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Hi, newbie here, I am trying to complete an assignment or a Quiz and have the Excel CSV download the name of the student, the set task and, most importantly for my filing system, I need the DATE they completed the Quiz/ Assignment. In a perfect world...

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Hi all! Is there a way to bulk download all the students submissions for an assignment but only from a specific section? Section filters in Gradebook do not seem to affect what you download (i.e. you still download all of the submissions from all sec...

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I have been using the rubrics for peer-review assignments for several years, and this is a new problem. When I open the speedgrader and go to a student's submission that Canvas indicates has received peer review, there is nothing in the speedgrader r...

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Hi! I am having trouble with my Canvas dashboard. I 'm using Safari, so that may be the trouble...? Suddenly the interface has changed and all I see is a white background with overly large black icons. The links still work but they also take me to th...

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Hi everyone, Weird technical question here. I have an assignment designed as a group assignment, so I would like the students to sign themselves up for groups in the specific group set that I've linked to the assignment. When I've done this in prior ...

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Can Observers see the student's full assignment submissions? We need them to not be able to do this. If they can, is there a way to define a similar role that doesn't have this permission? We looked at the Observer Visibility and Participation docume...

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Hi! We would like to utilize Canvas LMS as a platform for our student council election. With that, I'm thinking of using Ungraded Survey for this. I tried answering a sample ungraded survey for testing using student view but it doesn't show the resul...

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I've been using Canvas for almost 14 years now and the product has improved greatly over that time. But, the one thing that I have hoped for hasn't been implemented yet. I assume I'm not the only student that looks at the Canvas calendar to see what ...

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Hi,I was wondering if there is a way to change the user interface font as a student? I find it difficult to focus on reading the default font for a large length of time. Any posts I've found seem to be from teachers/administrators attempting to chang...

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If a student posts a perfectly civil reply that has absolutely nothing to do with the topic of the discussion can I delete the post? So confusing to other students. I would love to hear your opinion. 

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Is there a way to remove the link to the assignments in the gradebook? We use ALEKS for assignments and exams. In the gradebook the link takes them directly to ALEKS. I have too many students that are not using the learning materials in the modules a...

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Update #2 (5/7/24): The original functionality has been restored! Our tech department wrote to me yesterday saying that Instructure had pushed a solution for this issue. Once again, we are able to drag the sidebar to resize the rubric in the Canvas, ...

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My "Chat" doesn't have the same/right time as my "Inbox" and everything else. This is very frustrating, so if anyone knows how to help that would be greatly appreciated. (The time is one hour and 2 minutes off from "Mountain Time US and Canada")

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Antecedent: Teacher is reusing quizzes from previous years or terms. They copy the quiz to their class when the new term starts. When the quiz is coming up, they go into the quiz and add or remove a few questions which changes the total number of poi...

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I want to verify the option "Autodetect Field Separators in Compatible Spreadsheet Exports" in Account >> Setting >> Feature Option. (I'm using the OSS version) However, regardless of whether I graded students' scores like "1,234.56" or "...

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Greetings: I am using the FFT version of Canvas.  In Modules that require being maked "Done", the button to do so has started appearing on the top of the assignment in the modules.  In prior courses it was at the bottom of the assignment page, next t...

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Hello all! I have been using question banks to randomize what questions students get on assignments that they need to upload and submit. Now I'd like to change that and instead randomize these quizzes? Is there a way to randomize quizzes in a section...

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I am finalizing our end of quarter grades and the students did not do as well as I thought they would on the final exam. I'd like to adjust the grades so that the highest grade (47 out of 50) gets a 100%, with everyone else's grade adjusted up by 3 p...

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Is there an auto regrade available for Quizzes when one forgets to update the "external points" from 0 so that once students take the quiz and get a 0, I can ask Canvas to regrade it?(Every so often I forget to update the total points from "0", on th...

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Like the title says, whenever I try to "print" or otherwise "save" a canvas quiz I am doing or one that has already been released with the answers, as a PDF file, it is no longer saving with the proper format that it used to save with. Quizzes are no...

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there are two question i hava The first question is what the content of ":account" in the URL corresponds to. The second question is that I tried to fill in ":account" with "self", and the result showed{"errors":{"user":{"pseudonyms":[{"attribute":"p...

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How do I move part of a course into a new course? I have modules made from previous courses. Is there a way to move a few chapters from a module and not ALL of them?I want to move chapters around in the modules from my previous set ups.All I see is i...

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 Hi,I am wondering how this can get altered or adjusted...when I make a student's assignment missing and then later enter a score for him/her the missing flag doesn't not automatically turn to late or off, instead I have to manually go back and un se...

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When I try to launch "Upload/Embed" image from the tool bar (the apps icon) of the rich content editor, the window pops up, but does not load anymore. I've updated my browser and computer, allowed pop ups, tried other browser, and cleared my cache. N...

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I am an upper level Canvas admin and testing center administrator.  I'm guessing that there are nightmarish logistics involved, but I am just wondering if anyone has an idea if it would be possible to use some sort of password override feature on an ...

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 Aloha, I have been using the free Canvas for a few years now. I need to create a new course.  Start a New Course TABThere is a drop down with TWO options. Manually - create the course NorAm In the past I have clicked Manually Create, what is NorAm d...

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Why am I not able to link my Canvas course and Schoolnet?

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Any new program or app connected to Canvas automatically populates in the "seen" part of the Navigation menu for each class. I have to reset my navigation menu several times a year because there are new programs I don't want my students to see in the...

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We have a case of a large course with multiple Instructors and TA's where an assignment was deleted.  The Head Instructor would like to determine who deleted the assignment and provide a training opprotunity.  Perhaps the TA didn't realize what they ...

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Is an online-only course in Canvas considered part of "single campus" as stated in #2 below? PBS responded to a question about showing a DVD to students.  This series used to stream on PBS but has since been removed so the college has purchased a DVD...

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