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I haven't seen this mentioned, though I may have missed it. My question is why in Canvas the breadcrumbs (the navigation links at the top of the pages as a user navigates the course) don't follow actual user navigation? For example, if I click from m...

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"I got an email about the AWS Student Academy. When I tried to log into my student Gmail account, it didn't work. What could be the problem?"

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Is it possible to set up multiple grading schemes at the institutional level? If so, it is necessary to pick one of those as the "default"? Our use case is that our university, the letter grades (and their descriptions) differ for undergraduate and p...

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Our school has a grading scheme called "Continuum" - where teachers give a grade of AE (Approaching Expectations), ME (Meets Expectations), or EE (Exceeds Expectations). (See Continuum grading scheme.png)When I opened Speed Grader for an assignment, ...

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Hola, tengo una situación con las competencias duplicadas. Los profesores tienen bloqueados los permisos relacionados con la edición de competencias, pero tienen permitido crear cursos, en este lapsus , al momento de exportar un curso que ya tiene co...

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Is Canvas "discussion checkpoints" working yet? It would be great to use it for summer courses.

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How do I make an outcome within Canvas Outcomes inactive? I am unable to delete the outcome since it was attached to an old rubric in a previous course.

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Hi, I have two courses I wanted to export. I was successful in exporting one of them, but the second course gave me this error message. "There was an error exporting your content. Please notify your system administrator and give them the following ex...

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My professor said that Canvas autogenerated a group assignment and I should be able to see my group members that way but I don't see anything like that. Where would I be able to locate that? Also I did join the class a day late so I'm not sure if tha...

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Hello. I am wanting to create drop down menus within the course overview pages. For example, one drop down could include course reading for the week and another could have assignments. Is this possible? I have looked around these forums for an answer...

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I would love to be able to share an assignment or a page that I've created in my Canvas LMS for a course, so that when I am telling my students about an assignment they can scan the QR code to easily open the link.

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I'm the Canvas admin for my university and director of our Learning Technologies team. We're planning to hire a graduate assistant, who would be the first student worker we've had in our area. Their role would be to help with support tickets and, dep...

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Hello.  I am a new teacher to Canvas.  Is there a way to see only new submissions from students?  Currently, I am clicking on each course and scrolling through to find new submissions.  Please advise 

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Good day. I have a joint project with others.They are unable to add me to it.Please refer to the attached screenshot.

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My assignment group weights for marking period 3 were for 80-10-10 because of a district assessment. For marking period 4, they should be 90-10, but Canvas won't let me change it because it's in the same semester. Is there any way to fix this so that...

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How to find district name given a name or account which can be fetched from LMS.

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I run a small peer review exercise where I assign students to review each others' work anonymously. I currently do this manually because I do not want reviews going back to the original students without staff oversight. I have intervened once when a ...

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Is there any way to prevent students from using API?  Blocked only for those with a student role in a course.   Thanks, it's doubtful but thought I would ask.

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Hello!I'm trying to export a filtered view of m grade book and it's not working. I've tried selecting the specific columns I want from the "Assignment Names" filter and using the "Assignment Groups" filter. It continues to export the entire grade boo...

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The default for importing content changed this semester to "import all" and this totally messed up 9 weeks of my course. Our instructional team spent nearly 50 hours undoing this error during a busy part of the semester and this was totally unnecessa...

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I'm not sure how long this has been going on, but I noticed this week that when I create a hyperlink, the Canvas Accessibility Checker flags it as not being a dark enough blue. Is there any way for me to change the default so I don't have to change t...

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We are experiencing an issue with a Canvas quiz submission that requires your immediate attention. A student has completed and submitted a quiz on their personal device. On their end, the quiz shows as successfully submitted. However, when we attempt...

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Hi! I keep getting an error on the Canvas Teacher app that says there are no valid submissions to mark (even though there are MANY submissions to mark.  If I open them on the website, I can mark them and annotate them but I cannot on the app version.

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I have hundreds of short 1-2 question quizzes in my online course. I try to grade student submissions ASAP, so I click on a student's SpeedGrader and then I need to move to the following quiz (not the following student... because nobody else has comp...

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Hello,Does anyone know how to make the discussions of a particular thread response send out a notification when there is a reply to your post?Thanks, 

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I'm unable to find any way to disaggregate the data from rubric scoring to determine areas of student weakness. Is it really true that once the information is entered in a rubric score, it can never be exported or retrieved for use? Thanks.

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Hi,  We are reviewing our LTI/software review process, and I wondered what other Canvas schools do.  Currently, we have the faculty member fill out 2 forms.  One is a rubric that they have the vendor help them fill out.  The other is a department rev...

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When a student answers a quiz question incorrectly, I would like for them to receive a notice of where they can get information in the course material that explains the answer.  This would only apply to incorrect answers. I don't quickly see how I ca...

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I am having a hard time with my new course not showing the work I have completed in the Modules list..grades list..or assignments list.  How am I to know what I have completed without going thru the lists every time hitting next..next..next? 

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Uploaded an Articulate html zip onto the Files section in the Course in Canvas. On the page, I used the rich text editor to input the iframe tags pointing to the html file which is uploaded. I have tested the pages multiple times and it was all able ...

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