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Has anyone else discovered the standard Provisioning Course Report doesn't show Concluded courses? Should it show them or is there another report that has that data?

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Solution Posted: 12-18-2023 View Solution
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How do i access my past courses. In all courses, I'm only able to access my current ones

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The attempts count is not increasing after the first attempt if the score to keep is set as first and a max attempt limit is set. Similarly, in the case when grade display is set to Highest, after the first attempt, the attempts count is increased on...

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Dear community, how are you?I would like to explain an improvement that could be significantly important to reduce user support when using the native Canvas player. In all players such as YouTube, Vimeo, among others, the user chooses an option in pi...

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Given the remote nature that some institutions have moved to, what community features does Canvas offer to bring students together with remote learning?  Discussion Boards?Opt-in only - maps for students to show their broad location for potential mee...

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Hi All,We recently changed our source of truth database so every user's sis id needs to be changed in canvas.I am experiencing issues when I try to update Staff SIS ID's I am using the required change_sis_id.csv file format e.g.,old_id, new_id, type1...

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Hello hope have a wonderfull weekend  I'm wondering is there a setting in canvas that I can limit the professor to not grade empty online submission or a js code that can help with that?  

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Solution Posted: 12-13-2023 View Solution
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I needed to update the navigation menu in 27 Blueprint courses (added "Grades" to the menu). After I made this update the option to sync to their associated courses was not available. The only way I could trigger the Sync button to appear was to eith...

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While grading a quiz, I entered some fudge points and updated score. Then I decided against the fudge points, and deleted them. But when I then updated the score, the fudge points came back. I cannot seem to get rid of them!! (Do i maybe have to ente...

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I want to view Quiz (Classic) Action Log for each student to monitor progress, look for departures from Quiz Page, etc. I have 50 students. As far as I know, I must open the exam page itself, then click 3-dot menu and open "Slow student quiz results"...

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i have last year's final exam. I want to use some of it, but not all of it, and add many new questions. So ... what is the equivalent to "Save as ..." if I were using Word? That is, I want to edit the existing quiz but not lose it, and have the newly...

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Has anyone been able to set a minimum time limit on quizzes?  One of the problems I am facing is that I have several test-takers who want to race and see who can get done first. Obviously this is not a true measure of how much they know and gives the...

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Solution Posted: 12-18-2023 View Solution
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We have links from our Canvas course sites to selected Canvas resources (Student Resources, Student Mobile Guides, Instructor Resources, etc.). The links, all of which start with "https://design.instructure.com/courses/", are now broken. Does anyone ...

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I prefer to only have one module open at a time.  How do you set open and closed dates for a module and all of its contents?  I'd like to set it so that when a module opens, the previous one closes and this goes on for the duration of the course.  I ...

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Can you rebase a course to another? Like git rebase stage to master. We have 30 courses in which we have had a "stage"/"qa" course and a "prod" course.  However people have directly made changes in the "prod" course. Now we need to totally revamp all...

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We have just added the Microsoft OneDrive integration (twice, as we could not believe what was happening). It now appears that the link to the file or embedded document is NOT dynamic. Any changes you make mean you have to re-upload the file. What is...

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We service WIOA grant students which requires us to report on a student's activity and academic progress. We recently noticed that when we pull down assignment submissions, a certain student has assignments with submit dates days beyond their last ac...

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Has anyone else had issue with the new ChromeOS update affecting the Redirect Tool? We have looked and looked in our chrome settings to see if there was something in there blocking the redirect but we can not find anything. We allow redirects for can...

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we have created a page with the title Course Home Header, it used to have the url   pages/course-home-header, but after some messing with the page it now has the url pages/course-home-header-13  and no matter what we do, we can't get the URL back to ...

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I'm in search of our CSM, as we will be intiating a tracker with Mastery Connect.Information on the web states <<In order to link a mastery tracker to your Canvas course, your Instructure Customer Success Manager (CSM) must first set up an LTI connec...

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Hi all, I have checked the guides, but have been unable to determine the answer to this question. It sounds like sections can be/are set to be distinct from one another. Can they be set to interact with one another? I have a professor who has two sec...

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We have one Canvas course with only one quiz. Throughout the year, we will continuously add students to that course. We want each student to have a two-week window upon enrolling in this course. While we can achieve this with the assignment availabil...

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I have created an old quiz, and the points are now doubled. Although there are only 120 questions, the displayed points show as 240.

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Hi everyone, I found an issue when importing Moodle quizzes to Canvas, and I haven't been able to find any question related to it. I created a Moodle quiz backup from the quiz administration itself, so please note that it is not a course backup. File...

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Hi Canvas Community,   Has anyone tried or experienced configuring SSO for 3rd party or external set of users using this How do I configure third-party authentication prov... - Instructure Community - 225 (canvaslms.com)? Our experience was not strai...

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I am unable to access Canvas on safari on my Mac. Whenever, I access the link, I get a "Bad Request" with the following error message: Apache Server at canvas.instructure.com Port 80. This is the first time this has been an issue on safari. Was there...

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Om flera studenter samarbetar och gör en uppgift tillsammans kan man koppla fler användare till samma inlämning eller måste personerna lämna in samma uppgift som respektive användare? Tacksam för svar. 

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Hi!I'm relatively new to Canvas.I have a requirement of my students to be prepared in class with a charged Chromebook.  This year I am tracking this where each student can earn a point for each day they arrive with a charged Chromebook. I'd like to k...

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Hi Community! I am hoping to get some guidance. We have created/published a new course for our organization's students and added the students to the course. However, upon clicking the link  in the invitation email to access/begin the course, no modul...

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Solution Posted: 12-12-2023 View Solution
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Does anyone know how to make Learning Modules viewable to certain students in a course, but not all?

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Solution Posted: 12-11-2023 View Solution
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