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The College where I work uses turnitin (as an external tool) as part of the submission process for student assignments. In the past, when a teacher has needed to add a marking rubric to an assignment, the teacher has temporarily changed the 'submissi...

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I'm a (new) Student and see that my Grades page simply lists all the activities and associated grade.It would be very beneficial to be able to group grades, for example by Module.Currently it can Arrange (order) by DateModuleAssignment GroupTitle But...

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Hi All,    As you know the Canvas clusters all clone top level data down to the test and beta environments on a regular bases. This can be helpful for Support departments to reproduce issues and as a UAT environment before releasing. It does however ...

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Is there a way to download rubric data into an excel spreadsheet?

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Is there a way to change the font size using the Latex Canvas equation editor?

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I am interested in letting my students take a timed multiple choice quiz using a question bank to randomly populate the quizzes for each student. Then, I would like my students to be able to see which questions they got wrong without giving them the ...

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We just moved our Blackbaud data to our Beta site using OneRoster.  The integration went well and it appears all of the data is there just not the way we expected it.  In Blackbaud we are set up as a semester school.   A year long course is 2 semeste...

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As noted in the table comparing New Quizzes to Classic, there is not actual parity between the Classic format of Fill in multiple blanks and New Quizzes format. I cannot make the work around functional for what I need to do with Multiple Blanks in Ne...

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I have a suggested improvement to Canvas that would help both instructors and students of variable credit classes.  Here’s the problem: I teach a class that students can enroll in for 1-3 credits based on workload. Neither the student nor I can see h...

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When it shows a student downloaded a screenshot on the access report-- What does that mean?   access 

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Hello,  I am wanting to know if there is a way to collect the total points for an individual module? The total points column is for the entire course. I just want the total points for a particular module. Is there a way to do this?

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  In the admin account, how does one set up an external tool for a big group of people so the instructors do not need to manually do it?     

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Just want to say I have tried searching old posts and have found a few helpful ones that I saved for specific issues or things, but I am trying to find a true beginners guide. I have used a few LMS as a student but before covid my school did not have...

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Hiya! My school is currently shopping around for a new LMS and one of the options we're considering is Canvas. I'd love to hear what your experience with the platform has been like and possibly how it compares in practice to Google Classroom (+ G S...

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I am developing browser extensions for Canvas, and one question that is becoming important to me is whether the property data-module-id  which is assigned to every module (68197 in the image) is unique not only to the the course in question but also ...

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Couldn't find the place to submit a feature request so here goes: Modules could be more visually organised if indented pages could be collapsed in the same way the module can be collapsed.  I tried H5P accordions but these do not support images. Than...

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The Brave Browser https://brave.com/ has an inbuilt feature to stop website trackers.  Does that include Canvases? AKA: Are students able to dodge trackers by using it. Am I still able to view if a user has left the window, or gone to a new tab if th...

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I accidentally deleted the final exam grades In my class _ How do I retrieve it Please??   

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Before the update this year, i was able to create a link in a page and opt to link it to a new page that would be created when i click on the link. Then i would edit the page. It was super fast and easy. Since the update, i cant seem to create a link...

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I read previous forums that canvas does not notify you if a change was made to a syllabus. However, I was wondering if there is anyway to see if changes were made. I am almost positive a professor made changes to the syllabus, but I didn’t save it; t...

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tcc package imported to canvas course and on launch 1.3 tool that resource custom value are not receiving on launch . for every resource file we are adding custom sku i.e <blti:custom><lticm:property name="sku">X45352</lticm:property></blti:custom> b...

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I have been using the feature in Canvas that allows me to send an email to "All In Students" and to send to each recipient individually. This has worked for all my courses -- except one and only starting after April 28, 2021. (I had my students trace...

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I'm attempting to create a course in Canvas, but it's storage limit is only 250MB.....whereas I probably need a Gig.....is there anything I can do? 

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Respected Instructure Team, I want my following course as public so that everyone can take benefit of this.here is my course URL below.My course LINKPlease help me to make my course visibility as Public ASAP so that I can get started adding course de...

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Kia Ora Canvas Whanau, I've been utilising a script embedded into a google document so I can get my students to submit their work in the assignments section and I can see it and give feedback in Speedgrader. This method has been working for 2 Years u...

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My biggest frustration with Canvas and this community page is that so many great ideas for features are suggested by teachers who use Canvas every day, yet they are routinely ignored. Who cares if there aren't "enough votes". I only know about this w...

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This will be the first "official" time I will be using lockdown browser with webcam in one of my classes due to a flex modality.  Have any of you put wording directly in your syllabus regarding the lockdown browser, and if so, what did you say other ...

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Is there a way to create a "calculated assignment" where the course instructor can create an assignment that has a score based on previous assignments. One example may be if an instructor wanted to create an assignment that automatically calculated t...

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I am having a very frustrating issue with my assignments being sorted randomly. I manually go through on the Assignments page and drag and drop them into the correct order, but when I navigate away and come back, they're back to being all messed up: ...

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