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I was wondering how to do this in my emails. I think its a signature.  

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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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Is it possible to send out a message to all of the students at our school via Canvas messages?  I need to send messages via Canvas to all the students at our school as requested by my Principal.  I am an Administrator.  

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Every time I go to canvas I'm greeted with a pop up asking me to take the student tour.  I click it away.  Another pop up pops up that I just click away since I never asked to see another pop up.  I've done this about 50 times so that's about 100 pop...

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Can New Quizzes please allow partial credit on these types of questions? It frustrates students and I spend way too much time going back through them to award points.

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Hello all you genius helpers! Time-sensitive question: A "new" icon/link for downloading embedded documents from a Canvas Page is suddenly appearing, and I am looking urgently to discover a way to disable or eliminate this item. We have copyright pro...

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How can I have students receive an email of a delayed posted announcement

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Hello, I post a lot of links to YouTube videos in my Canvas class. In the past when I did this, it would automatically include a thumbnail of the video along with the text link. Now, the thumbnails don't appear anymore. Does anyone know how to get th...

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First time poster with what is probably a simple question. I've searched and can't find exactly what I'm looking for.  I have a published page in a live course with students.   I need to edit that page to fix something like a typo. How do I do that w...

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We are developing new psychometric methods for student response data analysis. Is there a way to export the  individual responses of all students to all questions for a quiz such as a CSV or EXCEL or XML data structure. It is important that the data ...

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I'm trying to create an ungraded survey (titled "Progress Report") consisting of 4 questions. Even though each question is set to "0" points (see attached), as soon as I save it all, and then try to add the Survey to a Module, it ends up being worth ...

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I am writing clinical simulations which requires providing types assessment data that the student have selected. I can include these in the comments under the correct answer, but Canvas will only allow the students to see these comments after the ENT...

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  I know that the simple solution is to not make the mistake in the first place.  But.   When things change and you make a change to a quiz.  I'm sure all users would like the force a regrade of ALL quiz types, not just MC.   I don't understand why a...

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I use pages (not modules) showing three weeks of content for my University course. I did have modules set up initially, but changed back to pages so that the home page for each three week block in the course looks pretty much the same (with zoom link...

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I know this topic has been addressed many times before. I have googled, read the form and more but nothing is solving my problem. I am responsible for administering and creating a lot of small courses. This means I frequently copy modules or whole co...

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On Canvas Teacher on iPad ver 14.4, when grading, the swipe left to next student AND touch grade bar to enter grade have both stopped! This is the most valuable feature for both efficiency and ergonomics compared to using desktop (which is also cumbe...

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Hey fellow Admins,  We use MS Teams extensively; I know that Canvas and Teams can be linked in terms of setting up a Teams meeting in Canvas. What I am looking for is accessing content. I am trying to find a way to link the two platforms where our st...

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I am looking to batch update 1000s of URLs throughout Canvas, but I am not finding a process for this type of update.  Any advice?  The URL's may have been added in Canvas in a variety of areas and in a variety of ways.  Needing to find and replace p...

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I want to use Roll Call for the first time but want to be able to drop a certain number of "lowest grades" to allow a reasonable number of absences without penalty.  I understand I will need to make an Attendance Assignment Group and put the Roll Cal...

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Does anyone have any information on the Canvas Betterizer Chrome extension?  I have provided the link below. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/canvas-betterizer/pndigbfohhechaafblmjdicbbahgigfg?hl=en-US  

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I am a math teacher and there is only one "question" in most of my assignments and quizzes - which is the "question" where students submit PDFs of their solutions in one file. Sometimes, the PDF shows up in SpeedGrader and I can annotate it right the...

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Is it possible to reuse a customized grading scheme in another course?  I recently created a modified version of our account grading scheme in one course and hoped to simply select the modified scheme in a second course.  However, the modified scheme...

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Hello.We have Edpuzzle integrated with Canvas district wide. Teachers did not integrate themselves. Some students are getting an error stating, “oops configuration issue, please contact admin.” We have cleared the cache and browsing history of studen...

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Peace everyone. This semester I started group discussions. I didn't want there to be a 40 or 50-post thread that was impossible for students to read through, and decided instead to have students (28 per class) assigned to three or four groups to make...

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I am a student, not an instructor. In MyCourses on Canvas, I created a group on the People page. I want to add students to the Group. How do I do so?

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My instructor posted an assignment 1 day before it was due when my school requires it to be posted 2 days before it was due. Some of the students didn't see it because the day before we assumed that there was no homework and I was one of them. We con...

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At this point in time, I realize that Canvas will automatically fill in late/missing for me if I have a submission that is Canvas based. However, if there is an external tool assignment or something that I am manually entering (on paper or other site...

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I had the modules for all my courses for this week, and I was trying to copy an empty one to continue preparing next week's, I have the empty one in different course, but it replaced all the of these week's modules in all my courses with the empty on...

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I was so excited that Canvas finally created a way to edit all assignment dates on a single page, including the ability to batch edit... and then spring 2021 happened, and I discovered that the batch edit function is useless if you need to move dates...

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I am editing a survey I created as a single question quiz with many Multiple Answers. I copied it from last quarter's course, and would like to add answers to it and reorder them (it's a survey to find out when I should hold office hours, so the opti...

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