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Hello-I have set up my courses (as Admin) so that students enroll in the course via email invite. I have not set a join code for any courses. One of my users (a teacher) has asked that I set a join code for her students because they have a Canvas acc...

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Is there a way to rename a file while I'm submitting it, or set up a system to auto rename a file when I submit it to abide by a certain format? In my file system I format names a certain way, however my teachers want me to format them in a different...

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One of my colleagues is teaching 17 courses this year. Yes, a lot of courses. Somehow one of the courses is not showing up on her Dashboard. But we can see the missing course in the Admin panel. Could anyone tell me why that missing course is behavin...

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Hi Team,Could you help to change my full name which used for grading in profile name setting? It seems  gray out on my canvas setting page.I'd like to set up my full name as my legal nam used for grading. But display name as Michelle Wang which peopl...

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I am an instructor in multiple Canvas courses. When a student sends me an Inbox message on Canvas, I receive it via e-mail.  If I reply via e-mail, the reply will eventually show up in the message chain in Canvas Inbox. However, this can take many ho...

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Hello Community,We just discovered that the group discussions do not appear in the main discussion page for faculty. SO for faculty to view the entire group discussions, they have to navigate to that groups "site" and view the discussion post from th...

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Occasionally, I want to delete a discussion post if a student makes an empty post by accident, or if I want to delete my own experimental post. The Discussions Redesign does not hide these deletions, which is very unfortunate. Can we please, please g...

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I am getting this message when I try and drop pages, assignments, etc in a module I have created.  How do I create a module so I can input my materials for the course? 

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I have successfully completed module 1 , which showed green marks next to the items and allowed me to move onto module 2, however, module 2 had no check marks even though I opened every link and submitted every assignment. There is no Mark as Done op...

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Is there a way for assignment alerts from unpublished courses to get removed from the Coming Up list on the Canvas Dashboard? The instructor only wants to see alerts from published courses in the Coming Up list.   Is this possible?

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CRN 18593 not listed in CanvasI dropped HINF 6215 Project Management today and registered for HINF 6400 Introduction to Health Data Analytics (CRN: 18593) for the Fall 24 Semester. However, the Project Management course (HINF 6215) still appears on C...

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After the new 2024 update to discussions, there is the option to assign randomly students for replies. So I've utilize this and selected that each student has to reply to automatically assign reviews per student. As the students have been working in ...

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I am working on importing groups and outcomes.  I have done this successfully many times, but every now and then I get the message:  Outcome group with canvas id not found.  What does this mean?  I'm doing everything exactly the same.

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I'm a Canvas admin working with an instructor who recently lost all of his draw annotations in SpeedGrader after he inputted a grade or navigated to a new student's submission. It turns out that he was not clicking on the check mark after creating th...

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How do I construct a quiz for my class?

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I am an instructor and recently the lines in gradebook are missing or scores are pushed all the way to the left with the rest left blank.  How can I get lines back in the gradebook? 

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I'm using the Canvas API to pull data for a specific course. When I retrieve the assignments using the endpoint "/api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments", one of the assignments has a rubric_id associated with it.However, when I attempt to fetch the r...

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I'm using the Canvas API to pull data for a specific course. When I retrieve the assignments using the endpoint "/api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments", one of the assignments has a rubric_id associated with it.However, when I try to fetch the rubri...

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Hi there,   I just posted a problem with outcomes in rubrics. I checked in courses our team has worked on the last few months to get everything up an running for the start of the semester. All outcomes that are gone from all the rubrics???? Help!!! T...

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I am encountering something strange with the Outcomes in a rubric in Canvas.I have created specific Outcomes.When I add an outcome to a rubric when I create an assignment, it works.However, if I then go to the rubric itself via 'Rubrics' I don't see ...

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How does Teachers or administrators (not root admins) reassure that suspensions are in effect?Is there any view were they can see that it is in effect? If not, what permission do they need to be able to see that? Best, Niklas

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I created a group assignment. Can individual students see their group mate's submissions? If they can, is there a way that they cannot see each other's submissions in the same group?

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Every time I log into canvas to go into the classes I am registered for, nothing loads for me. anytime I click on an assignment, important document, nothing loads for me. the screen goes blank and I am not sure what to do because this is the way for ...

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Hello, How do I post the same announcement across multiple courses? 

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I recently drop a class I didn't need to take. It isn't on my school schedule anymore but how do I drop it on canvas?

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How do I see how many times a student has attempted a module in Canvas?

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We have created a survey quiz - using classic quizzes- and have a multitude of multiple dropdown questions. We are looking to analyze the variables in the dropdown menu.Here is one of our questions:Please indicate how much you agree with the followin...

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I am a learning Coach attempting to pair with multiple students.  I need help.  Please assist via email: t.cullins-clark@saiacademy.com 

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The assignments are set up in McGrawHIll Connect and merged with canvas.  The students access the course through Canvas but go to Connect.  The Scores in Connect are not the same scores that are showing up in Canvas. Please see the screen shots below...

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This is actually related to another question I asked regarding YouTube captions not being available in Canvas Studio.Since Studio won't/can't use the captions I already created for my YouTube videos, I needed to find another way to post these videos ...

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