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None of the other designers at my organization are having this issue, but I want to make sure it won't happen to students. Has anyone else had this issue? I'm not sure what the issue could be.

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How can I set grade boundaries in quizzes and assignments?  In AP, you only need about 64% correct to get a 5.  I would like to adjust quiz and assignment grades so that I can correct for this.  I realize that I can set up a rubric and then select th...

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When I choose "Display grades as a percent" for individual assignments I have to enter the percentage.  If a student earns a 4/5 and I put in 4 it will display it as 4% instead of 80%.  Is there a way for Canvas to enter the percentage from the point...

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When I try to grade from my TO DO list on my phone or iPad by sliding the points to award the student, it says USER NOT AUTHORIZED TO PERFORM THAT ACTION.  However, I am logged into my school Canvas account as a teacher.  Please help.  It is so effic...

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I was logged in to my personal google a/c when I accepted my courses. Is there a way for me or admin to transfer my courses to my other canvas a/c?

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I am using DIV tags to create a two-column layout. The underlying HTML is the following: <div class="row"><div class="column" style="width: 60%; float: left;"><h2 style="color: #8c1d40; padding-bottom: 20px; line-height: 1.15;"><strong>You've wanted ...

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I imported two courses by mistake and tried to delete irrelevant content. I have two discussion columns in the gradebook. How do I condense to one?

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I have some students who have not submitted assignments. Is there an easy way to notify them that they are missing an assignment? Thanks M

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How do I delete a grade for a student who started the original quiz, ended up taking a make-up quiz, and received a grade for both quizzes? 

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In the gradebook for Canvas that teachers go into to check students, when you click on a student name, you use to get a dropdown sidebar that showed you the students current grade, the number of missing assignments and how many were late.  That featu...

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When clicking "Next" through module info, there is no notification when a new module is entered.  Also, is there no way to get back to module you are viewing in the table of contents without being directed to the very top?  I need help understanding ...

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Hello Community: I have a student or two every semester that goes AWOL in at least one section, usually more. These students drag down the averages of the assignments and give the appearance that the class is doing significantly worse than they are. ...

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Students view is blocked from seeing their grades.... I want them to see their grades....help

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To the Canvas Community,  Normally, when I use Canvas' "Assignment Comments" feature to write notes for students, I am able to resize and expand the size of the comment field by clicking and dragging the corner of the text box. However, that feature ...

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In teacher mode when you look at grades you could previously click on a student's name and then on the right side of the screen it would show their total Missing Assignments & total Late Assignments (along with their grade and recent scores). Now the...

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Two years ago, I created a course and made quizzes in both the classic and new format. At the end of the school year, I saved that course as my Sandbox. I can still access the classic quizzes and use them this year. The "new" quizzes do not have any ...

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Hi all, I'm an instructional designer. I'm curious about how others are using the Canvas Course Template feature. I took a look to see the differences with Blueprints, Commons and Templates (https://tr-learncanvas.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/CourseContentD...

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How can I change my settings so when I am publishing a module it will not publish every assignment in the module?

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Has anyone noticed any problems introduced by Canvas now using Sentry? Right now, sentry.insops.net itself seems to be producing errors, which seems an unfortunate dependency.

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I am new to assessment in Canvas and am in the process of testing some of the features to use for assessment purposes-mainly aligning quiz banks in classic quizzes to learning outcomes and using that data to report student mastery of our general educ...

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REcently, it seems there has been a change in what happens with Google LTI assignments after the student submits it.  If I open it to review the work, Canvas automatically gives it full points, even when I return the assignment for revision without a...

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Hi,  I was wondering how I can find courses that I previously pressed "deny" enrollment into. The other day I was added into quite a few classes and accidentally pressed "deny" instead of "accept" on a course and was wondering if there was a way that...

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Hi, I am a student, I used to have the option of "browse more courses" in the courses session in canvas when I press the option of "Courses". Now it is gone, can you please solve it. It used to be on the spot where I screenshotted 

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1) Suppose I want to configure all assignments within a group with the same grading options, e.g., assign each one 10 points and allow unlimited submission attempts.  Is there a way to configure them all at once?   Alternately, is there a way to pull...

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When editing quiz multiple choice questions, the text box for possible answers is too small (e.g can only see maybe 40 characters without scrolling). This is quite annoying that you can't see all possible answers in full at once. Is there a way to ma...

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I gave two parts to an assessment for my last unit - a multiple choice (MC) and a free response (FRQ). I would like the parts to both be equal to 25 points. It's relatively easy to accomplish with the MC using New Quizzes, but I can't figure out if, ...

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Hi, The "Total" column in the grade displays the total grade (not weighted). Is it possible to display a weighted total grade? Thanks.  

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We have an institution license for the Canvas Premium training which includes a subscription to the live webinar calendar.   We are having an issue where some faculty are not able view the live training calendar for webinars.  We have verified the fo...

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Is it possible to sort the assignments &/or the quizzes by name or by due date?

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I would like to be able to export my Canvas course with modules into a PDF or something that can be kept as a record of what is in each module, with all content conserved. Is there an easy way to do this? Thank you!

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