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I am wondering if anyone knows how to change a practice quiz to a regular quiz.  I can't seem to copy a practice quiz to the same course.  I changed all the settings to make it a regular quiz, but students who had taken the practice quiz already had ...

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CANVAS gradebook comes with a way to do an automatic grade reduction, but it cannot reflect my existing policies. I generally use grade reduction policies at the rate of 1 or 2 weeks. For instance, in one class, the policy is that you can turn in an ...

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In my classes, grades are determined by a student's total points. For instance, an A is 1000 points. The percentage of possible points does not matter. You can have 1000 out of 1000 or 1000 out of 4000. It's the 1000 that matters. This means that the...

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One of my assignments requires students to post a meme in a canvas discussion page. In speedgrader sometimes the image is embedded, sometimes I have to click the link on the right frame to see it embedded (and it takes an unacceptably long time to lo...

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Hello,  My school uses Office 365. When logged in through Canvas, I can see my school OneDrive files. I cannot see any SharePoint files that I put shortcuts to in my OneDrive, nor can I see the various SharePoints that I am a member of. Is there a wa...

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There was an old, 2018, post that had a solution marked as "correct" that indicated assignments using Turnitin and other LTI tools could not be duplicated. This remains true. Well I have discovered that even if you edit an assignment to remove the de...

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Can you please provide me with an explanation of how to embed an image that must be shown on a document?   Thanks Barbara Crawford 000863247

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Is it possible to find and replace scores in the gradebook? Sometimes I want to go and replace all my zeros with another score. I have to manually search the gradebook each time to do so. Is there an option to find and replace certain scores?

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For our Canvas catalog course, we are looking for a feature/solution where a student can enroll at any time (e.g. Student A enrolls on April 1 and Student B enrolls on April 5 and Student C enrollments April 30) and they each have 60 days to complete...

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In the past few weeks, several of our faculty have reported difficulty recording videos in the Rich Text Editor on Mac. They are able to record the video itself, but then when it is processing, it just shows a grey box and never changes that into the...

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I've noticed that when I search on a topic with the YouTube app in Canvas I get different results than when I just search on YouTube, and they often aren't as "good" or accurate. In fact, I've gone so far as to copy the exact title of a video I want ...

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LaTeX equations are not displaying inline in the mobile app. How are STEM instructors to use equation output since the vast majority of our students are using the app?

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I have noticed a few older questions surrounding this topic, but wanted to follow-up since I am searching for a different option if possible than having to create a new section. We often will have students that require an incomplete for their course ...

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Let's say a student submits an original submission for an assignment on time. I grade it and provide feedback. I allow the student to re-submit for an improved grade. However, that student submits his/her resubmission after the due date. Canvas Grade...

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  I am beginning the process of setting up subaccounts for our college.  I was encouraged to do this for reporting purposes for assessing program outcomes.  I am trying to understand the process and have some questions and hope I can explain well eno...

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Hello Canvas Admins,  We have deployed Proctorio globally in our environment. I was asked to pull data of Proctorio usage.  Has anyone conquered this task of gathering data of what courses have used Proctorio within a given semester? Thank you!   Kar...

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Is there a way to have a TA show up on the grade book?  Context: I have a course where I would like to have mentors and mentees with some instructors. The instructors will be reviewing feedback that the mentors give the mentees and grading them based...

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We run many courses in our Canvas account and I'm able to "hide" or unstar the course itself when it concludes. However, the calendar for all courses are always visible and continue to open when I click on the calendar icon. Is there a way to remove ...

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Is anyone else experiencing this today or has anyone found or heard anything from Canvas/Instructure about this???To be clear, this is happening when, in any course where I have SCORM enabled, I click on SCORM in the course navigation. Where usually ...

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I am trying to copy a "New Quiz" from one course to another and every time I copy it over, the content does not come with it.  The name and amount of points are all that carry over.  None of the questions copy.  What am I missing? 

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Many of my assignments throughout the year did not require a due date.  I also have many imported assignments that I have never actually used that do not have die dates.  These are no appearing in my assignments list when I sort it to Marking Period ...

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Good morning: I looked in the Canvas guide and am trying to specifically identify the percentages of faculty/student interactions.  As of right now, I have been simply looking at the Teacher Activity Report. Is this the only place to view this?  Is t...

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Hello Canvas Community, I was hoping I could pick your brains please? We have a course which is actually many individual courses in one. So, in fact each Canvas module is a stand alone course. To help identify pages in the Pages section (i.e. which p...

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Just wondering if I have too grandiose dreams... Is it possible to create a "mashup" Front page where we have text (like a regular Page in Canvas) at the top, and the listing of the modules below it..? See example below. Canvas offers us much more op...

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One of our schools uses an external system for exams where students are anonymous to faculty members. They enter their grade for the exam and never see the student's name or ID. We would like the students to be able to take exams with anonymous gradi...

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My courses are divided into quarters. I want my gradebooks to only show assignment groups from the current quarter, Q4. Even using the grading period filter, I am still seeing a bunch of groups from earlier quarters. None of their assignments are in ...

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Lately, every time I try to access the Canvas Community, I want to pull my hair out!  While already logged into Canvas, I click on the Help option to Search the Guides.  I try to post a question and it tells me that I'm not logged in.  I follow the p...

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Hello. I opened a Canvas account yesterday for an ESOL course that I will be teaching for our adult education program. However, my homepage looks different than my future co-worker's. Now I see that I opened it with 'K-12' as the organization type, i...

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How do I add a bar similar to the one in the picture? Is this a new feature?    

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Our learning community faculty are assigned to grade groups of student assignments (10 students in a group). Is there any way for Canvas to notify individual faculty that a student in their group has submitted their assignment for grading?

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