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I have found some great explinations on shifting assignments. The problem is that it counts weekends so when I shift 3 days, they can become due on Saturday or Sunday?  Is there a way to aviod this?

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Is there a way I can control which documents have a "preview" feature and which don't? For instance, it can be helpful when pdfs open directly in the browser. However, I have Power Point Shows (.ppsx) in my modules. These .ppsx files link directly to...

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I have some assignments that are showing as locked until 12 hours before the due date. I can find no locked dates anywhere. There are no prereqs and no locked modules. Does anyone have any suggestions?  

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Is it possible to add an email address using the SIS Import tool?  In my tests it seems to only overwrite the current default email address.  (Also, all the notification options were turned off, when we would like to have them turned on.) I may be co...

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As an instructor, I would like to be able to email a student in Canvas AND include either the other course instructor or their TA as either a cc or bcc on the message.   But when I click the "send message" icon for a student I don't see an option to ...

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When I open canvas and go to dashboard I get this message:   Welcome to Canvas!  You don't have any courses, so this page won't be very exciting for now. Once you've created or signed up for courses, you'll start to see conversations from all of your...

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As an instructor, when I go to view gradebook, the grades are compressed and placed on top of each other making it unable to view.  I use chrome as my browser and I've tried with Edge and IE.  How do I correct this issue?

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Hi Team, We are facing the issue after LTI 1.1 app launch. It shows XML data after the tool launch. Please find the attachment for your reference. This issue is facing some times .Why this data showing after tool launch? Please guide us with this iss...

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We are new to canvas in our district this year.  I am the media specialist for my school and I have teachers that are wanting to have multiple assignments but only have one grade for them in the gradebook.  For example, a daily warm up that needs to ...

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I have recently started using the New Quizzes in Canvas, and grades are not populating into the gradebook correctly. I have quizzes that allow an unlimited number of attempts and should keep the highest score, but they are not keeping the highest sco...

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If I post an Announcement in an unpublished course, will my students still see it?

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My instructor posted a handout on the, "Canvas shelf". Where can I find it?

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What do I do if I am not getting the email to reset my password?

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I am a TA of a class. As it is the beginning of the semester, many student enroll or leave the course. A student who registered for the class yesterday is not yet on the student list and has no access to the course material. Until when should we wait...

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I'm importing a course I had last year.  I uploaded it to the commons, to just me.  And then imported from commons to the new course.  But the default is to have every assignment and module published like it was at the end of the semester from the la...

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I am an admin of a sub-account.  I am working to create some sub-account groups that will each have a few hundred students in them.  The one functionality that appears to be missing in order for it to meet our needs is the ability to message all of t...

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I accidently enabled pronoun setting but cant find anywhere on setting how to disable them   

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I want to post my syllabus on Canvas. I used "external tool" and selected the appropriate Office 365 document. However, I don't see an option for inline preview. I thought about downloading the Office 365 document to my computer, then uploading it to...

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Hi, I'm a college student who is on a summer program course. I was assigned to a course AWP 10 but recently I was trying to view a comment that my professor put on my assignment and I got this "unauthorized page" where I don't have access to view my ...

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Please help as my instructor has a practice quiz due but I can’t do it as the link won’t follow through for me. I downloaded it already but it still says I need a link for it to work.

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Are there any plans to expand the options in the equation editor?  It does not contain nearly enough symbols and the insert fraction mechanism is awkward.   This feature should have at least the same options available as MathType or microsoft's equat...

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Does anyone know if there are plans to make upgrades to some of the new quiz question types.  Specifically the 'fill in the blank.'  I miss the 'multiple blanks' feature from old quizzes.  You can have multiple blanks now, but the interface is terrib...

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Is it possible within formula questions to have related variables? For example, I want two variables, [x] and [y] but as these are percentages, [y] must equal 100-[x]?    Thanks 

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I need to check DAILY activity. My program recieves FUNDING for the number of students who come to class whether they come to synchronous or ASYNCHRONOUS. Our classes are Monday-Thursday. We must report PRECISELY which days students attend. How can I...

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Hello! I am a high school teacher trying to use Gradesync. I keep receiving error messages which read: {"request_id":965249,"status":422,"error":"Invalid Marking Period"}. I have an assigned due date for the assignment, but not an open/close date. Do...

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I am using a free for teachers account and when I try to sync to a sis the button is not there. Gradebook > Actions > sync to SIS.   My school technician does not know how to make it work either. What documentation can I give to the computer tech to ...

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I cannot find a way to stop answer choices from being automatically numbered in Canvas.  I am trying to copy test bank items from a publisher's website into Canvas Quizzes; however, Canvas adds a number beside each answer choice which already has a.)...

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A student just emailed me that her gradebook shows a 0% for her grade on a New Quiz. Using the Canvas Teacher app I open her submission and shows an attempt with no answers that timed out. However, when I go into Moderate, I can see she did a 2nd att...

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On my Dashboard, it shows up things to grade that aren't ready yet. I have a three-part DB assignment: one primary posts and two secondaries. All of this should close out on Sunday so that on Monday I get a notification that I have sixteen things to ...

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When I upload a new file or document into a module, it used to be automatically listed in my FILES.  This year, everything new I upload into modules is there but not listed in FILES and I cannot link later on in assignments to these files.  Where did...

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