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If teachers select to import a Course from a previous term and select the option to Adjust Due Dates and Events, then the calendar automatically populates with all of the assignments and quizzes.  Even if a teacher unpublished the content in their co...

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Why is it suggested not to use logs as confirmation of cheating?

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Personally I am so frustrated by combing through these forums/Google and not finding a definitive answer to this question. I want a small group to take a quiz together (10 MC questions). Groups would be assigned ahead of time with a Group Leader. The...

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Hi all, I am new to being our Institutions Canvas Admin and I am trying to find out how to retain learner work once they have left the institution.  We want to remove their account but still have access to their work for governance procedures.  Is th...

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I have four years of achieved classes, but I have to scroll past all twelve of those classes  to copy or move assignments (not on the dashboard, on the right side when it asks to which course do you want to copy).  I was told "that's the way it is" o...

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Hi, I was able to access my course on canvas for 2-3 days and suddenly it stopped working for me. It's saying 'Access Denied' when I log into my account. I am still enrolled in the course, but on my end, it's not working. What do I do? Whom do I reac...

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Hello. My question is, is it possible to figure out the exact time stamps for an imbedded video quiz on Canvas from the student side of things. Worst case scenario is that it is not possible, but if there is a solution, any and all help would be very...

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How do I remove my pronouns from appearing next to my name on my student account?

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Hi. I can't find any information on how to embed a Google Slides or PP presentation directly into a page so that it is not a link and each slide appears as a page for the students to read. Is this possible? Thanks.  

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My district has been using Canvas and PowerSchool integration for a few years now.  Unfortunately, something happened this year and our courses have not been made and have not been populated. We can create a course ourselves and manually add students...

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Our professor is going to change the classroom. If he made it, how can I see the new classroom

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Good evening, As a mother of 5 students, that are currently using Canvas, I am trying to determine if there's a way to enable all of their calendars for each course? Once I enable a certain amount of calendars and set them to a default color (1 color...

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I do not have this button on any of my modules. How do I find the mark as done button. When I follow your guide there is no mark as done or confirm button. how do I turn this feature on. I cannot keep track of what I have completed and what needs to ...

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We need help looking at the SIF settings for Canvas. Many rescheduled students, student section enrollments were dropped in PowerSchool; however they are not "dropping" from Canvas when they no longer exist in PowerSchool resulting in Students having...

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One of our courses uses Moderated Grading for assignments and each submission needs to be reviewed by three people.   The issue we are running into is that the course runs for a full year and is self-paced.  So some students complete the assignment w...

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Hello, I´m having problems uploading files to my platform but, basically is impossible to submit any file of any size of any type, Please help me!  

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I'm looking for a way to advance to the next assignment needing grading in the SpeedGrader, rather than having to click out of the assignment I've finished grading and then into the next assignment via Dashboard, Assignnments, etc.  Is this a feature...

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I have struggled to find many people reviewing the 'open' edition or any articles or stories about institutions using it.  It is very strange that there is so little information on the community edition of canvas.My unit is interested in piloting the...

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I'm experiencing some problems with New Analytics. I wanted to message students who scored below 70% on an assignment. I specified the parameters and it showed 5 students; however, I know that 8 students meet this criteria.  In other courses, it does...

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Ever since this new semester started, I have been unable to edit my courses with different nicknames. I have a science class with a lab class that their names look identical at first glance and I just want to specify which is the lab class. I was abl...

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My students are divided into three group sets, say GC1, GC2, and GC3, each consisting of multiple groups (say 1-10, 11-20, and 21-30). The division into three streams happened a few weeks into the course, so unfortunately the course is not divided in...

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Hi all, My school has a custom theme with CSS and JS branding uploaded at the account level Theme editor. This was created before I commenced. I'm trying to create a separate theme and custom branding/CSS for subjects within a sub-account. However, w...

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are attachments forwarded as well? how do you forward attachments?

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I am an Admin at our school. I have a  teacher who tried to reopen an assignment for 2 students who hadn't submitted it by the due time. He reopened it assigning the new submission time to those two students, but in doing so, this made the assignment...

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I'm teaching what is supposed to be an in-person class. Let's say there's 20 students. Due to the pandemic, etc., however, 10 of those students have requested to take the course fully online.    I understand that it is possible, and from what I can t...

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my password is right and but it keeps saying somethings wrong either my password or my username but both are correct 

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I am working with an instructor who is teaching hybrid course. Students meet 29 times during the semester and get 1 point for each time they show up.  Attendance is worth 5% of the grade. We are using Roll Call for this.   I have set it up so that: 1...

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I like my browser's built-in PDF viewer, and I'd prefer to use it over Canvas's built in method. Right now, this always requires two clicks (including waiting for the PDF to load in the preview which I don't plan on using. Is there a user setting to,...

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 Is there any way I can contact canvas support about a bug without going through my school first? 

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