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I need to batch move questions between item banks in New Quizzes the way we could in Classic Quizzes. Please prioritize this.

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Hi. I am supporting a colleague who did marking based on the descriptors in speedgrader (Student 1, Student 2). When they deanonymised they found it impossible to link their comments to the students. According to them, the script corresponding to "St...

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We've noticed in student access reports that some students have 85, or 112 or some other large number as page views for ALL graded discussions at the same time.  We're talking 25 discussions with a view in the same minute, and same number of views (e...

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Where can I locate the lesson plan format in Canvas Materials/Resources?

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This looks to be a bug.  In my 600 FCS class, I’ll enter a short text, but it is not saving.  Stopped working about 3 weeks ago.  Seems to be the only class where this is happening.  Help? 

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I am looking to build a course for an advising unit on a university campus in which students engaged in an Honors Senior Project will have an advisor as their course teacher, but each student will have a different faculty mentor. Due to privacy issue...

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My course has ended and my gradebook disappeared. All the columns are still there but no students, nor student artifacts. When I click Gradebook History, I can see student grades, but I cannot access any artifacts. How do I get my students' assignmen...

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I am needing to get into my textbook but have to create an account. I have to be able to get into my allen email to do so. If the email is the one that you can acces throught the inbox tab in canvas I am not getting the activation code bbut otherwise...

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Mastery Paths seems like a great tool, but I would like to link the results from multiple quizzes to the Mastery Paths determination.  Is there a way to do multiple exit ticket quizzes at the end of each unit's lesson and link those answers into a Ma...

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How can I (an instructor) transfer all of my existing Canvas shells that belongs to one institute to another as I move to a new institute?

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I was grading student presentations in Speed Grader. The required format was MS PowerPoint. When I pulled up submissions in Speed Grader, the following was displayed...see the screenshot below. I use speed grader all the time and relay upon it to acc...

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We sometimes have requests for evidence of completion of Tasks/ assignments aside from just the marks. However, since we have enabled the "build on last attempt" feature, Speedgrader displays the complete quiz on the first attempt and (if needed) dis...

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I need to delete or unupload an assignment and upload another one.  

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Virtual Machine Creation: I use both Hyper-V and VMware Workstation software on my Windows 11 Pro laptop, which has 8 GB of RAM. However, at the final stage, when I attempt to connect to the virtual machine, I receive the error message: 'Your machine...

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User: TeacherRecently I use my laptop to use canvas, what I only can see is homepage. I want to see the announcement page, people and conversation page, I am attempting to open any specific page in a blank white page. I've tried troubleshooting by cl...

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I am looking to create a daily reading log assignment. This will be graded a few points for each day they complete their reading log. In my previous LMS it got a bit complicated and I am just checking if I need to make a separate assignment for every...

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Although I have completed all my necessary prerequisites and there is a green check mark next to the completed modules, I cannot access my next module. I have already reached out to my school's IT desk, management system, my teacher, and filled out C...

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I'm revamping a Canvas course that contains a large number of old assignments (over 1,000) and need to delete them all. They're in an assignment group, and it would be much faster to delete the assignment group than to delete each individual assignme...

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Hi, Everyone,Our college reports student grades to academic coaches so they can outreach to the student. Faculty can successfully report a student grade using the following flow of actions. Go to grades (using "grades" on the left column in Canvas), ...

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Our compsci teacher has been an active member of our Canvas pilot. He's pretty interested in thinking about how he can have his students store their programming work in git repositories, and then turn in commits as assignments to Canvas. Is there a t...

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I was trying to add an attachment to my announcement today, but it gave me an error notice. What am I doing wrong?thank you

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Hi, We use a grading scheme that gives scores in whole and half steps on a 1 to 10 scale (e.g., 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, … up to 10). When teachers use the override feature in the gradebook, we have advised them to enter the student's grade as a percentage, as...

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Hi everyone, I'm Ajay Hinduja from Geneva, Switzerland, trying to figure out how to sync my Canvas calendar with my Google Calendar so I can keep all my due dates and course events in one place. I've seen a few general instructions online, but I'm cu...

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I am reaching out to inquire about an inconsistency we’ve observed in how grading schemes are displayed on Canvas. In several courses, the grading scheme appears labeled as “Canvas Default grading scheme”, which doesn’t reflect the customized grading...

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Hi I've been exploring using AI to generate quiz questions. There are two possible uses. Firstly, you can use AI to generate actual questions. For example you could feed the AI some relevant course content, and ask it to generate questions. Secondly,...

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After a test has closed the instructor can let students see correct answers. When this setting is turned on, only some of the students have access to the answers. Why is this?

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How can I add more Module pages in the left nav bar? Not more modules in the Modules page, but actually more "Modules" links for users to click on. I uploaded my screen shot here to give more visual guidance.

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When using Canvas as an instructor, my To-Do list of assignments to grade is on the right side when I view my dashboard in Card View.  There is no way to sort this view, and I have to expand the list when there are more than a few assignments.When I ...

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When Assignment Enhancements is enabled in a course, it results in SpeedGrader only displaying comments made on the most recent assignment submission. This is a really unfortunate trade-off since the student experience is greatly improved by Assignme...

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I  "This video's privacy settings require you to sign into your Guidde account". Why???? Does anyone have a work around?

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