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I am yet to access my assignments/quizzes cause I'm unable to access the IinkedIn link which I'm supposed to monitor my progress with. thanks for all you do.

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Hi there, I have followed this guide to set up a local instance of Canvas for development.The purpose of this was to do integration testing for an LTI tool, so I need to be able to log in with different types of users and check that the tool is worki...

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I have a quiz that I gave last year that I'd like to use (again) tomorrow morning. I'm working to make it accessible using the Secure Exam Browser but the option doesn't present itself. My questions are: 1) Is it possible that I have to create this q...

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I'm a math teacher, and I'm trying to create a number line in Canvas for a quiz for my students to teach about inequalities. I don't see any way I can make a number line. I'm trying to figure out how to do that, or if Canvas allows you to do that. Ca...

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I was trying to take a Smart Proctor exam and it would not load. I got an agent on the line to assist and when I tried to go back to desktop to use my cutting tool to screen shot the issue. It would not let me and I lost Smart Proctor. Next thing I k...

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I would like to create quizzes that I am calling "progressive".  In other words, the first question is easy, the student answers it and sees if he got it correct. If not, an explanation comes up.  Then he can do the second question, which is maybe sl...

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Is it possible to configure certificate authentication directly in Canvas or can that only be done using a third-party identity provider?  More specifically, can Canvas support CAC authentication which requires installing DoD root certificates on the...

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I tick boxes, I see an eyeball icon crossed off, I set "options" on a quiz and STILL I have some students who see partial comments or all comments to an assignment. Then I find out that past comments and grades are blocked by one method (in one locat...

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I'm having a strange issue with a course. I automatically have my grade book mark late submissions with a zero.  However, when the due date passes, the assignments without submissions are not marked "Missing"; they remain "None", and so they don't ge...

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I want to include a short quiz as part of an assignment. How do I do that, and does the number of points earned show up as an Assignment grade?

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(view in My Videos)I used to be able to go into my gradebook and give everyone a default grade.  Every time I do that now, Canvas tells me "0" grades have been filled.  I am attaching screenshots of my settings in hopes someone can help.

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Hi,We've identified a potential security and privacy issue with SCORM packages uploaded via the SCORM LTI tool in Canvas. When a SCORM package is embedded or added as an assignment, the content is hosted on a public domain (e.g. https://dub.scorm.can...

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I would like the ability to only review the quiz questions (and answers) for the questions that the students wanted to review. I have used other systems where I can set a flag for each question that the student can turn on if they want to have it rev...

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Hey folks, My college is transitioning from a home-built SIS to Banner (SaaS version). We're wondering how those with both Canvas and Banner handle cross-listings. I have a hundred potential questions here, but wanted to leave this more open-ended, a...

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I am a teacher, I want to limit file uploads to Word365 documents from students' OneDrives. Assignment settings are: File Uploads, Restrict Upload File Types, docx.       When a student selects a file in the Office365 tab (actually OneDrive) and tri...

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We're planning to conduct assessment using Canvas Outcomes, and I'm hoping to find a way to do so using external evaluators. Has anyone used the method of creating an Assessment Shell, uploading artifacts, and assigning roles to evaluators?  Were you...

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According to the Canvas Deploy Notes (2024-12-04) , there should be a warning before leaving the rubric editor that you haven't saved your work. I just lost a 15-criterion rubric because I clicked wrong and did not receive that warning.  No screensho...

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Hi Community, Does anyone have a best practice that works for them with regard to unplanned disruptions to a timed quiz?  For example, say your students are taking a 1-hour timed quiz.  30 minutes in, the fire alarm goes off, and everyone needs to ev...

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Our institution has two courses that use Mastery Paths in one module. We have two issues coming up. The first is that in one course using it, all of the assignments in that modules appear for all students in the gradebook instead of just the ones des...

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For my course there is a succession of Lockdown Browser quizzes (quiz 1, quiz 2, etc.). In quiz 2, I need to link students back to their work from quiz 1 so that they can build on it in quiz 2. However, I find when testing "as student", the link to t...

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When we attempt to export an attendance report for some students we get an email with this message:An error occurred when trying to generate your report:Could not find student with SIS ID V144159a In the past i have added a character to the end of th...

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I created a New Quiz and accidentally left total marks as 0 and some students completed the quiz. I updated the total marks but it still seems to be using the old number. When I look in SpeedGrader, it has correct total marks at top on left side, but...

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  Hi looking for confirmation on whether all question types display answers when using the print key with answers functionality, specifically the information in Marking notes on Essay style questions   Thanks in advance   Andrew Dwyer  

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Isn't it the luck that we have lost Test Proctoring 3 days before finals on New Quizzes?  Other Yuja users -what options are you offering faculty? It does work with Classic Quizzes, but they would have to reenter the question banks..  Is there a quic...

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Hello, I would like to request that Instructure add the `main` HTML element to the allowed list of HTML elements as seen on this Canvas HTML Editor Allowlist page. It's odd to me that they allow `aside`, `footer`, `header`, `details`, and `picture` w...

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Anyone knows how the total activity is calculated for students. Since it's not clear where these numbers are coming from. Preferably if there's a way to calculate them using the data available in the database. 

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Hi Support ,For Several students unable to assign grades as admin/teacher , although assignment is submitted by them , getting following error: "There was a problem updating the submission"Error via API : "user not authorized to perform that action" 

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In Quizzes, I ran Quiz Statistics, Item Analysis.  Out of 20 questions, 14 give the "% answered correctly" and "Discrimination Index".  However, 6 questions are listed as "Ungraded Answers" with no statistics.   (It just shows the number responded, w...

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I have had this issue for some time now, and working around it has really been a pain.I want to know how to create assignments in WileyPLUS that can count as extra credit.In the WileyPLUS system, it is impossible to set a "points possible" in the sen...

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I think I may have rubricked myself into a corner... I assigned a group project. Some groups have 3 members, some groups have 4 members. All components  of the project are required for groups with 4 members, but certain parts are optional for the 3-m...

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