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How can I use a rubric while scoring paper submissions? 

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We're running into this issue and I'm wondering if anyone else had seen it: When the student uploads one document for an assignment and the instructor provides feedback, if the student uploads an additional document to that assignment, the student th...

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Discussions in one of our courses aren't showing "Last post at" beneath them. This is happening in all sections of this course. I don't see any difference in the settings between Week 5 and Week 6.

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Is there any way that course Admin can recover deleted videos in Canvas Studio that another user deleted? Would be super helpful. I know it's possible in Canvas, but not sure about Studio. 

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I have a question about the order discussions appear on the Index page.  I thought discussions with the most recent posts appeared at the top in date order, then discussions with no posts in the order they were created.   Instead, discussions with no...

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I'd like our teachers to be able to see how many papers they've graded each month. I can access this information by using the gradebook history view and filtering it for the dates and by the name of the instructor. Can this information be exported as...

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Some weird things just started happening yesterday with our SIS update via API. See below for a copy of what we sent to Tier 1.Anyone else seeing this? "I believe there is a problem with the API upload of our SIS CSVs For the past 5+ years, our daily...

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what does it mean when different icons are displayed? ie; rocket ship?

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We are interested in hiring Canvas or another vendor to produce short tutorials specific to one of our courses. Is this something we can hire Canvas to do or does anyone have any recommendations for this sort of thing?

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I tried to follow the procedure for a page title rename, but the page will not rename. Suggestions?

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I just started using passback and noticed that when I sync my grades, that it will affect the points of the assignment in the transfer. In synergy, they allow you to affect the "weighting" of an assignment in a category by changing the number of poin...

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Does new quizzes allow multiple part numeric questions?  Question #1  part a, b, c.... are all numeric answers? It appears it doesn't. This would be nice for STEM instructors.

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Canvas won't let me into exam. Keeps asking for access code when one has not been assigned. What can be done to resolve this?

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Hello all. I was contacted recently about the spring 2022 NSSE survey that requires unique links sent to several thousand graduating seniors. This page has some information about how this is accomplished in Canvas using an excel with formulas and a s...

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How Am I enrolled for a class one day and then all the suddenly, magically I’m not anymore the next day? 

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Looking at Hide LTI by default javascript  -- , how to find LTI Id using LTI 1.x Integrations? (unsure if LTI Id only exists with LTI 1.3 Integrations): https://github.com/KyleCole90/Canvas-Branding/blob/main/Javascript/Hide%20LTI%20by%20default.js

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Have any of my fellow admins explored the possibility of having Instructure's diffing engine treat absent students or teachers as "suspended" rather than "deleted"?  (If so, how would we go about it?) We might like to have these accounts set to "dele...

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We have a recurring problem with Canvas Gradebook. Some time after a teacher has published grades for a quiz or assignment, they don't appear in the gradebook column. The column is instead grey, as if the grades were hidden. Opening the threedot-menu...

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I have my canvas dashboard set up in the "list" view. This means all of my assignments and announcements are listed by the due date (or post date for announcements) like one big to-do list. All of the assignments and announcements are linked to the f...

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Hello, Is there an "exclude sources" option on turnitin? I can't seem to find it anywhere on Canvas. I am trying to follow the guideline here: https://help.turnitin.com/feedback-studio/turnitin-website/instructor/similarity-report-exclusions/excludin...

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I want to know any callback url feature is available into Canvas LMS API. because my requirement is when any course/account is update from Canvas Portal then notify our portal so we can add/update record into our database. 

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HI there, I have a student who's calendar keeps turning off - the coloured boxes on left hand side are unclicked - so she's missing assignment links and links to live classes.  Anyone else experienced this?  No other student in our school has the sam...

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I graded an assignment.  Students state the comments are hidden . How do I make these visable?

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Hi, I created a new 'fun' grading scheme for non formally assessed work. if they do the first thing, they 1 kudos point and if they do the second thing, they get 2 kudos points. When I grade the student the full text does not fit in the Speedgrader a...

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I finished taking a test for a class and it did not let me submit it. My teacher says I started the test 30 mins ago which is why it didn't let me submit but I actually did start way earlier than that, and the test wasn't showing at her end. What cou...

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I submitted 2 assignments (1st draft and 2nd draft) but it's under the same assignment. Is there a way to see professor feedback on my first submission since I can only see the 2nd submission now? 

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Students see less than (<) and greater than signs (>) in quiz answer choices. However, the Quiz Summary often removes them completely from the answers. For example, here's a question with < and > characters in the answers: In the Quiz Summary, the <...

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New to Canvas and first time posting a question in the Canvas Question forum. An instructor came to me asking for help with the following scenario... Instructor is using 'New Quizzes' and has incorporated essay questions in several quizzes for severa...

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Can I get an extension for submitting an assignment ? 

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I get this error for some students whenever they submit a Google Doc to an assignment: "Error while processing or retrieving the document" It seems to happen to the same handful of students; they are not all enrolled in the same course. They use the ...

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