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Is there a way to convert a standard canvas course to the elementary subject view?

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Hi, It would be great if items were sorted by their description when importing them from another course under the Settings tab.  Right now, there does not appear to be any logical order, which can make it difficult to find a particular item.

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Hi, I have the students view their results and on their end (student view) they do NOT see exactly which blank is wrong even AFTER I selected that students view their answers. 

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I do not understand this message:  "Importing the same course content more than once will overwrite any existing content in the course."  Here is what I want to do: I imported QUIZ from Course 2021 into Course 2022.  Then I edited it in Course 2022....

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I copied a course from last year that had a late penalty of 10% per day down to 60% policy.  This year I chose not to use the policy, so I unchecked it.  This morning, I had a concerned student approach me because he got notified (sometime Sunday nig...

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We have a year long course that has many different units in the course.  There are more than 100 assignments/quizzes in the entire course.   For our student management system we need them all in one course. We know we can limit access to parts of a c...

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I teach seniors to correctly format their cover letters and resumes in Word. I need to be able to SEE the formatting (light up the Hide/Show Formatting icon in Paragraph Menu) in order to grade the assignments. Can this capability be added? thank you...

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I have just set up recurring zoom meetings for my Arch 102 course. But I'm not finding where to invite my two teaching colleagues as alternate hosts.

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I was doing great in my class, submitting my assignments looking forward to the last day of this semester, and enjoying my holiday with my family. When I checked my grade it was an F. I looked to see what happened and the last 7 assignments that I su...

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Hi all, I have an instructor with 16 students enrolled in her course according to Banner, but when we check the enrollment in Canvas there are no students listed. As the campus admin I checked the course to verify that no students were showing. Just ...

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In my "Syllabus" tab, the "Course Summary" lists due dates for the current class.  That's fine. But at the bottom it also presents a list of obsolete items -- mostly empty calendars from previous courses!  These show up in the Student View as well an...

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Is there as easier than 1-at-a-time way to change several assignments (a) to "display as percent", and (b) the point values for the assignments? DETAILS: I use MyOpenMath LTI. When the assignments are imported to Canvas, they are automatically set to...

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I am using New Quizzes, assessing from the Quizzes link in the Modules View left navigation column. Building the new New Quizzes goes smoothly, I Save and Return. But I cannot bring them into the Modules view as an assignment.  When I click the + sig...

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Canvas disallows the display of question details when a question bank has 51 or more questions.   This is a problem because when uploading questions banks from publishers they will often have 51 or more questions. This means I cannot easily view the ...

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How do I put links to specific pages on my homepage  

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I am the teacher for my fraternity's canvas page. I added committee heads as TA's to the course so they could add events to the syllabus, but they are still required to obtain points I would grade. Is there a way to give them the permissions of a TA,...

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This thread is open for comments. Looking for comments (ease-of-use) : https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Suggest-Ability-to-email-class-from-within-course/idc-p/502921/emcs_t/S2h8ZW1haWx8ZGlnZXN0X25vdGlmaWNhdGlvbnxLWEc0UDlORVQ5Q1B...

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Issue: subtitle file not uploading for video files within a page   The videos have been uploaded to a Canvas course and organized on a page. When clicking on "Video Options" the panel comes up and allows a subtitle language and file to be chosen. Aft...

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I'd like to time the students' on their essay writing (Quiz feature) as well as check for for plagiarism (Turnitin), but both options are not available on CANVAS. Why can't I use Turnitin for a file upload under the "Quiz" feature?

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When an assignment has a rubric to use for grading enabled, is there a way to have that rubric automatically open when you view assignments in speedgrader?  If I've enabled a rubric to use for grading, then I want it available for grading on each ass...

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I have been trying to export a quiz so I can import it into a question bank. I am using the old format quizzes. However, when I export the quiz, the file is just a folder of several other folders of .xml files with no QTI files, so I cannot import th...

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We are using the Canvas-delivered APIs to integrate course and enrollment information from our SIS to Canvas. Note that I'm referring to the APIs that are direct, one-off calls to update data in Canvas, and not the API call you can use to transfer cs...

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Is there any way to email the professor of a past enrollment? I have some questions about my final and how it was graded yet the professor closed the course. Having not provided an email this is the only way I can contact them. I need to choose the c...

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I know it is possible to edit availability and due dates for multiple assignments at once, but I can't find a place to achieve the same for modules. I have students complete a module ahead of each class, and in subsequent semesters I would like to be...

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There seems to be ongoing issues when using Canvas through the Safari browser.  I don't know if there is such a thing as a record of the things that won't work, will work with a workaround or will only work using another browser.  Loads of people use...

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Can announcements, or any due dates, be sent to students by way of text messaging?  I have students asking for that feature. 

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I originally set a late policy of 5% per day with a floor at 50%.  I decided that I wanted to remove that policy.  When I go to change it, I do get the warning message: Changing the late policy will affect previously graded submissions. After uncheck...

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There are a lot of questions in the Forum about standards based grading in Canvas.  My question is:  Is there anyone that has come up with a creative way to use the traditional gradebook and the mastery gradebook together to assess and track standard...

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Is it possible to have access to download all student submissions for an assignment after the course is concluded by over a year and put into read mode? Can I only view assignments once put into read.

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