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As of yesterday I am unable to preview any of the Java source files in the Canvas SpeedGrader that my students are uploading. These files have a .java extension. I have been able to preview these files ever since we started using Canvas a number of y...

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We have some large online programs.  If we use a blueprint and lock certain aspects of the course content, can the due dates for those items be edited by the section faculty?  

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I have a course that uses a single web page. The web page links to a quiz, two SCORM module assignments, and then a final quiz. One of the SCORM modules contains a Next button on it that looks very similar to the Next button at the bottom of the page...

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I have been able to add a clickview interactive video as an assignment, and the marks will go straight to my markbook if I use self-marking questions (true/false, multiple choice, fill in the blank). However, I sometimes want open-ended /short answer...

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How can I empty my CANVAS mailbox without having to delete message by message?

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Students are getting correct answer wrong while answering matching question on quiz.  The answers are selected from a drop down menu.  So how could the answer be wrong, since there is no typing involved. What's wrong and how do I fix it? (Tried to cu...

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Regarding the price, i want to know for 100000 students what will be the price

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I cannot find the link to my quiz on canvas. The assignment itself exists in the modules tab, but when I click on the assignment, I cannot find the link to the quiz. 

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Is there any way to bulk remove observers? I can see a list of all of the observers in 'People' tab, but have to click on each one to try and delete them. I am asking, as we have 28 pages of users that need to be deleted.

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Hello, Is there any way to build requisites within a module? For example, students must visit and complete a reading (build as a simple quiz with a "did you do the reading?" yes or no check) before taking a quiz. Or, complete score x% on quiz 1 befor...

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With AI tool use so common now with students using the quiz tool for objective testing is challenging.  It appears they can copy the text and then put it in an AI tool to get the answer.  They can do this so quickly that reducing the quiz time limit ...

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I am a student in Milpark ,however I can go through website however canvas not working to browse the lessons on my MacBook Air. please assist.

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Is there a faster way to go through Student Logs after taking a quiz to see if they logged off the quiz? It is very tedious to go into each account versus seeing all students from one class at once.Thanks!Christy Sears

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When a student needs extra time during a quiz/exam in Quizzes, due to a situation outside of their control. I would love be able to add minutes to a quiz in progress. 

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My private nursing school denied me access to my class before final exams as a consequence of “tuition payment” misunderstandings. Are instructors allowed to unenroll students from a class for this? I have already been in the class for weeks and done...

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I am trying to see if there is a way that I can submit assignments for my students. I always run the plagiarism checker on written assignments. I have some students who will email me their assignment instead of turning it in on Canvas. Is there a way...

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I use the annotation tools. Just this week, all of a sudden, I am no longer able to add annotations to ".txt" submissions. Instead, I get the error message: "Annotations are not available for this document." Is this an intended change in functionalit...

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I've seen that this has feature has been requested a number of times over the years, but I wanted to know if there has been any progress on implementing this as a feature.I would like to be able to grade submissions in SpeedGrader without knowing any...

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Is there a way to generate emails for failing students in canvas? 

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When I saw the "Message Students Who" feature under New Analytics, I was immediately intrigued at the possibilities. When I started to try a test run of this feature, I quickly became disappointed. It does not seem that we can set up Triggers for fut...

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Hey all, we are running into issues where we are creating courses programaticaly but there is still a manual step that we have to login and activate the Lockdown Browser for every course we create. We tried a few things but is there any API or steps ...

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As I was saying from the title ....the top listed default results by just entering the Common’s page, so that preferred results are already at the top of the page by default. It would be great for communicating with new Canvas users how to access des...

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Hi, We have a prerequisite for our exams, which is to complete a mandatory task with a minimum score of 75% correct answers. But it seems that the very submission of the compulsory assignment leads to the exam being unlocked regardless of the result....

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It's simple: In a module, if I add an External URL and choose to open it in a new tab, upon clicking the link, Canvas takes the student to a page with a button that they need to click to get to the link 臘 .Makes less than no sense. What's more, an id...

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I recently had to support a staff member to share an assignment portal to 12 other Canvas course sites that featured a unique Letter Grade Grading Scheme. We used the Send To.. option to share it. Once it was shared and Imported into the other units,...

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It seems that my institution updated Canvas yesterday and now I cannot annotate any flat text files (specifically .cpp, .py, .sql). When I go to the next assignment, I get a warning box saying that I cannot annotate that file type.  Another issue I a...

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Hello wonderful community I've adding an email link (mailto:) into a canvas page, but it is not opening in my gmail. I'm using Chrome browser and gmail is my default email client. When I clink the link it opens a new tab (labeled untitled) with 'abou...

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When students see that they have a zero in their Canvas grade book, the assignment has a link, but that link does not take them to the Canvas quiz if it is one. Students often think that means they cannot do the assignment, and will not ask and will ...

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Hi -I'm pretty new to Canvas and have been able to figure things out for the most part; however, I'm stumped by how to set up appropriate grading for this situation. I have two students in my class who are completing an additional project so that the...

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Not sure if this is temporary but we're seeing issues with jQuery not loading in Beta. Is this just us?

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