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I am a student stuck on the instructor view of the page. Not sure how I even got into it, it says instructor at the bottom and I am unable to view or submit any of my assignments. If I log out I just get logged back in as instructor. Help?

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How do I enable the following so I can use the Direct Share feature? At this point it does not show up.Direct Share requires the Direct Share feature option, which can be enabled for an entire account.To share course content, you must have the Course...

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We've been experiencing an issue with the Turnitin LTI in Canvas - specifically for assignments that have the optional setting 'Generate reports on due date' enabled - similarity reports don't seem to generate on or even after the due date in Speedgr...

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How do I allow students access to Assignments and Files when it says that they are disabled and not accessible to students?  Help.

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I have a new quiz that I made and it has matching questions but it is all or nothing on the grading. I want to easily move this into the original version of the quiz. So can this actually happen?

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Hi Everyone,I'm curious if Canvas has a function where I can poll my students to provide answers to an open-ended question. For example, I'm interested in getting all 70 students' suggestions on a film to watch. Is there a feature on Canvas that make...

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There's now an additional tab in my People section called "Student Groups".  I'd like to delete it so it doesn't confuse anyone, but cannot figure out how.  I did disable the ability for students to create their own groups so this doesn't happen agai...

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As shown in the picture below, my quizzes are not in the right order.  For example, Quiz 2 is not between Quiz 1 and Quiz 3.  Is there anything that I can do about it?Thank you for your help!Shaine

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I would like to use an old rubric and simply add additional criteria (this I know how to do). But I would like to add criteria in the middle not just at the end. Or sometimes I just want to rearrange the criteria listing order. Is this possible???

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If I imported grades from external exam into Canvas, and decide to throw out a question and add points for it to whole class, is there a way to do this without downloading Excel out of Canvas, adjusting grades then re-uploading them. This is the firs...

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An instructor has a group of quizzes that are all out of order. I looked into it for him and found this thread discussing that quizzes by default are ordered by due date then alphabetically. This doesn't seem to be the case in this instance as the du...

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I have a Nursing faculty who wants to cross-list her courses in the future, she teaches the exact same content across two different cities. Her current process is that she builds the content in one course and then copies that same content to the othe...

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What happened with Canvas ? Why am I not able to find anything today ? It was so amazing to see everything on the first landing page! Give me back my yesterday’s Canvas! Guys, are you doing Canvas for yourselves or for us, students?! It was terrible ...

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How do I upload documents to my canvas? or for assignments?

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How do I add ReadSpeaker in canvas

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At first Roll Call was not working at all. It would allow me to take attendance but nothing would show up in the gradebook under the Roll Call Attendance heading. We reset the course and now it shows the attendance for only 2 students. When I click o...

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Hello!I have a student at my school who needs to take German 3. Is anyone familiar with an online course designer or company that has content for foreign language, specifically German? I have an instructor who can custom tailor the course, but does n...

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how do I upload a picture file on canvas?

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It's way too bright and hurts my eyes.

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How do I access my digital textbook?

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Hi everyone, has anyone customized the Canvas dashboard beyond what is easily available on Canvas?

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I'm using the NEW Rich Content Editor. Is there a way to disable inline previews for a YouTube video? I know how to do it with the old RCE, but when I click to modify the link with the new RCE, I don't see the "Disable inline preview" checkbox.Sorry ...

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I have a teacher who made an assignment that isn't due for another week. It's set to be submitted online as a text entry or a file upload. As soon as she posted the assignment, it automatically entered 0's in the gradebook for every student. In her g...

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An instructor is asking me how to delete a video or image that is embedded in a discussion?

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I created a long Word document for my students, and, for ease of navigation, I created internal hyperlinks (which are called "Bookmarks" in Word) so that my students can easily and quickly navigate to different parts of the document by clicking the h...

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Where can I find a page that clearly defines, for parents/observers, the icons used on the grade page?

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A student submitted a video using his computer, and when I try to watch it, Canvas gives me this message: "Media is currently being converted, please try again in a little bit."  I tried reopening the video many times for the past three days. What do...

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How do I keep the formatting from my word document to stay when pasting it into the discussion window?  I'm trying to specifically keep the format for my APA citation for reference.  Using Microsoft Word provided by UNF.  And when I try to use the in...

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How can I get rid of the crossed out eye icon on a gradebook assignment?  I know it will be easy but I can't find it.  

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