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Viewing results in the Mark Book History, many students have Not Available under the Marker heading.  This only seems to happen with knowledge questions, not projects. This happens with all Markers using Canvas, in multiple tiles. When this appears r...

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Hi there Brains TrustI have been asked about Design Tools but I have no rocket icon and can't find how to add this to whole school Canvas?I would appreciate help with this. Thanks

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I am trying to send a message in Canvas. The course is published, but I get the error "Error occurred while creating conversation message" when trying to send the message

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Hi there,I am a tutor and several of my clients use canvas. They want me to log into their gradebooks and help monitor their assignments/grades. Is there any way a tutor can log in to multiple student accounts and view their activity? One student gav...

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Hello,There is an 'I' next to a student grade with a 1% score in the course. What does this mean? The others represent the grade of A, B, C, etc. The student has not yet had an incomplete filed for them.  

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Hi,I created a small course and sent an invitation to my friend just to see how he can see the content and its asking him for the Join code. Where do I get it?I am in a free for teacher account, set him as a student... 

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Hello, we have students are trying to do the assignment by check the calendar, and they are clicking the assignment but nothing happened, still in the calendar page. They need go to the course page, then select assignment option, and the assignment t...

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My district has year long courses divided into 9 week grading periods.  Grades are to be posted today.  I think I missed a step in setting up course Terms or Grading Periods.  I received the following email from a teacher this morning: "We are unable...

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Hello, I am a student that is interested in using Notion to help organize my work. My primary concerns is finding an integration for Canvas that can help port over assignments and data from the calendar to Notion. Notion is a productivity software th...

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I have designed an essay quiz for my students for a final novel unit. There are four question banks I am using for this. Each question bank has 10 essay prompts.My question is, if I use the "Build" function for this quiz, if a student needs a second ...

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Hey! On Canvas, it says that I should have the ability to submit for a student (I'm an instructor), but I do not. See attached. Why is this?

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I'm refreshing an existing course that uses a slew of external resources via URLs. Is there a way to pull just those external links from my course in Canvas?The closest I've come so far is:export course (nets imscc file, which is just a compressed fi...

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Sorry if I've posted this in the wrong place, I've been thrown into Canvas with zero knowledge. Is there a way of removing points automatically from a Students grading.For instance, if there were two assignments as below: Final Physical hand in - Gra...

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On Quizzes, if I set an essay question, how do I access the students' answers once quiz has been completed in order to mark it please?

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I registered for courses for the Spring Semester and want to find out the syllabus and the textbooks so that I can get them in advance. Where do I find that information? Thanks.

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I have 3 different canvas accounts. Two different observer accounts for my kids' different schools & one free teacher account. Today I tried to log into my teacher account and it has disappeared. It logged my into one of my kids schools and my class ...

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I've never seen this notation on previous tests in the moderation page/activity logs.  I've checked the community and see that there are two reasons for this notation. 1) clicking off the page 2) inactivity of more than 30 seconds. I've checked and t...

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  Scientific calculator in new quizzes - some buttons such as x^2 and x^y are gray and don't function (see attached image).. does anyone know how to get these buttons to work?    

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Images wont show up during exam in Google Chrome or Firefox, intermittently. How can I fix this?Thank you.

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Hi all,I've been using free-form comment rubrics to grade papers for a few terms now. I recently switched my rubrics to be rated because I figured it would be easier to click the score instead of typing it out for each criteria. However, I miss havin...

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The title sums it up. I'd rather the Comment Library selection paste at the current cursor location instead of wiping out anything that's already there. Or have a way to copy the comment from the Library (I didn't see a way) so I could paste it where...

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Canvas Community.  As we all know, exam security is an issue when helping students review exams. That said, is there a way for me to pull a list of the questions a student answered incorrectly? For example, Jeff Lebowski missed questions 2, 9, 10, 23...

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I'm trying to import outcomes and I have found the cvs format, but I don't think I understand each category because I keep getting an error when I upload.  1) Does anyone have a teacher-friendly template of what the different categories are and what ...

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I cannot find a upload or submit assignment icon for turning in my mid-term project.  How do I submit my assignment.  Thank you in advance.

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I was previously using a firefox on a macbook and got a lenovo yoga running edge 130. I sign into my account and Canvas shows no completed assignments. The app on my phone has my current progress as well as the macbook. Has anyone had issues with edg...

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I have used/reused embedded Google Slides presentations for the last 4 years on Canvas. This year, the presentation formatting does not match the original. The text overlaps the slide, causing information to be missing. Some of my presentations are d...

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Is there any work being done to allow group assignments for an external tool?  We are using LinkedIn Learning to supplement lessons, and students are self enrolled to groups based on their choice in an video editing platform.  I would like each group...

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I am trying to login to Respondus Lockdown browser, but every time I enter my user and password, I get a message stating "unable to login" and "no issuer configured for OpenID connect provider." I have tried to uninstall and reinstall Respondus, rest...

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I need to import a canvas course export package with the extension .imscc to my course. I received this package by Dropbox, I downloaded it to my computer, and then I want to import it to my canvas course but the import fails and I receive the follow...

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