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Is it possible to share screen during a live conference using BigBlueButton? If yes kindly show me how please. I'm using canvas for teacher free.Thanks 

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Would I be able to see later in the evening a recording of the zoom meeting scheduled by my instructor Alex for November 26, 2023 from 8-9 pm GMT?

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Need to see the students performance in the quiz after submission

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Hi community, I have a question of session timeout, Can I set the session time out for different pages? I don't want student to be timeout when they stay in assignment page.

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Solution Posted: 11-28-2023 View Solution
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I just gave in an assignment and I was expecting to see a what if grade but nothing showed up. Am I doing something wrong? It looks like the scores are disabled.

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Hey there tech wizards! what is the phone number for talking with you guys, i can't find it and am struggling i need help because my my dashboard looks like this (images provided below) thank you in advance!

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Solution Posted: 11-23-2023 View Solution
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I have created a quiz using the web interface.  Now when I open the quiz in Canvas Teacher, I cannot see a way to edit anything but the details; the option to edit the questions seems to be unavailable. Am I missing something?

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Is it possible to select multiple group sets for one group assignment? It seems that you can only select one...

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Solution Posted: 11-23-2023 View Solution
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Hello All How do I adjust the Teachers "To Do List" to show items in order of submission date, across all courses? Currently, the list sits in submission date per tile, which means there is a focus on one course, rather than submissions. Any assistan...

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Solution Posted: 11-23-2023 View Solution
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Grateful if I can receive some assistance with an error that we're and have experienced in the past:   A user submitted an assignment prior to us changing the option to allow for 3 Attempts. After making this change however, the user is still unable ...

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Solution Posted: 11-22-2023 View Solution
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I use Canvas as a Walden faculty member. I just started using a Macbook Air running OS Ventura and wish to use Phrase Express to help enter grading comments in Speed Grader. I have not figured out the macro for moving phrases from my PE library to pa...

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We have been using a certain provider for our Digital Citizenship in my district for the past 2 years and we are in our 3rd and final year.  We have not found anything that really meets our needs and so we have decided to start building our own digit...

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I wanted to ask if any institutions here are using Canvas to host staff trainings in a HR context i.e. new staff inductions and such? Or if you know of any institutions that are? We are a small research institute investigating the feasibility of doin...

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I'm curious if anybody has successfully been able to embed the results of a Microsoft or Google Form into the Canvas RCE? When we try to do it with an iFrame, we always get an error message that the website refused to connect.  If not, are there othe...

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Solution Posted: 11-21-2023 View Solution
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Is there a system in Canvas for registering all assets made/placed in units (ie. a module on library skills, an interactive on reflective writing) so that they are searchable and easily found to be used again?

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Solution Posted: 11-23-2023 View Solution
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Hi there,I was wondering what information is available to me as an instructor for normal, unproctored Canvas quizzes. I have used the quiz log function in the past to track if a student has consistently left the testing page, but now I am considering...

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Solution Posted: 11-21-2023 View Solution
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What plagiarism checker tool is your College/University using and what feedback have you received from students and faculty?

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I want to give a quiz where students have a choice of, say, answering three out of six essay questions. How is this implemented?

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The Edpuzzle button could be a lot more useful. Why is it that I cannot assign videos directly from the Edpuzzle button that has been integrated into Canvas? Also it's impossible to create an Edpuzzle Assignment for two different class groups. The pr...

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Solution Posted: 11-27-2023 View Solution
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I am studying to find milestone 3 on canvas 

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Solution Posted: 11-21-2023 View Solution
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Hi all,In my institution, most of the outcomes are account level and they are imported into the courses.  The remaining outcomes are created within the courses themselves.As an admin, I am asked to generate an outcome report which consolidates the st...

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Hoping someone can help. Having problems with any of the pop-out windows eg Insert > Link > Course Link Insert > Document > Course Document The pop-out windows comes out then goes straight back again. When you do it for a second time it stays. it is ...

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Solution Posted: 12-06-2023 View Solution
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I have been trying to use the what-if score feature to see what would happen to my grade depending on a bad score. However, the grade does not change whenever I enter the score. I have tried with multiple classes, all have the same problem. Help me!

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Solution Posted: 11-21-2023 View Solution
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Is anyone else trying to delay posting/schedule announcements for their courses and encountering Canvas's autocomplete/suggested dates feature?  Not only is the design faulty--it just gets in the way of whatever dates you search for--it also is just ...

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Solution Posted: 11-21-2023 View Solution
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Hello there. I once saw a link to Coffee Shop where students can send correspondence to other students on the Home dashboard. Does anybody know how to access the Coffee Shop? 

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Solution Posted: 11-20-2023 View Solution
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I use discussions in my class and require video posts for presentations, and encourage video posts in the discussions. For both, we use a video hosting service (Kaltura), which has students embed videos in the replies. In the discussions, when studen...

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I am a case manager for about 20 students.  I would love to be able to be an observer for each of my students, in all their classes.  Is there a way to do that easily?  I don't want each teacher to have to add me and the other case managers as an obs...

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Solution Posted: 11-20-2023 View Solution
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It would be nice to add a feature where clicking on a person's profile picture pops up with a bigger version of the profile picture.  I would like to use Canvas to help me learn names and faces of students, but the pictures are too small to see.

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Solution Posted: 11-20-2023 View Solution
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Is there a way to let other teachers in a course know that you've made a submission comment for a student in Speedgrader? Would be great o be able to @ a certain teacher as a way of keeping supervisors in the loop. 

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Solution Posted: 11-20-2023 View Solution
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One of the teacher users of our Canvas recently reported that his Dashboard's To Do List didn't show the items from some assignments that have the due dates set in this month and he hasn't submitted to that assignments yet. But the To Do list from an...

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