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I would like to create a column in the gradebook to keep information like--has the student used a late coupon (student can turn in 1 assignment a day late without penalty), or has the student used their eliminate 1 option perk (student can ask profes...

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I want the first page students see in my canvas course to be the modules page. How do I set this?

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Hello, there are lots of questions regarding bulk edits for key areas but I couldn't find anything on HTML. Is there a way to bulk edit HTML of pages within an Environment, and/or a Course, and/or a Module. I understand blueprints might be a solution...

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I would like to set up late deductions for every week the assignment is due.  For example:5% deduction per weekIf a student submitted an assignment the next day after it's due, the grade is deducted by 5%.If a student submitted an assignment the next...

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We were taking our Finals and I had plenty of time but my quiz submitted by itself with 6 mins in, it said time was up but the rest of the class excluding me still had time. our instructor had set the time limit to 50. People are telling me It was my...

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Hey Canvas Community  I am wanting to create a custom report using Canvas Data that gives me the following attributes: CourseSectionStudent Assignment Needs markingTrainer that is require to mark I am wondering if anyone had examples of the API's to ...

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My instructor sent me some pictures in an email through the conversations/inbox but I can't view or open them. They look like this: [cid:9DD966ED-10A9-4272-A6A4-16E42C79B01C@hsd1.co.comcast.net] [cid:33D8D75B-8A2D-4E8A-9BC3-A78634F2A531@hsd1.co.comca...

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Good evening!   Looking for some ideas from people using both Canvas and PS.  I recently took over these roles and I'm trying to learn best practices.  In Powerschool at finals time, we set up a "final grade" term of E1 for the final exam.  This allo...

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The due date for my final has said the whole semester that my final is due on Dec 17th, the last two weeks I have made sure of that and checked the due date well over 100 times, last night it said Dec 17th. This morning (the 16th) I received a notifi...

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I'm trying to authenticate via OpenID Connect and all the Oauth flow is working, but when the URL /users/login is called I'm getting the message: Canvas doesn't have an account for user: my_id.The /oath/userinfo is returning: { "sub": "my_id" }.In th...

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I'm trying to find out which instructors at our institution are using rubrics in their courses within a subaccount, and would like a list of courses with rubrics. I don't see a report that would give me that information, and from what I can tell, the...

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I'd like to time the students' on their essay writing (Quiz feature) as well as check for for plagiarism (Turnitin), but both options are not available on CANVAS. Why can't I use Turnitin for a file upload under the "Quiz" feature?

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Today I am copying our semester courses as I always do. Why is the "Adjust events and due dates" option sometimes missing? I never had this problem before and I have been copying semesters for over 2 years now. Sometimes it appears, sometimes it does...

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Is it possible to set up a Multiple Answers question such that all answers are correct, but a student selecting any number of them awards them full credit? For example, if A, B, C, & D are set as correct, and the student selects B, I want the student...

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I completely understand that OneRoster is limited to assignment level passback. In fact it is not a course grade passback. it is an assignment score passback. there is not a course grade anywhere in the sync. Will Instructure or Canvas ever offer a s...

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When limiting the number of submissions for an assignment, I am unable to grant an additional attempt to just one student, like moderating a quiz. A previously published solution to this issue is to wait until after the due date on the assignment and...

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Hello, We try to modify a letter grading system to SUFF/UNSUFF. After selecting Use this Grading Standard: So the conversion of points is not valid.   According to : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lz8CnyKHV4 We seem to do everything correct. Is th...

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Has anyone had success in being able to view outcome mastery scores by question? For those questions with the same point value and mastery benchmark linked to the same outcome, only one score is provided in the gradebook. Is this the average score of...

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Howdy! We are trying to find a way (potentially either by CSS or Javascript) to hide the "Options: Adjust events and due dates" portion of the content copy in Canvas. We have had a handful of professors accidentally change their course's participatio...

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When an assignment has a rubric to use for grading enabled, is there a way to have that rubric automatically open when you view assignments in speedgrader?  If I've enabled a rubric to use for grading, then I want it available for grading on each ass...

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I have the column in gradebook.  It will not let me enter grades.  This has happened before and isn't addressed in helps.  I usually find it by accident and then forget it until next time and have to waste time trying to do just the simple entering o...

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Hi  I am trying to integrate my application with SIS and build a nightly job that would fetch the updated/modified assignments. I could not find an endpoint using the standard Canvas API, so was suggested to try out the Canvas GraphQL API. But there ...

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Hi student here, I am having this problem where my quiz submission on my IOS device was never recorded? Has anybody else experienced this? I am unable to receive quiz marks because of this. Thanks in advance!

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Hi everyone, My colleagues of the Arab and Greek language courses contacted me about an issuerelating to the docviewer. Given that students cannot access previous feedback when they upload a new version of the task, I advised my colleagues to ask the...

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Hello, I have just created my first quiz, which includes one multiple choice question. When I designed this multiple choice question, I was forced to mark one of the choices as the "correct" answer. I then published the quiz in order to access it via...

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I am an instructional designer trying to create a journal-like assignment for an adult basic education course. Students will fill out a graphic organizer in module 1 and submit. Then they will go to module 2 , and what I would like them to be able to...

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I am teaching a small writing class and I want the students to share all their writing together.  I've tried peer review - (assigning each student 4 pcs of writing since there are 5 students) but that didn't work. What is the best way to do this?  

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Spped grader is set up so that I cannot view the student's essay and the rubric on the same web page.  it really make sit  difficult for me as an instructor to use a rubric to mark essays. Our canvas support team said it was an error in the Canvas so...

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