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Somehow, I suspect data were deleted from a course. Is there a possibility to restore data / reset the course content to an earlier date?

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I have just swap to another section of the same course yet their canvas classroom is already published. So I am still stuck on my previous section's canvas classroom. Will canvas update it?

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I've recently been exploring Observer Accounts and Pairing Codes.  We have a program at our school where some students have a mentor who comes along with them to classes (physically and virtually) and assists them in understanding and completing assi...

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I am teaching a co-requisite course (two courses taken by all students simultaneously) and would like to use a single Canvas course to more seamlessly organize the assignments. Students have reported that it is confusing to have to work from two sepa...

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I want my students to upload their assignments into Canvas directly from Google Drive, but when I grade the assignment, I do not want to download the assignment and then open it to grade it. Is there a way that the assignment opens in Canvas that I c...

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Is there a way to create group assignments so that everyone can see the grades and the feedback provided on an assignment?

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Our school is moving from Moodle to Canvas.In Moodle, we can use data fields to populate pages. For example, here's a common greeting on welcome pages: "Hello {USER_FIRSTNAME}! Welcome to {COURSE_FULLNAME}!"Does Canvas have the ability to do this too...

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We have created program learning outcomes at the root level and then assigned the outcomes to an assignment rubric. We have the PLO set to not be included in the score. We are using the PLO (outcomes) for us to score the program and not for students ...

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Hello! I've been working on a request for a course for students to submit clinical preceptorship forms. I initially created a course with distinct assignments for each form, as not all students had to submit the same set of forms.  My colleague who i...

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We are interested in enabling some form of multi-factor authentication for our local sign on (the /login/canvas URL sign on) for accounts that use the local sign on to perform tasks or interact with our instance of Canvas. I've looked at a few differ...

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Folks, See https://github.com/1EdTech/openbadges-validator-core/issues/257 for more details. In short: verification of badges fails due to a false redirect. This severely impacts the reputation of OpenBadges. When I try to import one of my badges in ...

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Are the messages that I send to my students / fellow students are private? Or I have access to them (if so, how to check) and other administrators

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I have built a quiz by finding and importing items from multiple question banks into the quiz. When editing a question, is it best to do so in the question bank or the quiz? Moreover, how do I keep them in sync with each other? (Should I edit in the ...

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Example here: [rank1][rank2} Only meYoung of a siblingOldest of a siblingYoungest of threeLast of fourLast of fiveLast of sixThird out of fourSecond out of fourSecond of threeThird oldest of fourThird oldest of fiveSecond oldest of fourSecond oldest ...

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Our district does not allow us to create our own courses. I want to create modules for the upcoming school year but I can't because all of the current courses (including my sandbox) won't allow me to because the dates are past the end of the course d...

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I was hoping to get some suggestions to help implement an assessment submission checklist in my course. I do not have administrator privileges, so this needs to be something that can be implemented at the course level. Requirements: An interactive ch...

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I'm looking for a way to create a quiz where it's not graded based on points or the answers to individual questions. I want to use the quiz as basically an interactive coversheet listing the various parts of the weekly packet that they need to turn i...

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Hi, I am a new instructional designer with Canvas account support role. I made an error creating Canvas course template that was populated into all courses for next Fall by Canvas admin. My mistake was housing a course homepage in an unpublished modu...

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Our library is looking at a resource called Sage Campus. Does anyone have experience with this product?

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We are setting up a non-academic course shell where students (and faculty) will upload IRB requests as part of research projects, and those are documents will need to be retained even after the submitter has been unenrolled from the course (e.g., aft...

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We have visually impaired students who are assigned quizzes through Canvas. Because the immersive reader doesn't work with quizzes, we've had difficulty making quizzes accessible to students. From other community questions and my own testing, I know ...

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 Hi, I am dealing with an issue where I keep consistently seeing the same message within the assignment page of a course every time I add in content to it (attached screenshot). It does not matter if it is from the vendor's external tool or TCC. It a...

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I need to develop MOOC for my students using Canvas LMS

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Hi I'm importing our courses from governmental SIS system, when the courses are created in Canvas they are set as published. This is a problem, because often the teacher would like to costumze them, before the students can access them. Is there anywa...

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This is our first term using Canvas. We are populating sections using the SIS import method, sending csv files with just the changed rows each time (not a full batch update). For reporting (in CD2 which we haven't set up yet), we will need to disting...

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Hello!In canvas, I have enabled moderated marking with 3 moderators and a final marker. The students have submitted the assessments and everything works except for this: If the 1st moderator ( the one who marks a particular assessment first ), marks ...

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I have just copy a template course and in the process of editing it. It's not coming up on my dashboard and when I click on All subjects, all of my courses have a little square in front of their names but not this new one. Help?

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Hi - I have made Canvas quizzes with each question pulling an item from the banks that I built.  I would like to see a report that gives me data for each question, not each item.  Is this possible?  Currently I see a report that gives me data for eac...

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When I click on Canvas from Clever, it logs in an says I'm restricted from the courses. But then if I click on Dashboard it goes to my dashboard, and I can then click on courses. It didn't do that until a week ago, is there something I need to do, or...

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Our students are not able to receive external emails (non-school) via their school email accounts. Is there a way to create their login/account for them in advance and give them the credentials without having to use the email link? 

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