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I created the roll call attendance assignment, weighted it by creating a group for it, but the grades are not showing up in my gradebook. I take attendance every class period. The submission is set to external link, I have the available dates set to ...

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In this documentation article, it says, "Some external app LTI tools such as Google Drive and Office 365 do not retain tool configurations in exported courses." What are the "tool configurations" that it refers to? Does it refer to the configurations...

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Hi!I would like to be able to embed short, non-instructional, decorative video clips on some pages. We are using clips from Adobe instead of static images as decoration. However, when uploaded to Kaltura and then embedded, a user has to click play. I...

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I include several videos into my course content.  I was requiring viewing but I have found that sometimes my students view them but they don't show up as having viewed them in the analytics.  Are any of yoou having this problem?  How can I address it...

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Hi I have several rooms imported from SIS with different users, they all have a unique SIS ID. Is it possible to put the same template on all of them at once? The template is manually created. Since the rooms af different users I do not think that I ...

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A student visited the "Assignments" page using her Fujitsu laptop for 2 courses, she could access the page, but the assignment list just won't load as expected. But when she switches to using her mobile phone, she sees the assignment list. In additio...

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I've just been using SpeedGrader for the first time in a new quiz. It is great that there now are buttons for updating grades and moving to the next and previous student right with each question when grading per question. However, the question feedba...

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Hi all! I am a student and I missing the etextbook link on my canvas. Anyone know how I can get access to that link?

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A student submitted a post to a discussion board, and Canvas tagged it as "late".But Canvas reported the submission time as equal to the due date. Thus it appears that the submission was made on time and should not be marked late.A screenshot is foun...

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I'm having issues aligning outcomes to individual quiz questions. It appears correct when building the "New Quiz" and I have gone through all the correct processes so that under each question there is an aligned outcome, however when a student takes ...

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Has anyone taken the SSW CE U-M TIPPS course and received a notification that they completed it? Did anyone get proof that it was completed/passed, for example, a certificate? 

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is it possible to submit assignments to remove the late mark in canvas? my dad is getting mad at me for late assignments, though I do well on them, so is it possible to remove the late mark without any workarounds or teacher involvement?

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I am looking to access more than 2 of my formerly recorded lectures for a test on Friday this coming. I SHOULD be able to access ALL of our recorded classes. Where are they?! I see two listed, when I contact my instutution they do not know how to acc...

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Hey everyone!I’m looking for a free tool (built-in or third-party) to create a simple teacher evaluation survey. I’ve checked a few options, but most require payment. Since the survey isn’t too complex, I feel like this should be a basic feature some...

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How do students know if they submitted multiple submissions.  My students slides and a brochure in one assignment.  They can only "see" one of their submission.

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I have ten pictures and I would like the students to match them with the correct term.How do I do that in a quiz format?

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I am trying to understand how to connect Canvas to Constant Contact so people can register for our courses, then be automatically added to the correct course.  I can create an API "key" (or code?) from Constant Contact, but I have no idea how to actu...

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Does anyone know if there is a work around for when you've accidently just "lost" the rubric that took ages to develop??! Rubrics & assignments don't seem to have the page history function so I can't revert to the previous version of the page 﫣...It...

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I have a quiz with a manual grade posting policy. I wait until all TAs have finished and then post the grades. However, I just received a request for feedback on a grade that has not yet been posted. The student showed me that Canvas says that the gr...

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Hi, All.  I am a student that uses canvas for all of my classes including my HS and dual enrolled college classes.   When something is graded in canvas, I have recently seen a delay of 4+ hours to notify me.  I am used to the 1 hour delay between som...

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I have a course that often needs to export their rubrics for review. Since there isn't a built-in feature to export rubrics as a document or CSV, I came up with a workaround. I just wanted to know if there were plans to add an export feature in the f...

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When using the "Save comment for reuse" feature in a rubric, can more than one saved comment be selected to add to a single criterion when grading? I found the guide but it doesn't specify.  https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-...

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I teach high school chemistry.  The inability of Canvas, in the past, to correctly write chemical formulae using subscripts to indicate numbers of atoms in a molecular formula or superscripts to indicate charges of ions breeds confusion.  Beginning s...

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Hi there,I have taken over a large course and some of the staff are taking mutiple classes. How do I assign them multiple classes for their relevant sections without giving them access to the entire sections that exist? Any help would be appreciated ...

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Hi, Just wondering if I can upload an existing google form quiz into Canvas?

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Scores from DeltaMath assignments were, but are no longer, syncing to Canvas. Example: DeltaMath has 100% for a student assignment, but Canvas has 50%, even though the DeltaMath assignment has a late date allowing 100% of the score to be achieved wit...

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Hello, wonderful people.I'm newly appointed as a system admin of a Canvas installation. A course builder wants to add SCORM content but couldn't find the option on the course menu. I checked every admin screen and found nowhere to enable SCORM on the...

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We have a number of quizzes, around 200, set up in a way that the highest grade gets reported and then a late submission policy takes place that gives them a zero if they submit it late. Our goal is to keep them open but marked late so that students ...

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We have a partner school and a teacher from it acts as an observer to any of their students enrolled in our courses. We allow students to access their courses one week prior to the term start date and two weeks after the term ends to complete any lat...

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I have uploaded pictures into my Canvas course, but I wanted to resize them so they are not huge every time that I insert them into any page using the Rich Content Editor. Is there any way to resize them by changing the image properties for the file?...

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