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Is anybody using any LTI tools to embed images in Canvas through the RCE? We are currently looking for options outside of the built-in image embed tool within Canvas. An added bonus would be anything that includes an image gallery feature that can be...

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Hi, when will New Analtics be replacing the current analytics?

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We recently switched to the New Rich Content Editor. It used to be, when you pasted a YouTube link into the text box on a page (or wherever), a little box would appear as a placeholder (see below).  Once the page was saved, the thumbnail would appear...

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As an instructor, is it possible to build a quiz in steps (e.g. week by week)  by adding new questions and allowing students multiple attempts and hence update answers to earlier questions? This is useful - for instance - when students need to apply ...

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Is there a way to prevent my assignment categories from changing when you copy a module/assignment/quiz/etc. from one course to another? I have been using the "Copy To" feature located within the Modules tab (by clicking on the three vertical dots in...

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Hi, I have been using MS Teams and canvas and set up a student group on Teams but forgot to do the same on canvas.  I recorded feedback and have discovered that when I post/submit it to one student the others in the group can't get access to it.  I'v...

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Hi everyoneI created some dictations for my students using the recording tool in Canvas. Everything worked fine but now all of a sudden my students no longer have access to these audio files.When I have a look at my assignment, the files are still th...

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This is getting really annoying... please help! I have a quiz assessment worth 10 marks.  All questions except one are automatically marked.  The one that isn't is a file upload question worth zero.  (It is there to give students a chance to practise...

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Using Google LTI as an external tool. Canvas recognizes students' submissions. However, it does not provide a Preview of the submission or grading availability.What steps should I follow in order to be able to see the document in the PREVIEW?  Not qu...

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I seem to remember I could once do this by right clicking on the image and a box would pop up for me to enter alt text, but this is not working now. I don't see any option that works for inserting alt text into an image in the menu options above the ...

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I am a student at FlatIron online SE program and need access to canvas.  I have repeatedly gone to www.canvas.net and requested a password reset and checked my spam folder in my registered email to no avail.

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I want to design a page where learners can type into a text box their draft paragraph, and then copy it to their clipboard by clicking a button (so they can post it to the discussion board on the next page in the module).I have seen it in other cours...

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on my dashboard on my sats under courses, I've only got home, models announcements and I can't even see mu own assignment  

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Hola no se que pasó? Se ha borrado todo un curso de la plataforma y tengo dos semanas que la estado cambiando las fechas o la horas y hoy ya no está todo un curso.  Agradezco la ayuda para recuperar ya que son 144 alumnos.   

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A teacher who I am working with has all of his videos (not an insignificant amount) stored using Amazon S3.  The issue is that the player that he uses to display the videos on his website is not compatible with Canvas. Has anyone had any success disp...

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Hi, need some help to understand if I am able to track the student if he/she is watching the video that I've embedded using HTML embed code, i.e. Youtube video?Thanks.

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The Education Services Department released Growing with Canvas in July 2018 as a free resource for the Canvas community to use to "grow" their skills! The blog post announcing Growing with Canvas We'd love to hear how you're using it! We will update ...

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I am a student to use canvas. From the last week, I began to be unable to see some my grade. Canvas email me to make me know the grade has been submitted , but when I check the net , I could not see it , and the grade of one of my assignments disappe...

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Hello all, Wondering if anyone can help...With a Tier 1 account, we have 3 Field Admins (FA's).  1 of these FA's is set as our 'dedicated' FA.  I tested our support by making some test cases and found that the first case was assigned to another of ou...

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As of November 25, I am unable to download student files using Safari.  I have tested this at work and at home.  It is isolated to Safari in both environments.  Chrome does work ok.  When Safari tried to download the file it hangs, then only download...

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I have ended up with two different canvas assignments for a single project that I assigned to my students. Some students have submitted to both canvas assignments already. I want to move the submissions from one of the canvas assignments to the other...

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Hi,I'm at the finish line of my first LTI 1.3 flow.  Canvas can do the OIDC authentication and send me back the information about the launch.  However, for my tool, I can see that the JWT doesn't have an LTIDeepLinkingResponse which I would expect fr...

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Hi, I am an instructor in an intro astronomy course. My course has three midterm exams, which I gave as Canvas quizzes (using the old quiz module, not the new quizzes). Each quiz is worth a different number of points. In my course, I drop the lowest ...

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On 11/24/2020. I completed the course 'K12 Opening Canvas'. It does not appear on my 'My Learning' list of completed courses. When I click on the same course where it says 'Enroll', it takes me to a page that says 'Congratulations'. Because, it's com...

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Hi Does anyone know if it is possible to add visibility to the teachers list view of 'All Courses'. Some of our teachers have many courses with course titles that are very similar and it would help if the course code or the SIS ID was added as a colu...

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I can't seem to find an answer to this on the forums.  We'd like to assign individual students to specific events on the course calendar.  The scheduler allows us to let students to "sign-up" for open slots, but does not appear to allow instructors t...

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I have migrated to lti 1.3 from lti 1.1 but while launching my tool, I donot get the lti 1.3 payload that is generated by canvas. How to generate the payload from canvas?

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I completed a module with a 5/5 and it did not open the next module like it was supposed to. So, I answered the questions again, hoping it would open it, but it did not. I restarted my computer, logged out and logged back in, and when I tried opening...

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I am having a problem with canvas since the beginning of the week. I am a student and usually when I try to download a file that my teachers upload in canvas, I just get the file in my downloads. However, since the beginning of this week I get true.h...

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Canvas has these wonderful quiz and outcomes reports, but no way to print them.  When I go to IEP meetings or we are having Standards-Based meeting to see where students are, it is literally a headache trying to attach reports of progress (or the lac...

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