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Hello, I needed two different calendars for the two sections of my course. Since I understand that course sections are not able to have different calendars, I have created a (student) group for each course section and used the calendar associated to ...

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I have an assignment with a text response only.  I would like to open up the option to submit a media response for certain students. Is this possible within the same assignment, or do I need to create a separate assignment for those students that I w...

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I can enter my account from my phone (only from the invitation sent by my teacher) but not from the computer. How can I solve this? 

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Is it possible to allow an instructor to limit access to a Page within a module, in the same way we can limit access to a file. In particular to only allow the page to be viewed after a certain date. In can manually publish a page on a given date, bu...

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Hola, necesito ayuda, quisiera sable como puedo añadir una respuesta en notación científica, en la sección de bancos de preguntas, el tipo de respuesta fórmula de, no puedo incluir de la notación científica dentro de la fórmula.

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Hi all! How can students see where they left off in the course? When a student has not worked on the course for a number of days and he logs in again, it would be very easy for him to immediately see what he worked on last time without having to go t...

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Hi all! How can I see on overview of all the pages, discussions, ... where students have participated on? I know that you see that on my dashboard if a page, a discussion it turned into an assigment. But apart from making an assignment out of it, how...

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I'm a staff member at an institution that's comprised of three schools. I'm trying to write a simple python script to retrieve the current grades for a select group of students to save myself and others the time of doing it manually through the web a...

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I had an idea for Canvas that if you're trying to find something specific within a module or a teacher('s) page, there should be a keyword search. so you would have the ability to find what you're looking for quicker. the search bar would search not ...

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I’m logging in my account and its not working for some reason.

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My god, Speedgrader is awful to use. When will it be upgraded/fixed/replaced? The drawing tools are painful to use--the check and trashcan are too close to the item being drawn, and somewhat randomly the view seems to jump to a different part of the ...

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My colleague has created an assignment that uses 'External Tool Submission' and a 'Google Drive Cloud Assignment' that opens in a new tab. All of her students are successfully able to open/submit the assignment except for one: when this student click...

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Kami is not working, I have tied multiple times to install.  Is there an alternative I can use to complete assignments?

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Hello, I needed two different calendars for the two sections of my course. Since I understand that course sections are not able to have different calendars, I have created a (student) group for each course section and used the calendar associated to ...

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I am using the Kami tool in Canvas. My district has paid for it and is on my courses. Before the paid account, the free trial was a dream. Upload in assignment, kids click, annotate, answer, and submit. Now, I get a constant message saying: "An Error...

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How do my students know that I posted a comment on their assignment?

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This article / post says that institutions must allow teachers to set course logos: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-add-an-image-to-a-course-card-in-the-Dashboard/ta-p/624However, I can't seem to find an article that desc...

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Hi there,I have a fourth grade class with 4 sections cross listed together.  Is there a way to sort assignment submissions by section so I can easily see who has not turned in their work for each section?

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I originally wanted my class to show a percent as a grade, but now I can't figure out how to change it so the students can see a letter as their grade and not a number percent.

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I have an instructor who has two sections of the same course, section 23 and section 26.  Section 26 was created by copying section 23 when it was finished and ready to be published.  Both sections are exactly the same.  In section 23, unsubmitted as...

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Hello allI am trying to write a chemistry test and when I try to "expand" the answer box (toggling editing answer--or the little pencil icon by the inputed answer) --to access their Rich Content Editor to put in equations and such, there is no expans...

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How can I keep only one student from participating in the course until she or he completes a prerequisite? For example, all students will be moving to module 4, but I want one student to have to complete a quiz before she or he is allowed to move on ...

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Hello All,We are planning to integrate the video calling/ chat and white board in LMC application. Can we do this using canvas ? If possible share some canvas links related to it. Thanks,Siva Vempati, +91-9603326382

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Hello All,We are planning to integrate the video calling/ chat and white board in LMC application. Can we do this using canvas ?Thanks,Siva Vempati,+91-9603326382

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Hi Xinhui,Could you please explain a little more on what you expect in the outline of the class, if we are not able to meet face to face?

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Is anyone in Tech Development addressing the glitches in speedgrader?  For example, when using the highlighter, I highlight some text, but don't leave a comment.  As soon as I click on the document again, it thrusts me down to the end of the document...

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Is it possible to PLEASE allow annotation of file uploads (via DocViewer) to be a feature in Quizzes?  I have seen several posts that have made this request.  If it is possible in New Quizzes, could you please show me how, as I am not seeing it.

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Hello,I have created a assignment using the office 365 on line-submission tool.  75% of my students were able to open, edit and submit the assignment.  The other 25% of students are prompted to "Log-in"  I assume this means they need to log into Offi...

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Is the Folio integration available within Canvas Free for Teachers accounts or only paid accounts? For the paid accounts, I think I have to talk to the CSM to get that listed in my instance, but I wonder what about the Free accounts?

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Hi Folks, Was wondering if anybody had any good examples/ideas of explaining the different levels of publishing in Canvas? We're just migrating over at the moment at our uni and we're looking to create a shareable resource to help remind staff to pub...

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