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Suddenly, we are seeing strange behavior from the Savvas external tool integration.  When teachers create the assignment & select "External Tool" submission type, they are able to select Savvas and pick their Savvas assignment. However, when saving t...

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My teachers are not able to create Google Assignments today. We are able to select "Google LTI" as submission type, access the Google Drive, and select a file.  However, when we press the button to return to Canvas, we receive this error: "One or mor...

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Is there a way to add links in the comment section of SpeedGrader? I use a Microsoft Form in an assignment, some students overlook this aspect of the assignment, and I would like to be able to add the link into the comments for incomplete grades.

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Hello! I would like to set my courses on Canvas to automatically play some videos in a sequence, that are posted on the modules page. For exemple: One class has 2 videos, I'll put them seperatelly on modules, so that the student can "mark as conclude...

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In the documentation for the Admins REST API it encourages me to use role_id, but I can see no way to get a valid list of Admin roles and their IDs. Where in the API can I get the valid role_id list of Admin types for a specific subaccount? The obvio...

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I uploaded a video and we can not watch the video. Message the Video is uploaded and will appear after processing

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A few faculty members have experienced an issue lately with saving annotations and comments within the SpeedGraders Doc Viewer on file upload submissions. From time-to-time, they will receive this error message.         Canvas Support suggested to t...

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I am an Ed Tech at a university Continuing Ed program and am looking at different LMS systems for our courses. We are looking to sell 100% asynchronous, self-serve courses that allow for an "Amazon-like" consumer experience. The target market is exte...

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Hi, I'm just wondering if anyone here has had any experience with downloading everything from Canvas. The context is that I'm a final year uni student and I want to download all my course notes and data, because I will lose access to it after graduat...

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In Moodle they had a very cool feature I miss dearly and I don't think Canvas has it. So I have cross-listed courses (beginning photo 6th, beginning photo 5th, beginning photo 6th). I need to download submissions for their projects (there are 6 files...

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Currently in order to pre-add quiz time to students with accommodations one has to add the time through Moderate Quiz, and that is only available when the quiz is in Published state.  Can this be changed so that ALL quiz settings can be adjusted in U...

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Not sure if this has been brought up previously, but the moment a quiz is published, students can see the number of questions on the quiz. This should not be a default. I don't want my students to know how many questions are on the exam until they op...

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I am wondering if assignments can have multiple text entry fields, or if there are plans to add this feature to Canvas assignments?

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All of my course cards and banners are gifs, but they no longer animate. I switched them out for Easter, and when I switched back to the original image, it would no longer animate. If I switch back to the Easter picture, it no longer animates either,...

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How to contact our CSM? Help on this would be much appreciated. Thank you.

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HELLO, our instructure canvas "https://americana.instructure.com/" is extremely slow since 12/04, pages takes 20 to even 30 to 45seconds to charge now, can you guys help me see if its a acount problem or a user problem, what can i do?  already tested...

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I'm analyzing API events from Canvas instance.  I see "assignement_group_created" but never "assignment_group_updated".  In a course, I created an assignment group, edited assignments, edited group name, lowest and highest scores, and moved the group...

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I started my Canvas course in January for our transfer center at a community college. We generate the roster for data throughout the semester to see how many students have joined. Is it possible to filter the roster after a specific date so we can do...

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I am looking to convert Classic Quizzes in Canvas from an exported QTI file into a Word document. Is there any conversion software out there that does this?

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Looking for posted faculty notice to individuals- where do I find this calendar or assignment list?

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My students just told me that they can see the Big Button Conference in the interface Canvas. How to fix that. Please help me out. There is a cross on it saying that it is invisible to students. Delille

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Does Canvas have any tools for developing adaptive assessments? Can we post series of questions that are presented, or not presented, depending on a student's response to a previous question?

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I cannot take quiz and test on canvas app. When I start the quiz is just keep loading, I can't see the questions in quiz and Test. I wait for a long time, still can't take it.

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Starting yesterday, Canvas changed the HTML code that is generated for external tools. In my case, my Canvas class makes extensive use of Cay Horstmann's excellent CodeCheck tool. Prior to yesterday, the code generated by Canvas when inserting an ext...

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I teach the same course on subsequent semesters, so I will import the course files, exams etc. from the previous semester when I make the site for a new section at the beginning of the same semester. However, I do make some changes, typically. For in...

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Hello all, I've recently added checkboxes into my assignments for students to check off that they have done everything they are supposed to on an assignment before turning it in. As well as a self-assessment. These checkboxes disappear upon student s...

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Hello Canvasland, I haven't seen the red calendar icon below before, but I want to replicate it.  How?   When I click on the red calendar, it allows me to edit the availability parameters of that one item.                         Looking forward to...

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When I added the Passport to CANVAS as a course and switched to student view, the images are not showing, instead, there are images of locks. Checking the files loaded into my account, all I have are the template images but no course images.

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I have created a quiz in canvas.  It is not published but each time I try to change the point value for individual questions and save the screen, the scores revert back to the previous points.  I would like to assign 33 points for a question but afte...

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Hello everyone, I would like to invite you to the second edition of our virtual conference that will take place on May 24th and 25th. inspirED 2022 brings together educators, learning designers, and institution leaders to exchange practical insights ...

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