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Why does my canvas keep saying "The assignment you requested is not available in your course section" when I try to turn in assignments.

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@CanvasDocTeam @CanvasDocTeamCW A student had made some collaborations in my Canvas course a year ago. Even when I hover in all 4 corners, I do not see any edit or delete buttons. This is an ex-student who I cannot reach. How can I delete these colla...

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Can you cross list 2 courses when there are only students enrolled  in one of the courses?

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Canvas doesn't seem to provide an accurate total average grade for my student's quiz assignments. I have a series of quizzes for my course which are part of an assignment group. Some of them are extra credit. Following earlier advice to deal with Can...

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I'm an instructor having issues with my students' assignments incorrectly being marked late on Canvas. Assignments that students submit through the Google Assignments LTI 1.3 are being marked late. It appears in Canvas the submission time is being re...

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As a teacher I have annotated the assignments. Can I now lock and prevent students from annotating? 

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How do I link a button on my homepage to a module in the new Canvas editor? I used to be able to click on the button and a menu came up on the right side so I could choose Link and then select the module I wanted to link to. Now when I click to edit ...

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Can canvas please provide an easy way for my first graders to submit a photo of their work? All we want is for a camera option to appear and students be able to take a photo right there and submit. Video appears why can’t camera be added? It would ma...

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I have two assignments that I'm not going to grade and don't want to show up in my gradebook but were Google LTI assignments, so I couldn't put nongraded for the grade displayed as?  I'm trying to change it now that the kids have submitted it because...

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My gradebook disappeared after I deleted a section within my class...the grades show up in grade book history and all of my students show up in people.  I was trying to sync my class and I just added a section for my IEP/504 students so I could have ...

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I have an issue with security. I am Admin on our School Canvas. I have a DeanDerran account showing up consistently on our school People section in which Hacker has posted "students" who come through our school account via a back door? It comes via C...

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How do I delete a column from my grade book? There are quite a few that I would like to get rid of.

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Hello! I am trying to help one of my teachers with her grade syncing from Canvas to Skyward. We have done the following: made sure there were due datesmade sure the sync to SIS was checkedmade sure the assignment groups match the grade category in Sk...

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We have been using Canvas for 5 years and now it is a time for us to think about clearing our system from old courses. Instructors and Students started complaining about the long list of ALL COURSES and asking to remove some. Copying and searching co...

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I am using tabs to organize my weekly course content and link to assignments. I created the tabs in my Sandbox and have created the tables in different pages in Sandbox to get the html and everything to make the tabs easier to use. The problem comes ...

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Is it possible to have the system generate values for variables in multiples of say 5 or 15, etc.? For trigonometry, multiples of 15 is often necessary.

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I gave my students a peer review assignment. I had them leave general comments, but also use the rubric to give feedback.Now my students can see where their peers left general comments, but not the rubrics that their peers graded. Is there a way they...

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We are a private university and have our own institutional learning outcomes and also program learning outcomes which determine our course learning outcomes. Does anyone have experience setting these up in Canvas? I know how to setup outcomes...but s...

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My students are signing up for meeting times that I've created for them using the Scheduler. However, if some students don't reserve a meeting time by the deadline, I want to be able to add a student to an open slot. How can I as an instructor do tha...

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There should be an option to select Announcements and mark them as "Read" or a "Mark All as Read" option.   There are many announcements that I've read already from my email account connected to my Canvas account, so when I log into Canvas, I have to...

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My students are getting emails from Canvas letting them know of my Zoom recordings and inviting them to join my Zoom Meetings. We have had a lot of students Zoom bombing classes so I do not want my Zoom invite information to be shared. I want my stud...

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I am a high school teacher using Canvas for the first time. Are muted assignments calculated?  in the grade totals? If so, is there a way I can prevent that grade from counting until after I'm done grading all assignments? 

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I've run into this problem where when I click the green check to unpublish an item, it wants to confirm what I want to do. This dramatically increases the amount of time to unpublish items within a module. For some items it just lets me click it to u...

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How can I adjust the size of my table that I insert?

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After I create a Pear Deck and insert it into Canvas as an assignment using the external tool I go to student view and find something I'd like to look a little different.  I update my slide show, but then have to create a whole new assignment rather ...

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When I add a user to my course via her email address, I am unable to add her "name" to the list when I see her under the "People" tab. How do I add her name?

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Hi All,My ungraded assignments are being calculated into my students' final grade as a zero.  How do I remove them from being calculated in until AFTER I grade them?

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Would it be possible to include observers in a message sent through New Analytics? For example if I have a student failing the course (58%), I can message the student based on his or her overall grade. I was wondering if an "Include Observers" option...

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Hello. I am an IT tech at Victor Valley College and we have recently run into a strange problem that we can't seem to find a solution to up to now. We have several instructors/tutors who, when they try to schedule sessions in ConferZoom get the follo...

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I have created a Pear Deck lesson, I have embedded it into Canvas.  Everything looks great, just the way I wanted it to.  I can see the students responses and give feedback, all in Canvas.  As a standalone teacher it seems that these two resources re...

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