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I have set up a group in which assigned students are to post their class notes under the heading "Files" and a subheading I created called "Class Notes." I put all students into this group. But my students have been unable to upload their notes, beca...

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When I hover over the equation, it gives the message "clickable math" and does not read it. I have tried both Access8Math and Math Player Math Reader without any luck.Do you know the best equation settings to use, such as Math Renderer, and Show Math...

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Hello, I am teaching in a cross listed course shell (4 sections, 2 are mine) and I have my gradebook filtered to show sections 3 and 4. This is working correctly. Navigating to grades and selecting speed grader from the hamburger at the top next to t...

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I have student features because I wanted to use an alt account as a student account to complete assignments for my course. But, since I was using the alt account's email, it connected my account.      Or maybe I need to delete the course?  

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Hi Everyone,  One of our school admin team contacted us. She noticed that the New Analytics>LateAssignments reporting generates a time/date format that our setup of Excel does not immediately recognise.   E.g. this is the result: Submitted DateGraded...

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A teacher at my institution is grading a quiz (New Quizzes) and when she views her students answers in SpeedGrader some questions aren't displayed in some cases. Does anyone know why? Is it possible that they are simply not shown in Speedgrader if th...

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Something weird is happening and I hope someone can help me out, for it is not the first time this has happened.   I have a new quiz, where students can get a maximum of 20 points. I added a grading scheme to this quiz. It turns percentages into a nu...

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I use Canvas through my school for classes. I recently signed up for a third-party workshop course, which is provided through Canvas as well. However, I used a different email at first to sign into Canvas, which created a new account. Then I tried ag...

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Like many, the 2024 Discussion Redesign has impacted my use of Canvas. These days I continue to look for and create work arounds to lost functionality. Today, my focus is on removing student and my own tests to discussion forums without leaving the '...

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I can't figure out the difference between "Cell Spacing" and "Cell Padding." What I'm trying to do is create more of a space between the edge of each cell and the text inside the cell: as it is, it's crunched right up to the left-hand cell edge. Also...

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I am the account administrator and am trying to add additional admins to our subaccounts. I've already created additional admin roles based on the directions found here successfully, but once I go to the Admin tab under settings, the additional roles...

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So I use NearPod and integrate the NearPod lessons into my Canvas site. It used to be flawless but lately it will randomly ask students to sign in with one of four options - Google, office 365, and 2 other options I don’t recall. Why is it randomly d...

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When will the new courses be available to add to the favorites list 

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I want to create a short essay quiz (1-2 paragraphs) with fill-in-the-blank for my students. Need help.

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I recently enrolled in my Spring 2025 classes after the semester started, and while they are visible on my schedule in MySMU, they are not appearing on Canvas. Enrollment advised me to contact my professors to add me to the Canvas courses, but my pro...

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I MISTAKENLY COPIED THE WRONG COURSE INTO THIS SEMESTER'S SHELL. I READ THAT I CAN GO TO MY COURSE SETTINGS AND SIMPLY PRESS THE RESET COURSE CONTENT TAB ON THE SIDEBAR BUT I DON'T SEE THE TAB. CAN ANYONE HELP?

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I have not been able to load my assignments connected to Google Drive. When I open the assignment that my teacher assigns I click on it and click on authorize to connect to my google drive and it shows up as loading but will continue showing that is ...

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1) I am trying to copy course content from last semester to this semester.  I cannot get the pages to copy/import.  I've done this every semester since 2020 and not had any problems.  Any ideas on how to fix this?2) I've also got another new problem ...

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Is there a way to use two sorting orders at the same time to display a grade book?  I'd like to sort the columns first in the order of Assignment Groups and WITHIN each group, display the assignments in the order of earliest-to-latest due dates.  It ...

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How do you assign weights to an Assignment Group?

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Description of the Issue:I am unable to upload my elevator pitch video for the first assignment of the INT 6200 Experiential Learning Project course on the Canvas platform. Despite the video file being under 60 MB, I have tried multiple upload method...

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Hello! How can I make the video content in the Modules section mandatory to watch in full without allowing skipping?

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Hi all!I created an assignment, and it says it is "published" in the teacher view. However, when I switch to student view, it doesn't show any assignments due. I checked the assignment date, and that is all in order. I also ""invited" my students to ...

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I need to transfer material posted in last semesters class into this semester. I dont see the path to do that.Thanks

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When my students view the assignment tab, they see a score for completed assignments.  However, for the same assignments organized into modules they do not see the score.   Is there a way to change it so my students see the scores of completed assign...

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Hello,I am part of a course where we must take quizzes after each module. Our instructor has set our quizzes to be untimed and one attempt. If I start one quiz, can I open the second quiz and other quizzes and view it without submitting the first one...

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We have just started the 30 day trial with Quizizz. The trial includes an integration with Canvas. The integration is very impressive indeed and has 3 main features: As an assignmentAs a linkEmbedded in a Page The steps are very easy to follow (help ...

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We are a law enforcement institution. We need to be able to display all course categories to our learners, with the ability for them to open a category and see the courses available within it. Is this possible? We are moving from another LMS that doe...

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