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Hello, It seems like Canvas is currently unable to upload webcam videos. Using a Mac with Safari & Chrome and different laptops there is issue, Safari just exists the webcam window when trying to save and Chrome gives an "Something went wrong accessi...

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Is there a way to find through the API, Canvas Data, or Admin reports the various assigned items to a permissions role?  For example, I would like to have a report that shows each role and what specific permissions are assigned to that role. This way...

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Hello! Thanks for looking at my post. I am stuck with text editing. How do I delete the blank lines for the recommended text? Backspacing doesn't work, and there doesn't seem to be a way to change paragraph spacing with the text editor.

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As an online student, How do I sign in for attendance? thanks!

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Hi  I'm trying to create new courses via the API but I'm getting an error that indicates the course already exists. I cannot find the course if I use the UI. I've used the API to build a list of courses and the course is not in the returned list. The...

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Stephanie, I'm really lost (obviously) trying to find my way around Instructure/Community.Canvaslms etc. Came here really just to track down phrase express ideas/help/comments that I randomly saw when doing search. . . Are you aware of courses built ...

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I don't know if there's anything I can do from my end or if I need to contact my teachers but I am afraid I will miss something important for my classes.

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How do I set it up where the students can answer and return it to me?

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I have several assignments that I have set "not available until XYZ (date)".  I would like to view them from the students perspective.  When I enter student view, I am denied access becasue it is locked by the instructor.   I figured I could go in an...

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I am going over my older courses - mine are compliance courses, not academic courses, so I hang onto all courses for three years. I am looking over courses that I still need to have access to, but the most important part for me is the gradebook histo...

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In Classic quizzes, the number of points would automatically update based on the point values in the questions I added. However, this does not seem to happen in the New Quizzes.  It stays at "zero" (the default) regardless of the actual point value o...

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Hi, I have read about the Google App LTI upgrade that is coming soonish, ~ Sept 1 or later. I am one of the Admins for our school account. I couldn't access Collaboration at Teacher orientation for demonstrationr purposes using the Google app that wa...

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Which are the steps to unite all the tiles in one?

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Yesterday I published a discussion page which looks fine on my end, but when my students land on it they see nothing. Thoughts?  

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I have successfully submitted my assignment in Word Document format (54KB) on Canvas, however I am not able to view the similarity report icon. Kindly advise. 

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Hi all! I am currently maintaining an LTI application that toggles the publish status of Canvas courses. Recently we've started having an issue with the API endpoint for updating course info (PUT /api/v1/courses/:id).  When attempting to unpublish a ...

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Is there a way to use the Canvas APi to search for a user by their defined communication channels? For example, if I have an app where a user enters their phone number I want to ensure that there is a valid user in Canvas with that phone number befor...

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Are Google Docs Cloud Assignments still supported?  We were told that Canvas was not going to support them as of August 1, 2021, but I have them as an option in my Assignment External Tools. I like the simple functionality the Google Docs Cloud Assig...

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Is there a way to repeat global announcements?  For example; we have a weekly video series with a live feed.  Instead of copy/pasting and creating 52 separate announcements with start and end dates, is there a way to setup a recurring announcement ev...

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Solution Posted: 08-13-2021 View Solution
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Does anyone know how to resolve this problem? Thank you in advance!

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I'm an admin, but not a coder.  I'm not having any luck running the list multiple submissions API.  This is what I was trying: https://XXX.beta.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/:course number/students/submissions?per_page=10000&PersonalTOKEN  Am I miss...

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I posted about this as a reply to a question elsewhere, but then it occurred to me that it could be its own topic. Does anyone know a way to make International Phonetic Association "combining characters" appear correctly in Canvas?  Single characte...

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It is incredible time-comsuming and tedious to lock each object in all of our year-long blueprint classes by hand, clicking each icon, then waiting for it to reload.  Please, is there a "Lock all objects" option somewhere? Also, why aren't the object...

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  When creating user account through API sometimes it goes through successfully and other times throw exception like below "ExpectationFailed - The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized  . for user Benjamin Martinez,be.martinez@ecisd.us...

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How can i link the student  canvas account to the parent canvas account

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I'm completely baffled.  It seems as though some of my created pages just got up and left  While checking one of my course links today, I got the message, "The page does not exist, but you can create it below" and was redirected to the page editor. ...

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Hello everyone, I would like to notify you that we have a Scheduled Maintenance planned for August 14, 2021. Turnitin will take a 2 hour maintenance window on August 14, 2021 from 08:00-10:00 PDT, 16:00-18:00 BST, 01:00-03:00 AEST (Aug 15th) [go to h...

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I'm unable to start a recording  

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I found the documentation related to SSO but we prefer not to have our application have to act as the IDP for that type of process. Are there other options for students to access the Canvas platform through an auto sign-on link once they have been en...

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