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I have embedded my bitmoji classroom onto my canvas homepage. All the links will work on a computer but when they students try to use my interactive classroom on their ipads none of the links work. When they click on anything i have linked on my bitm...

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I was helping our new teacher who officially joined as on the second day of school create his Canvas course - front pages and otehr links. Currently he and I are both 'teachers' in Canvas.  However, our administrator wants hime to be the 'official' t...

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How long does it take for courses to sync? 

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I have created a question bank with all my questions for all my quizzes, but I can not figure out how to get them into the New Quizzes or add them to the Item Bank.

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Can anyone help me with figuring out where the "Forgot Password?" request controls are in the admin settings?  As of now, I have teachers using the feature but I have no idea where those requests are going. Should this be automatic? Is there a settin...

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How do I add an app to my navigation bar?

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I'd like to finish the module and then publish it, so students don't get notifications. Instead it automatically publishes files, then i have to unpublish... Is there a setting somewhere to stop this?

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If assignments that are exempt or late can transfer over to Power Teacher Pro, why can missing assignments not transfer over as missing?

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Hello! I'm looking for help on setting defaults or changing defaults for courses already in place: can the admin set the course navigation defaults and apply them to all or certain courses in use? If there is no way to do this for courses in use, wha...

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When using the Flipgrid LTI, the option to proceed after recording will not show on the screen.  This was not an issue two weeks ago when I last used Flipgrid; but, now, as you can see the menu options on the left of the screen are barely visible and...

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A functionality I'm not seeing, but am hoping exists, is the ability to post assignments automatically in the future - not have them "open," but appear altogether in the future. I don't want students to see what assignments are coming up, but would r...

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I created a couple of group discussions and I'm unable to subscribe as an instructor. I see the little flag that you click on to subscribe, but it won't let me actually click on it to turn it green. When I go into the discussion, there is no subscrib...

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Dear Canvas,Can you make the HTML Editor symbol when I edit a page more visible and understandable to us folks who are not as familiar with Canvas. It used to say HTML editor in the top right but now that is gone and I had to ask our university IT to...

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I'm looking to get the information from this link:  https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/3623#comment-54447 that is posted in the solution to this article: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Admin-Group/Javascript-to-disable-datepicker/m-p/108682#M3...

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I have come across 6 unusual accounts in our People list and wondering if anyone else has experience with this?  Incidentally, I have opened a support case on this but thought I would check here as well.  Are these illicit accounts or a part of third...

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I am appalled that students are allowed to stop a quiz that has been designated as ONE ATTEMPT.  In our former LMS, one attempt meant a SINGLE ACCESS to the exam!  Since COVID, we have been forced to give tests online that were previously in-person e...

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Is there a reason you cannot remove a student from your parent observer app? Seems like that should be an option, so if anyone knows why that isn’t possible (it’s not, right?), let me know.

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I have an instructor whose discussion boards will not appear under Modules, but they can be viewed going through Assignments. We only use Modules for our students, and normally students can see everything under that option. This is a course that was ...

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Hello! If I start a Canvas Conference and invite members, then once the meeting for the day is done I click "End Meeting" will everyone still in the meeting be kicked out? Also, if I don't click the "End" button on the main conference page will stude...

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Hi,I often use Canvas Teacher to read submitted assignments, as it is very handy on my iPad. I switch to another app to check references or write feedback notes for later upload, as Canvas Teacher does not support rubric marking in the same way as th...

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Is there a way to change the default size of the rich content editor for our account? Our online team and faculty all find it quite small and find it an extra step to resize the window every time. 

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I have multiple questions within multiple question banks. A few have errors in them. How do I edit them? 

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Can you upload a rubric created in Word into Canvas? Heather 

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Is there a way to import rubrics from CSV?

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I have created a Fill in the blank question with answer type Dropdown.The possible choices are : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5I have entered them in order, but in the preview view, the possible choices are presented randomly.Is there any possibility to maintain the ...

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I want to have students participate in ten of the 15 discussions.  I was considering using the "Excused" feature and so each student is allowed five "Excuses."  But, if students participate in more than ten discussions, I want to use the ten highest ...

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I have set up groups in order to submit different dates that are due for assignments.  I created it to be individually graded.  I did not realize that once one student submitted, it showed up for all students in that group.  How do you stop that? Or ...

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Hi all. I'm sure there is a simple solution to this, but I can't figure it out myself.Is there a place where I, as a teacher, can access all assignments that need grading? I get the feeling it should be under Grades, but can't understand how to see a...

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My kids share a computer and use Chrome to get to their accounts.  I cannot switch between student accounts in Chrome.  There is no User Menu or additional selection to "Change User" in the windows/chrome world.  Only in Android and iOS.  When I log ...

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I'm just getting started on Canvas, and I sent a message through the Canvas Inbox to the full class, myself included.  The Canvas course is linked to our institution emails, but I didn't receive the email. I then sent a few test messages directly to ...

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