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Help! For four years I have used Pearson Realize very successfully with Google Classroom.  Now I am told by my administration that I MUST use Canvas instead.  Is there a way to connect Pearson Realize to Canvas that is similar to Google Classroom?  S...

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I copied a course from last semester. The image files that were copied over will not publish even when I click on the publish button. It just keeps the default "Only available to students with link". The folder that the files are in is also hidden an...

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Is there a way to add other categories to the Navigation list?  For example, can a separate category be created for "Exams" - which are different than quizzes?

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I have created several interactive pages where I use google slides for some animation.  On the final slide are navigation links to assignments and other areas of canvas that I want my students to go to.  Some of these links are general navigational b...

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What is the best video available that gives a simple, clear overview of Canvas forEnglish Language Learners?

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I want to add interactive slides to Canvas from Google so that my Kindergarten students can use them, dragging and sorting objects.  When I put them into Canvas all interactivity is lost.  Please help!

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Hello from Cincinnati!Dear colleagues,Canvas is acting up and the Help Desk wait time is 100+ minutes ! The alignment in the syllabus gets very weird after a section in the Syllabus. Everything looks great and then the text goes from right justified...

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Hi everyone, I created a "Quiz" so the quiz shows up in both "Assignments" tab and "Quizzes" tab. The quiz is unpublished but students received notification of "Assignment created" with the quiz name and due date. Does this look like a bug or it alwa...

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Good morning. I am a student, currently in the process of implementing a tool I have built in the past in order for it to be LTI 1.0/1.1 compliant. Everything works fine but I am struggling to find complete documentation about setting a grade when a ...

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How can I delay showing the solutions to problems until after class? Is there a way to set the day/time for release of content?

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I teach 2 periods of the same courses so I created my Homepage and content in one course of each with the intent to copy it over to the other course so that I only had to do the work once.  When I import the course, the image files are not copying ov...

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How do I pin canvas to the taskbar in Chrome or Edge? 

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Hello Everyone, I have about 13 Beginning Class Announcements that I would like to condense into one Announcements.  How can I do that?  This is what I did:  I created the Announcements individually, then created another announcement with links to th...

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As a admin i want to prevent Students to change their name display name

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I have an ungraded assignment so it does appear in the grade book. I can invoke Speed Grader but that only shows me 1 student at a time. Can I see a clickable list of all students showing who has submitted and who hasn't? And where I can click on a s...

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The students can type the code that was given to by the teacher because some code lead you to create a new account and you want to put in the account you already had.

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As a parent observer (linked to student account) it would be nice to see from our end if our child has submitted an assignment or has done/completed it.  As of right now, we just see the assignments, but only know if they've received credit once it h...

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While trying to pair an already existing course in Connect Math, my Canvas course page will not allow me to search for the course to pair.  It will only allow me to create a new course and the options for my course are not listed.  Is there a work-ar...

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My district told us we had to use canvas instead of google classroom for middle school (at first I was not thrilled having used canvas in college and still feel it is not best suited for kids).    We were told to use google cloud assignments at the b...

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I'm would like my students to be able to start their own Discussions by posting their own questions.  I have selected Create Discussion Topics under Settings in Discussions, but the students are not being given that option.  How do I fix this?  Thank...

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Hello,I love using Flipgrid with my students especially during remote learning but I am having issues integrating into Canvas. Each time I try I get this weird pink box which doesn't allow me to select my course within Flipgrid.What should I do?  

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When I click on a student's name, the sidebar with the at-a-glance analytics shows up. It says that every student has at least 6 assignments missing for my one class and 9 for the other. I clicked through each student to check. Some students have no ...

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My writing and social studies content is not showing in my lessons.

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When our district listened to Canvas present, I asked if teachers could annotate assignments. They said yes, but now I am trying to annotate specific students' assignments to modify them before the students do them. For example, I want to highlight/c...

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Hello! I am in instructor in 5th grade and have been with Canvas since 2017. I always enjoyed Canvas, but lately I've hit a wall. This summer I have been inserting google drive assignments in Canvas through the cloud. Additionally, I've just discover...

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I am wondering how I should set up a Google Form as an assingment and how students should submit their response. I have multiple google forms for my content and am new to Canvas. I created an assignment that is a Google Form from my Google Drive. I e...

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How can I color code my canvas calendar on Google Calendar once it is subscribed?

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We need help in deleting the file.

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how to delete an unpublished module?

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Is there a way or can it be added to use groups in quizzes? For example I want one version of a test for 50 students and a second version (modified) for a second group of 30. I would like to assign test 1 to Group 1 and Test 2 to group 2 with the sin...

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