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Hello, after adding a SCORM file as an ungraded assignment and adding a description to the assignment, the SCORM file got smaller within the student view. Is there a way to adjust the width and heigth of the SCORM within in an assignment "page"? 

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Why do new quizzes not show on the to do list for teachers? When there is a component that needs to be graded by the teacher, it should pop up on that list. 

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We are using a LTI tool called Dropout Detective, which they say can pull phone numbers from students' profiles in Canvas. If the phone numbers are set in Dropout Detective, then the person using it can call them if the students are having academic i...

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I am not getting any notification email when students are submitting their assignments. I already set the notification for submission as "notify immediately" but still not getting any.

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In canvas, Discrimination Index was working earlier. However, in the last few days, they have disappeared from the quiz statistics page. Below is the screenshot of the Discrimination index present earlier:Here is what we see now:We debugged the Quiz ...

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Yet another irritating and time consuming glitch in CANVAS: If I want to unpublish a quiz for a while (or any assignment) because I realize students need more time or I need to reteach or whatever, I can't if a student has "jumped the gun" and submit...

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I would like to know how to be notified of a student comment on an assignment other than the email notification.  Nothing I see on the dashboard or even when you open the course notifies me that there is a comment from a student.  Is there a way to c...

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A few times now I have created a page and then am not able to see it in my list of pages when I want to add it to a module. Logging in/out, waiting 20 hours, publishing/unpublishing none of it seems to make a difference. I can see it in the list of p...

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Help! I am in instructor. Something changed with New Quizzes. I used to be able to provide the students with multiple attempts. Now that isn't an option. I also can't provide partial credit. I have an ordering question. There is no option to give the...

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I downloaded the Canvas Teacher App but I cannot see any of my courses... I see everything on the student App  Anyone had a similar issue?

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Scenario: - a teacher creates an assignment and adds a rubric - teacher clicks the pencil to edit the rubric and choose the "Use this rubric for assignment grading" box - teacher creates another assignment and wants to re-use the same rubric but when...

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I have created a page for each of my assignments. On that page I added links to an Assignment and a quiz. None of these assignments are showing in the Gradebook. I have already check the following:  The assignments, quizzes and page is published. The...

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I have followed the instructions for exporting  canvas shell files, but where is the exported file so I can DOWNLOAD it to my backup drive as a ZIP file and be able to use and edit the files therein?  

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One useful report that I cannot find in Canvas was the Quiz Item Analysis that Blackboard has, the Item analysis provides statistics on individual questions where instructor can take a quiz question and look at whether the wording of the question is ...

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I submitted a comment twice while trying to figure out the clunky process of adding a file, and I want to delete the duplicate comment. As so often the simplest tasks waste lots of time. Any help? Or is it best to just use email?

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Hi everyone! I have a team of teachers/observers and I am having problems to add one of them in the platform. When I put her mail to add person automatically show up in numbers and she is not able to log in because she cannot create a personal passwo...

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As an Instructor i made some comments in Speedgradr and saved them. After vacation of a month I copy'n'pasted those saved comments into a new textbox on the particular student's assignment I was marking so I could amend/edit them. Stupidly I deleted ...

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Can observers evaluate the instructor? 

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My class starts today (at 2:30) but several of my students showed up in Zoom at 12 noon. When I asked why, they said that's what the Calendar said. I went to the Calendar and, sure enough, it shows the Zoom classes starting at 12 noon.   All of my ot...

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Hi Admins- In your experience, what are the differences between the user's 'Default' email address and other user-added email addresses in Canvas, and have you seen these differences change over time? More background: We would like to clarify for our...

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I put all my outcomes in order with a numbering system (i.e. 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, etc.)  However, when I see the learning mastery gradebook, the outcomes get out of order. I try to re-order them by manually dragging the columns, but when I refresh the page...

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Any update on when classic quiz question banks will be able to migrate to new quizzes? 

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Is there a way for students to receive a notification if I reassign something to them?  Just found out none of them knew that I had reassigned it and thought it just hadn't been graded.  

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Hi all, I have an instructor that was trying to import the question bank from a text book publisher. We could not get them to import when he had new quiz active so we imported it into the old version of quiz. The bank imported just fine, the issue th...

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Currently, students cannot see their peer review feedback until I (as instructor) have posted their grade. Can you please separate peer review posting and instructor grading posting? I use peer reviews for drafting, so I do not give a grade before pe...

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I noticed some odd behaviour today in our beta instance in regards to a course with visibility is set to institution. Multiple accounts who can view the course in PROD could not in BETA and were given the error "Students are not allowed to access tes...

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Im not receiving any announcements from my lecturer; only on one module. Ive tried resetting my notification settings, email address, along with the obvious checking the spam folder, etc. I get announcements from other modules, just this one- yes im ...

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I'm trying to access specific Canvas assignments and activities submitted by students last academic year. The problem is that although the old Canvas course is still accessible, all student data has been removed. To be clear, I'm not looking for stud...

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Does anybody know the reason why letter grades are calculated different when using grade override than if you just grade assignments? I think this behavior is very confusing for our teachers, and can couse some unintended results if the teacher is no...

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hi -  we're currently using google assignments along with Canvas for assignment submissions. I was wondering if there is a way to filter for sections on google assignments, as different GSIs grade different sections. we can filter for that on canvas ...

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