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When working in Pages, when I select the type of html editor to use (Pretty vs. Raw), my choice is remembered on any other page I work in. So, for instance, Pretty html is the Canvas "default" but when I switch to Raw html in Pages, the html editor w...

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Hello, Our school division provides licensure points to teachers who complete training from the Canvas On Demand Training Portal.The Admin Reports are not exactly user friendly. Can you please provide a link to Download the reports as a CSV so that w...

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Hi,  I thought I found somewhere a reference to the time releases are applied to PROD on their release dates.  Also, how much downtime is there in the system during a release in PROD?  I can't seem to find this information now.  Thanks,Justin 

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My course calendar (even unpublished courses) is showing up in other classes under their calendar section. As admin, how do I delete my courses from showing up in other classes? 

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I work for a school district that uses Canvas, and build courses in Canvas regularly using my school district account.  This summer I'm going to teaching a course at a university that also uses Canvas, and my account with the University won't be acti...

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In the traditional gradebook, I thought it used to automatically change the "Missing" status to "Late" when a score was input. This is for "no submission" or "on paper" assignments.It no longer does this, and manually adjusting all statuses takes a l...

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Hello, I really need help on fixing this. I cannot access my canvas dashboard since yesterday because of this bug.I tried restarting my wifi, it did not fiix itI tried clearing the cookies in my browser, it's still the sameI tried logging in on other...

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I am enrolled in two online lectures and one in-person lab for this summer semester. The lab and its corresponding lecture must be taken concurrently, but no course material (modules, syllabus, etc.) are available on the Canvas page for the lecture. ...

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Does Canvas have the ability to allow instructors to apply automatic late point deductions based on grade categories rather than a universal application across the entire gradebook? I know this is NOT available now, but is there any possibility of it...

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Hi all,I teach 4-5 sections of American Government online, about 250-300 students. I used to have an average of mid 70s on my online American Government classes. Since the advent of AI, the average has crept up and now is in the mid to high 80s.Stude...

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I haven't seen this mentioned, though I may have missed it. My question is why in Canvas the breadcrumbs (the navigation links at the top of the pages as a user navigates the course) don't follow actual user navigation? For example, if I click from m...

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"I got an email about the AWS Student Academy. When I tried to log into my student Gmail account, it didn't work. What could be the problem?"

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I have been trying to use the highlight feature on the student annotation on canvas but every time I try to use it is unable to work. I have tired on multiple devices and as well as Browers with no luck.  

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Is it possible to set up multiple grading schemes at the institutional level? If so, it is necessary to pick one of those as the "default"? Our use case is that our university, the letter grades (and their descriptions) differ for undergraduate and p...

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Our school has a grading scheme called "Continuum" - where teachers give a grade of AE (Approaching Expectations), ME (Meets Expectations), or EE (Exceeds Expectations). (See Continuum grading scheme.png)When I opened Speed Grader for an assignment, ...

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Hola, tengo una situación con las competencias duplicadas. Los profesores tienen bloqueados los permisos relacionados con la edición de competencias, pero tienen permitido crear cursos, en este lapsus , al momento de exportar un curso que ya tiene co...

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Is Canvas "discussion checkpoints" working yet? It would be great to use it for summer courses.

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How do I make an outcome within Canvas Outcomes inactive? I am unable to delete the outcome since it was attached to an old rubric in a previous course.

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Hi, I have two courses I wanted to export. I was successful in exporting one of them, but the second course gave me this error message. "There was an error exporting your content. Please notify your system administrator and give them the following ex...

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My professor said that Canvas autogenerated a group assignment and I should be able to see my group members that way but I don't see anything like that. Where would I be able to locate that? Also I did join the class a day late so I'm not sure if tha...

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Hello. I am wanting to create drop down menus within the course overview pages. For example, one drop down could include course reading for the week and another could have assignments. Is this possible? I have looked around these forums for an answer...

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I would love to be able to share an assignment or a page that I've created in my Canvas LMS for a course, so that when I am telling my students about an assignment they can scan the QR code to easily open the link.

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I'm the Canvas admin for my university and director of our Learning Technologies team. We're planning to hire a graduate assistant, who would be the first student worker we've had in our area. Their role would be to help with support tickets and, dep...

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Hello.  I am a new teacher to Canvas.  Is there a way to see only new submissions from students?  Currently, I am clicking on each course and scrolling through to find new submissions.  Please advise 

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Good day. I have a joint project with others.They are unable to add me to it.Please refer to the attached screenshot.

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My assignment group weights for marking period 3 were for 80-10-10 because of a district assessment. For marking period 4, they should be 90-10, but Canvas won't let me change it because it's in the same semester. Is there any way to fix this so that...

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How to find district name given a name or account which can be fetched from LMS.

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I run a small peer review exercise where I assign students to review each others' work anonymously. I currently do this manually because I do not want reviews going back to the original students without staff oversight. I have intervened once when a ...

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Is there any way to prevent students from using API?  Blocked only for those with a student role in a course.   Thanks, it's doubtful but thought I would ask.

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Hello!I'm trying to export a filtered view of m grade book and it's not working. I've tried selecting the specific columns I want from the "Assignment Names" filter and using the "Assignment Groups" filter. It continues to export the entire grade boo...

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