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Hi Last autumn 2023 the teachers created classes as usually through SIS. Now they are creating courses for autumn 2024, and want material from autumn 2023, but it is gone. They can still find the courses, the students are still enrolled, but all the ...

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I am a teacher in a High School. I want to assess Year 7 students of Japanese by having them 1.  Complete a quiz (using a variety of the quiz functions) and2. Record themselves speaking and upload this.  (This function is in the assignments area) The...

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Is there a way for me to enter in math expressions/equations directly to the rich content editor without using the equation editor? I have a lot of math that I need to insert and clicking on the equation editor every single time gets tiring since it'...

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With Flipgrid becoming part of Microsoft Teams and closing on September 30th, has anyone found a good LTI alternative to Flipgrid? Thanks!

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There is no + button in the people section of an archive class that I would like to share with a new teacher of that class in order to share resources from it.  Is there another way I could share that class with this teacher? 

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One of our sub-accounts has manually arranged some columns in their gradebook. I see in the Instructor Guide that "Manual placement is persistent in the Gradebook until the column is reordered." Does that remain the same even next term when they'll c...

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My SCORM packages, when copied from the previous month's course, are giving me the following error message:____________________________________________________________________________________The page you were looking for doesn't exist.You may have mi...

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I have several teachers who do not have access to external apps anymore. The list is completely empty. Any idea on how to restore those?

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As Admin, I have deleted some courses that were old, or no longer fitting our process.   One teacher needs two of his courses recovered. Is there an Archive built in my school's Canvas account that manages this archiving?

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I have text entry with a hyperlink and I want to add more detail in parentheses after but as soon as I continue typing behind the hyperlink it automatically continues the link - I don't want this.  If I select only the text I don't want to by linked ...

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Hello,When we upload our csv file we get a message saying 'there are no scores changes detected' so nothing appears in the grade book.We've followed this thread ->https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/data-won-t-import-to-gradebook...

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As an admin, I need to see the exact time/date a teacher uploaded a video into a module. How do I do that?

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I need to have students fill out an evaluation form for their group members; I REALLY don't want them to hand-write them, so I created a fillable form in Word using Developer. The problem is, I had to upload it as a file, but it needs to be an Assign...

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I have one student who can't enroll in my class. She clicks on the invite, keys in her email address, clicks "new user", types in her full name, and clicks the check box, but the "enroll in course button" isn't available. I have checked to make sure ...

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Hello! I have two questions about how my Canvas Inbox links to the external email listed in my Canvas Profile. In section 1.6 of the "Growing with Canvas" training, it says, regarding the Inbox: "Easy to use: Connected to your main email address; can...

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Is there a way to receive a notification when a student responds to faculty in the grade book space?  We are having to always check back into the grade book to see if a student as responded.    Thank you,  Lori 

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Apologies for not knowing where else to ask. Our institution is a bit late to the full understanding of how outcomes beyond the course level can help us make informed decisions. I'd like to start with how to replicate the Learning Mastery Grade book ...

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If you are administering an exam using exam software that restricts access to the internet on a student's computer (ex: ExamSoft), is there a way for students to get offline access to their Canvas site to access reading materials, etc.? I know there'...

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We are a non institution edtech company that does not have institution credentials to generate API dev keys.  How do we activate a testbed to implement the LMS APIs?

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I have a few students who are getting an error that says "Problem with Registration" when they attempt to accept my invitation to my class. Their error also says the following: It looks like you may have already confirmed your registration. Try loggi...

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Can I make "Files" visible to students? Thanks.Li

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The new Module assignment interface is super slow.  It takes at least one minute to load to be able to change the assignment dates.  I have many students in the course and it will increase! This is so time consuming and I need a fix or the older inte...

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As a Nursing Instructor, how do I upload youtube videos to Canvas?

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Hello canvas community!  I am helping an instructor set up their canvas site. The instructor can set my role to be a TA, or an instructional designer, or anything else except instructor. We want to set up grade weights for the assignment groups but f...

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When students submit for an h5p assignment late (past the due date/time in Canvas) the grades are not posted to the gradebook.  I've checked with h5p and they are saying it is something in Canvas. Other integrations (Harmonize and Hypothesis) do post...

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We need a shortcut to open Canvas Equation Builder.  When building a lot of content, it takes 3 clicks and moving your hand away from the keyboard just to open the builder.   When the builder opens, the cursor is not automatically placed inside the w...

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The formatting for learning mastery outcomes is all lost when they are included in a rubric. Compare the two images I've attached.

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Does Canvas always indicate if a student has made changes to an assignment, such as a discussion post, prior to the due date?

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I spent the morning creating a syllabus for a course. I walked away for an hour, came back and clicked "Update Syllabus," thinking it was the way to save what I'd written, but what I'd written disappeared. Is there any way to restore my syllabus info...

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