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I want to unpublish announcements. I still want to be able to see them but I do not want all of them to be visible to students.  I can only find a delete option.  I don't want to delete them completely. I just want to take some away for students to m...

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Using Speed Grader with Discussion - In the past, I have been able to see each student's individual responses for a Discussion in Speed Grader. However, now Speed grader only shows a blank pane for a student. I can find their posts in the full discus...

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I am trying to track and communicate with students who are not viewing or participating with the content. I view New Analytics-Weekly Online Activity-then I look at the information by week; example April 19-April 26. I had previously been using this ...

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If a student submitted a media recording using Canvas's built-in media recorder option, am I able to download it as an MP4/MOV? Or any other playable video format/codec I can then open with VLC? I've tried "Download Submissions" under Related Items w...

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Hello I am trying to change the password that was assigned to me in my account, but when I enter the "changeme" password it said is incorrect. How can I change it so I can create my own password.

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I'm a student user on Canvas and for some reason, I can't change my profile picture. Every time I change it or upload a new one it's all white or it has a little picture icon like in the picture. It's not a problem with size, I checked my files and d...

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How do I determine what version of Canvas I am using?

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How does the activity log work for a quiz and how should I interpret it?The log will say "Stopped viewing the Canvas quiz-taking page..." and then when they resume. I told my students I could monitor their activity during an exam, so they should not ...

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If a staff or student accidentally closes a global announcement, is there a way for them to put it back on their dashboard?

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Is there any way to rearrange the order of announcements on the home page? Seems like that might be important, and I can't figure out how. Maybe in html? Anyone got a solution?

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I just sent an announcement to all my classes describing how they will access SI Sessions. I used the FILE tab to upload three pdf tutorial documents from my desktop. They show as three links in the announcement.  A student just contacted me and said...

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I'm using a table on my homepage to better organize my course. I'm having trouble formatting the table. Is there a way to make all text start at the top of the cell in stead of in the center? Also, is there a way to align all the columns and/or rows ...

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I am administering my exam to a course with a combined enrollment of 500, as a multiple-choice Canvas quiz.  The course has two sections, 12:30 - 1:45 pm and 2 - 3:15 pm, EDT.  I understand how to assign a different quiz link to each section separate...

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I created a folder and put files into it. But when I share the link for the folder with my students it says the folder is locked and they can't access any of the files.  How do I unlock the folder?

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Is there a quick way to check how many/which kids have seen my announcements without having to check each individual student's analytics?

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I haven't seen this discussed anywhere, and finding out after-the-fact is not an option, so I'm throwing this out there:Is there a word/character limit in answers to an essay question in a quiz? I'm not expecting students to produce a 50,000-word dis...

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Is there a way to print the rubrics that have been created?

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Hi Everyone,I'm curious if Canvas has a function where I can poll my students to provide answers to an open-ended question. For example, I'm interested in getting all 70 students' suggestions on a film to watch. Is there a feature on Canvas that make...

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An instructor has a group of quizzes that are all out of order. I looked into it for him and found this thread discussing that quizzes by default are ordered by due date then alphabetically. This doesn't seem to be the case in this instance as the du...

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I have a Nursing faculty who wants to cross-list her courses in the future, she teaches the exact same content across two different cities. Her current process is that she builds the content in one course and then copies that same content to the othe...

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How do I upload documents to my canvas? or for assignments?

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How do I add ReadSpeaker in canvas

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It's way too bright and hurts my eyes.

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I have a teacher who made an assignment that isn't due for another week. It's set to be submitted online as a text entry or a file upload. As soon as she posted the assignment, it automatically entered 0's in the gradebook for every student. In her g...

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An instructor is asking me how to delete a video or image that is embedded in a discussion?

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How can I get rid of the crossed out eye icon on a gradebook assignment?  I know it will be easy but I can't find it.  

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Hi, I'm a student and I'd like to be able to change the color background or border of my courses once I'm inside them. I'm taking four classes right now and have to look at the top of the course to make sure I'm in the correct one. I've changed the c...

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My name is Kengo Skorick and I'm a teacher using Canvas.  I've been struggling to resolve this issue since December without any luck and getting desperate.. Basically somehow I've accidentally created many new sections, but the option to exit from th...

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I want two categories: Participation and preparation as 35% of grade and exams/projects as 65% of the grade.  How do I set that up?

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How do you carry out deletion of student accounts from your Canvas? Because of GDPR regulations we cannot let data of students stay in Canvas after students have graduated 

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