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Hi, I made a "New Quizzes" with Canvas. I like all the new features but for some reason the grades are not in the gradebook. I cannot find them for the life of me. The only way that I can get the grades is to go into the new quiz and click "Moderate"...

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Solution Posted: 07-07-2021 View Solution
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Hello,The students for the class which I am a TA for recently took an exam via the "Quizzes" function. The exam was divided into two different quizzes: one multiple choice (automatically graded) and one short answers (manually graded). I have been tr...

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I'm an instructor looking over the item analysis for an exam (deployed using the "old" quiz engine NOT New Quizzes). When I first looked at the results on the item analysis page, I could see all the answer options. After updating some grading, the an...

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Hello.  I think that I used to have the option to view my gradebooks by section (I have multiple sections of the same course), but that option seems to have disappeared.  Did I accidentally change something to make it go away?  How do I get it back?

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Whenever I try to record a media comment in response to students, it appears that Canvas auto-adjusts the levels. Since I have them set very specifically, it ends up just distorting the audio because it basically just turns it up to 100. Is there a w...

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When attempting to play video linked from Google Drive in the iOS app, the player hangs and becomes unresponsive. The preview loads correctly but when the player is activated, it loads momentarily and then freezes black. This behavior is similar in S...

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Solution Posted: 10-17-2020 View Solution
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Our Assistant Principal also teaches a course. After she has been in the Admin console and returns to her dashboard, she receives an "Access Denied". We have tried both Safari and Chrome. We have to clear thehistory/cache on both browsers each time t...

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The Grades link is missing from the left-hand toolbar of the course where I am an instructor. It comes up in the list of links in the Navigation settings, and it comes up in Student view, but not for instructors. And so, I don't see any way I can acc...

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Solution Posted: 10-06-2020 View Solution
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Hi All, I have a Bitnami CanvasLMS Virtual Machine. At the very-first-start it received the IP address 10.3.1.160 from DHCP. Then it was changed to 10.3.1.31. Now I implemented an AAD Authentication. Here we use the Canvas SAML Entity ID. Actually th...

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I have my external tool which working fine with Canvas. All the auth endpoints are working as expected. As an instructor, I am able to create line items from my tool which gets displayed as an assignment in the platform. Below sample JSON of my line ...

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Hello, I just did a big grade import after some students changed classes and their grades did not transfer.  I successfully imported the numerical grades, but they are still showing the red "missing" color in the grade detail tray.  Is there a way to...

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Tengo una rúbrica para evaluar las presentaciones de un tema de los alumnos pero me gustaría que sus compañeros pudieran co evaluarlos utilizando la rúbrica que he creado en Canvas, ¿es eso posible?  Sé que puedo adjuntar la rúbrica a la tarea pero e...

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I have an unresolved issue that was passed to the Canvas SIS team a week ago and I was told they will not get to it for another week or two.I teach PreCalculus and Calculus.In my Precalculus class, the assignment groups imported just fine. Even my Ca...

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Is it my role to Canvas-student? or my role in my job-educator?

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Anyone know how to fix this error?https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bY9Gs1qubBIHIiebj0w3oXhsrKzXPQwT/view?usp=sharing 

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Solution Posted: 06-01-2021 View Solution
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I recently created my first quiz within the "New Quizzes" option.  It was a matching quiz for vocabulary terms.  I remember at some point I was asked if I wanted to award partial credit and I clicked "no" without even thinking. Now if my students get...

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I am new on Canvas.  I am a Media Specialist and have taken over the school-wide course for media, counseling and ESOL.     How do I create an assignment for just a specific grade level?   Do I have to type in all 100 email addresses or student ID nu...

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I'll give an assignment for midterm test, but I have some accomodation students, so I plan that they will be assigned to another submission form to give them extra times. However, I concern that if a student could see who is assigned to a submission ...

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Solution Posted: 10-05-2020 View Solution
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It appears that New Quiz, Fill-in-the-Blank default condition gives the correct answer after the student puts in a wrong answer.  If  "Allow Multiple Attempts" is checked, then students learn to just put in a dummy answer, see the correct answer, the...

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Is there a log or email of API Sync with SIS?  I'm looking for something that tells me if the nightly sync was successful or not.

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I edited a previous post and now it is no longer visible here and if click on a link I had for it I get this error:"An Unexpected Error has occurred.Your request failed. Please contact your system administrator and provide the date and time you recei...

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Solution Posted: 11-12-2020 View Solution
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I created a OneNote class notebook in Canvas, but when my students open it, they see the MY notebook, not the class notebook, what am I missing?

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What are the copyright policies for the use of the Canvas logo? I'd like to use it for a t-shirt project design for my class but I'm not very educated on copyright and the legality of using the logo.

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Solution Posted: 10-07-2020 View Solution
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Students have to continually authorize their google drive via canvas-is there a setting that once they do this it does not prompt them again?

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I deleted some assignments from a previous version of the class shell, but they are still showing up in some of my students' to-do lists and in the grade book. 

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I regularly use the canvas calendar for classes and when I click on an event to see detail, the event details pane will jump around a little bit by a few pixels. I am not sure this is a bug or an intended feature but I do not want to see this feature...

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So I created a quiz.  Assigned a day and time frame to take.  And assigned to a class.  It appeared on the calendar.  I had students who missed the test, so I went back in and assigned to those specific students with a new day and time frame.  It app...

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Solution Posted: 10-05-2020 View Solution
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I have several students who get this screen just about every time they open their Canvas--Google Assignment. I have tried clearing website data and history. Turning cookies on and off, private browsing, a different browser, but nothing seems to work....

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I want to confirm that the "Additional Comments" under each question in the Speed Grader will only go to the student that I'm grading, and not to all students who received that question.  I searched the database and cannot find that confirmation. I'm...

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Solution Posted: 11-14-2020 View Solution
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I have recently learned how to embed my Google Slides classroom with the HTML editor. This is great because it took the extra step of my students having to tap "launch external tool" to see the classroom. They were also having to re-authorize access ...

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Solution Posted: 11-15-2020 View Solution
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