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For years all of my hyperlinked text in the RCE would turn blue. For some reason it is no longer blue, but just regular black text. I have searched the guides and cannot figure out why or how to revert it back. Any information on how I can get the hy...

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I am signed up to take the arts professional development  now what

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In the past, I utilized the message area Assignment Comments in Speedgrader frequently. Replies were also visible there, which was great. If students 'forgot' part of a submission, they could attach the file to the message, and there it was, in one p...

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Hi, I am the root admin and cannot find how to share a rubric that I created at the account level... I attempted to import specific content into the course, however the only 2 viable options in the menu options I am familiar with, copy a canvas cours...

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September 1, 2021 has come and gone, but Google Doc Cloud Assignments is still here. Is it here to stay? It is so much better than Google Assignments. I hope Google Doc Cloud Assignments is here to stay! Can someone from Canvas please reply to this m...

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Today I was informed that by posting a question on this page I received a digital badge. I love digital badges and find them to have motivational qualities. However, for posting a question/criticism I received the badge of "Vulnerable". That is a hor...

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Is there a way to sort the to do list, so the oldest things to do are at the top?Right now I have 5 courses with weekly assignments for students on different schedules, and when the list floods, it would be nice to get to the oldest handins first, so...

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Can I transfer information from another Teacher that has retired to my account.  

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Importing parts of an imscc which exceeds my 500MB quota   Dear Community I was made redundant from my Director of Music job after 13 years.  In that time I put a lot of energy into producing resources for Canvas.  I'd like to continue teaching priva...

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Is there any way for the Canvas messaging tool to personalise the Student name in the message, by using the parameter for student name? e,g, {{Student_firstname}}  So after filtering the conditions in New Analytics to segment the students meeting the...

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We have a moderated assignment where the first marker gave extensive feedback in the rubric and then the second marker used the same mark without a comment. The second marker clicked moderate and posted their marks and students can now see marks but ...

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Is it possible for new quizzes to automatically update total points available as I add questions, rather than me having to add up all points and manually enter points on the build page?

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have not been in program in over one year. I forgot how to transfer a form from desk top to a module

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Hi, I have imported an unpublished exam I created in "classic quizzes" in a previous semester's course to have on hand as a special make up exam in case any students can't take the normal exam scheduled for the rest of the class. It cannot currently ...

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In a course listed on Canvas, students have taken a written exam (created in Word) filled out by students and handed in. These exams will be graded manually. How do we add the grades into the course, and how do we weight the exams?  So out of a poten...

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Hello!  I am a special teacher and I have 4 sections of each class all in one course. I am looking to see if there is a way where I can have students take a typing test from an outside link, come back to Canvas and then record their Speed and Accurac...

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Our User would be coming on our website and select the jpg files (wallpaper/greeting cards images) and will be writing customize messages. We are looking for an option to place the image with the text typed by customer and showcase a preview.   Is th...

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In Canvas, I have an assignment that requires students to upload a file.  In it, I restricted file upload types because some students keep submitting HEIC files.  So, I specified jpg,png,pdf in the file upload restrictions.  Now, a student is trying ...

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I have a parent with students at 2 different middle schools. I cannot pair her with both students. I can easily pair when the students come from elementary, middle, or high, but not this time. I have tried adding the pairing code myself and using the...

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We have to have some restrictions on the People link access this prevents the self enrollment function working for students. Are there any hacks to get around this so students can self enroll but not see the list of people under the people link. Than...

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I have followed the instructions at Microsoft Teams Meetings in Canvas - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com) and come up with a different interface access for Teams. Instead of it being in the editor menu, the only place I can access it is via the ...

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In the current iteration of my Canvas course, announcements are suddenly single-spacing rather than double-spacing. To be more precise, they are dropping the blank line between paragraphs. I have to enter an extra return to create the proper space be...

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I want to give partial credit for certain exam answers.  I enter the new points for a wrong answer and update the score.  The new grade shows for the student.  Then, when I log out and log back in, Speedgrader has reset the score to the original valu...

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I modified a previously created test by adding questions.  I forgot to check the points. The original questions are worth 5 points each and the new questions are only worth 1 point. I was able to edit the quiz and change the point value for the "futu...

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I got a "flood" error message when I tried to submit a question earlier. I clicked "Post" right after deleting tags that evidently were not permitted in the Labels field (e.g. "Recording" and "BigBlueButton"). The post had not been submitted on the f...

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I am a teacher and I am taking an online course through Region 10 in Texas.  I contacted Region 10 and they said to contact Canvas.  Here is the deal.  I enrolled in a course and the live part is on October 12th, but before then I am supposed to comp...

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Asking on behalf of an instructor who teaches with the assumption that students have adequate bandwidth to participate in their online sign language course... The instructor relies on the RCE video upload capability quite heavily for assessment in qu...

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I do daily in-class writes. Most of my students choose to handwrite them, and then I grade them in Canvas. However, this semester I've had a lot of absences as students are out of class for Covid quarantine.  So I made it possible for the quarantined...

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I'm trying to send images to Kate Samworth that need to be converted from HEIC to jPeg. Please send me a link or simply respond. thank you, Margaret  

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