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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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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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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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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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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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Is it possible to assign submitted work so a specific marker - for example a class of 100 students and you have 10 marks to mark 10 essay.   is it possible and if so - How?    

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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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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'm the instructional technologist at a small university. We're using Canvas as our LMS and it's been great, faculty adapt quickly to it, it works (!) and students learn to navigate all the tools pretty quickly. We're using Populi as our Student Info...

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Hi everyone. We want to export into Excel, the attempt details of the students for each of the quizzes. This should include the following parameters: usernamethe number of attemptswhen the student start and end the quizwhat was the questionwhat was t...

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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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I think that this is related to the update.  Ever since the update I can't open any uploaded files from students.  I have asked students to upload a google doc for me to grade but when I go to speedgrader, I get a message that the file contains HTML ...

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I got a pop-up asking me to update my flash player during a quiz, will my teacher see this? I'm asking on the teacher board because I'm sure other students don't know the answer to it. Thank you in advance!

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If Canvas can send late and excused flags on assignments to PowerSchool, why in the world can it not send "missing" flags? This makes it very difficult to run reports for missing homework, because you could flag stuff as missing in PowerSchool after ...

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Hello,   I really hope someone can help me with this. I have two kids that use canvas since 2020 and I have never been able to view their classes on the desktop or add them as students in the app. I was never given a pairing code or QR code, and don'...

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For some reason, the todo list doesn't show up on my dashboard anymore. It looks like it got replaced with the calendar in the sidebar. Is there any way to get the todo list back? I'm currently using the card view.

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According to the release in 2016, "the Office 365 LTI is not available for users with personal Office 365 accounts." Is that still the case?  "Faculty and students must have accounts in the same Microsoft domain." Is that still the case?    (Really h...

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We are working with Perusall for one of our lessons on canvas. I have both admin and teacher access to our courses. Some of our students have problems with the integration of Canvas and Perusall. One of them getting the warning of "Your LMS is config...

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I believe Canvas updated last week and when it did, the following problem now occurs. When you go to copy an assignment from one class to another it now gives you the list of all classes in Canvas, including the ones archived from several years past....

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I've had several faculty members approach me with this scenario. They have a weekly quiz or survey which students must complete each week. The questions and settings are identical for each instance. But each week they have to create a new instance of...

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I , an Instructor, assign CK12 adaptive practice through canvas and I am happy with it for the most part. (I would like to select multiple chapter sections at once, but that is by-the-by. ) I set up the assignment so that CK12 is opened in a new tab....

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There was an update to the SCORM tool in Canvas at the end of 2020 that added the "import as page" feature and apparently started supporting Tin Can. Before, anything exported as Tin Can would get a "not valid SCORM package" error when importing. The...

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Hello! I am looking to access and print previous "activity log in" times from my concluded courses from last years classes, actually just one class to make it easier. I am able to get into those classes, but there is NO activity time anymore, which I...

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**I saw a similar post from 2017 that seems to be related, but I'm hoping maybe there has been a helpful development since then. I am using discussion groups to conduct virtual book clubs. The discussion is assigned as Group activity, so readers of e...

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I am an instructional design specialist and received this ticket: "I have had one or two students in each class submit the first assignment and it seems like Turnitin is not working properly. Both of these courses were just updated, so I don't know i...

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How do I link a specific unlisted Youtube video using the Youtube app with a link? (Rather than searching topical words) 

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