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Our teachers have a homeroom course generated from our SIS, so that should work well with the new elementary dashboard.  However, teachers in upper elementary who are departmentalized have a one-to-many set up.  Will that work with the new Canvas for...

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We have a course with many quizzes ( next and H5P). We want to add the quizzes to the learning outcomes, to provide students with some kind of progression indication. Can some tell me how to do this? All i can see is adding individual questions to th...

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We have integrated a ticketing system within Canvas using LTI tool. The next step for us is to integrate its notification within Canvas conversations. However, unlike other endpoints, the Conversations API is a little bit harder to understand. I've b...

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Is it possible for the parents to view the marked rubric that the student sees? 

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I have been (mostly successfully) using the API more and more to help set up and run my Canvas courses. One thing I can't find anything about is the grade book, in particular around the posting marks policy and checking the status of and executing th...

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I have a Canvas quiz.  I would like for my students to be able to take the quiz during normal class time, say 1pm to 2pm either Wednesday or Thursday.  How can I have the quiz be open during those times (1-2 Wed and 1-2 Thu) but not during times in-b...

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Are any institutions using external content management systems to create and manage their content? We've had some requests to investigate this so we can push content to various LMS' easily and to manage content more effectively. Any suggestions or re...

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Hi, 1) We noticed that students were able to see their actual marks instead of their letter grades even after the assignment had been set to "display letter grade". Is there any way to resolve this? 2) In group assignments, instructors used to be abl...

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My son has trouble tracking all of his current and past due assignments. Is it possible to view all assignments, for all courses, in one place (rather than having to go to Grades for each course individually)?

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Hi, I am trying to delete concluded students from a course. I initially wanted to just leave them in concluded, but they are making my analytic reports inaccurate and showing up in progress reports as not having been active. When I do an analytics re...

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Hello. I have noticed that assignments created by my teacher without a due date (but still needing to be done) do not show up in the most helpful To-Do list. Is there a way to get assignments with no due date to show in the To-Do list?

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Can someone look at this screen shot and help me to understand why the answers were marked wrong?

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Does anyone know how to add ProctorU LTI to Canvas? Or does account services/customer success team have to handle.

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Hello everyone. I was wondering what do I do when I finish a class early. Do I just leave it alone since I'm done with it or is there some sort of "finishing task" I need to do to complete it? Thanks

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Hi all,  I have set module release dates for all my modules. I just noticed that students are accessing pages and activities within modules that have not opened. The only way I have been able to duplicate this is by clicking from the Course Summary l...

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I'm wondering if there is anyway to create a set of "canned comments" for assignments. I find myself typing out the same comments to many, many students for common issues or problems. It would be nice to have a list of comments I create for each assi...

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Hi Hi! I was wondering how to send messages to people for courses I am no longer taking. I wanted to email an instructor from about a year ago (as I don't think they check their email often) and I was hoping to use canvas. However, I can't seem to wr...

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I have set up my assignments groups and added weights. Each of my assignments is out of 100 points. How will the course grade be actually calculated? 

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I have designed a course which takes place during the whole year and improves the students academic skills (e.g. Academic writing in English). Assignments for this course are linked to the ones of other courses. So for example the course Philosophy r...

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I am an instructor trying to automate giving extensions/setting due dates for certain students, but I don't understand where to programmatically access the "Everyone Else" due date. I first make a new assignment in Canvas using the web interface and ...

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The grade export produces a .csv file that appears below. I need each data point to appear in its own cell. I can't use the sheet which looks like these two images.       

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Hola. ¿Cómo están? Tengo un problema con la visualización de las imágenes en un curso que tengo en CANVAS. Si añado una imagen directamente puedo verla correctamente. Pero el problema es que, cuando creo una página nueva con texto e imágenes, estas ú...

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I'm evaluating the use of Canopy for my school and working with 11trees, the developers, to refine the solution further. They have some powerful ideas about how to make discussions more valuable for teachers and students including algorithms to measu...

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For some reason, when I access Canvas on Chrome on my office desktop I am getting what looks like the mobile version which is annoying because I do not have easy access to the sidebars on the left:     (note this also occurs when I open an incognito...

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Hello! I'm currently taking a Bio 101 course and have had a series of "quizzes" through canvas + lockdown browser. After an exam, I usually follow up with the professor to see what questions were answered incorrectly in order to fill in any gaps in m...

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Good morning Admins, We will be using a new 3rd party tool for our syllabi for the Fall term.  We have disabled the native Canvas syllabus tool in our templates.  The issue is that although it is disabled, it still shows in navigation for the Instruc...

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How do I know what my grade is? I clicked on 'submit' and it went to the top of the page.

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Is dark mode gonna be available this year? 

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Looking at  student activity log, if every time I see answered question, does that mean a complete answer? Or could it mean an answer was attempted, then edited?

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I have a quiz that was due yesterday.  I don't want students to be able to take the quiz, so I've set it to be unavailable after yesterday.  However, I want students to be able to view the quiz, the questions, and the correct answers today.  So, I se...

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