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How can I (an instructor) transfer all of my existing Canvas shells that belongs to one institute to another as I move to a new institute?

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I was grading student presentations in Speed Grader. The required format was MS PowerPoint. When I pulled up submissions in Speed Grader, the following was displayed...see the screenshot below. I use speed grader all the time and relay upon it to acc...

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We sometimes have requests for evidence of completion of Tasks/ assignments aside from just the marks. However, since we have enabled the "build on last attempt" feature, Speedgrader displays the complete quiz on the first attempt and (if needed) dis...

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I need to delete or unupload an assignment and upload another one.  

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Virtual Machine Creation: I use both Hyper-V and VMware Workstation software on my Windows 11 Pro laptop, which has 8 GB of RAM. However, at the final stage, when I attempt to connect to the virtual machine, I receive the error message: 'Your machine...

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User: TeacherRecently I use my laptop to use canvas, what I only can see is homepage. I want to see the announcement page, people and conversation page, I am attempting to open any specific page in a blank white page. I've tried troubleshooting by cl...

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I am looking to create a daily reading log assignment. This will be graded a few points for each day they complete their reading log. In my previous LMS it got a bit complicated and I am just checking if I need to make a separate assignment for every...

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Although I have completed all my necessary prerequisites and there is a green check mark next to the completed modules, I cannot access my next module. I have already reached out to my school's IT desk, management system, my teacher, and filled out C...

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I'm revamping a Canvas course that contains a large number of old assignments (over 1,000) and need to delete them all. They're in an assignment group, and it would be much faster to delete the assignment group than to delete each individual assignme...

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Hi, Everyone,Our college reports student grades to academic coaches so they can outreach to the student. Faculty can successfully report a student grade using the following flow of actions. Go to grades (using "grades" on the left column in Canvas), ...

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Our compsci teacher has been an active member of our Canvas pilot. He's pretty interested in thinking about how he can have his students store their programming work in git repositories, and then turn in commits as assignments to Canvas. Is there a t...

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I was trying to add an attachment to my announcement today, but it gave me an error notice. What am I doing wrong?thank you

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Hi, We use a grading scheme that gives scores in whole and half steps on a 1 to 10 scale (e.g., 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, … up to 10). When teachers use the override feature in the gradebook, we have advised them to enter the student's grade as a percentage, as...

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Hi everyone, I'm Ajay Hinduja from Geneva, Switzerland, trying to figure out how to sync my Canvas calendar with my Google Calendar so I can keep all my due dates and course events in one place. I've seen a few general instructions online, but I'm cu...

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I am reaching out to inquire about an inconsistency we’ve observed in how grading schemes are displayed on Canvas. In several courses, the grading scheme appears labeled as “Canvas Default grading scheme”, which doesn’t reflect the customized grading...

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Hi I've been exploring using AI to generate quiz questions. There are two possible uses. Firstly, you can use AI to generate actual questions. For example you could feed the AI some relevant course content, and ask it to generate questions. Secondly,...

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After a test has closed the instructor can let students see correct answers. When this setting is turned on, only some of the students have access to the answers. Why is this?

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How can I add more Module pages in the left nav bar? Not more modules in the Modules page, but actually more "Modules" links for users to click on. I uploaded my screen shot here to give more visual guidance.

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When using Canvas as an instructor, my To-Do list of assignments to grade is on the right side when I view my dashboard in Card View.  There is no way to sort this view, and I have to expand the list when there are more than a few assignments.When I ...

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When Assignment Enhancements is enabled in a course, it results in SpeedGrader only displaying comments made on the most recent assignment submission. This is a really unfortunate trade-off since the student experience is greatly improved by Assignme...

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I  "This video's privacy settings require you to sign into your Guidde account". Why???? Does anyone have a work around?

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Hello,I just registered for Prince2 Foundation course at Peoplecert. I have tried to open the eBook that comes with the course Prince2 but I couldn't open it. The eBook is located in My Resources > My Reading list > Prince2 eBook> Read Now. When I cl...

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I have imported a quiz I created in a previous semester. When I previewed it to check it, all the variables in the questions showed up as "x". I checked the instructions, and the formula quiz now says to use brackets instead of backticks. The problem...

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We're thinking of turning on discussion checkpoints, but we don't have Modernized Speedgrader, Enhanced Rubrics, or Enhanced Assignments turned on yet. Has anyone in that situation experienced bugs with checkpoints? 

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Hello! I have a poster presentation this year! I'm wondering how I can get more information about the poster size requirements and what kind of board or surface it will be displayed on. I’d also love to know whether there are any specific setup guide...

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Had a student complain that the due date for checkpoint discussions is off in their gradebook and it has the incorrect date. In modules it has the correct dates followed by the wrong one.It shows correct when editing the assignment and in the to do l...

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I have a student who will need to submit a second version of an assignment in Canvas to receive credit. He is claiming that the dropbox in Canvas is closed, when it is not. Can students submit again in Canvas in a dropbox, after they have previously ...

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Hello!I am the administrator of our Canvas account as well as an instructor. Can anyone help me with instructions on how to enable to "Submit for Student" option for an assignment? Thank you!Monika

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Hi,I enrolled in Live Training Webinars but not all are showing up on my dashboard cards for me to complete the modules and earn my credit. 

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Our students are having difficulty accessing some published files.Some students can access the file, while others can't. Our support team hasn't found a pattern or configuration errors that could fix the problem.

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