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I tried to install Microsoft Teams meetings LTI using this Client ID (879209990040549), but Canvas couldn't find an LTI configuration ID of this like. I got this from @codytitmus post (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Admin-Blog/Microsoft-Te...

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I am a student user of Canvas and find it distracting (read - annoying) when a grade is entered into the Canvas gradebook and I cannot clear it or mark it as "read." There is an "unread" notification on the Grades sidebar and the blue dot will not di...

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How can I turn off the traditional gradebook and only allow students to view grades by the mastery gradebook? I am trying to create assignments and use rubrics with outcomes. I want students to get feedback based upon the outcomes and not overall ass...

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Hello!I have come across a unique issue with Canvas Availability From and Until dates in Ungraded Discussions! Here are the steps to replicate the issue:Create an Ungraded Discussion in your Canvas course shell. Enter Available From date past/after t...

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There does not appear to be a way to export and import content into item banks through the GUI or an API.  Is there an API (or one coming soon) for Item Bank import/export?  We also reviewed the full Course Export in IMSCC format and could not find t...

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I was able to find an instructional video on how to pin one discussion board among many in the course (e.g. Week 5 Discussion). But I am particularly interested in how to pin a specific discussion post within a discussion board. For instance, as an i...

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HelloIs there a way to create a Canvas course that anyone can access regardless of registration?  In our school, we have created a separate virtual section of a course for students who get COVID. Students will technically be enrolled in another secti...

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Could someone from the Canvas Community help me combine my accounts? I was at a Canvas College and was very active and sadly went to a school that uses another LMS. WE ARE MOVING TO CANVAS! I would like to attach my existing account to my new account...

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Where do I find my Transcript?

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What is the best way to use Module Requirements with Mastery Paths? I would like the students to work through the Path in sequential order.Do we just set a requirement for the Source Assignment?Or, do we have to set the requirement for each item in t...

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We recently implemented the brand new Microsoft Onedrive LTI into our Canvas LMS.Everything seems to work fine, however the behaviour is very different than before.This is what we notice:- when a teacher adds a file from his/her Onedrive into a cours...

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I'm making the switch from Classic to New Quizzes.  I am teaching an online course that uses daily quizzes. I would like to program each quiz so that students get to see their quiz results -- that is, get to see the questions' text, their chosen answ...

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I'm trying to learn how to import new users via CSV. We do not use an SIS. After I import them as users, I will be adding them to a course as students. When I try uploading a test users CSV, Canvas tells me that the import has been successful, with n...

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The backticks to mark a blank in a question doesn't work for multiple characters, like asterisks or brackets. I'm working on fill-in-the-blank questions for a computer programming course and the inability to use those characters make fill-in-the-blan...

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Once upon a time, I could change how much each individual quiz question in Classic Quiz was worth, but now when I try to add or edit a question, it does not show the option to do so on the right as it once did, but rather automatically assigns it 1 p...

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Hello,I am a student and need to upload my assignments in word document form (.doc not .docx). Usually at the top of the assignment it states the submission type as doc, but the assignment I am incurring an issue with has it listed as "word". I have ...

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Thanks for adding the partial credit feature for Matching questions in new quizzes. Can we pleeeeease get partial credit added as an option to Category questions (and any other types of questions that allow for multiple answers.) I love the amazing c...

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I provide support for Canvas usage on University of Wisconsin-Madison. A faculty member teaches the same eight-week course every summer. And, we are having problems with the "date adjustment" feature during the course import.Are there any documents, ...

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Hi. I'm still receiving quiz notifications when I've clicked on "All Submissions" which says that I'll get "Assignments (except quizzes) submission/resubmission." I have grading clicked off. Not sure why I'm getting a notification every time a studen...

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Although the moderated grading feature allows multiple graders to enter scores, it does not have the capability to collate those scores.  We are not able to get an average score from all the graders or a summary of the individual rubric scores for ea...

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I love working with Canvas support and appreciate how quick they are to respond, but have one piece of feedback that I am hoping to validate with others users before I put in a feature request, it may just be a personal preference on my side.  Basica...

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How do I view assignments that are revised and resubmitted? How do I distinguish them from the first draft assignment?

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Currently, the "act as" feature is limited to Canvas Admin. Is there a way for the feature to be given to the subaccount admin? We want to provide building leaders the ability to ac as teachers/students in their spaces without having to provide compl...

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Hi Everyone! I have looked on many of the forums on this website and trying to figure out how to mass delete messages in the Canvas inbox. I have tried clicking on the first message and then holding shift and clicking on the last message but it does ...

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We have teachers that are all of a sudden getting icons in Gradebook instead of numerical values. Even though the assignments have been created the same way all year long, and they have been graded....now the icons are showing up?

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Hi All,I am looking at a comparison of the two accessibility tools,  Blackboard Ally and Yuja Panorama. Does anyone here have any information to share on these two products? Thanks in advance. 

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I'm working on some custom CSS for my Canvas sub-account's theme and had a question for the community: is there a way to use the Instructure-UI icon font with a ::before or ::after pseudo-element and the 'content' CSS property? I see directions for a...

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How can I access the webinar from last week?I can see available only the welcome webinar from 2 weeks ago but not the last (last week )Any help?Thanks 

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I typed quiz questions srraight as a new quiz. how can i extract the whole quiz (still (unasnwered) and save into a csv/excel format? If the quiz was already answered, how can I do the same? thank you

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I am trying to build a comprehensive, semester-long, Quiz that will include many questions contained within two quizzes (administer earlier in the semester) within the same course. How do I copy questions from one existing Quiz to another existing Qu...

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