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Download ALL Canvas course students submissions!

Is it possible, or will it ever be possible, to download submissions by course not just assignment by assignment. Need this! Downloading assignment by assignment is tedious! Instructors clamoring for way to select a course, then download submissions ...

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10-29-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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ColetteS

Uploading 3 min video to discussion

Hi  I have uploaded my video twice to the discussion area within my module and it is nowhere to be seen . However, a different video which seemed to have been uploaded after my attempt is visible.  I  have uploaded from both my PC and my phone ( andr...

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10-29-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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PhilDuncan

Back Button

Since the beginning of the Spring 21 quarter, the Back Button in Canvas does not function as before.  When looking at the browser history it shows that most pages seem to load between two and six times.  Is there an explanation for this impeded funct...

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10-28-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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clovis

Undelete not working

I just accidentally deleted several question banks from one of my courses. Doh!   Doing some quick searching on the Canvas Community it seemed like there was an easy solution: You just add "undelete" to the url of your Canvas course. This is supposed...

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10-28-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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rgibson1

New Analytics - Attendance

Colleagues, We are a bit perplexed regarding New Analytics/Attendance. At the Account Level we have enabled the tool and unlocked it. However, as you can see from my screen capture, the tool is locked at the course level and only one option is select...

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10-28-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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fac_arai

no volume on Speech recognition comment box

Been using this device for months, now it is not "Hearing" my voice...it says cancelled due to inactivity. I've tried resetting volumes, settings, I'm frustrated Michiko Arai

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10-28-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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ThomasDomas

High Rate Of 504 Errors From API When Downloading Quiz Reports

Hi, this is my first post. I work in analytics for for my institution. I built a program that goes through canvas and downloads the Student Analysis reports for each quiz in each course. However, I seem to be getting an unusually high number of 504 t...

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10-28-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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EvanDonovan

Using a standard rubric across all courses when the point values of assignm...

We would like to use the same rubric for written assignments across all courses. We did this in our previous LMS, Populi.We have defined this rubric to have 100 points. These 100 points are allocated proportionally toward 5 criteria, as follows: 50, ...

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10-28-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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amberp813

Export comment library

Is there a way to export the comment library in a course to some kind of text file?

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10-28-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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mpoinsett

Google Assignment LTI 1.3 using Canvas rubrics

I need to set up a Google Assignment LTI 1.3 assignment but need to add a Canvas rubric, not the one listed in the assignment overlay. Has anyone accomplished this? I was excited with I saw the LTI option but in testing the process does not seem to b...

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10-28-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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Lsacal

Enable chat for multiple sections in one course

Hello Comunnity. I need to enable the chat por the same course un multiple sections. Is it possible? I have course with more than 400 students. So I need a chat individually for each section. 

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10-28-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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shelburnesa

Disable SIS Category Sync

The August 26, 2021 SIS Integration Release Notes reference the category sync feature. There is a line in the release note indicating that this feature is on by default. Does anyone know how we could turn this feature off?

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10-28-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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EhfazNowman

Locking quiz

Hi,  I have been using New Quizzes to create and conduct quizzes in my course. Is there a way I can 'LOCK' a quiz? Meaning, even though a quiz is published and students could see the quiz title, they would not be able to access and take the quiz.  Th...

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10-28-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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EhfazNowman

Item Bank visibility

I use New Quizzes to design quizzes for my course. I like the ability to add questions to Item Banks at the end of the semester and choose questions from the Bank.    I have noticed that I can view/edit Item Bank created by other faculty members. How...

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10-28-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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DavidMarchino

Subscribe Button Missing from Discussion

Hello, Canvas Community. I created a handful of Discussion boards for students, but, in one of them, the "Subscribe" button is not present. See the attached image "No Subscribe" compared to another discussion (attached image "Subscribe"). Is there a ...

