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I teach both in-class and virtual students with the same assignments on Canvas, however, my in-class students receive paper copies whereas the virtual students are given a digital copy. Is there a way for an assignment to have both a Submission and a...

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Developers -  Can we please update the grade sync options? Can I schedule a time for all of my canvas gradebooks to sync to skyward? Daily? End of the week? Can we add a button to the instructor homepage to sync all of my canvas course gradebooks to ...

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I know how to create, manage and add rubrics to assignments. But when we add a saved rubric to an assignment, we get the huge cumbersome "find rubric" dialog that requires me to browse through hundreds of my past courses to find the exact rubric for ...

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I was going to start working incredibly far ahead, but I'm unsure whether or not Canvas will store answers that far ahead of time. There are no time limits to the assignments. I will be submitting them in class ranging from next week to 4 months. Doe...

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One of my students says she is able to see where she left off in Canvas Modules.  The specific item where she stops is underlined.  What setting has she selected to make this happen.

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Can a teaching observer see the messages you send to individual students? Can they see the comments you wrote while grading assignments?

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My school just migrated to Canvas from Blackboard. I have tests that were written in Respondus for my Blackboard classes, but when I import them from Respondus into Canvas none of the calculated algorithmic questions upload because Canvas has not pro...

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My columns of grades and assignments can not be seen in the Canvas Gradebook. I am able to see only one for some particular reason, and that is the only assignment that is being used for students' averages. I was able to see the columns of grades and...

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Does Canvas provide an option to message parents/observes of Students who are missing assignments?

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It would be extremely beneficial as an instructor to be able to have a saved message signature that automatically populates when sending or responding to messages in Inbox. Does anyone know if this is possible?

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I have been unable to unpublish my course because it has "graded assignments." Nearly all of my courses have graded assignments and I've always been able to unpublish after the course is over. This course is from over a year ago so I don't want it pu...

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Hello, I help with resource and I have my own course set up, if I copy an assignment that a student needs to complete --and when they submit via my course it there a way to also submit it to the original assignment- with the teacher??

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How does an observer connect to more than one student?  I have a parent who is experiencing difficulties connecting to my student because they are already observing their sibling.

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When Canvas assigns grades to all group members for a particular assignment, is ther ea way to override the grade for one student if that student does not participate?  When I have tried to enter a 0 for that student, Canvas changes all the other gra...

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Hi, In addition to the below... https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/What-types-of-media-files-can-I-upload-in-Canvas-as-an/ta-p/1142 ... is there any further guidance about what is the best practice around uploading image files for us...

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I am trying to msg my instructor after having failed my 3 atts on my canvas quiz 

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I have turned off the feature for the Canvas Inbox to be sent to my email because it was overwhelming with other school-related emails. I could never get my phone to sync up with getting alerts from canvas inbox, however when it is just coming to can...

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I sent a New Quiz to another teacher and when she imported it..it was blank.  Nothing showed up but the title.

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If a student is disqualified from taking an exam, can he be barred from opening it? If so, how do you do that?

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Hello,I enabled this feature from the site_admin account and root account, Also from the course settings, But it didn't appear, after all, I waited more than three days to be shown but this not worked. Any help, please.Thanks.

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I got this: PUT /api/v1/courses/16099/mastery_paths/rules/178: undefined / undefinedwhen i tried to change one step in my mastery path.Can someone tell me what i am doing wrong?Thnx, Nes

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The outcomes have duplicated and are used for several standards.  How did this happen so I can avoid in the future?  

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Hi, I have assigned several EdPuzzles to my students.  I finally noticed when I went to look at my grades on Infinite Campus that my EdPuzzle assignments don't show up.  Upon further investigation I discovered that when I have an EdPuzzle assignment ...

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Hello,I have the Student Canvas app on my iPhone and iPad, and both devices worked fine with iOS 13. Last week, my iPhone updated to iOS 14 and pictures stopped loading in the Student app, so I began using the app on my iPad. Today, my iPad updated t...

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Instructor issue--Everyone: I use images in my exams and quizzes.  I've had three students who have had problems with images not loading.  All three students have told me that they are Safari users, and two of the three are MacBook users.  I myself h...

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I don't want to COPY it, I want to MOVE it.  I have a completed assignment that I want to move from reading to writing.  How do I do it?  Thanks!!

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Hello,   I am an admin trying to set up my teachers in Canvas,. I have added all of them to my system by email, but it thinks they are students and will not allow them to create classes. I made cure to check off that teachers can create courses in th...

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I have students who moved from one class to another.  I downloaded the gradebook before the change was made so I could transfer grades to the new class.  I have updated the grades, but the assignments show up as missing on the student page.  How do I...

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Hi, I wanted to know if Canvas automatically checks for plagiarism when a student submits their document NOT through turnitin or other 3rd party checker, but instead adds their assignment directly through canvas submission.

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For my quiz (new quiz), I granted extra time in the Moderate page. I did this via accommodations for several students and also added time for one student who had internet problems. However, the quiz still autosubmitted at the time limit set for all s...

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