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 I have a Category question.  For this type of question it gives all or nothing for credit.  I have 10 items and want it to be 10 points, how can I change so each portion is counted?

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I cannot upload a power point presentation. I keep getting error code 400. How can I fix this?

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Has anyone continued working on a Canvas chatbot? I'm trying to make a course-specific chatbot that emerges on course homepage and prompts the student to click on frequently-asked-questions which the instructor has written, and which may change week-...

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Hi. I'd like to embed a simple question onto a page and record students answer.  This feature has long been promised - has it finally been delivered with New Quizzes?  I have just arranged to have New Quizzes enabled by my institution but I can't see...

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Hi everyone,I've been moving my classic quiz banks into New Quizzes, and I've come up against a problem that I haven't found a good solution for yet. If I have one large question bank that I want to split into smaller banks, right now I can only move...

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Hello!I need to be out of my office for a week or so and want to set up automatic email reply. How is this done in Canvas?

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Hello,Is it possible to direct where the New Quiz "Return" button takes students? I'd like to include a New Quiz sequentially between pages in a module and have my students navigate to the next page upon completion of the quiz. When I was in Student ...

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If you are the application owner check the logs for more information. This is an error message I got when trying to open an assignment I had linked to my google drive

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How do I stop a Module from continuing to the next Module? e.g. i have broken my course into 12 discreet lessons corresponding to 12 weeks -- when a student completes one lesson, i would like them to return to the home page and not move to the next m...

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Students submitted assignments by linking their Google Doc, and their documents were shown as gdoc, which I could not open. Could you please let me know how to open files with extension of gdoc?

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Link a url to an announcement

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I created a new canvas course, but all the announcements from the previous course transfer as well. How do I do a mass delete of all these announcements without having to individually delete each one? thanks in advance

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Hello Canvas community,I am a music teacher using this system for the first time. The conferences are generally successful with my students except for one important feature: When I share my screen with my students and we look at music software and mu...

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I've written a simple script to add a series of quizzes to the end of each module in a department.There's some other stuff happening around this to figure out the title, answers, and some other pieces, but the code at the bottom shows my API requests...

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Hello Canvas Support!My question:As a teacher, how do I pin a reply to a discussion thread?  I want all students to read it, so don't want it to go to the bottom of the thread. Thank you. 

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I’m running into a Canvas issue where a new rubric I’m creating (complete/incomplete, with points removed) reverts criteria to alphabetical order when I post it. I’m not running into the same issue with rubrics that were created and imported from las...

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I provided students with an "extra credit" opportunity.  The extra credit was comprised of a case study with multiple choice 25 questions regarding the case.  I created a separate assignment group identified as Extra Credit.  Everything worked well e...

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After completing a quiz with question banks, I noticed an error in one of the answers . . . actually a student did.  When I go back to the question bank and change the answer, it does not regrade the quiz.  How can I make this happen.  PS I have 250 ...

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Is it possible to set up reoccurring tasks or events in the calendar that will appear on the todo list

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As a faculty, when I click reply (like on student post), the system spawns the text editor box (YEAH).  However, the cursor is NOT positioned in the upper left to start immediately typing.  This forces the author to click reply, allow the spawn, then...

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Can you change the YouTube search box so I can paste a URL for a video into it and it will find the video it links to? I'm sick of my videos looking wonky because search will find some videos, but then when I search for other ones- even if I use the ...

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I use a lot of announcements and copy them from course to course. Is there a way to adjust the 'delay posting' dates for all the announcements in one place (without having to go in and edit each announcement individually)?Thanks - couldn't find this ...

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I've figured out how to embed a Power Point into a Canvas page, but when I come back the next day, I get this message: Any ideas on how to fix this? I want to make sure my students can view the ppt. with hyperlinks that work. The hyperlinks don't wor...

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Is it possible to download completed quiz responses not just the results? I am looking to store the evidence for future audit purposes.

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In Canvas - under Quizzes I have two QuizzesQuiz 1     ---  10 questionsQuiz 2     ---  15 questionsHow do I merge these two quizzes in one quiz , rename it Quiz 3 with 25 questions

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Migrating old quiz banks to the new quiz engine:I have about 100 different question types, each with 5 versions. These are ones I've made myself--they are not from a publisher's question bank. That makes for 100 question banks--one question type per ...

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I want to unpublish announcements. I still want to be able to see them but I do not want all of them to be visible to students.  I can only find a delete option.  I don't want to delete them completely. I just want to take some away for students to m...

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Using Speed Grader with Discussion - In the past, I have been able to see each student's individual responses for a Discussion in Speed Grader. However, now Speed grader only shows a blank pane for a student. I can find their posts in the full discus...

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I am trying to track and communicate with students who are not viewing or participating with the content. I view New Analytics-Weekly Online Activity-then I look at the information by week; example April 19-April 26. I had previously been using this ...

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