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Has anyone encountered any issues with the Google Drive resource key update. My very vague recollection is that the Google-delivered integration relies on these kinds of links. The timing is not great.

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Is there a way to repeat global announcements?  For example; we have a weekly video series with a live feed.  Instead of copy/pasting and creating 52 separate announcements with start and end dates, is there a way to setup a recurring announcement ev...

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I added an image to an announcement, but when I received the notification email the image was not included. Is this the expected behavior for announcements?

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Does anyone know how to resolve this problem? Thank you in advance!

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I'm an admin, but not a coder.  I'm not having any luck running the list multiple submissions API.  This is what I was trying: https://XXX.beta.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/:course number/students/submissions?per_page=10000&PersonalTOKEN  Am I miss...

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I posted about this as a reply to a question elsewhere, but then it occurred to me that it could be its own topic. Does anyone know a way to make International Phonetic Association "combining characters" appear correctly in Canvas?  Single characte...

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It is incredible time-comsuming and tedious to lock each object in all of our year-long blueprint classes by hand, clicking each icon, then waiting for it to reload.  Please, is there a "Lock all objects" option somewhere? Also, why aren't the object...

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I am working on a new course design and trying to find the best way for our adult learners to be able to track their own progress. We currently have the course divided into modules by week (6-week course, so 6 modules). We do not necessarily need peo...

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  When creating user account through API sometimes it goes through successfully and other times throw exception like below "ExpectationFailed - The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized  . for user Benjamin Martinez,be.martinez@ecisd.us...

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How can i link the student  canvas account to the parent canvas account

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I'm completely baffled.  It seems as though some of my created pages just got up and left  While checking one of my course links today, I got the message, "The page does not exist, but you can create it below" and was redirected to the page editor. ...

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Hello everyone, I would like to notify you that we have a Scheduled Maintenance planned for August 14, 2021. Turnitin will take a 2 hour maintenance window on August 14, 2021 from 08:00-10:00 PDT, 16:00-18:00 BST, 01:00-03:00 AEST (Aug 15th) [go to h...

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Hello everyone, I would like to notify you that we have a Scheduled Maintenance planned for August 14, 2021. Turnitin will take a 2 hour maintenance window on August 14, 2021 from 08:00-10:00 PDT, 16:00-18:00 BST, 01:00-03:00 AEST (Aug 15th) [go to h...

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Hello everyone, I would like to notify you that we have a Scheduled Maintenance planned for August 14, 2021. Turnitin will take a 2 hour maintenance window on August 14, 2021 from 08:00-10:00 PDT, 16:00-18:00 BST, 01:00-03:00 AEST (Aug 15th) [go to h...

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I'm unable to start a recording  

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I found the documentation related to SSO but we prefer not to have our application have to act as the IDP for that type of process. Are there other options for students to access the Canvas platform through an auto sign-on link once they have been en...

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i am not receiving an email to reset my password I have tried 9 times since yesterday

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Good morning,               Our program admin has been trying to add me as a teacher to a course. She has resent the invitation several times but I'm not getting anything. I tried to report the problem via help but there is no option for that in my a...

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Is there anyway to rename the course navigation "BigBlueButton (formerly Conferences)" to something else. It isn't being translated for our students and really stands out like a sore thumb.

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Hello Brains Trust   If I have 5 questions within a quiz, and I want to set it to shuffle questions- can I set it to shuffle Q1-4 only and leave Q5 to be the last question (i.e. fix it in place while the other questions are shuffled)?

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I haven't found a guide about how to contribute in Arabic translation team

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How can I get my courses certificates?

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Hello Everyone, I created a course as a teacher. Then, I enrolled as a student with the same email address to see what students see. Now, I have not been able to get back in and edit the course as an instructor. Since I am (or that email was) the Adm...

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Our institution recently moved from Moodle to Canvas.  I teach performing arts courses where the students are graded on both their attendance as well as effort and participation.  In moodle, I used a duplicate attendance "roll call" to track effort a...

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Hi, I am looking to share new-ish features in Canvas with my teachers for PD.  Other than the cross listings which have been around for just a year, what other new features are out there that you'd recommend?   Thanks.

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We are trying to run an export of our courses but keep having deleted files show up in the IMSCC packages. Has anyone had this issue before and if so, how did you fix it?  Thanks in advance! 

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While creating the class schedule in the calendar, I notice that one can't create a class/event, having the same time and venue for each day, for multiple days of the week at once. Say, I have the same class on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at the sam...

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I am new to this platform. I would like to know how to change the event details (say, time or venue etc.) which should also modify/affect all the events that follow? I find it pretty strange that such option does NOT seem to be there or I did not fin...

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