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The documentation states that that Canvas Helper functions include the IF function, as long as the conditional first part is boolean: i.e., if it evaluates to anything other than 0, the condition is considered TRUE and if it evaluates to 0, the condi...

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A few times a semester we have students who will lose access to their course in Canvas.  When this happens they are completely dropped from the course, not just marked inactive. I've checked our SIS and the student is still active in it.  In the Impo...

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I just took a two-hour in-person exam, on paper, and in the middle of the test, my professor comes up to me and asks if I'm cheating. She proceeded to ask if I had my phone on me which I then replied no and took my backpack from under the desk, unzip...

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I set grade posting policy for an assignment to MANUALLY. Now i want to release the grades for folks who turned in the assignment. Should I click Automatically for Grade posting policy? Can I go back to MANUALLY for folks who have not yet submitted t...

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Hi,  I have searched the Canvas Community and much of what I find is outdated..  I am curious if there are any more local canvas groups to New Mexico or West Texas?  I know there was just a Canvas Connect in Houston but we missed it!!  Also as a new ...

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Is Canvas still getting rid of the Classic Quiz and forcing everything to become a New Quiz?  If so, what's the end date?

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I have shared a number of modules to the Canvas Commons for faculty at my institution to import into their Canvas course shells. There are some that I no longer wish to have available in Commons, and do not have plans to update the content. How do I ...

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I am at exploring stage so I would like to know how an attendance assignment is set up in a course. Or how can the attendance be linked to the gradebook as an assignment? Thanks.

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Hi everyone,I have a question regarding cross-listing in Canvas. If I cross-list multiple courses into a single course, will students from different original courses be able to see each other?Additionally, can groups be created that mix students from...

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Hi all,I am currently having issues where my professor is seeing no submissions for multiple assignments in canvas, but I was able to under each assignment page. I do see a view feedback button, and if I click on it, I see the entire PDF submission. ...

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Any calculated column does not generate the scores in the gradebook. What can I do?

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Hello!As an elementary teacher I would like to run missing work reports for a certain grading period to print for my students. I see that I can run a report, however I can not filter it to only run the missing work report by the grading period. They ...

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Good afternoon, Today, I worked with a faculty member who had an interesting request that I can't seem to find any information on. They want to download graded rubrics in a format that can be easily shared with accreditors. We found a couple of Chrom...

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I'm an instructor, and I'm having an issue where after I have typed a few words into the Assignment Comment box, the cursor "refreshes," for lack of a better word, and moves out of the box while I am still typing. I am wondering if it has something t...

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I am taking the PERT through my canvas. The email I got says to access the exam through a course on my Canvas Dashboard. It is not there. The email said if it is not there, to check "myStatus" in Canvas, but I do not see any page with this title. Doe...

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I've created a digital badge already in Canvas Badges, as well as issuers. When I go to assign my badge to a course in Canvas LMS - there is no badge option in the navigation menu. I went to the setting on the left hand side, selected the Navigation ...

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Our course home page was chock full of information for students. Just recently, the content we had is gone. The home page now shows Recent Announcements and Assignments, which were never found there before. I'm hoping someone can help us either recov...

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Hello Canvas Community, I am a Canvas administrator and instructor. Our nursing department needs a collaborative document (currently in Word) where students add data, and instructors provide weekly feedback. We need to prevent students from modifying...

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Hi there, I'm tying to work out how to create an interactive element that appears on a page - like a quiz but without the grading, assessment time and results wheel - I just want students to write a reflection without it being an assignment. Its for ...

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I've noticed that whenever I copy a course from a previous semester and adjust the assignment dates to match the current term, all assignments for the new student roster automatically receive a grade of zero. I then have to manually delete these zero...

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We are using Blueprint for our courses. We do great updated, push it out, and it's a mess with the push out. Articles no longer link. Typo fixes we KNOW we did aren' there. It is really a mess. What is happening with Blueprint?

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I need to use the API to determine if a student has completed a requirement in an item. I have for instance this item: {'id': 688577, 'title': 'siden', 'position': 3, 'indent': 0, 'quiz_lti': False, 'type': 'Page', 'module_id': 118330, 'html_url': 'h...

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How many exam attempts do I have for ITIL 4 Foundations course exam?

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I've had a free Canvas account for over a decade. Never any issue attaching documents to discussion threads. Suddenly I can't attach any files to student discussion thread replies.  they can attach files no problem I get a useless error message that ...

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I am not someone who is good at creating HTML coding but really would like to be able to create TABS at the top of a page in Canvas LMS. I created a page with 4 tabs (quite proud of myself), but when I went to save I recieved the following message an...

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I'm just wondering if it is possible to create a bank of feedback comments that can be used across multiple Rubrics/Assessments? you're able to save a comment you make when giving feedback so that you can utilize it again for that singular task, but ...

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Is there a way to stop/block/disable assignment comments from students & parents? I use comments one way (from me) and expect students to see me personally with assignment questions.

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Discussion model my question about the discussion module video at the very beginning it states that there would be a setting of conversation and to make sure that when you're scrolling past these cause if you scroll past they're marked as read instan...

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I am trying to add a question for an algebra class that requires students to write a polynomial in standard form.   When I use the backticks on numbers and variables, the + and - signs are recognized but the 3x^2 is not.    Is there a way for fill in...

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I am wanting to access an Archived Canvas class page, and am wondering how I can do so. 

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