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I'd like to know where and how do I submit my assignments. Thank you, From Debbie  

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I deleted an entire inbox message by mistake, will I still be able to see any responses from it?

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Is there any way for me to allow an un-enrolled student to view my course?

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Quite frankly, I found one recently and I have been a bit paranoid if this certain extension could be affecting the scores of my students.

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Is there a time limit for student submissions as media recordings? Students sometimes tell me their recordings are impossible to upload and just get lost, and they suspect it's because they are too long, but I cannot anywhere see any info or warning ...

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We are using quizzes with  a large number of questions and and as students are unable to only answer questions that they have got wrong we would like to enable them to upload a document with their corrected answers to save them from doing the whole t...

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I'm a student. canvas doesn't load in for me and I can't access any of my courses right now. there is nothing wrong with my university account because I can log into all the other platforms. this has been a problem for a few days now. I thought canva...

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Dear Sir/Mdm,  I am a student of SUSS(Singapore University of Social Science), Singapore. After last Thursday's Seminar 3, I am unable to access my lecturer's slides despite her uploading it on that very evening. I have attached a screenshot of the p...

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Are teachers able to access Canvas Free while in China now?  We have been unsuccessful accessing Canvas Free while in China.

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Hey, I am having problems with accessing to my class. My professor says he sent me the invitation, but as i open canvas (i logged in from my google account with free for teacher), and it doesnt show any course, any invitation, and i dont know what to...

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Hi, this is a student at SJSU and I'm currently experiencing an issue that the cards in Canvas wouldn't connect me to my classes. It keeps saying empty card whenever I click on it. I missed a class last time because of this. What is more, I couldn't ...

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As an instructor, if I have an inactive Module with numerous items, some of which are deliberately inactivated, others not, upon activating the Module, all items become activated. This means I have to [once again] inactivate those items I do not *cur...

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Buenos días, esta semana no he podido acceder a mis asignaturas desde el Canvas cuando lo abro en Safari que es el navegador que normalmente uso.  Sin embargo, cuando lo abro en otro navegador o desde la app en mi móvil, sí que puedo acceder con norm...

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Hello! I am a Student. The pdf previews aren't working for Canvas on PC. I am using Chrome (and even updated it). I also tested it out on Firefox and Microsoft Edge and doesn't work. Every time I press "preview", the blue circle is just infinitely th...

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I am an instructor of many Canvas courses. After many semesters of using Canvas, I have many, many videos in My Media. I would like to arrange them into a folder structure. (Unfortunately, the "tags" in My Media do not solve this problem, because I c...

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We're currently using an antiquated course evaluation software package, and looking for something a bit more modern. Please let me know what you're using and if you like it. Thanks!

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is there a way to post a comment to a submission that is visible to the instructor and graders but not visible to the student?

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Hi, I am working on an external app that uses the canvas API and also involves LTI. So there needs to be some sort of secure exchange with user/client of them giving us a canvas api key (and canvas instance url), and us giving them an LTI key & secre...

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Is it possible to view how much time a student spends completing a task or viewing a page? This data would help instructors fine-tune the instructional hours per module or week in noncredit and CBE courses. 

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Is it possible to set instructor notifications so we know when a student has been added to or dropped from the active roster through the SIS?

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I'm trying to find the documentation on students viewing instructor feedback. I've located a couple of pointer in questions and in the student guide (see below) but they're all returning to the home page. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Student-Gu...

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The dashboard of canvas stopped loading in Safari (webbrowser) on my ipad air (ios 12). I also tried with Google Chrome on the Ipad, but had the same problem. Please make canvas compatible with the older apple products.

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I am aware of how to add a previously used rubric to a new assignment. But when I do so, it does not allow me to use the rubric for grading. For example, my students have a weekly reflection assignment. The rubric for the reflection remains the same,...

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I logged in to canvas and my dashboard is blank...I donut see my courses, or anything ...please help

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I cannot open my canvas. The interface kept flashing. What should I do?

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The blue "take the quiz" button does not appear below my quizzes?

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Our district IT has decided to block Flickr, and as a result some of our courses have had all of their images blocked for students (but not staff), since they were created with the old Canvas Rich Text Editor that pushed people to Flickr for stock im...

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Wondering if anyone has encountered this?  A teacher edited a Due Date to an assignment on the Teacher App.  He had a very long, formatted Assignment description that had been composed on the web client.  He says that after changing the date and savi...

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