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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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When entering grades into two cross-listed sections and choosing to use Set Default Grade for an assignment, the grades only populate into one of the two sections. Is this something that can be fixed easily? If so, does anyone know how to fix it?

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Hi Everyone! I am a teacher and am using a Free For Teachers Canvas account for my classes.I recently had an issue with the Quizes I have created. I thought I could troubleshoot and fix the issue but every quiz I create no matter what course it had b...

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So, our instructor told us to submit an assignment and a link to the comment feedback. What I did is I submitted the link on the comment feedback first. After that, I submitted the output on the submission bin. However, the comment feedback wasn't ap...

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Hi everyone, I'm experimenting with how Groups work before asking my students to try it. In the group, logged in as a student, I can create a Page and there is an option to set it as the Front Page. That all works. What I don't understand is where th...

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Hello. I'm looking for a solution or advice for the following scenario: The Canvas course has 1900 students. They are in 46 tutorial sections, and there are 18 tutors, with each taking 2 to 4 tutorials. I want to be able to review how tutors are mark...

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I would like to disable self-sign-up for student groups. There is a guideline for this, but it isn’t working—I am unable to save after unticking the "Allow self-sign-up" box.Do you have any advice on how to resolve this issue?Thank you!

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Dear Canvas Community, I am a Canvas administrator and instructor. We have three course sections that need to be cross-listed into one course shell. Two sections follow an 8-week schedule (Part A: Weeks 1–8 and Part B: Weeks 9–16), while the third se...

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For modules, the green checkmark only shows up when submitting assignments (on those pages).It would be useful to show the green checkmark when reading assignments or non-assignments or assessments are done. When the student clicks "next" to go to th...

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Hello, Previously when I conducted a Course Copy, it would place the copied course in the same sub-account as the source course. However, I just ran several tests and the target course is placed at the root level by default after conducting a course ...

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I have created a Classic quiz with 36 multiple-choice questions.They all display in quiz "Preview" (the 36 questions students will see). When I click "Keep editing this quiz" half the questions disappear -- so I cannot edit them. Have used multiple b...

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I am having issues with how the equation editor displays y'' for students see atachment

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