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Hi,  Is there a way to hide or remove an external tool from External Tools list in the assignments area? Our tool doesn't currently have an integration with the assignments area, so we'd like for it not to be an option in the assignments area if poss...

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Hey there, I have a teacher who would like to cross list her courses.  A few of her courses are for a full school year and the other courses are for semester 2.  Will her cross listing these courses affect grade pass back? Thanks!

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We are currently using ILP to integrate to Colleague.  After classes began, we were asked to cross-list some courses. When trying to provision the new cross-listed courses through ILP and receive the following error:   "Course cannot be unpublished i...

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Solution Posted: 03-15-2021 View Solution
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if i set up new course settings now for semester 2, will I lose the ability to modify semester 1's grades?

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Three days ago I was able to use negative exponents in quizzes.  Now when I try, I just get a blank space where the negative sign should be.  Can we please get that feature back? 

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<Attn: canvas developer community> Our client is planning to purchase canvas LMS for using as organization(corporate) training tool by  using the features available in it and building a wrapper using API for the rest of the requirement. They are plan...

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Hello, My institution is considering offering self-paced courses which will let students access the course material for 3 months after they sign up. The problem is not solved by using course Start and End dates, as each student will sign up at a diff...

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Since the menus have recently been updated for the Rich Content Editor, I cannot get both tools to show up on the top level. Other documentation says that you can have two but, when I try to enable one that hadn't been included, it doesn't stay. In o...

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We have a teacher here who would like to hide/mute her grades on a quiz from her students, but would like her students to see their multiple attempts as a study aid prior to final grading. Is it possible to do this?

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I have a tutor who is having students fill out matrices using Canvas quizzes, specifically Fill In Multiple Blanks questions. Ignoring that there exists better ways to do this, we've found that after Previewing the quiz as a staff member, or allowing...

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Solution Posted: 06-28-2021 View Solution
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Hi! I've been trying everything, without result. Maybe somebody can help.  A student has completed modules 1-3, but the 4th module is locked. Even though every prerequisite is done.   We've tried logging in on the computer, using the app, I've unloc...

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Solution Posted: 01-31-2021 View Solution
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I am a "teacher" on someone else's account.  Is there a way to remove their items for grading from my "to do list" that does not affect their dashboard or to do list?  I like my to do list, but I don't want their items showing in my list.

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Hello, I'm a student using Canvas. If I try to make the window larger, the white bar with navigation buttons stays in front of the file window. Here is a screenshot: Please let me know if there is a fix to this. Thanks!

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Our Mechanical Engineering professors use MatLab; however, Canvas will not open the .fig files associated with the program. I have installed MatLab Grader, but the .fig files still do not open. This is the detailed information provided to me from the...

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Hi, I made a recording with Webex "Virtual Meetings". Using that because I need the closed caption functionality. How do I share that video recording with another class? I don't see the recording I want in the "Recording Library". Thoughts please??? ...

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I want to make students into observers so that they can see my material (notes, etc) but they are already in a class during the period that I want to do this.

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Is there any way to assign two students as co-leaders to a group?

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If a course is still active, and the box at the top of the grades page is unchecked (so that the total grade is shown), it will not show a grade that reflects what should have been turned in to date. The current grade can be misleading b/c a student ...

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My students are telling me that they cannot see the Comments I'm posting in Speedgrader, even though I see them and I know that I hit Submit (the comments are date and time stamped). I see that other people have commented on this on this message boar...

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Solution Posted: 01-28-2021 View Solution
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Hello!  We are working on the CSV file that we will provide to Canvas from our ERP.  I wanted to get some ideas from the list on strategies others are using as it pertains to dates in the terms, courses, and sections file. I read over this article wh...

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Ahoy, I need to be able to force a direct download of a file on a Canvas content page without it sending them to a different page first. It's very important 1) not to have them navigate away from this page, even if it does open in a new window; 2) en...

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Solution Posted: 02-23-2021 View Solution
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In Classic quizzes (which I insist on using until they make adjustments to New quizzes), you can check the box that allows students to see their responses, but not allow them to view the correct answers. I would like students to know which ones they ...

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Please help if you can, I'm having issues for one student's assignment grade (presentation with a rubric). All presentations were marked using the rubric, and grade entered in the field (because for some reason the rubric grade was not automatically ...

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Solution Posted: 01-28-2021 View Solution
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Prior to the New RCE, to change a link within a page I simply selected the text or image that had a link, then went to the right of the screen and selected the new link I wanted (a page, file, module, etc.).  Now you have to remove the link first, an...

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I am still using a video from 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdxRtruoAqw&feature=youtu.be) to introduce new Canvas users to the Global Navigation features. Is there a newer video available? Thank you.

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Solution Posted: 02-01-2021 View Solution
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Is there a setting where teachers can select to receive "separated" notifications for each of the courses they are teaching? The teacher I'm working with wanted to receive a different daily notification email for Class A and Class B instead of a sing...

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Solution Posted: 02-01-2021 View Solution
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I noticed that Canvas went through a little bit of a face lift on the backend - which is great! But, this new video player no longer has the captions button. Is there a way to caption videos with this new video player? It's important to my organizati...

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Solution Posted: 01-28-2021 View Solution
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I created a video for my student within speedgrader.  I can see the picture fine, but there is no sound. Trying different browswers doesn't work.  Checking the mic doesn't work.  Even tech support is working on it.

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Hello. How to add a new language to the canvas. I want to add my language tj.yml to  canvas, I found one option https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/issues/1314  but  it doesn't work. What should I do? Help me please!!!!!!! best regards Fatullo...

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I would like to export the grades per question, so not only the total is this possible? Thanks for your help, Sofie

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Solution Posted: 01-28-2021 View Solution
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