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In a course, in Files, the icons to manage the files and folders are missing. Here's what we have:   What we want is what we can see posted in the Canvas Community:  

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18 June 2021 Has there been any changes made to the system regarding the ability to add an Observer into a course over the last week or two?  The reason I ask is that I have been trying all week to add Observers onto courses and am receiving the foll...

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Hi. Speedgrader is used regularly by our teachers, but is well hidden in menus with several steps to get to it. They have requested if it is possible to create a shortcut to this functionality?  Either by adding it as a tab in a course or if there is...

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I made a quiz wherein there were MCQs and Fill-in-the-Blanks. However, upon checking the answers of my students using the Action Log, I noticed that there were a number of Fill-in-the-Blank questions wherein the answers of the students are included i...

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I'm the Canvas admin for our school district. This week I added the new Google Assignments LTI 1.3, and removed the previous Google Apps LTI. Then I noticed that Docs and Slides embedded in the Rich Content Editor with the old Google LTI were no long...

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hello, My fullerton account is disable, i cant even access Canvas or anything, Kindly help on the way forward

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Howdy! At our university, Honorlock is paid for by our DE (Distance Education) program and therefore only they should have access to it. Right now, Honorlock sits hidden in the main course navigation menu but can be added to any course if the profess...

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How does your school/institution handle incomplete grades?  We are in the process of moving from Blackboard to Canvas.  In Blackboard we were able to create columns for the Incomplete grades, and we used the notes for instructions to include any addi...

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Feedback mechanisms on webpages or individual page objects (e.g. videos) is a fairly ubiquitous method for gaining user feedback. Is there a way to do this in Canvas? The requirement would be that it would capture the button clicked and the associat...

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I'm having trouble uploading a picture to file it says error 400. when I try to submit it to discussion reply it says something went wrong check internet connection and try again

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I have a person in our organization who is a student in a course and also a teacher in other courses.  In the course where she is a student, she can edit as a teacher, even though she has only one role in the course- a student. Any ideas on how to en...

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Hello! My district is attempting to set up Account Roles to prepare for a csv upload of our district personnel who will not be automatically imported through our SIS connection. The majority of our district-level users (counselors, secretaries, etc) ...

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Hi. I have my course, which is ungraded, divided into sections. When I create an assignment, it is assigned to only one section. I was under the impression that students in a section could only see assignments assigned to their section. However, a st...

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My lti 1.3 tool oidc_initiation_url is receiving an lti_message_hint of eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ2ZXJpZmllciI6ImRjYzhhNzNjYjUxMzFjY2UxNjcwZmRjYWU4MzM3NjRmOGU3MTJlNTBjNTJiODc2YWJiODk3OGY2MjMwMzczMGJkZmFiZDUwMTgwOWMxZWI5MmY3ZWZhMTE1NmY2Y...

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A student is not receiving email notifications from notifications@instructure.com to their Bigpond address. They were able to receive emails to the same address for a previous course earlier this year, and their course notification settings are on. T...

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Hi all, I am a designer (not an instructor). I set up a course and a test bank for a course that had Kevin as an instructor in 2019. Now, Mark in the new instructor and I set up a new class for him and imported the course contents from the 2019 cours...

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Is there a way that we can see a list of how many students have answered a question in a quiz correctly?   I know we can see individual student results, and see their incorrect and correct answers, but we are after a way to see each question and how ...

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Hello! We were attempting to test out a SIS Import for a User file in our Beta environment. We made a csv from the template provided by Canvas for this process, and we added 2 users to the CSV. We then went into our Beta environment and asked it to p...

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Buen día, me gustaría saber cuales son los pasos a seguir para activar la pestaña de advanced en las políticas de un curso de canvas, ya que no me aparece la opción. Es importante porque no queremos que el estudiante vea su resultado final. En los m...

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After a teacher graded a student's submission using SpeedGrader, she asked the student to correct his mistakes taking the teacher's advice into account, and then resubmit the assignment.  Is there a way that the teacher can view the previous submissi...

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Seems that when a student submits a Quizzes Next quiz that needs to be manually graded, it does NOT show up on my "to do" list and displays as X (incomplete) instead of checked. I have this particular quiz set to display as "complete/incomplete", so ...

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Hi everyone, I installed open-source Canvas but could not see how to upload media into a quiz, but could only embed media or upload image into a folder and then insert it into the quiz.  Is the function missing in the open-source version? Thank you v...

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How do I hide student email addresses from other students?  When students submit a discussion post, they can then see who else has posted, and if they click the name of a student, it opens a box with a link to the email address.  How can I disable th...

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I understand completely how to import quizzes.  I am looking for help with exporting into a format.   the system I am exporting from only exports:   GIFT FOrmat Moodle XML format (similar in canvas but different series apparently) XHTML format.   Do ...

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We're looking to add some custom links to the Global Navigation, and I've already cannibalized JS scripts posted long ago, but I've lost the link to find icons that I can insert into that script.  Can anyone point  me in the right direction?

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We use all the available data via Quizzes (e.g., student counts, difficulty index, point biserial for all answer options, including distractors). This data is incredibly valuable to us as we fine-tune our exams. Will this type of data be available th...

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Probably a stupid question, but how do I move a line in a rubric up and/or insert a new criterion other than at the end of the rubric? 

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Hello I have installed canvas app directly on server using (https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki/Production-Start) guide. I did not purchase domain yet so call application using ip address(http://164.52.214.154:8080/) But it is not working....

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Hi I was doing the CEU course for phlebotomy and I passed my final with an 80%. Under Dashboard it shows me  on the right hand side recent feedback and has a green check next to final exam, but under it say continuing. Is there another step I need to...

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