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When Assignment Enhancements is enabled in a course, it results in SpeedGrader only displaying comments made on the most recent assignment submission. This is a really unfortunate trade-off since the student experience is greatly improved by Assignme...

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I  "This video's privacy settings require you to sign into your Guidde account". Why???? Does anyone have a work around?

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Hello,I just registered for Prince2 Foundation course at Peoplecert. I have tried to open the eBook that comes with the course Prince2 but I couldn't open it. The eBook is located in My Resources > My Reading list > Prince2 eBook> Read Now. When I cl...

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I have imported a quiz I created in a previous semester. When I previewed it to check it, all the variables in the questions showed up as "x". I checked the instructions, and the formula quiz now says to use brackets instead of backticks. The problem...

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We're thinking of turning on discussion checkpoints, but we don't have Modernized Speedgrader, Enhanced Rubrics, or Enhanced Assignments turned on yet. Has anyone in that situation experienced bugs with checkpoints? 

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Hello! I have a poster presentation this year! I'm wondering how I can get more information about the poster size requirements and what kind of board or surface it will be displayed on. I’d also love to know whether there are any specific setup guide...

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Had a student complain that the due date for checkpoint discussions is off in their gradebook and it has the incorrect date. In modules it has the correct dates followed by the wrong one.It shows correct when editing the assignment and in the to do l...

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I have a student who will need to submit a second version of an assignment in Canvas to receive credit. He is claiming that the dropbox in Canvas is closed, when it is not. Can students submit again in Canvas in a dropbox, after they have previously ...

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Hello!I am the administrator of our Canvas account as well as an instructor. Can anyone help me with instructions on how to enable to "Submit for Student" option for an assignment? Thank you!Monika

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Hi,I enrolled in Live Training Webinars but not all are showing up on my dashboard cards for me to complete the modules and earn my credit. 

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Our students are having difficulty accessing some published files.Some students can access the file, while others can't. Our support team hasn't found a pattern or configuration errors that could fix the problem.

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Hi, I need help. I would like to embed the interactive page of Google NotebookLM into Canvas. Anyone has any idea on how to go about this?   

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I am looking at the Canvas documentation for app placements, at either https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.placements_overview.html or https://developerdocs.instructure.com/services/canvas/external-tools/lti/placements/file.placements_overvie...

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In New Quizzes, the Pretty HTML editor within the RCE environment does not seem to be as robust as that within Classic Quizzes or elsewhere in Canvas. In these other locations, the RCE offers colorized HTML tags and autocomplete of HTML tags. From my...

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I have a single question graded survey in Classic Quizzes that is set up to award 5 points to the student if they complete it. When I take the quiz as a student, however, the points show up as 5 points out of 1. Why would this be? Is it getting the 1...

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www.educaplay.com redirected you too many times. This has suddenly appeared on all my games for all my users. Has anyone else had this experience? How do I fix it?  

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I have followed the directions in Canvas to delete modules, pages, etc.  However, I'm having a problem.  The delete option is not there for me to click.  All of the other options are there.  I have followed the directions given by Canvas to the lette...

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I am a faculty director at the Berkman Klein Center. I would like to offer an orientation course to next September's incoming fellowship class. May I use Canvas to do this?

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Hey everyone, I’m Ajay Hinduja from Switzerland (Swiss), looking to integrate some external tools or LTI apps into our Canvas courses and wanted to see if anyone has experience with this. Could you share any tips or best practices for a smooth integr...

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Thank you for always helping us out. If a student attaches a file to an announcement reply, does it count against the student's user quota?I would like to know what happens if a student attach a file using "Attach" instead of "Rich content editor." I...

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A huge amount of time and effort goes into SORTING lessons within assignments especially when intergrating year after year - There should be a way to alphabetize assignments so that they can be  eliminated if duplicated.  If anyone know how let me kn...

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Hello, I am running into an issue with receiving notifications for Canvas Deploy Notes. The help tab displays a red dot whenever a new release comes out, and I do not have show badges for new release notes selected. It is a minor inconvenience to man...

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I have launched a self-paced course that people can take at any time (no start or end dates).  It is also ungraded.  I do have modules that are set as prerequisites and parts of the modules are set as requirements.  Many students have already started...

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Is it possible for an Observer/Parent to message their student through Canvas?  Looking for alternative messaging options since we will not be allowing cell phones next year.

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Is there a way to have kids record themselves in Canvas Quizzes to answer questions so that they are in Lockdown Browser.  We have a world language teacher that would like to assess the students while lockdown browser and have the students provide au...

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When I import a Canvas course--usually from a prior semester--I've discovered that almost all of the internal links in the imported course end up pointing to pages/modules/quizzes/etc. in the OLD course. This is something I didn't realize until I beg...

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I have a question regarding group assignments in Canvas. When one student in a group uploads a submission for a group assignment, do the other students in that same group receive a notification about this submission? My understanding is that they cur...

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Since I'm an admin, would my experience differ from that of faculty team members? I'm asking to confirm whether it's necessary to have someone without an admin role test the associate course.

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Hi, Let's say I took attendance for a class meeting on July 4th. Several days later I realize that I need to change the attendance status for one student (let's call him Bob) from 'Absent' to 'Present.' Is it safe to go back and change Bob's attendan...

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I want student to submit assignments using the Text Entry Box option to simplify formatting and reduce technical issues. However, when making them in SpeedGrader, it does not show properly.The line length is too long meaning that some text is hidden ...

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