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I use models as a means of instruction for various tasks for my students. I would like the gradebook to automatically mark the assignment I created as complete when the student checks the box Mark as done. Is there a way to make this happen? The stud...

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There seems to be an old thread about this, but the issue is still persistent. I have some PDFs that I post on Canvas that are quite long (lecture notes that are in an almost textbook-like format, a "book" of homework problems I have written, and lab...

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Somehow the sidebar with topics like modules, discussions, media, grades, ect. disappeared.  It makes it very difficult to navigate while in each class.  Does anyone know what happened and how to fix it.  I went through all the settings and did not s...

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When I attach a file (e.g., a PDF file) to my "assignment comments" in SpeedGrader, it seems that my students can see these files but I cannot see them (e.g., if I want to check if I have attached the correct file or if I want to see the comments tha...

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Moving a single question is easy, as shown here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-move-or-copy-a-question-from-one-item-bank-to-another/ta-p/584 But what about mutlple questions? This process is tedious as I'm trying move ...

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Hi.  I'd like to put a link from my homepage to one of my Assignment Groups (under "Assignments"), without linking to any other assignments.  I'd even be happy to link to the Assignments page as I, the instructor see it (with the assignment groups se...

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I have been teaching the same semester course for 2 years, 2 classes per year. I have always copied the previous semester's course with assignments at the start of the new semester. I had always unpublished all assignments and when I used the same as...

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It's exponentially easier to grade using a csv in Google Sheets or Excel; however, Canvas' import feature doesn't support importing comments for the grades making it borderline useless for my purposes. I've seen other people have brought this up, has...

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I just started using passback and noticed that when I sync my grades, that it will affect the points of the assignment in the transfer. In synergy, they allow you to affect the "weighting" of an assignment in a category by changing the number of poin...

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I get this error for some students whenever they submit a Google Doc to an assignment: "Error while processing or retrieving the document" It seems to happen to the same handful of students; they are not all enrolled in the same course. They use the ...

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I think similar questions have been asked in the past, but I can't find out if anything has changed in recent years. I have 4 exams in the Exams group. They all have a different number of questions, but I want them to all be weighted equally. How do ...

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I would like to have individual assignment grades shaded in the gradebook.  For example, grades in the 80% range might be yellow whereas grades in the 90% range might be green.  I need a way of visually gauging how students are performing.  My gradeb...

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I can log into Canvas on my computer and access my classes, but cannot log in on my phone app. (I can log in on the website on my phone). From the app, it says "webpage unavailable" when I type and press on the school's name. If I press "forgot my pa...

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How do I leave a group in canvas that is locked. 

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I  imported a prior course's data into my upcoming course. The old course had three old/classic-style quizzes. They were the older type; when I last taught this course--spring 2021--Lockdown Browser was not supported for the new quiz. It appears Lock...

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How can I mass delete the email in box in Canvas? Trying to clean this out is very time consuming and I don't need any of these emails. Thanks, Lynda Elaine University of Nebraska LincolnInstructor and Grad Student.

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I do not understand this message:  "Importing the same course content more than once will overwrite any existing content in the course."  Here is what I want to do: I imported QUIZ from Course 2021 into Course 2022.  Then I edited it in Course 2022....

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In my "Syllabus" tab, the "Course Summary" lists due dates for the current class.  That's fine. But at the bottom it also presents a list of obsolete items -- mostly empty calendars from previous courses!  These show up in the Student View as well an...

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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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