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Curious if there is a short cut to printing a whole class to put in an accreditation binder for future reference?

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I just want to boost scores on an assignment. The assignment wasn't generated within Canvas, but deployed to it from an outside application. All I want to do is to increase all scores by a fixed amount. How to do that?

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Our school has stopped using Edpuzzle that allowed multiple attempts at a quiz.Is there a way to allow students multiple chances on a video quiz in canvas studio?

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Rubrics are not populating points at the top for the grades, how do I fix this?

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I don't think this is a novel request but I'd like to reiterate the need for an annotations library similar to Quickmarks on TurnItIn. This functionality seems pretty basic and I'm shocked Canvas still doesn't have it. I know they added the comment l...

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We need dark mode. The white is too bright and hurts my eyes. MAKE DARK MODE

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This is a question I think I know the answer to, but I am double checking. Canvas is set to support apps that use the LTI 1.3 standard, right? I don't need to "turn on" anything to make it work. And, it is backward compatible to still support LTI 1.1...

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After students take a quiz or exam, they are unable to access them at a later date to use as study material.  This is especially true when using LockDown Browser.  I have seen posts saying to check the "Let students see their response" block, but I d...

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Hi, I go to Unity Environmental university-Distance Education  I was wondering if you all answered my questions I was wondering how you all do a podcast on canvas?

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Does anyone know how to find the student email address to which Canvas sends invites? We just had a problem with a student not receiving their Canvas invite, and we wanted to double-check the email address, Canvas sent it to, but we can't find it.

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I am a student and trying to do my proctored exam on canvas using constructor proctor. I have tried four different browsers on windows and safari on Mac and got same error message that the browser does not meet the minimum requirements for canvas. Ki...

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Hi I have some teachers who have lost a gruop, it is a part of a course, unfortunately they cannot remember the name of the course, because the only use the left side panel to open the group.  My question is, is it possible to search for a group, ins...

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I was working with a teacher who was having trouble with the grades for an assignment. She wanted to post the grades on the 4-3-2-1-0 scale and had set a Grading Scheme accordingly. The assignment was worth 12 points, and she wanted to enter the poin...

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Is there a way for an instructor to see whether my students clicked on links I provided? I have a few links on pages and in assignment directions, and I'd like to see if students are actually accessing this information. I know that through analytics ...

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The update described in the Deploy Notes (2024-19-09) changed how assignments with varying due dates display. Each assignment (not in Edit mode) used to specify which section was assigned to which date/time.  Now it just says "1 Section,"  which mean...

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Administration wants students who drop left on the roster. I have set up Canvas to mark all missing assignments with a zero. I have to now manually change every zero to excused for the dropped student. Is there a way to mark all future assignments fo...

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Our students have a number of optional units for each degree programme.We therefore need one virtual space where we can share frequently asked questions, discussion forums and handbooks which are relevant to all students on the programme regardless o...

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Hello team So when we create some sections in a course and we divide the students in them; will the students have visibility on the content of other sections?  Even if the two different sections have the same dates will the members of section A be ab...

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We just discovered that when a teacher wishes to view group discussion posts in a previous semester (closed) course, that the Group Select option is not available on the discussion page.   The workaround is to go to People, click on the Groups tab an...

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I am trying to import assessments in aXcelerate from CANVAS, it seems the integration setup is completed successfully but the import is still not working.. I have tested integration setup in aXcelerate and it looks all okay and connection verified su...

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My Knewton browser keeps refreshing every minute or two. I have not found a fix for this and I am going crazy because I can barely type in the answer before it refreshes and makes me restart the problem. Do you guys have any advice?

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I have an instructor who has a couple of courses that have suddenly lost the modules.  It's multiple courses over multiple years that no longer have the modules that he has built.  I've tried the undelete option.  I've also checked the course import ...

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I am in the process of designing some Modules on Canvas to provide students with an interactive mock example of a client meeting. The module is designed as a "guided story" with quizzes that require students to choose the correct answer(s) in order t...

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I am adding 100 questions to a question bank and am frustrated that there is no add question button after the last qwuestion added like in regular quizes???

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Hi,I set a project as a group project where students can self-select their own groups. So far they've created their groups but when I grade one student, that score doesn't populate to the other group members. The "assign grades individually" box is n...

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Hello everyone,I need to find a way to download all of my course files and media to my computer for offline use. Previously, I used access tokens to run an application for downloading the files, but my school has recently removed that feature. Can an...

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The comment features for assignment submissions (i.e., when I, the instructor, give comments on student work) now enables rich text features. Good on ya, it's nice.However, the Canvas mobile apps display these comments in HTML markup (including HTML ...

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I received the message below from one of my instructors. I have seen this a few times--the wrong person's work appears in Speedgrader. Is this a known glitch? Is there anything that contributes to or causes this issue? I have removed the student name...

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Hi Canvas world,  I was wondering if there is a setting or easy way to copy a course and have that course be published by default?   Currently when I copy a course or import course content it resets the shell to unpublished.

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I know that the word count will depend on the tools (MS Word, Libre Office, Online tools?).  To get a consistent word count, I ask my students to submit their weekly homework via Canvas and use the word count shown on the Rich Text Editor for referen...

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