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Is there a way to make multiple answers correct in a multiple choice question?  I accidentally gave two correct answers and two incorrect, but I can only seem to allow one at a time for full credit.

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Background:We are building a LTI 1.3 app, for that we are using TSUGI(GitHub - tsugiproject/tsugi: Tsugi Admin, Developer, and Management Console (pls join the dev list) ) to handle the LTI flows and we are building a "mod" in this system which will ...

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How do I access the message board in Canvas for my class?  I do not see a message board icon or dropdown menu choice.  I completed the Canvas intro but I don't remember if this issue was covered.  Harris Martin

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In searching around, it seems like it's possible for an Admin to (1) change the student role so that no student-users can do student-to-student messaging or (2) create a different type of student role who cannot message other students, but are there ...

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I am trying to add an assignment from my assignment page into a module. However, it won't show up when I click the plus icon and select "assignments" - it is just not in the list. I logged out and back in, unpublished and republished the assignment, ...

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We have numerous third party external accreditation audits over the year. Is there a user role for this? Does anyone have a suggestion on the best way to set one up? I would like to know if anyone has set up a Course Role or special Account/SubAccout...

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All of a sudden files and documents submitted by my professors, in the modules, will not load their preview. The blue wheel just spins and spins. I have to download every document to look at it. Did I disable something, maybe? 

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Hello fellow Canvas users. I have a kind of unique question. My school is transitioning the majority of course courses from a previous LMS we have used to Canvas which we have had for a number of years. In this move we'd like to control who and what ...

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I want students to be able to watch a lecture video in Canvas but I do NOT want them to be able to download or save the video outside of Canvas (to their laptop, etc.)How can I set up this kind of file restriction?

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Is there a QR code attendance tracker that integrates into Canvas? Someone has said there is, but if it exists I can't find it. The only two attendance trackers I know of that integrates with Canvas are A+ Attendance and Qwickly Attendance.

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Hello, I have made a Canvas quiz with the following settings :- graded quiz- locked questions after answering + show one question at a timeFor this Quiz, I have a big block of text under "Quiz instructions". I would like to have these instructions on...

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Question bank questions are disappearing after importing QTI files from a course pack. I will import the QTI, create a quiz from the quiz bank, return to the quiz a few minutes to hours later and the quiz bank went from having 100+ questions to less ...

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How do I set up multiple options for student submissions on one assignment? I would like to offer students the option to write in a textbox, submit a PDF, or connect to a Google Doc. How do I set that up?

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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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