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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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Hello, I am a teacher, and I am using the free version on Canvas. One of my students is having trouble logging into Canvas. He is unable to reset his password and does not receive an email from Canvas when he attempts. What can I do? Is there a link ...

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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 am trying to create a homework assignment in the form of a quiz in order to allow immediate feedback for students about their answers.  For this, I need to be able to organize the quiz into questions, each of which have multiple specific responses ...

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I'm the Canvas admin at my school. So Canvas will be releasing a new feature on December 19.  This feature is the "View Ungraded as Zero" feature and you can play with it now on your Canvas Beta Site.  Here's a link to the Canvas Release Notes where ...

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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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In some instances such as students registering late for a course, I am adding them manually in the UI rather than via a csv import.  I am having trouble assigning users their SIS ID this way, seeing no option when I add them and not being able to add...

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Hi!With the move to Hybrid and Virtual Instruction, I want individual students in multiple groups.  For example, if the student - let's call him Blake - attends on Green Days only, then I want Blake  to be both in the Green Period 2 Class, but also i...

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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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May I ask in a course, if I use the inbox function to contact one classmate, will the messages be disclosed to the course teacher? Or is it totally private. Thanks. 

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I do not merely grade students' papers, I also correct, revise, and label essay errors.  However, students, nor I, am able to download the feedback that accompanies each annotation.  While the annotated paper can be downloaded, it is null and void wi...

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The new student submission page is causing me problems. When the student goes to submit a Google Doc using their Chromebook, they have to download and make a pdf or click the upload and then choose Google Apps.  I am finding that the student's work t...

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I have downloaded a course but every time that I try to open the downloaded file I get an email with an attachment. When I try to open the attachment I get an identical email. How do I open these imscc files/

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We have a client who is looking to update an Articulate Storyline file with more current Covid related content in our staff-facing instance of Canvas. This is an existing course with active users, one module is being updated.When the zip. file (publi...

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I recently graded a student's submission, but once I grade it, the course status asking me if I want to unpublish/publish my course still displays. Is it just me or is this a bug? Edit: I read an article saying that once you have a graded submission,...

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My students (some 200 or 300 in each class) often create group themselves (in the "people" menu). Once groups are created there is apparently no standard way to find which group a particular student belongs to. For instance if I wonder about the grou...

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Canvas won't let me adjust the due date of an assignment even though the start and end dates have been extended for the course. 

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Hi all, I recently had my students create their own copies of a jamboard to annotate and the submit as an assignment on Canvas, but when I go into SpeedGrader and try to open any of them I get the message "jamboard.google.com refused to connect. Does...

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Simple request, maybe not simple execution. Similarly to the cries for help on not erasing or syncing over comments or any other feature in a school's SIS when the import/sync occurs from Canvas, the process for this doesn't deserve a workaround.It d...

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