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I have an assignment that students need to turn in. All of my students in this class have the reassign button show up in the speedgrader. BUT, I have one student in that class that the button does not show in the speedgrader. Anyone know what is goin...

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I was not able to find an answer to this specific question, so not sure if it has been resolved. When a student opens a Google Assignment (LTI), the teacher can see what the student has done, but cannot grade it until it has been submitted. When the ...

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HI! Is there a way to approve student posts to Canvas Discussion boards? Without the ability to approve or disprove Canvas discussion posts, students can easily:1.   harass and cyber-bully other students2.  post pornographic images or content Please ...

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When migrating a Classic Quiz that contains a Question Group linked to a Question Bank, my Question Bank isn't importing to a Item Bank. It appears as if the importing process is getting "stuck". The image attached is what I see under the list of all...

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I have a student who has one parent that has connected with my student's account, but the other parent also wants to get updates and such. How do I add a second parent to a student account to recieve notifications.?

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I posted an assignment where student s needed to annotate a pdf. out of a class of ~15, 3 submitted the document on the 1st attempt but only 1 had the information he typed in follow the document to me. The other 2 online submissions were blank. I onl...

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Why does my table not keep the same format once my page is published?Pictures are set up and then once page is published.

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How can I remove Harmonize milestones from my Canvas Instructor Calendar?

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Hola, Necesito saber quien borró estudiantes de un curso, ya que ningun estudiante mas que el profesor y el administrador de Canvas tienen los accesos necesarios, es la tercera vez que sucede esto.   Muchas gracias por sus respuestas   Juan C

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Vi har problem med att studenter/användare tar bort sig själva  från kursen. Det blir problematiskt eftersom data som betyg försvinner. Finns det någon inställning man kan göra så att de studerande inte kan avregistrera sig från en kurs? Translated f...

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I have cross listed three sections. When I pull the Quiz and Item Analysis report I can only see the data for all three sections combined together. It looks like one class instead of three. Is there a way to see the report by section? It would be ext...

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The course is free only need to pay for certificate and badges, but I am not allowed to attempt mid term exam without exam password. I contacted the teacher through given email but didn't got any response.  so my question is if the course is free the...

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Hello Canvas Community, Just a general question. What features do you get in the Cloud Hosted version of Canvas that you do not get in the open source version of canvas? Ive noticed that our school has access to this thing called "Commons" for staff ...

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Hello; I am using the Canvas Free-For-Teacher account as part of an experiment for my dissertation for my doctorate. I have created modules for college students to access and I need help with the following issues. I have set up my course for open enr...

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Solution Posted: 10-01-2023 View Solution
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How to get back a deleted assignment group - with graded student submissions? (tried /undelete)With the /undelete, was able to get the assignment group title/group back, but there were no assignments within it...Searched the /undelete, but the comple...

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My to do list has tasks for assignments dating back years.  All because I a a course leader and have access to the Canvas topics to monitor them.  It's pointless having the reminders there, especially dating back years.   I've deleted tasks for almos...

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I'm a student! I'm in a Canvas group for a school activity, and though I check in on the course page sometimes to get updates, I don't like how its Calendar Events show up on my Dashboard To-Do list. I'm trying to keep my Dashboard compact and class-...

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I have a bunch of assignments that don't have a submission tied to them. They're participation grades for the live course. I've been marking them each week. But I just realized that these are not showing up in student grade totals. Why???I have them ...

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Why is Canvas loading so slow.  It literally takes me an hour to upload items in a module.

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I have a "quiz" set to unlimited attempts and "build on last attempt".  A few students got an error message on a successive attempt and can't access the quiz again.  They can only view previous attempts and their current attempt which triggers the er...

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How do I as an instructor send an email to a student within Canvas and attach a file that comes from WITHIN the Canvas "Files" folder (not a file from my computer)?  I know how to send an email to a student and attach a file, but is it possible to br...

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I'm totally lost. My learning activity asks for answers to be written in my learning management system. I don't know where this is or where my notes or workbook are. I'm not sure where i write anything at all or even how to get back to this page I'm ...

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Good day!I made a quiz in canvas which was randomized. I made several question groups during the construction of the quiz to have a category of the questions and I was wondering whether it is possible to have the answered quiz items be categorized ac...

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If I do a numeric quiz question, I cannot put the answer that has anything other than numbers, e.g 75 km/h? So, if I want to ask a question like this or another like asking for a fraction in its simplest form, what is the content option in quizzes th...

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Hi, when following a link included in an email to an item in Canvas it prompts me to enter Microsoft login details. (login.microsoftonline.com/)It won't recognize my gmail email address as an account.If I go the actual login page XXX.instructure.com/...

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I've been using Canvas so years and never had this issue until this week. There are two assignments that I have to manually grade (discussion board) and a summary. I input the grades manually, but after touching Enter and going to the next student, t...

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Solution Posted: 09-30-2023 View Solution
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How do I make a discussion board unpublished after students have posted and work has been graded? There are posts there for an upcoming exam that I no longer want students to have access to. 

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I changed majors from Mechanical Engineering to Computer Engineering, so I added a new education to my profile. When I try to save as a PDF, the Mechanical Engineering education is still showing on my PDF. How can I remove that education from my prof...

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This is a noob question but I have read 30 posts and different guides and I am not seeing a direct answer.  For context, I am a grad student in an instructional design program (I just started). I am working on a mock up in Canvas and it seems that I ...

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How do I find a Course ID? I am trying to redeem my Macmillan Learning for BIO 204 and it is asking for the Course ID. 

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