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I think I may have rubricked myself into a corner... I assigned a group project. Some groups have 3 members, some groups have 4 members. All components  of the project are required for groups with 4 members, but certain parts are optional for the 3-m...

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Hello,My team is attempting to quantify the growth of student enrollment in our course. How can I find the number of students enrolled at any specific date? We would really like to see the data by month.Example January 1- 252 studentsFebruary 1- 289 ...

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I changed some notification settings and am suddenly getting push notifications and emails when an assignment is created, which is very frequent. I can't figure out which notification option controls this; I looked through multiple times and there do...

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I am consistently not able to see published images embedded within discussion assignments I create when I look at the assignments in student view. It does not matter if I use Chrome or Safari--and on Safari I have disabled the cross tracking, so that...

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I have quite a few assignments every week that are on paper. I used to be able to create the assignments for 6 weeks at a time. Mind you, this is high school and I am creating 4 assignments a week for one subject and I have three subjects in total. P...

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Hi community! We would like to know if it’s possible to configure a course so that it does not automatically appear on the user dashboard when it is created. Thanks in advance for your help!

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Last year (May 24) I made lots of video guides using Screenr and saved as mp4.  They were fine when I last used the course but now each of them is missing vital controls on the player, particularly the magnify icon to play full size! Its done this to...

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As of last week, audio files are not playing on Canvas in the iPad application.The files are all mp3 files and regularly play on Desktop/Windows, but when students try to access them on their iPads they do not have the "play" feature or button.Has an...

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I have been using speed grader in canvas to mark my students documents- I use the tools to put checkmarks and comments on the document. I just realized now that students can't see any of the marks on their documents. They can see the comments, but no...

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I created a fill-in-the-blank question using New Quizzes in Canvas. When I open the quiz to grade students’ work, the green checkmark box covers the answer, making it difficult to see. I don’t understand why this happens. Is there a workaround for th...

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Hi All,I'm administering placement exams for incoming students. One of the departments would like to determine their students' placements on a combination of three exams. Part A, Part B, and Part C (each part is worth 30 points).Here are the scenario...

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I need to unlink my Softchalk account from my Canvas account in the External Tool Softchalk. I used the wrong login for the external tool Softchalk cloud. I need to change the Softchalk account.

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When using a blueprint, with blueprint settings configured to lock the content attribute, but NOT the availability dates attribute, for locked pages, instructors still can't change the to-do date on locked pages in their associated course when those ...

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Hi I would like to make one of the elements on the left side an external link. I currently have one called study update, it was made by a former employee, how do you make them? so they can be on the left side, like files, participants, files etc. See...

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Hi,I posted a reply on a canvas discussion thread on April 09. However, I saw today that my reply has been turned blank. There is no text and it is recorded as empty. This is a graded discussion and I found this out when the grades were release today...

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Hello,   I have 75 students this term and many do not use gmail.  I do not want to ask them to create one just to populate a shared spreadsheet I have inserted in Canvas LMS.  Is there another product besides google that will allow students the abili...

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Can you export an umarked rubric from an assignment? 

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Hello. I ama student trying to change my profile picture. When I upload the picture and press "save," it says "selecting ima,ge" and nothing happens. I have tried over the course of the past month, and it's always the same.  I have also tried several...

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When viewing a student's grade record in Blackboard, a teacher can see if assignment feedback has been viewed by the student. Does Canvas have this feature? If so, how do I find it? TIA!

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Regardless of browser, whenever I go back to previously graded discussions in the gradebook, the previous comment pop-up obscures the comment edit button & other buttons, rendering everything useless. How do I get rid of this pop-up so I can click th...

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Until today, I have been able to upload and select playback video resolutions native to my upload resolution (2560px x 1440px). It appears Canvas is now limiting the playback Quality setting to Auto (1080p) when I select the gear icon near the lower ...

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I have several saved Comments in Speedgrader and I have toggled the option to show saved responses when typing.  However, as I start typing, it will start to show a comment, but then a spinning wheel appears and then quickly disappears.  However, eve...

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https://educationexpress.uts.edu.au/collections/communicating-in-canvas/resources/comments-box-in-canvas/ https://educationexpress.uts.edu.au/collections/communicating-in-canvas/resources/social-poll-in-canvas/ I started googling around for ways to a...

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I'm having a very strange issue with both the assignments tab and the gradebook tab on Canvas. On Monday, everything was ordered correctly in my gradebook. For me, the correct order is the order in which I assigned each assignment. Everything in my g...

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How to change my profile picture on canvas.

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Our team has been trying to download the Student Submission report for the last few days, yet it doesn't appear to be saving the times set. Screenshots show the times being generated before downloading the report and how the report looks (note the 0:...

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I'm finding that the new media player has removed the play/pause button from the controls in quizzes. This is a shot from one of my quiz directions pages. Also, to support my students in quizzes I embedded audio in each question, correct answer, and...

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Has anyone figured out a work around for copying assignments to another course and NOT having them change assignment category to "imported?" This is incredibly frustrating as we do not use imported and when use grade passback any "imported" assignmen...

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I assigned the FINAL to everyone, then when I went back and changed the submission dates, and I also added the 4 people that were the late submissions. Then everyone else's submissions disappeared...how do I get them back? 

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Hey all,We’re in the process of integrating Canvas data into our new SIS (RIO Education) and running into a snag with attendance — specifically the data that comes from the Roll Call (LTI) tool.We’re trying to move beyond just the aggregate attendanc...

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