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I am Music Encore for Elementary school - Prek - 5th gradeHow do I "push" into each class for a 30 minute lesson Without students having to log on/off

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We have enabled our google drive with the Google LTI properly. Our teacher is trying to do a collaboration with google drive. She wants to add a slide and presentation. She has two teacher accounts with google, and neither will complete authorization...

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I'm reviewing a some courses in Canvas which does not have an Ally license associated with them. How can I check a course for ADA/WCAG compliance without Ally? 

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I have created buttons in Canva to use on my Canvas Course Homepage. I have six different Buttons that I made (About Your Teacher, Syllabus, Assignments, Discussions, Class Resources, Learning Modules). For four of the buttons, when I link for exampl...

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We sent an invite to one of our students for an upcoming course and accidentally put in the wrong name. How can we go about fixing this so that when we send her an invite in the future, it shows the correct name? She has already updated her display n...

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I can't get rid of the the tiny external link icon at the bottom of one of my assignments.  Please help.

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I am having trouble importing my MOM classes into Canvas.  I have been on the helpline with Canvas, emailed my admin, chatted with several on MOM and still no success.  It cannot be this bad.  I need help before tomorrow's classes and I have been at ...

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Hi. Keeping this short because my message was erased by Canvas when I tried to post...Using Free Canvas for Teachers.  Trying to import quiz material *from Canvas* and getting the error 'unsupported content package' after it appears to upload.  (I ha...

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Does anyone know how to assign groups within a section using Canvas "group" feature. Ex: If a class has 5 lab sections meet in different times, withing each section there are 10 students to be divided in to 5 groups. is there a way to do this through...

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Where should we go to let you know about links that are still broken after the community update?  I really don't want to have to repeat of the last time this happened and I was the one to have to tell you every link we had that was broken but I guess...

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I am in the middle of a new implementation and need some advice, please. How does your district handle substitute teacher access for Canvas? Long-term subs seem easy enough, as I can add them as a TA to a course to give them limited access, grade ass...

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Is there a way to allow students to access assignments that their classmates have uploaded into Canvas?I have assigned each student a term paper which they'll upload into Canvas.I want students to be able to read each other's papers.Is there a way th...

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I've been designing Canvas quizzes for well over a year now, and just today something really weird happened—anything I put into italics in the quiz question text automatically converts into smaller, thinner, gray-colored, non-italic text.This has nev...

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I am trying to add an mp3 (audio) file to an image of my Bitmoji in Canvas. I know how to add the audio by itself but I want students to be able to click on the Bitmoji image and hear the audio. Is this possible?

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I have no edit option in Courses/Pages. there is no edit button. Does this have something to do with permissions?

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When students click on Canvas Student Guide-Discussions link at the bottom of the Syllabus page to see what kind of help it gives them, that link opens to my username all the time now—and in ALL my courses! All a kid has to do is enter as me by click...

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Is there a way to upload a google drive file on a quiz question? I made a quiz question using the upload file feature but when I click "Choose a File" it brings up the files on my computer. I don't think my students will be able to download the file ...

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I want to create an event on the course calendar that only applies to one of my student groups. 

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I have downloaded the app, but I don't see my school system Fayette County Public Schools, Lexington, Ky. 

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How do I clean up which course navigation links the students can see? (I want to take off New Analytics, Collaborations, etc).  Thank you!

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I am recording/embedding videos in my course. When I use the "Record/Upload Media" tool to record and embed a video, I can then click on the video to display the video options. However, when I use the "Studio" tool to record and embed a video, the vi...

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How do I change the clip art on the tiles in my Dashboard.  I know how to change the colors but the pictures or clip art that are currently there are not very appealing.  

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How do I link a button that is on my homepage to another teacher's homepage?  For example, I am a classroom teacher and have a button for each Specials teacher.  When a student click on the Music button, I want it to take them to the Music teacher's ...

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1 I found the revision history and want to restore the earlier content to my resource page. How do I do it?   2 My resource page and Ask a Question page have  identical.  How do I fix the link problem?  

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I want students to be able to search on course terminology throughout my course's content. For instance, to prepare for a technical review, they could look for the multiple references for "gestural" across assignments, pages, and discussions. Is ther...

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I'd like to play with the scheduler option in my sandbox course to make sure I know what I'm doing before I use the scheduler in my real course. When I try to look at the appointment times available from student view, the appointments are not visible...

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What version of Android do I need to download and use the app in Spanish?

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Is there a way to create a transcript in Canvas?

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I selected the option in canvas to always use new quizzes (instead of choosing between classic and new each time). I've since realized that anytime I put a question bank together it is for the classic quizzes. Is there a way I can change my setting b...

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Can you create a page in a course for specific students, not the entire class?

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