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Issue: subtitle file not uploading for video files within a page   The videos have been uploaded to a Canvas course and organized on a page. When clicking on "Video Options" the panel comes up and allows a subtitle language and file to be chosen. Aft...

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When an assignment has a rubric to use for grading enabled, is there a way to have that rubric automatically open when you view assignments in speedgrader?  If I've enabled a rubric to use for grading, then I want it available for grading on each ass...

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I have been trying to export a quiz so I can import it into a question bank. I am using the old format quizzes. However, when I export the quiz, the file is just a folder of several other folders of .xml files with no QTI files, so I cannot import th...

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Is there any way to email the professor of a past enrollment? I have some questions about my final and how it was graded yet the professor closed the course. Having not provided an email this is the only way I can contact them. I need to choose the c...

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I know it is possible to edit availability and due dates for multiple assignments at once, but I can't find a place to achieve the same for modules. I have students complete a module ahead of each class, and in subsequent semesters I would like to be...

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Can announcements, or any due dates, be sent to students by way of text messaging?  I have students asking for that feature. 

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There are a lot of questions in the Forum about standards based grading in Canvas.  My question is:  Is there anyone that has come up with a creative way to use the traditional gradebook and the mastery gradebook together to assess and track standard...

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Hi everyone, Is there a way to download all student responses for an assignment in New Quizzes? We use student work and responses for our annual assessment review. This year, a lot of our assignments, quizzes, and exams have been built using New Quiz...

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The guide "Taking a New Quiz" states students can save their progress on an untimed "new quiz" by clicking "return" then later "resume" and finish it later, however my students did just that in front of me and when they clicked resume it had not save...

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When I click in the score box (Grade out of 100) in speed grader, a dropdown list of values appears (10, 60, 100, etc.)  Until yesterday, the six values I used repeatedly populated.  This morning I updated my computer, and the values disappeared.  B...

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A student submitted an assignment in two parts - one as a file upload, and the other as a text box entry. I can see the file upload submission, but I cannot view the text box entry. How can I view this text box entry?

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Hi! We read about Course templates and we would like to use this option but it remains unclickable even if we removed all enrollments and we went into the settings of the course as an Admin. We checked the permissions to ensure this was not the probl...

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I can see this question has been asked a lot in the community but it seems many of the replies contain links to documents that seem, to me at least, rather opaque. In almost every article on the subject it states "Canvas does not support file uploads...

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Hello! An instructor I work with would like to REassign a discussion using the REassign button in Canvas discussion however, the button doesn't seem to appear. I checked in other instances and course spaces I'm in and it doesn't appear when availabil...

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I am required to report student attendance weekly in hours and minutes. Is there a way to determine how much time a student actively engaged in Canvas on a specified day or week? It appears Canvas tracks in the same way a student who logs in but does...

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Is there any way you can update the teacher notifications to allow reposts for discussion boards to come in on our dashboards? When a student goes back in and edits (either an original post or a reply) after I have already graded it I am not notified...

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Some of our students (not all) are having an issue when trying to access Office365 using the in course link.  When they click on the link, they are getting the login button and are being routed to our organizational sign in page.  However, after ente...

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Our focus during the Canvas roll-out for the past few years has been on supporting the academic courses on Canvas. Enrolment and course creation is managed via SIS import.  We are now receiving more and more requests to use Canvas for non-academic co...

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We use a blueprint, we have a "Get to know your Canvas course" page in a module for faculty. Modules are, by default set to Modules in our blueprint.  From what I understand, us changing content in the page that is in the module and syncing should ju...

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I create a discussion and then go to add it to a module. When I click on discussions to add it pops up a dropdown menu, but that only shows discussions A-H. Anything with a title that begins with a G or later doesn't show up. How do I access those ot...

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Hello,  I am an instructor with a question about batch editing possibilities for modules. I would like to be able to batch rename all the pages inside the module without having to drill down one by one and edit each title. Is that possible? Thanks!

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Hello,   There is still an issue when instructors use Respondus lockdown browser. The instructor has these settings checked for the LDB test: "Let students see quiz responses" "Only once after each attempt" "Let students see correct answers"   "Requi...

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Did you know there are hidden games inside of Canvas? Taking a quick break from teaching and learning in Canvas can be a nice stress relief and an opportunity for a little bit of harmless fun in your day. Just make sure your “quick break” doesn’t con...

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I am attempting to export a gradesheet for a class to Excel and retain the percentages showing in Canvas. The percentages originally showed as points in Canvas; I selected to view them as percentages. Can I keep the percentages on export? Thanks.

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iSAMS is a popular MIS used in the UK and in many (British) International schools. Has anyone any experience working with iSAMS or even better, set up a working integration. Worryingly, Canvas is not on their list of integration partners... Looking f...

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Hello! I use Discussion Posts as the primary way my students submit their work. This submission is usually either text entered into the text editor box, a video file, or a Word file to download. I would like to download the submissions from the Discu...

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What settings do I need to change, or what do I need to do so Canvas does not send out notifications when I make changes to things?  Obviously, things like Announcements I want all students to see and want them to receive a notification of, but when,...

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I have a teacher who created about 76 assignment groups. Now when you click on the assignment tab Canvas will freeze and eventually you will need to close the tab, it stops responding. I could fix this if I could somehow stop the page from loading bu...

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I created a free Canvas Instructor account for our School of Clinical Laboratory Science program and when it was set up, my other instructors were added to "Ways to Log In".  This was meant to give them a chance to explore the account before having t...

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At the University of Wisconsin, we use Canvas. Periodically, we need to copy an older course into a new course shell. The main issue we encounter is that images from the originating course (the one we copy from) may or may not show-up when Students v...

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