announcements?

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How do I re-use material from last year's course into this year course? 

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Dear All,My use case appears to be entirely out of the scope of Canvas design. Please read on.My team runs a 2-hour workshop via externally created Zoom meeting from pages in Canvas on two consecutive days every Fall and Spring semesters with each da...

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I want to grade all assignments within 72 hours of submission.Is there a countdown tool or notification setting I can use to help reach this goal? 

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Hello, I am a high school teacher using Canvas Free for Teachers. My students create accounts with their school gmail & use the same password, however, Canvas will repeatedly log them out and they are not able to get into their Canvas accounts. When ...

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when a student submits an image in a quiz, it is only available for download. It is not embedded in the quiz. How do I show the submitted image as embedded?

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Hello all - is there an Edit feature that will allow me to change a Page to an Assignment?  This would be incredibly convenient. Please note, I'm not talking about using copy/cut/paste functionality. My course has about 34 pages (two per week for 17 ...

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I cannot access the place where I submit my proposal, Dissertation checklist and turn it in

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I've been telling students to download my feedback when I post their grades.Their work is submitted and translated to a PDF file by Canvas, and I then assess and provide feedback via SpeedGrader using the annotation tools of "Free draw annotation" an...

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Hello Everyone:The classic quiz has features not available in the new quiz.  Will Canvas be keeping the two quiz engines indefinitely or will Canvas be adding ALL features from Classic into the New Quiz?  We would like to keep both classic and new be...

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This morning I have multiple teachers who are experiencing issues with copying a "New Quiz" between courses.The new quiz is created in a "Sandbox" course.Question stems include images added via "Insert > Image >Upload Image"The quiz is copied to a li...

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Hi!How do I link to text further down or back-to-top? i.e. on the same page in the rich content editor?Caroline

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Currently, I put Assignments in Assignment Groups, set assignments to be graded by point scores (not percentages), and provide percentage weights for the groups. What I'd like to do is create weights for assignments within groups, but also use a poin...

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Hello,2022 Fall Quater courses(ESL Level5, IoT introduction) do not be shown in my Canvas. Just 2022 Summer Quater courses are shown to me. My UCI ID# is 001094644. Could you resolve this issue?Best Regards,Jungdae

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When logged into Canvas and accessing a feature within my module (Course Readings) on my Macbook Air, the site lists:Error 405 Not Allowednginx/1.22.0

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When I log on to my canvas account, everything is blank and it doesn't display a "courses" icon. When I click inbox, calendar and dashboard, It is just a blank white screen.

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Can the Announcements also be populated in the student email of the university . In another LMS I used, one has the option to send the Announcement as an email to the students' university email account

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I have a training on power point. Is it possible to import the training into canvas? Or alternatively is it possible to import from EdApp?

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For a training that I have created is there a way to download or export the training into pdf slides or powerpoint file so that I can send the students a copy of the slides of the training?

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I'm starting to use Groups within my Canvas course and am trying to figure out how to link a page at the course level with a group. For instance, if I have 5 groups in my course, I would like to be able to link to where I've shared common information...

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Hello, I continue to get notifications that my browser is not updated on LockDown Browser, however, I have the most up to date Chrome and Safari browsers. It has occurred on both browsers. I have been experiencing unexpected quits during exams to whi...

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Is there a way to see student statistics by question bank?If there is not a canvas function, are there any excel export options?

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