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Canvas Inbox (Conversations) needs the RCE!   Imaging being able to communicate with bold or italic type. Imagine being able to add live hyperlinks or bullet lists when sending messages in Inbox. How about links to assignments or discussions or anyth...

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For discussion assignments, I set up an ungraded assignment for the initial post so that it has a due date listed in the syllabus and calendar separately from the due date for the complete, graded assignment. In the past, the ungraded initial post ha...

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We are currently in the process of integrating Ellucian ILP and Canvas. We have successfully set up the integration in our test environment and things are flowing correctly. When we set it up in Production we are experiencing issues we did not have i...

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When I open Speedgrader, I no longer automatically see the uploaded assignment in the left hand panel. I need to download the student's submission separately. Previously, the assignment was always visible. How can I go back to the previous layout ple...

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I've been trying to use the embed tool to add html code from Typeform. Not having much luck as nothing displays. Is it possible to embed html code? I've looked through the other discussions and haven't come across anything about this specifically. Th...

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Quick question about grade passback, Infinite Campus, and assignment categories. One of my teachers swears that her Canvas/Infinite Campus grade sync has changed behavior.  Canvas has stopped creating her Infinite Campus assignments as "Uncategorized...

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Hello!  Can I as an admin see who created an conference? 

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For over 40 school days, when we're at home, every time my son logs into Canvas and goes to Zoom or even the school portal to do apps like Jiji, he drops him at random times. We've even tried going to Zoom directly and entered the meeting ID, but tha...

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Is it possible to shuffle the order that items appear on a page every time a student opens the page? In my case it's external links. Can I set it up so that when a student first opens a page, it shows linksABC but then the same links BAC the next tim...

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In my subject we have about 1300 students (first year). Hence we use online quizzes for assessment (about 15 questions, multiple choice). We run the first assessment, went to check the statistics and got a sad panda instead. First, it does not expla...

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Is there a way to disable the notification pop-up that appears when students turn an assignment in late?  The message asks if the student is sure they want to turn in an assignment because it’s late, and it might discourage some students from turning...

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Hi! We have students who are behind in their assignments. When they sort their to do list chronologically, it will get most of the list correct, but if an assignment is a copied or imported assignment, it doesn't get listed correctly. Students and pa...

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I have created a final project for all 7 students in the same class.  All 7 students will be working together on the same project, so there is only one project (not a project created by each student). The project has multiple components (15) that eac...

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I copied questions from my previous course to the current one. Now I'm trying to create a new quiz using question bank. When I click on question bank then unfiled questions to find quiz question, I don't see any questions listed. how can I make the o...

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I would like to see a link on each Canvas page to the module that I have placed it in.  Knowing the title of the module that each page is connected to would also be helpful when navigating by pages.  I have so many pages, that it is very time consumi...

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When I attempt to view the Action Log for a student's quiz responses, I am unable to see the answers they selected for any "multiple answer" questions. The page shows all multiple choice answers, but for multiple answer, it says "no answer" every tim...

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Suppose I have a quiz, built with New Quizzes, that is open from the beginning of the course and due Feb 28. Students can try the quiz as many times as they want. If I set an Until date of Feb 28, they cannot submit past that date, but it also seems ...

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Hello, I have assigned the Alternative assignment for Crime Scene Investigation to 3 students only (they could not participate in the on-campus investigation).  I set the due date at 12 March.  However, as shown in screenshot below, the due date is n...

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Here is what I am putting in my editor for an announcement.  Links to external sources.  They show up when I edit the announcement. I click submit to post the announcement, and the following shows up:   Can anyone help with a solution, or can you t...

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One of my students wants to sign up for Office Hours, but the Find Appointment button is not on her screen for her to sign up.  Please advise. 

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Hi all,  Trying to customize my Canvas courses after taking over for another instructor.  I would like to have my syllabus displayed on the syllabus tab.  I've uploaded a pdf, but it only shows a link to the document.  I'd prefer if the document was ...

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Hello, Is it possible to show modules to only one student, but hide them from other students in the same Canvas course? One of my students is about to leave for a military boot camp for months apparently without access to the Internet. He wants to co...

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I don't mean renaming a module. I mean, renaming what Canvas thinks are "modules". A module at university usually is a course, or a subject. In Canvas it has a different meaning, more akin to "course sections". Is it possible to rename this element t...

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The concept of E-learning has become challenging not only for students but for the teachers as well. It is very difficult to teach on the online platform. The very common question asked by every teacher is that how can they improve their teaching qua...

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Hello, I have a simple question about quizzes. I currently have a quiz that has two attempts, if I am taking the quiz and then decide to leave it and then resume it later, does the timer keep running? Or does it pause the timer when I leave it and co...

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When submitting a question to the forum, any initial submission or reply entered in the text box regularly produces an error, and text cannot be recovered. This occurs even though the message below the text box says, "your content was last auto-saved...

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When grading short answers / essays, I'm unable to mark student's submissions for revision. I suppose the extremely inefficient workaround would be to quote the entire submission in the assignment comments and point out errors there (without a text e...

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Hi all, as far as I can tell there is no way to add point annotations to a submission via the API.  It seems possible that you could grab the preview_url and start making calls as a DocViewer client, but that gets complicated fast and probably does n...

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Hi! In canvas we can delay an announcement to post on a specific date/time as well as assignments, modules, etc. Can we do this inside a group? I have divided my class into groups for  project and I want to assign an assignment or announcement to ope...

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Can we embed Instagram videos (from accounts we follow, not my own account) and have them visible in Canvas without students needing to have their own Instagram account?  

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