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I see that when I create an assignment that needs an upload, I can limit the file format types that students are allowed to upload. But when I create a new assignment, I either have to type out (or copy and paste) my list of file formats again.Is the...

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Hello, I am a Supervisor and I'd like to see what courses my team has to take and how many they've taken. I don't know how to do that. 

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Can two people log in as the same student at the same time from different devices? I think I have a student who is sitting in front of her test, while someone else completes it for her.

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I OPEN CANVASNOTHING ON DASHBOARDCLICK ON COURSES ALL COURSES NOTHINGWHERE ARE THE COURSES WHERES THE LIST HOW CAN I SEE THE LIST I.T. IS SAYING I HAVE CANVAS SO WHERE ARE THE COURSES HOW CAN I IMPORT A COURSE WHERE IS THE COURSE LISTFRUSTRATION LEVE...

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Differentiation of instruction in Canvas.  It would be really helpful if you could publish specific modules to specific students.

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Hi everyone, I am wondering, after setting up a requirement, for example, 'mark as done' on specific pages, if I need to report on how many students have completed which pages, is there any data or a download available that shows how many students ha...

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Hi I have been asked if there is a way of sending a notification email to students and/or the student support officer that they have not logged in for a period of time? I know I could run the Last User Access report and extract the users details who ...

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Is there a way to view 1 student's submissions in SpeedGrader without having to click in and then out of SpeedGrader? For example, a student who was on vacation got back to school and submitted 5 assignments that now have to be graded. As a teacher, ...

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When working with multiple sections of the same course, we created "course shells" within Canvas for each course and only gave access to the subject matter expert (who was not the same as the faculty/instructor). We only created one weekly Rise modul...

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Feedback should be welcomed more than once!You've made it frustrating for new users!I never fit in the selected categories and you don't have an ''other '' option. Stinks.It's my centerfold ''turn off'' TOTALLY.MY OTHER COMMENTS DON'T HAVE AN EASY LI...

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I am an Instructional Designer and Canvas Admin at a College. We just enabled SSO through MS Azure/Entra, and the /login/canvas "Backdoor Login" remains. I like that for admins, but is there a way to restrict which users can sign into [domain].instru...

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When scrolling gradebooks (either vertically or horiztonally) the scrolling line is extremely hard (almost razor thin) to grab when trying to quickly scroll.  Multiple teachers in our district have noted this over the past few weeks and I'm wondering...

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With the Microsoft Teams sync feature, all our students are added to a Teams course with the role of member rather than student. We have other products that integrate with Microsoft Teams but as a K12 school, they expect the school to be a Microsoft ...

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I have a number of course for which I need to export or otherwise download the assignment brief pages (the descriptions of the assignments, NOT the submitted student assignments). How can I do this ? I'd like them to be saved in some human-readable, ...

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My file in the IHEED program was deleted. This happened after uploading many documents and two years of effort. The submitted cases were approved and obtained a high score. After that, the program was deleted. herefore, request that the files, grades...

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beore a class starts will will i get a notification prior to it starting

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Did the size of the scroll bar at the bottom change, or did I do somerthing??  It's so tiny that I cannnot grab it most of the time.  It's becoming very frustrating.  I've zoomed in and out. No luck.  This seemed to happen about a week ago or so. I a...

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I'd like to add my vote that Canvas create a sortable rubric. We all know how tedious it is to create a rubric, realize you left out a criterion half way through, and have to start over! 

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Hi everyone, Is there a way I can create a cvs file that has random numbers for variables a, b, c, and d? These numbers are then used in create other numbers A, B , and C. Then create the question: Solve `A`x^2 + `B`x + `C` =0. A = a*c B = b*c + a*d ...

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Buenas tardes Comunidad Tengo una pregunta acerca de los cursos maestros y me encuentro por medio del API revisando la relacion entre los cursos maestro y los productivos 1. como se diferencia en la creacion un curso maestro? parametros? 2. como es l...

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with an override column enabled, can I import a csv to enter data into the override column?  

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I was awarding badges manually for the first time. Under a participant's name, there was a green button, "Award Badge." I clicked the button, and Canvas gave the badge to someone else. Apparently, the "Award Badge" button under the name is not the pe...

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When an announcement is created in canvas and an instructor embeds a video into it, the students who receive an email about the announcement can not see the video in the email (there is not even a desciption or brackets of some sort to even show ther...

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I am an instructor who uses Canvas, but have recently enrolled in classes at the same university. How do I switch back and forth from using Canvas as an instructor and Canvas as a student? Thank you.

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I have a student who seems to get a blue icon displaying next to some of the courses they are enrolled in. They do not appear to have any missing assignments but these blue dots display in the dashboard. Is there a way to remove them or hide them?

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For some reason the normal sized scroll bars have become very skinny on my CANVAS LMS on the grades menu.  The other menus - modules, etc seem to have the normal widthness scroll bars.  I am not sure if this is a setting and I accidently hit some but...

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Dear Community I want to know how to enable - Parnet Apps - QR Code Login I can't find in my Admin menu Thank you.

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In calendar events there is an option to add bigbluebutton for an individual event, but this isn't available for the appointment group scheduler. Appointment group scheduler is used for staff to offer bookable slots for their cohort. So what's the be...

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Hi Canvas Community - hoping for some advice on this one please. We are six years into Canvas as an institution and will be onboarding a team who are existing Moodle users but who we will need to support in transferring their existing Moodle course a...

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I have an interesting and somewhat annoying situation.  I have a first year Business subject with 1700+ students.108 students has been allocated to a marker for an assessment.These students are across sections so we created a new section and added th...

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