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If you use the "Calendar Feed" URL option to export the Canvas calendar you can only export 30 days.  Anyone figure out how to copy an entire school year's calendar?

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How do I make grading transparent to each student in Canvas, with possible course points and percentage of possible points for each student throughout the course?

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I know Canvas can drop the lowest/highest score in an assignment group. Is there any way to have it drop the OLDEST score?At our institution, all students are allowed two attempts for assignments. The second attempt is voluntary: students can resubmi...

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Hi, Colleagues. It can be challenging to make attractive Canvas pages - especially for novice users. I've put together a handful of tips you may find useful for increasing the overall appearance of your course pages within a publicly accessible Canva...

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If we set up a Free Canvas Instructure account to upload our Diploma course on for students, is this secure or would we need to pay for a platform?

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We are in the process of migrating to Canvas and can't yet test the Teams Meetings LTI. I have found lots of recent information on how to schedule Teams Meetings via the link in the course menu, but no screenshots or recordings showing me how student...

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How can quiz access code be accessed when there is no one readily available to provide it before the deadline to submit?  

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HiSo we have quizzes ssetup using the New Quizzes method, yeah I know we cant get the responses downloaded from them.So the section was allocated to the quiz, but when the tutor goes into moderate it, it shows every student who has ever been on the c...

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How can I, as the faculty member for a course, do the quiz I've designed for the students to test for any "bugs in the system" - before it is published and released for students. I haven't used the quiz function before so this is all new to me. 

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Hi team,I was trying to pass some HTML code to display some styled text under each user's notes. (The image attached)However, it shows the HTML tags as well, so is it possible to display some styled text on this page?Kind regards, 

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Hello, please I need help on how to navigate canvas. How can I see assignment, announcement, and how to access everything like I used to do in Blackboard? 

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A student took a quiz and completed the quiz. However, under Moderate this Quiz, the timer is still counting for only her. Any ideas why?

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We're going through an LMS RFP and are putting Canvas through its paces. We've currently got Ellucian ILP configured and things seem to be working ok so far. We're trying to figure out how to get nested sub-accounts to work for ILP-created course sec...

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When I am on the dashboard and click on grades, I see the grades from previously completed courses. How do I hide the grades so I only see the current class grades? I have hid the courses on the dashboard view, but they do not go away on the grade vi...

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Currently, the "act as" feature is limited to Canvas Admin. Is there a way for the feature to be given to the subaccount admin? We want to provide building leaders the ability to ac as teachers/students in their spaces without having to provide compl...

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when I click the link that our teacher attached in the modules, it shows access denied but my classmate can open the link.  

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Hi,I'm able to use the create calendar events API for a course without any problems, but when I add child_event_data to my JSON to specify a section I get an error.Does anyone have an example of how the JSON should be formatted please as I don't unde...

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I have received a report from a faculty member who says one of their students submitted a document via Google Drive and the formatting was changed / messed up upon submission.Are there any known issues with formatting when submitting documents via Go...

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How to write comments when grading 

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I'm getting this message when I try to integrate Flipgrid into Canvas. I can see the video submissions on the Flipgrid website, but when I try speedgrader in Canvas I get the following message and I cannot grade my student submissions.LTI Launch Erro...

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We are having to restrict access to quizzes between dates for teachers. The scenario is that a teacher should only have access to a quiz when the students start the quiz and their access to grading the students and the test should end after 6 days. I...

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Can I transfer. copy a 4-week Canvas course that I created for college and transfer it to my work canvas platform?

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Hi there, I just finished my semester and I'm having difficulty finding my grades / final once the semester has closed. I did some research, and it says to click on grades then you will see an area to find concluded grades - however I don't see this ...

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Hi Everyone!I am trying to advise our faculty on the creating the following type of assignment. We have weekly prep guides for our doctoral students. Faculty want these to be graded as complete/incomplete. I have them all in a weighted assignment gro...

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My canvas is still showing my spring classes.  How do I get my summer semester to show up?  Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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My course at Massasoit Community College, Beginning French 1,MLFR101-W20,  begins on Tuesday, May 31.Can I publish it today, and If so, can I change the available dates for assignments to today, May 30?

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Student Submissions This is a report of all students enrolled in a course in a given term who have turned in an assignment. This report contains one row per student submissionHow can I enable the submission delivery report to track students?

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When students click the link to their copy of a Google Drive Cloud assignment, does the link always go to the same doc, or does it make a new version of the doc each time they click the link?Say, for example, I have students working on a Google Drive...

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