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I discovered that when I schedule a file for student accessibility at a later date, that file posting immediately becomes visible to the student. They see the title of the item but when they click it a message pops up telling the student it's not ava...

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in one of my classes in canvas shows it's published. I try to click on it to view it but it is not letting me open the course

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How do you carry out deletion of student accounts from your Canvas? Because of GDPR regulations we cannot let data of students stay in Canvas after students have graduated 

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Hi: I am sending my class an announcement. I would like to embed a link to a questionnaire that I developed in google. When I insert the link it does not seem to work.

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Hi, One of my students is receiving duplicate 'Push Notifications'. Is there a fix to this?

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My "People" Module on the left column listing has the closed eye next to it meaning it is not visible to the students.  How do I get rid of that.  There is no "publish" tab anywhere on the page when I open up "People."  Also, once available, are the ...

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I'm creating a math quiz and can get equations and math symbols in the body of the question, but I can't figure out how to put equations or math symbols in the answer choices, using fill in the blank question.  I was trying to put in the infinity sym...

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Hi! I know that you're supposed to be able to remove old courses from your dashboard by un-starring them, but there are 4 random courses that I do not have starred and yet I can't get them to leave my dashboard. This was never a problem in the past a...

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The Canvas Administrator made certain sections (files, announcements, quizzes, etc) visible to teachers but not students.  I would like to make these sections visible to students. How do I do that?

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I am trying to add students to my course. However, "Student" is not listed as one of the roles in the add users window (see attached image). Does anyone know how to add the "Student" role to the options?Thanks!

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I am wondering how I can see 2 courses that are offered by 2 different schools in canvas. both are offered by VA community colleges which use the same host canvas but I can only see one course from one school and this worries me for the upcoming seme...

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When my course was copied from a previous term the course summary from that term followed. How do I delete the old course summary on my front page? 

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How do I add a question from an existing quiz to a question bank?

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I am writing a report for accreditation purposes. yeah.  The KPI requires documentation from Canvas rubrics.  (80% of students will receive a "satisfactory" on assignment x in course y.)    Is it possible to download in a spreadsheet all of the stude...

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Some grades have a ! next to them. What does this mean?

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In desperate need of assistance  and my university's tech support is "busy."  I was in the middle of reading a paper in speed grader and I must have clicked on something because the entire right section, where we write comments and enter a grade, is ...

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I assign a 5 question essay exam for one of my courses, and these exams obviously take a while to grade. Occasionally I have to take a break from grading when in the middle of grading an exam, with only some of the questions grades. I had assumed tha...

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Hi IDs!My fellow ID,  @jenny_hopf ‌, and I have been going back and forth on design principles regarding videos. On the one side, you can put multiple videos on one page, and, on the other side, each video could get their own page. We see downsides a...

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How do I merge sections of the same course on Canvas?Erna SmithJournalism LecturerLead instructor, J317: Journalism Practice, Spring2020

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I am using the Rich content editor to edit a page, and whilst writing a numerical list, I would like to have double line spacing (or actually 1.5 line spacing) to make it easier for my students to read.Is this currently a feature that I can perform?T...

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I have a class that has two "Midterm" exams and a final, worth 100pts, 100pnts & 150pts respectively. Only in cases where this helps the student, I want to set up the grade book to replace the lowest "midterm" exam grade with the final (percentage sc...

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Does anyone know of a way to have multiple due dates under the same discussion. As my faculty members discussed, they desire to split a particular discussion into three parts, part 1 where students summarize their chapter, part 2 where they share wha...

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I have read some Canvas threads on “Weighted Grades” and am still confused.  I have an an assignment group, Exams, that is set to a weight of 50% and has a rule “Drop lowest 1.”  As an example, assume there were 3 exams. Each exam has a different ‘to...

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Hi,My university currently does placement in our math classes with a commercial program. It has the advantage that it is online (so students not near our campus can take the placement test virtually). However we are considering giving our own in hous...

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Hi,One of my classes has 26% of its final grade in "quick write" assignments. There are 13 assignments, lowest score should be dropped. So, 12 assignments worth 3% each. The Assignments section is set at 26%. I have 13 quizzes entered, and there is a...

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Is anyone else seeing this? When attempting to create an Office 365 Collaboration, a "your session has expired" error occurs. I have filed Case 04930126 with Instructure to see if they can identify the cause.Steps to reproduce:In a Canvas course, cli...

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Is there any way to set an automatic reply in Canvas Inbox? Which would then be sent to any and every individual student sending a message: either until the reply is turned off, or for a specified time period? Like with email and out of office / out ...

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