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Hello! I'm an instructional coach working with my AP Gov team. They currently have 1000+ questions over various classic quiz banks. I have already successfully moved specific banks over to the New Quiz Item Banks, but it is super tedious. The process...

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If I export a course in Canvas as a .zip file will it include any student information? I have a student who would like the course content for future reference but obviously don't want her to see any student information.

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Multiple teachers in my school reported to me over the past week and a half that there grades are not appearing properly in their Canvas course gradebooks.  Has anyone else experienced this issue?  I asked my teachers to try and do the following trou...

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I took an honorlocked exam yesterday and today Canvas decided to not load anything relating to an external link to my assignments and honorlock. Issue right now only for Honorlock and MyMathLab. My exam is today so a response now would be great! I re...

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Hi Canvas Community, I am busy setting up my Canvas instance and would like to find out if there is a way to use an animated GIF as the background "image" on my login screen.  I see the recommended file type for the login screen background image is J...

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I have created my video for my assignment with my iPhone however, I have compressed the file and it is still to large for me to submit. It has to be 10 minutes long. What do  I need to do to submit my assignment?

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When I mark assessments, I make extensive use of the annotation tool, but a student cannot see annotations on previous submissions, if they have to resubmit. Teachers can. Students can't.  If the student does not address all of the issues in their s...

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Is it possible to track the edit history of what you wrote on a text box for a canvas quiz? For example, can you track anything that was written then deleted before submitting the quiz? 

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Backgroud: we use Skyward as our SIS, we also have a policy that if a student is absent due to COVID, they get 20 days to make up their missed work.    We have had some students who were out due to quarantine and received an incomplete for Semester O...

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Hello  I just had a question, we created a quiz in the new quizzes and it would not let us print a blank test, it stayed stuck on the student preview and we could not print the test, please advise.  We are hoping it was just a glitch,

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MY NAME IS MAXINE HANGER AND I HAD WORKED FOR LACOE FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS.  I AM NOW RETIRED AND I KEEP GETTING VARIOUS EMAILS TELLING ME ABOUT CANVAS!!  I WANT THIS STOPPED AND I WANT NO COMMUNICATION FROM CANVAS EVER AGAIN!!!!!!!  HOW DO I GET THIS AC...

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Hello! I teach at PALCS (PA Leadership Charter School).  I use Google chrome and past two days when I go to my inbox, it is white and says sending at the top.  My tech team thought it was my extenstions but even when we removed them, it keeps happeni...

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I opened self sign-up for a group set this morning in one of my courses. It was a time sensitive thing as students had to sign up for their preferred group with limited places available. I opened all groups at the same time through Edit > Allow self ...

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Hi Our grade posting policy has been set to manual. We have received complains from a few of our lecturers about posting the grades. They mention that even when they chose to only post the grades to the Graded student in an assignment Canvas Gradeboo...

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Faculty were delivering timed Quiizzes during the 12/7 AWS outage. Students were kicked out of Canvas. What will happen to the timer when Canvas becomes available again? Will it have continued running so the student window to take the exam will have ...

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I showed a colleague how to migrate a Classic Quiz into New Quizzes. I showed her once in my course, and once in hers. Everything seemed fine. A few hours later, I received two email notifications that "Course Export Finished," one for my course, and...

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the course i teach varies slightly year to year and i'd like to access previous year's published course on canvas for comparison. on the dashboard/published courses, there's only: Growing With Canvas when there shoud be the published courses for my c...

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When using Canvas for Elementary, it seems like students can not find assignments unless there is a due date or linked to a page or in a module.  In Canvas, students can go to Assignments from the navigation, but in C4E they can not access from the S...

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I have a teacher getting this error on one of their courses when trying to sync grades. The error only references the course name, no specific assignments. I can see there are 2 students in the course that do not have any sort of final grades, I am n...

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We're looking to leverage the LMS for possible doctoral committee review processes. I have heard of others using Google Docs or Office365 for this, but that seems to be too clunky. Does anyone have an example or can share how your institution leverag...

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Hi all, I have followed the steps to export the gradebook, and am able to do that. When I go to look at the spreadsheet, it has so many extra columns of assignments/old quizzes that are not assigned to this course. I can't see them in the gradebook i...

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My World Languages teachers have pointed out to me that the ALT key is no longer any good to add accents to words when editing New Quizzes. One sent me this screenshot     Has anybody found a solution?  Thanks

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Hi, We just split a course into multiple sections. Is there a way to move a bunch of student all at once into the new section?  Thanks!

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I did some consulting for a GREAT NGO in Rwanda called Unlock Impact (https://unlock-impact.com/) They'd like to use Canvas to track their students but the free version is missing a few key things they'd like to see (e.g. email triggers as well as a ...

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Hi All When I migrate an old quiz to a new quiz will the learner who is on the old quiz grades and results be copied across when you migrate to the new quiz ? Is their a work around that allows to copy your learners grades to the new quiz when you co...

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There seems to be ongoing issues when using Canvas through the Safari browser.  I don't know if there is such a thing as a record of the things that won't work, will work with a workaround or will only work using another browser.  Loads of people use...

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Is it possible retrospectively to add Turnitin checks to a completed assignment.  I have student papers that I'd like to check for plagiarism, but I cannot see how to do this given that checking was not originally defined for the assignment.  I have ...

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Am I able to connect a rubric to assignments so students can grade themselves (feedback) using the rubric I am going to use to grade their assignment?

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How does an instructor reset a course if there is no reset link on the Settings page?

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I have a sandbox course that allows teachers to take the course in order to evaluate it. The course has assignments with 'Display Grade as' set to either Complete/Incomplete or Percentage. One school does not want to provide email addresses due to pr...

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