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I have several formula questions in classic quizzes whose answers require scientific notation.  These questions have worked in past years. Today, students cannot input scientific notation (e.g., 6.02e23) even though the algorithm is unchanged and the...

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New to Canvas, I did not realise that the grading was set to manual (apparently by default), so after grading many assignments, realising the problem, I changed the grade posting policy to automatic - yet the hidden icon prevails, as you can see belo...

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Hello my Institution has created a course that we offer out to individuals. We would like to offer our course to universities so that professors can teach our course to their students in a semester. How would we give professors access to teach the co...

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How do I change the settings to not have the attached image page load when clicking on literally anything.  Why can't the tab containing the item I need just load and leave the original page the way it is? It would make navigation a lot easier instea...

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We are marking students present and absent in roll call, some tutors have found that they marked a student absent for a tutorial but when they went back to the register the following day to check or update something the absent has changed to present....

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We recently conducted a mid-term test using the Quiz application in Canvas, and we encountered an issue. Individual teachers were unable to find the option to hide quiz scores from students until the scores are published. This feature was available f...

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I am wondering whether there is a way to archive all courses that are, for example, five years or older based on which Term they fall under. Effectively, I'd want to hide them from both instructors and students, but be able to restore individual cour...

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Does anyone know of a browser extension that would allow one to color code different Canvas courses, e.g., different sidebar color minimally.  I have at least three different courses on Canvas every semester, it would help if I could distinguish them...

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I’m not sure why my CCS Grade 7 Math Unit 4 Interim isn’t showing up in the assignments for one of my classes, even though it's available in my other classes and I was able to publish it there. How can I add it back? Because it keep saying its delete...

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I am an English instructor in a 9-12 high school. I spend time adding feedback to student essays and written work submitted through Canvas only to find out they are not reading the feedback. Is there a way to 1. Make feedback more visible to students...

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I am having an issue with assignments opening up in Speedgrader.  There is just the "Spinning Wheel of Death" as I describe it.  It works great for a few submissions and then it stops.  I am having to download each assignment submission to grade it, ...

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We just shifted quarters at our school at I went to add a time limit multiplier for a student who just received 1.5 ET accommodations and that option is no longer there. There is a mention now for students who already have ET that it is part of cours...

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I need a excel file from the grades in Canvas. Copying manually is not possible due to large number of students. Exporting works but after loading CSV to excel the file is not organize well and unusable. Think the separation of data is not done propp...

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How do I set my computer keyboard to easy select my accent marks and punctuation in Spanish language from my keyboard?

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I'm trying to setup Canvas with SCORM assignments that open in a new window. Right now there's a ton of extra clicks required...The student clicks on the assignment button -> opens a page with a link to launch the content -> opens a new window that s...

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We have the assignment submissions set to one attempt. How do we do in and give only 1 student an additional attempt? I know in quizzes we can do this but not finding it in the assignments. 

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I am trying to setup a user roll that can only see grades and attendance. I created a roll called Career Technician (permission.jpg). When the user looks at their menu they have a whole bunch off items that we dont want (menue.jpg). How can I set thi...

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A faculty member has subscribed to the Calendar feed using Google Calendar. In Canvas, they added an "Available From" and "Due Date" for an assignment. The assignment appears in Google Calendar. However, the assignment appears as an all day event on ...

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When users are having difficulty with logging in, an admin can modify their username and password. However, most users do not want their username to change. The best way, it seems to me, is to change only their password and then suggest they change i...

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Maybe I'm worrying for nothing but its the first time I've seen this. I had a student come in today with a question and I noticed that  their Canvas dashboard looked like an Observer's dashboard would.  There was a dropdown (attached) and the student...

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Hello Canvas Community,I am writing to ask a question: what is Quizzes 2? I don't know how to transfer classes from them. I would like an explanation.

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I've created time slots in the calendar for my students to book, but they are saying they can't see them. It seems that, to view the time slots, they need to click on "Find Courses" and select the specific course where I set them up. Is there an easi...

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I have a course with multiple group sets, each containing more than 30 groups. Students can self-enroll in these groups through self-enrollment. The problem is that students have to scroll extensively to locate the groups, as all the groups appear on...

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I'm looking for a way to publish all grades at once in Canvas. I currently have around 100 tests uploaded as practice material, but the grades are set to NOT PUBLISH. This setup means students often email me asking to release their scores, which can ...

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I am a teacher and I have used Canvas before to allow students to submit assignments with Turnitin. However, when I click into where I can usually see the list of assignments, I can now only see options to download them and then re-upload them to pro...

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Learning Mastery Gradebook will not load when I open it - there is only a spinning wheel. The traditional Gradebook view loads fine. Any ideas how to fix it so the Learning Mastery Gradebook view loads?   I have already tried clearing history and cac...

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To keep the grading to-do list uncluttered I tend to click this button for assignments that won't be due for a while yet. But new submissions come in and I have to click again. Is there any chance for an "Ignore Until Due Date" option that works simi...

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Is it possible to delete "Test Student"

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