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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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I recently copied the wrong canvas course into a new "blank" one, so I would like to reset the course content and start over. I looked up how to do this on canvas and found this guide. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-rese...

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I've copied my course over from a previous semester and was easily able to batch update assignment due dates. But, I cannot figure out how to batch update the release dates of my announcements. Am I stuck updating the release date of each announcemen...

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I'm trying to delete a file in an archived course.  No Delete icon appears in the toolbar and clicking on Options doesn't help nor does holding down Control.  I'm the course's Teacher.

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At some point in time this last semester, by Canvas was turned to a dark theme. It is not the computer because it shows the same on multiple devices, so it was somewhere in the programming. The app still shows a light theme, so I am at a total loss.

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Hello there, my school is used to using Mastery Connecting so we can get immediate feedback on our standards. We give grades but we are also standards-based. We would love to only use Canvas, however, this has been a very confusing process. Our distr...

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Hi, While using an access token belonging to a student profile I tried out the submit assignment API. POST /api/v1/courses/{courseId}/assignments/{assignmentId}/submissions The response for the API is  {     "status": "unauthorized",     "errors": ...

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As a language teacher, I rely on students being able to record media directly into the Rich Content Editor on discussion boards and quizzes. Is this feature still supported in the new RCE?

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I am consistently having this issue.  I will assign a quiz and the image associated with the question will not appear when the students are taking the quiz.  Instead a white box will show up. I have had to print the test repeatedly.Some background in...

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I teach a large enrolment course and my role on Canvas is Instructor. I would like to be able to create sections within the course and add students to the sections easily. As of now, the only way I can do this is by going to people, clicking on each ...

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I gave an exam in my class and it had 4 short answer questions at the end. Usually when I grade these and press update, the gradebook updates as well, however, with this one, I can see the updated score in Speed Grader, but the gradebook does not upd...

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Hi, We are moving to another LMS next year and i have been asked to find away to bulk archive all of Canvas especially student submissions as we are required to keep data for min of 3 years. Is this possible without asking individuals to download the...

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Hello all! My name is Erinne Kennedy and I am a faculty member at the Kansas City University College of Dental Medicine. We will be using a portfolio as a global assessment tool for our dental students. We are planning to use a portfolio software tha...

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In the New Quizzes tool I am not seeing a way to set a Fill-In-the-Blank question to be case-insensitive. I see that as an option if  I use the 'Close Enough' option based on the Levenshtein Distance but it does not allow me to set the Levenshtein to...

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So yesterday I couldn't figure out how to delete a few assignments out of my grade book. I removed the due date, said not for grading, etc., etc. Nothing would work, so eventually I just went to my assignments tab, changed the focus to Quarter 2 and ...

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I have been using New quizzes in my classroom. I am very familiar with classic quizzes and their features. Such as the feature to extend a students test time WHILE they are take a test. This is when you will click on moderate, then click on the clock...

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I leave individual comments for each student submission but would like to have a set "comment" for all missing work where students will receive a 0.For example, when I have missing work automatically set to be given the score of 0 I would like to be ...

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Hi All!I'm trying out "new" quizzes for the first time. And immediately got this error:"There is a problem with this assessment. Please contact your instructor."All I did was create it and save it. I know it's supposed to then give me all the options...

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I was wondering if there is a way to have the dates of "available from" and "until then" show up on the line with the assignment name on the module list?  The due date shows up and the points show up on with the name of the assignment on the module l...

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I would like to write equations along with text. For example,det(abcd)=adbc.Please tell me how to do this.

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I am attempting to submit a grade for an assignment but for some reason they do not show up for the cells that are colored green. When I double click on them, it shows that they have a 100% but it just doesn't show up directly already like the rest. ...

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I am currently administering an exam using Canvas' Quizzes functionality (not New Quizzes), and the quiz has a time limit of 75 minutes. Although this time limit seems to be working for almost all students, one student emailed to let us know that she...

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I am using SCORM packages imported from Articulate Rise and added to Canvas Modules.  Because we also use Catalog, I have to set module requirements in order for Catalog to track course completion.  I am trying to find the best settings to work with ...

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Is it possible to allow an instructor to limit access to a Page within a module, in the same way we can limit access to a file. In particular to only allow the page to be viewed after a certain date. In can manually publish a page on a given date, bu...

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I had an idea for Canvas that if you're trying to find something specific within a module or a teacher('s) page, there should be a keyword search. so you would have the ability to find what you're looking for quicker. the search bar would search not ...

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I have an instructor who has two sections of the same course, section 23 and section 26.  Section 26 was created by copying section 23 when it was finished and ready to be published.  Both sections are exactly the same.  In section 23, unsubmitted as...

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  When syncing the canvass calendar to Outlook or Gmail, is it possible to control which courses are represented in the "Calendar Feed"?  For example: I am a student enrolled in 8 classes, 6 of which have posted their online lecture times on the canv...

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I was writing notes on instructor provided pdfs last night. All of a sudden, canvas spazzed out and when I logged back in, it had deleted the majority of the notes I wrote on my pdf as well as previous pdfs's notes from weeks ago. I've already transf...

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Under quiz statistics>Question Breakdown, CANVAS displays a "Discrimination Index" value. But in the Item Analysis output for a given question, that number is actually the "Points Biserial" value and, as far as I can tell, the actual Discrimination I...

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