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I teach 2 periods of the same courses so I created my Homepage and content in one course of each with the intent to copy it over to the other course so that I only had to do the work once.  When I import the course, the image files are not copying ov...

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I've just signed both my daughters in for the first time, as the links were sent to my (the parent) email. So, it logged them both in with my email and then asked me if I wanted to link the student accounts. I did not realize at the time we could cre...

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How to I turn off the welcome tour so it doesn't pop up every single time I log in to canvas?

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I'd like to make a suggestion to improve Canvas. This involves changing the student's privileges under "User Details." Currently, the default is “Let this user see all course users.” To change this to allow them to see only the users in their section...

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I'm configuring a self-hosted canvas lms install and need to add the chat feature. According to the documentation this is an external app developed by instructure. I seached in eduApps but doesnt appear available to install. Is the chat app open sour...

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I've been assigned additional sections to the same course, how can I combine into one course?

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I am learning new quizzes.   I have been happy with some of the changes but I am currently frustrated.  We are new to Canvas this summer so I hadn't really done much in classic quizzes.  I am hoping this is operator error.  I put together a quiz.  I ...

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How can I remove the "Drop files here to add to Module" that is showing up beneath each module in my course?  This just started showing up and it is extremely annoying because I need to be able to see more of the course on the screen at one time.

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Canvas seems to be stuck while saving a quiz. Any suggestions?

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Is there a way to make multiple answers correct in a multiple choice question?  I accidentally gave two correct answers and two incorrect, but I can only seem to allow one at a time for full credit.

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In searching around, it seems like it's possible for an Admin to (1) change the student role so that no student-users can do student-to-student messaging or (2) create a different type of student role who cannot message other students, but are there ...

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We have numerous third party external accreditation audits over the year. Is there a user role for this? Does anyone have a suggestion on the best way to set one up? I would like to know if anyone has set up a Course Role or special Account/SubAccout...

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I want students to be able to watch a lecture video in Canvas but I do NOT want them to be able to download or save the video outside of Canvas (to their laptop, etc.)How can I set up this kind of file restriction?

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Is there a QR code attendance tracker that integrates into Canvas? Someone has said there is, but if it exists I can't find it. The only two attendance trackers I know of that integrates with Canvas are A+ Attendance and Qwickly Attendance.

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How do I set up multiple options for student submissions on one assignment? I would like to offer students the option to write in a textbox, submit a PDF, or connect to a Google Doc. How do I set that up?

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 I have a Category question.  For this type of question it gives all or nothing for credit.  I have 10 items and want it to be 10 points, how can I change so each portion is counted?

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Hello,Is it possible to direct where the New Quiz "Return" button takes students? I'd like to include a New Quiz sequentially between pages in a module and have my students navigate to the next page upon completion of the quiz. When I was in Student ...

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I created a new canvas course, but all the announcements from the previous course transfer as well. How do I do a mass delete of all these announcements without having to individually delete each one? thanks in advance

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I’m running into a Canvas issue where a new rubric I’m creating (complete/incomplete, with points removed) reverts criteria to alphabetical order when I post it. I’m not running into the same issue with rubrics that were created and imported from las...

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I provided students with an "extra credit" opportunity.  The extra credit was comprised of a case study with multiple choice 25 questions regarding the case.  I created a separate assignment group identified as Extra Credit.  Everything worked well e...

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After completing a quiz with question banks, I noticed an error in one of the answers . . . actually a student did.  When I go back to the question bank and change the answer, it does not regrade the quiz.  How can I make this happen.  PS I have 250 ...

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Is it possible to set up reoccurring tasks or events in the calendar that will appear on the todo list

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I've figured out how to embed a Power Point into a Canvas page, but when I come back the next day, I get this message: Any ideas on how to fix this? I want to make sure my students can view the ppt. with hyperlinks that work. The hyperlinks don't wor...

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Is it possible to download completed quiz responses not just the results? I am looking to store the evidence for future audit purposes.

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In Canvas - under Quizzes I have two QuizzesQuiz 1     ---  10 questionsQuiz 2     ---  15 questionsHow do I merge these two quizzes in one quiz , rename it Quiz 3 with 25 questions

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Migrating old quiz banks to the new quiz engine:I have about 100 different question types, each with 5 versions. These are ones I've made myself--they are not from a publisher's question bank. That makes for 100 question banks--one question type per ...

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I want to unpublish announcements. I still want to be able to see them but I do not want all of them to be visible to students.  I can only find a delete option.  I don't want to delete them completely. I just want to take some away for students to m...

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Using Speed Grader with Discussion - In the past, I have been able to see each student's individual responses for a Discussion in Speed Grader. However, now Speed grader only shows a blank pane for a student. I can find their posts in the full discus...

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