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Does anyone have any recommendations? I’m having trouble importing quizzes from the D2L zip file. A notification keeps appearing, stating that there are issues during the import process, but I haven't figured out how to resolve the problem. 

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Hello,I'm an instructor creating quizzes with short answer and essay-style questions in Canvas. These questions require open-ended responses because students may phrase correct answers in different ways. However, there are still definitive answers th...

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I thought that this had been covered in the past but I couldn't find anything while searching this forum. I'd like to know if anything is being done to streamline the student Access Report so that it doesn't show each and every embedded image as thou...

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Hello All, I have been using Peer Reviews this semester and have run into a problem where students complete the rubric, and when they go in to add comments, Canvas has marked it as "done" and will not give them access anymore. I have worked around th...

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We have a community for our careers content where we've set up 11 modules. There are no prerequisites for the modules and they can be completed in any order. The community is very large with over 78,000 students enrolled so our support team has set u...

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I couldn't find if this had been asked before and it is most likely because I am not wording the question right. I have been brought a situation in which a student was dropped from a course but the professor still sees that student showing up when ge...

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Hello!We recently developed our 1st LTI app and submitted for approval. We have been working with a few school districts in the US and testing out our platform and LTI integration. We set our app status as Ready For Review.Could you please kindly let...

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Issue Description: We've noticed a problem when previewing PDF documents on Canvas. When users—regardless of their roles—click the "Rotate Page Clockwise by 90 Degrees" button in the preview screen, either intentionally or by mistake, the rotation ch...

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I use rubrics to evaluate assignments. First, I 'hide' the grades in the rubric and only give feedback. When I need to calculate my final grade, I change the rubric and amend it to 'show grades'.Canvas seems to have had an update recently. The view h...

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I recorded both audio and video narrations directly into my PowerPoint presentation for an assignment. After submitting it through Canvas, my instructor let me know that they’re unable to hear the audio or see the video.I can still view and hear ever...

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My class has 4 Units, and each unit has 4 quizzes (Classic Quizzes) available to students - they just pick one of the four to submit for a grade (I drop the three lowest scores). Many students open each quiz to see which one they want to do. That mea...

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We've noticed in student access reports that some students have 85, or 112 or some other large number as page views for ALL graded discussions at the same time.  We're talking 25 discussions with a view in the same minute, and same number of views (e...

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Mastery Paths seems like a great tool, but I would like to link the results from multiple quizzes to the Mastery Paths determination.  Is there a way to do multiple exit ticket quizzes at the end of each unit's lesson and link those answers into a Ma...

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I was grading student presentations in Speed Grader. The required format was MS PowerPoint. When I pulled up submissions in Speed Grader, the following was displayed...see the screenshot below. I use speed grader all the time and relay upon it to acc...

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I am looking to create a daily reading log assignment. This will be graded a few points for each day they complete their reading log. In my previous LMS it got a bit complicated and I am just checking if I need to make a separate assignment for every...

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Although I have completed all my necessary prerequisites and there is a green check mark next to the completed modules, I cannot access my next module. I have already reached out to my school's IT desk, management system, my teacher, and filled out C...

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I'm revamping a Canvas course that contains a large number of old assignments (over 1,000) and need to delete them all. They're in an assignment group, and it would be much faster to delete the assignment group than to delete each individual assignme...

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Hi, Everyone,Our college reports student grades to academic coaches so they can outreach to the student. Faculty can successfully report a student grade using the following flow of actions. Go to grades (using "grades" on the left column in Canvas), ...

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Our compsci teacher has been an active member of our Canvas pilot. He's pretty interested in thinking about how he can have his students store their programming work in git repositories, and then turn in commits as assignments to Canvas. Is there a t...

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Hi I've been exploring using AI to generate quiz questions. There are two possible uses. Firstly, you can use AI to generate actual questions. For example you could feed the AI some relevant course content, and ask it to generate questions. Secondly,...

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When using Canvas as an instructor, my To-Do list of assignments to grade is on the right side when I view my dashboard in Card View.  There is no way to sort this view, and I have to expand the list when there are more than a few assignments.When I ...

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When Assignment Enhancements is enabled in a course, it results in SpeedGrader only displaying comments made on the most recent assignment submission. This is a really unfortunate trade-off since the student experience is greatly improved by Assignme...

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I have imported a quiz I created in a previous semester. When I previewed it to check it, all the variables in the questions showed up as "x". I checked the instructions, and the formula quiz now says to use brackets instead of backticks. The problem...

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We're thinking of turning on discussion checkpoints, but we don't have Modernized Speedgrader, Enhanced Rubrics, or Enhanced Assignments turned on yet. Has anyone in that situation experienced bugs with checkpoints? 

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I have a student who will need to submit a second version of an assignment in Canvas to receive credit. He is claiming that the dropbox in Canvas is closed, when it is not. Can students submit again in Canvas in a dropbox, after they have previously ...

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Hey everyone, I’m Ajay Hinduja from Switzerland (Swiss), looking to integrate some external tools or LTI apps into our Canvas courses and wanted to see if anyone has experience with this. Could you share any tips or best practices for a smooth integr...

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Since I'm an admin, would my experience differ from that of faculty team members? I'm asking to confirm whether it's necessary to have someone without an admin role test the associate course.

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Hi Everyone,I'm Kamal Hinduja from Geneva, Switzerland. I'm new to this community and excited to contribute positively to the discussions while learning from everyone's insights.Thanks in Advance!Kamal Hinduja Geneva, Switzerland 

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Hello, Does anyone have any suggestions/workarounds for the following scenario? We have an online, asynchronous certification course. Students have an open 4-month window to enroll, complete the modules, and pass the exam to maintain their certificat...

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