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These old eyes are starting to struggle seeing the small font sizes on Canvas.  Is there any way to enlarge the font that I can see, especially when grading online submissions. The student online submissions and my comments on the side are really sma...

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I was wondering if there is a list of which course settings are altered when pushing content from a blue print courses. I understand the homepage and course Navigation menu can be pushed to the associated courses as well as the individual contents (A...

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With the release of Discussion Checkpoints, I could not find anything about this feature and its integration with the Course Pacing feature.  Does anybody know if this new feature will nicely integrate with Course Pacing? I ask because we are using c...

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Can you set an Out of Office auto reply to students who msg you through Canvas when you are not at work?

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Some assignments are still showing but most of my future ones are just not appearing in the calendar. The due dates were not changed. 

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When instructors set a Manual Post Policy students are not able to see grades or submission comments until the instructor posts grades. We recently noticed that the date/time associated with the submission comment(s) is the date/time that the submiss...

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Apologies if this has been brought up elsewhere. I was testing Checkpoints, and when you select "Automatically assign" for the "Peer Reviews" type you are prompted with an extra date and time box. When you enter a date it defaults the time to 12:00AM...

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My students are having trouble seeing their exam answers. I have the quiz setting to allow students to see their results immediately. I use Respondus Lock Down Browser but I don't see a setting to allow or disallow on the lock down browser. The messa...

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When using SpeedGrader, clicking the drop-down menu, selecting the correct choice, and then waiting for it to update before going to the next student is cumbersome. It's a lot of finger/mouse movement, and it is easy to let go too soon and select the...

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In the settings for creating a peer review activity in a Canvas Discussion, there is a field labeled “Reviews Due” to set the date for automatic peer assignments. This label implies it is a due date for students to complete their reviews, leading oft...

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 Hello,  I accidentally removed one of my users and therefore obviously his quizzes and all his grades were deleted. Is there any way to get everything back? Thanks

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Is it possible to add a feature in Canvas Grading where students must read comments before having their overall grade released? It would be helpful to have a feature where an instructor could select an option where students must read the comments and...

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How do I import a quiz from another canvas course

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My teacher had a due date on an assignment and i was rushing myself to turn it in on her deadline but i then submitted the assignment with one question left not realizing it was a completion grade resulting in a zero in the grade book for me. Is ther...

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Hey i have a teacher who is describing this issue.  1. Many English 11 Honors students have reported to me that they submitted their assignment yesterday on time, but it was noted as submitted late on Canvas. I checked and it seems the majority of th...

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Hello team On Canvas guide, specifically on the Discussions page we see the following statement: " The Discussion Index page allows you to view all the discussions within a course as well as participate in course and group discussions. Note: Your ins...

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We are finding that data populated from dropdown drops project in templates are not appearing when viewing students' submissions via Speed Grader. Annotations from PDF digital stamps are not visible when using Speed Grader. Is anyone else experiencin...

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Grades are hidden and students cannot see them. How to unhide them.I have looked in settings and other places and cannot find anything on it.

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Two students did a deferred exam, however I can't see their marks. At the same time when I go to quiz statistics, their names are shown there but I can't see their answers. 

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Hello,I'm a new Canvas administrator and am looking to improve how our school has historically utilized the LMS. Currently, Grades 6 through 12 are using the Canvas LMS.At the moment, we create course shells and then teachers invite students to their...

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I imported Announcements from an old Canvas course and updated the dates when the Announcements should post. But I would like to see the Announcements in my Instructor view in chronological order.  Canvas has them in reverse order. See screenshot. Th...

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We'd like to allow students outside of particular groups to read one another's Group Discussions for an assignment. Can we do this and how? Thank you!

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When I use speed grader to view students uploaded pictures it always loads the first page and when I click the 2nd page it reloads the first again.  At this point I can then click the second page to load that page.  Some days it is extremely slow and...

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Hi EveryoneWe are currently exploring the Canvas Calendar functionality to help students with organising their work.The To-Do list is a great tool for helping students stay organised. When items are set as "to-do" in pages, by setting the item as a r...

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Hey!I am trying to change the weighting of grades for a course, but when I click on save, my changes aren´t being saved and it continues with the grades unweighted. When I go to the student view, it says "Unweighted course assignments". I don´t know ...

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Hello, When a TA comments on a student's assignment, the teacher doesn't get a notification even though the notification settings are "push" for all comments.  Is there another setting we are missing? Thanks for your help. Dave

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Hey, everyone. I couldn't find a place to leave feedback ON the page or an easy way to report a broken link, but the Canvas Release Notes Calendar isn't loading on this page: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Releases/tkb-p/canvas-release   c...

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Why isn't Canvas is letting me edit the assignment group weights in assignments?

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Hi, new student here trying to access the Banksia Care intranet portal. I have to do a role play and the page told me to click the link and enter password and username.Does anyone know what this is? I can't find that in my student handbook either.I h...

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Viewing results in the Mark Book History, many students have Not Available under the Marker heading.  This only seems to happen with knowledge questions, not projects. This happens with all Markers using Canvas, in multiple tiles. When this appears r...

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