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10-28-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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EvanHyatt

Two pages at once in speedgrader

I often have assignments that are more than one page long.  Is there a way to have page one and page two both show up in speed grader side by side instead of having to go over and scroll to the bottom of every single assignment?  There is plenty of r...

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10-28-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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tammi_brandon

Students cannot enter assignment from Grades page

We suggest that our learners periodically check their grades from the Grades page. When they find that an assignment is incomplete/ungraded, they often try to enter the assignment from the link on the Grades page. However, in doing so, the assignment...

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10-28-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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MariaBland

Discussion Posts and Replies

How can we view the number of discussion posts and replies for students? I've looked in New Analytics, but it doesn't tell you how many times a student posted or replied to a discussion topic. It also doesn't tell you how many times they replied to o...

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10-28-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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akriger

quarter 1 grades no longer visible

We just began quarter 2 at my school, and when I click on the grades tab now, my quarter 1 grades aren't there.  I can click on a student and go in one assignment at a time, but I need to see all my grades for the whole semester at once, for each of ...

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10-27-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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jhiegel

Percipio eBooks search function

I have ebooks in Percipio in my PROJ592 course and here does not seem to be a search function. Does anyone know if there is one and how to use it?  This is my first session to use Percipio and it is a poor option for eBooks.  jhiegel@keller.edu.

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10-27-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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asgardner53

How to a run a report on Student activity?

I want to run a report on all the students in a course to look at activity levels, I can do it individually, however, I want to do it as a group.

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10-27-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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pbrown2

Skype button is not showing in "other services"

The skype activation does not show in the "other services" in the account settings.  Is there a way to turn this on either at the course or root level?     Thanks   PS Skype does show in registered services so I can link to it but I cannot activate i...

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10-27-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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ChristineAhern

Change Calendar time from 24 hour to 12 hour (AM/PM)

I'm trying to figure out why the time in the calendar appears in a 24 hour format (military time), yet the times in the syllabus are in a 12 hour (am/pm) format. I add them to the calendar in 12 hour time, but something is reformatting it. My site is...

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10-27-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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kettlebarm

New Quizzes NEEDS to be able to pull a partial number of random items from ...

This is a HUGE feature of classic quizzes.... The ability to pull a random set of questions from a question bank EACH time a student takes a quiz.  Here is the specific ability I'm talking about: I create question bank "Chapter 1".  This bank has 25 ...

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10-27-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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matt_price

Timed Assignments

This is actually a duplicate of this post, but as it appears to have been closed I'll ask again here. I would like to give my students 48 hours to complete a take-home essay assignment. RIght now, the only option in Canvas is to create a quiz whose o...

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10-27-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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RodrigoJimenez

List of courses for a group of students

I am trying to see if it is possible to get the list of courses for a group of students using the api. I know I can get the list of courses for a single student but in my situation I need to be able to get the list of courses for each student in a gr...

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10-27-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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A_McMahon

Course Template option

Hi! We read about Course templates and we would like to use this option but it remains unclickable even if we removed all enrollments and we went into the settings of the course as an Admin. We checked the permissions to ensure this was not the probl...

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10-27-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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robertlbishop

Is it possible to prevent students from messaging teachers or teaching assi...

We need to keep our teaching assistants anonymous. Some users have found that they can find the name of their teaching assistant by sending them a message in the inbox. Is there a way to disable this ability? We tried toggling the Conversations permi...

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10-27-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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EvanDonovan

Is it possible to have different Canvas Syllabus pages for different sectio...

Is it possible to have different Canvas Syllabus pages for different sections of the same course? We have an undergraduate and graduate section of a course which are cross-listed. We need to have the two sections have different syllabi. Is it possibl...

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10-27-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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MatthewFallon

Different course_id response when using curl vs. nodejs

For a class project I am currently working with a professor to access course discussion info programmatically from canvas. To do this I started with testing using curl and then moved to nodejs. I found when making the identical https call through cur...

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10-27-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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