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What happens when the modules will not show up even if they are enabled in settings?

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I am working with a faculty who created and administered a quiz built with the Classic quiz tool. Her quiz has 25 questions -- 1 point each, and this point total displays on the quiz and in the results reported from students taking the quiz. Students...

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During administration of an exam, Canvas went down.  Some students were able to complete the exam, some partially completed it, and some were not able to start it.  We updated the number of attempts to 2 so that the students could complete the exam d...

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I'm trying to embed a word document into a page and want to make the embedded object responsive. I've been able to adjust the size of the object but can't see to find HTML code to allow the document to be resized to 100% of available height and width...

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So I've been trying to use the "Message students who..." feature in the gradebook. I usually set it to message students who scored less than 50%. I only do this after I've checked and updated any grades for that assignment for the class. However, I h...

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I need a way that I can mark individual items in modules as having been completed by an individual student - effectively, I need to be able to click the little icon on the student's modules page and have it switch from the red circle "started" icon t...

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Hello all, here's the situation at my school: I'm the Assistive Tech Specialist at my school, and an instructor is trying to figure out how to work a student's accommodation into quizzes and exams. The student is allowed to go back to previous questi...

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Hi all, I have a POST endpoint written in Express configured to receive incoming requests from the Canvas Data Live events. The documentation below says the JWT exists in the request body but it appears to be empty when I'm troubleshooting. Where sho...

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We have some courses/sections in Canvas with EndDates set by API. But now we have changed our date logic and we would like to set those endDates to blank. Is there a way to remove the enddates by API? Thank you!  

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Asking my peers in this Group as we are exploring moving from Zoom to Teams. What tools are your institutions using for Conferencing?If you have moved from Zoom what Tool did you move to? If you implemented Teams - how has the deployment gone? Are fa...

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It has been twelve days since the end of the quarter and the assigned until date in which students cannot access and submit a quiz.  On this day, I received over 150 quiz submissions to be graded from 30 different assignments.  These did not appear y...

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How do you see your class work

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I'm a librarian & we are going to be returning to in-person learning in April. The library will be by appointment only & students will need to reserve one of 20 spaces in the library for a particular time. Does Canvas have such a scheduling option av...

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Trying to get webhooks set up for course changes. . .documentation is a bit slim, so I'm trying to get the steps down. 1)  Contact Canvas to get a profile setup against my dev key ( https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.jwt_access_tokens.html) ...

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I want to create a quiz about Microsoft Word and I would like to have multiple choice questions that show icons from Word as possible answers. Is there a way to do this?

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If a quiz has unlimited attempts can the teacher see all the quizzes that you have submitted or only the latest one? Especially if the submitted quizzes are in the form of submitting pdf-files?

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Hi, I'm trying to get the image meta data like blob etc., using one of canvas images url via fetch request , (It happens only in chrome and safari, not in firefox) like below  fetch('https://instructure.com/canvas-image-url').then(res.blob());   What...

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We currently have lab assessments that are printed in hard copy. We want to put the assessments in Canvas as a task so the trainer can just mark off each skill as S/NYS. what is the best way to do this? Thanks in advance. 

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I would like help in hiding assignments/assignment groups from previous trimesters so that students don't see them as "missing" or "overdue".  I'd prefer to do this without deleting their work.  Can this be done?  

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We are currently migrating to canvas and we are not using sections.  Each of our courses has their own ID with the section number included in the ID.  I am confused about cross-listing courses.  I didn't find much help in the Guides; they all referen...

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Okay right now I know it is at least one class as my predecessor is student teaching in the class. So when we have students come back from being virtual we switch them from Online math to the correct math period. When doing so it, in gradebook it is ...

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Canvas Inbox (Conversations) needs the RCE!   Imaging being able to communicate with bold or italic type. Imagine being able to add live hyperlinks or bullet lists when sending messages in Inbox. How about links to assignments or discussions or anyth...

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For discussion assignments, I set up an ungraded assignment for the initial post so that it has a due date listed in the syllabus and calendar separately from the due date for the complete, graded assignment. In the past, the ungraded initial post ha...

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We are currently in the process of integrating Ellucian ILP and Canvas. We have successfully set up the integration in our test environment and things are flowing correctly. When we set it up in Production we are experiencing issues we did not have i...

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When I open Speedgrader, I no longer automatically see the uploaded assignment in the left hand panel. I need to download the student's submission separately. Previously, the assignment was always visible. How can I go back to the previous layout ple...

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I've been trying to use the embed tool to add html code from Typeform. Not having much luck as nothing displays. Is it possible to embed html code? I've looked through the other discussions and haven't come across anything about this specifically. Th...

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Quick question about grade passback, Infinite Campus, and assignment categories. One of my teachers swears that her Canvas/Infinite Campus grade sync has changed behavior.  Canvas has stopped creating her Infinite Campus assignments as "Uncategorized...

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Hi all, Is there a way to keep the selected group calendars activated rather than continually having to select each one everytime I log in?  We have 10 courses that need to be viewed simultaneously and I have to click down the list everytime I want t...

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