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Hello, When I edit a quiz it says it is out of 40 but in the gradebook states it is out of 0 and I am not sure why or what I need to do to fix this. Thanks. 

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Is there a way for students to self-evaluate with rubrics like we can with peer reviews?  

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Hello, I would like to gather statistics for a quiz across multiple classes, not all sections though. Is there a way to do that?

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So starting summer 2020, the New Rich Content Editor allows instructors to select fonts of their choosing. This was an absolute requirement and way past due.But...Is this not available when making New Quizzes. For the life of me, and when writing a n...

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I want to design a learning experience that encourages students to stop and question as they go through the course materials. For instance, they start with assessing prior knowledge on topic, then review readings/lecture material, then complete any s...

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Two of my students are not showing up in moderate as taking the test, and when they submit the test it doesn't show up for me.  (I am a middle school math teacher).  All my other students have submitted with no problem. 

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Can an observer be added to a breakout room?

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Would it be a good practice to cross-link courses between different teachers and subjects?  The application here is departmentalization in the elementary schools.

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I'm implementing an LTI tool.  It is working on two non-Canvas LTI platforms, but we are struggling for success with Canvas. When we request a token in the test Instructure environment, we receive back an "unknown client" error.  The client value we ...

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It would be a really neat feature to allow Learning Coaches (i.e. parents/parent/guardians/mentors/etc.) to have an ability to respond quickly, directly, and efficiently while in a Parent Canvas observer account (not mobile app). The ability to reply...

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I have been putting images into my quizzes (i.e. maps or images of graphs for math, etc) and when my students log into the Student App on their school-issued iPads, about 2/3 of them cannot see the images. They always work for me whether I am in my o...

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We have been asked by our library whether there is a simple tool (app/plugin) for Canvas that allows users to make choices and find a solution. It is about choosing the correct referencing style for a scientific publication. It is a very basic branch...

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In the Admin > Authentication page, whenever I attempt to add a new identity provider it replaces Canvas instead of appending it to the list like on the following instructions under Set Provider Provisions https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Admin-Gui...

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Hello,I have a query in regards to the  quiz questions.Do students have the same questions for a particular quiz ?or each student have a batch of questions randomly generated ?Thanks. 

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Hi, I have signed up as an instructor in canvas and grabbed the access token. Now I am trying to fetch data by using the access token and successfully able to get response while hitting the api endpoint from postman. But as soon as I start hitting th...

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I called the Canvas faculty support telephone line.  For 20 minutes straight, the automated voice said my wait time was an estimated 58 minutes.  Finally, to my questions: Canvas, do you think this is reasonable?  Are you kidding me?  Do you value yo...

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I added two students and every class for every student is listed individually.  That is obnoxious!  Is there some way to create "folders?"  For example, each of Jordyn's classes is listed in Jordyn's folder or something of the sort. I need to add 24 ...

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Is there a way to generate a report to monitor student grades school wide? 

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I am a Japanese teacher. I want to type a paragraph and then ask several T/F questions based on the reading. I don't see a way to ask more than one T/F question per each dialogue box. Is there a way for me to do this so I don't have to copy and paste...

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I feel like I read in one of the many articles on PowerTeacher Pro here on Canvas that PTP does not accept letter grades from Canvas. The grade override changes the percent to a letter grade. The overridden grade does not appear in PTP. How can I get...

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Graphs in Word documents show up incorrectly in the Speed Grader. Here is an example of what I see:And here is an example of what I see when I download the document and open it up in Word:The equations for the trend lines disappear in Canvas. Does an...

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I have made several screen captures of, supposedly, the Canvas website, moving my cursor around the website, but when I watch the recording the only thing that shows is my desktop. My cursor moves as it is supposed to do in my video, and the audio is...

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I need to pull student access reports before completing my weekly attendance. Is there a way to run an access report for my entire class at once instead of each individual student?

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How can a teacher modify EITHER individaul assignment grades OR overall grade per individual student? Reasoning:  we have students in high school working towards MODIFIED DIPLOMA and need individual grades adjusted.

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@CanvasDocTeam   When trying to sync grades to PowerSchool, some teachers are reporting that they are finding duplicates of their assignments.  Also, even though they are checking the box to not have the assignment included in the final grade it stil...

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Hello,It seems like there are lots of add ins that will allow for an instructor to check for plagiarism in a submitted Canvas Assignment within Speedgrader (turnitin, copyleaks, etc). However are there any that will work on a Canvas Quiz? Right now, ...

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There are similar topics posted but the solution link doesn't work.  I get this this error message when I try to go there -The page you are trying to access was not found. Please check your URL for typos and try again.

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I created a virtual machine on Google Cloud Platform and attempted to perform an automated setup by running docker_dev_setup.sh, but I got into a bunch of errors. I have attached a complete log of all of the commands that I ran and their output. http...

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How can I add a 5% extra credit "boost" to my students final exam score or is that even possible? Thanks!

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Hi, I'm currently in my sophomore year of college and I am using Canvas and when I try to look at all my grades at once, it shows every single class I've taken so far in college, including my freshman year. I want to know if there's a way to "hide" t...

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