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Hello! The comment library is a great new feature in Speedgrader!  Will instructors' comments carry over from semester to semester? Thanks! Sarah

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Hello all, we are using PUT /v1/courses/{id} api endpoint to delete and undelete a course. but when we call the api with json {"course":{"event":"undelete"}} it gives 401(Unauthorized error).  It is working fine before. Anyone know the workaround or ...

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Hi - I am a higher-ed faculty member and I'm new to CANVAS this Fall. I'm happy to see the integration with Google.  Previously I've built my courses using Google folders.  (One for the course overall, and one for each student to put their work into ...

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I support faculty that use the grade posting policies in thier courses to allow them to manually grade certain items before they are posted. If I read the excerpt below correctly, this means that un posted or hidden grades will not be reflected in th...

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We are offering a self-paced asynchronous course which is open for users to complete throughout the year.  We are planning to have three different sections (Fall, Winter, and Spring) as completing the course makes users eligible to receive a continui...

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I just started using the Comment Library in Speedgrader. Please tell me it is not true !!! - I can only add one comment from the Library? After typing my own comments or entering one comment from the Comment Library - if I then choose another comment...

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Up to this point I've been able to click on the View Feedback and have my assignment and instructor annotations come up within the Canvas Doc View. Now, for some reason, I'm forced to download the feedback.  This forced download also is occurring wit...

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Good afternoon everyone,  If this question is in the wrong forum I apologize; please move the question to the appropriate forum. I've found this information at IMS Global (https://site.imsglobal.org/certifications/instructure); however is it stated a...

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Is there a map of permissions for the Canvas API routes?  I am getting started configuring our Canvas instance and some of the integrations are requesting what I consider to be outlandish permissions - at least at a glance.

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Hi, I'm pretty sure I'm missing something obvious here, but does anyone know how to retrieve quizzes and questions under a course and module via GraphQL in Canvas?  Basically we want to lookup a course, get all the items under that including quizzes ...

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Hi,  I sent a few mails but no contact from infrastructure yet. We are a university and we're looking for some answers on licensing of a self-hosted Canvas. We have an instance / stack setup based on the open source version, but we would like to be a...

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For those Admins who have beta and test environments along with prod in Canvas.  My understanding is that beta updates completely on a weekly basis wiping out all data and configuration settings that may have been changed while testing.  So beta then...

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How do I allow a student to change a question to another one if it is difficult for him?, I just want to make the quizzes more friendly to help students to get rid of tests anxiety

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Hi, We are trying to configure and launch an external LTI app in a bitnami-hosted instance of Canvas. After configuring the tool according to online doc and configuring the dynamic_settings.yml as noted online, we are still unable to get it to work c...

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What exactly is lock_version in Module_progression_dim?

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Hi All,      I am in the process of replacing the role on one of our service accounts. The account will move from "Account Admin" to a custom account that allows all the same API calls with the same responses. I have resolved most of the issues, but ...

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Hoping someone may have a resolve or guidance for me! It was discovered in one of our courses there had been 2 modules created for the same assignment. After undertaking checks, we were able to delete one of the modules, ensuring that all students wh...

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I want to include emojis in my assignment titles to help my kids navigate modules more easily. My concern is that I synch my gradebook directly to powerschool. It is summer, so I cannot check to see if having an emoji in the assignment title prevents...

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I am a professor who teaches and researches about software engineering. I often co-teach courses. This leads to problems because Canvas does not warn if multiple people are editing the same content (e.g., the same page) at the same time and overwrite...

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We are using the Assignments API to generate a whole ton of assignments. I know that CSS is not an accepted language thru the API call (it basically ignores the whole call or ignores the entire description parameter if there is any CSS in there), but...

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connect to ICT conference by 9:00pm

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Is there anyway to be able to write text sideways and/or vertically? I know that there are several ways to do this nowadays with html5 and CSS with transform and writing-mode (and text-orientation) but it Canvas lms doesn't seem to allow any of these...

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When a module does not have any prerequisites or requirements, what does the "completed_at" in the Modile_progression_dim mean?

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What does it mean when submission_dim.submission_type is “unsubmitted”? For “unsubmitted” submissions, what does submission_dim.created_at mean?

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Here's an example of my question then I will add more detail: I have 10 groups in my group-set for a discussion board and each group is limited to 2 students. I need group one to fill in 2 people before group 2 starts filling. It should look like: Gr...

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We have a large quantity of pre-built course masters which have about 20-30 unique links embedded to our knowledgebase across each course - these handle user support issues and answer questions relevant to certain areas of Canvas for our users. Our K...

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Hi all, My organization is starting a training program for a cohort of seven recent college graduates. Since it is only seven students, we did not want to purchase a full license but use the "Free for Teacher" version. When I sent a test course invit...

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Our College is in the process of moving from OpenLMS to Canvas, starting in the fall. OpenLMS has offered to take a final snapshot of our Moodle instance and store it for 2-3 years. I am curious if anyone has made this move and if they have used the ...

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We are attempting to embed an interactive e-book within our Canvas instance, both web-based and app based. Does anyone have experience successfully doing this? If so, what platform or program did you utilize? How did you do it? We’re running into hig...

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