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I am trying to login to Respondus Lockdown browser, but every time I enter my user and password, I get a message stating "unable to login" and "no issuer configured for OpenID connect provider." I have tried to uninstall and reinstall Respondus, rest...

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I need to import a canvas course export package with the extension .imscc to my course. I received this package by Dropbox, I downloaded it to my computer, and then I want to import it to my canvas course but the import fails and I receive the follow...

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I'm part of my institution's support team for Canvas. An instructor reports that some students are unable to see comments on Quiz attempts. After one of the students helped me investigate, we traced the problem to an apparent inconsistency in navigat...

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A lot of my students have Apple devices so of course they are uploading HECI files which Canvas has said that they cannot support. I don't have an apple device, I'm working on windows and downloading and converting their files types is not feasible. ...

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Hello - it was my understanding that themes are open for voting twice a year - in October and February. Given that we are in mid-October I wanted to ensure I didn't miss the window as I have faculty who are very interested in participating this year ...

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One of our instructors is reporting that her cursor is appearing a couple lines above where she is typing in the Instructor Comment Box in Speedgrader. It makes it really hard to enter comments!  Here is a link to a video showing what's happening. Ha...

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I'm trying to link to an internal course page using the Redirect Tool and have that page be embedded (not opened in a new tab). Issue is it's pulling the entire page in, including the navigation menus. Is there any way to just display the meat of the...

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Recently I find that when I want to verify completion date, the gradebook history will not give me the entire list of completions, perhaps only giving the most recent 10 (out of nearly 400 completions!) So I have to download the student quiz report t...

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Anytime I must take an exam, I have to do it through Canvas. I can click on the given assignment; I get a message asking me to open the Lockdown Browser. The application does open, I can log in with the teacher's given password, but when I want to st...

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I have gone through my course and all the links are working. However, I have over 1000 messages about links when I check the Link Validation.  Most of them repeat such as: 1. Links to other courses in this resource may not be accessible by the studen...

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Curious if there is a short cut to printing a whole class to put in an accreditation binder for future reference?

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I just want to boost scores on an assignment. The assignment wasn't generated within Canvas, but deployed to it from an outside application. All I want to do is to increase all scores by a fixed amount. How to do that?

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Our school has stopped using Edpuzzle that allowed multiple attempts at a quiz.Is there a way to allow students multiple chances on a video quiz in canvas studio?

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Rubrics are not populating points at the top for the grades, how do I fix this?

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Since Canvas made the very curious choice to take away 'set default grade' for assignments where the instructor has so much as touched the grade column, how are people in large classes handling low-stakes check-in assignments? Previously, for say a s...

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I don't think this is a novel request but I'd like to reiterate the need for an annotations library similar to Quickmarks on TurnItIn. This functionality seems pretty basic and I'm shocked Canvas still doesn't have it. I know they added the comment l...

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We need dark mode. The white is too bright and hurts my eyes. MAKE DARK MODE

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Has anyone had issues with the new screen record function for feedback. I really like this idea, however when I select the screen it doesn't show scrolling, not a big deal, the students can follow along as I indicate the question. This would be a goo...

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This is a question I think I know the answer to, but I am double checking. Canvas is set to support apps that use the LTI 1.3 standard, right? I don't need to "turn on" anything to make it work. And, it is backward compatible to still support LTI 1.1...

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When I try to assign a module to a specific section, the sections do not show up. The only thing that shows up is an old section that has been deleted from the course. How do I make the correct sections show up so I can assign modules to specific sec...

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After students take a quiz or exam, they are unable to access them at a later date to use as study material.  This is especially true when using LockDown Browser.  I have seen posts saying to check the "Let students see their response" block, but I d...

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Hi, I go to Unity Environmental university-Distance Education  I was wondering if you all answered my questions I was wondering how you all do a podcast on canvas?

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Does anyone know how to find the student email address to which Canvas sends invites? We just had a problem with a student not receiving their Canvas invite, and we wanted to double-check the email address, Canvas sent it to, but we can't find it.

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I am a student and trying to do my proctored exam on canvas using constructor proctor. I have tried four different browsers on windows and safari on Mac and got same error message that the browser does not meet the minimum requirements for canvas. Ki...

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Hi I have some teachers who have lost a gruop, it is a part of a course, unfortunately they cannot remember the name of the course, because the only use the left side panel to open the group.  My question is, is it possible to search for a group, ins...

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I was working with a teacher who was having trouble with the grades for an assignment. She wanted to post the grades on the 4-3-2-1-0 scale and had set a Grading Scheme accordingly. The assignment was worth 12 points, and she wanted to enter the poin...

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We use an external system (Eduframe) that creates new user accounts in Canvas when users enroll through that system. To mitigate confusion for our existing Canvas users, if they enroll through this system and already have an account, we merge the new...

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Is there a way for an instructor to see whether my students clicked on links I provided? I have a few links on pages and in assignment directions, and I'd like to see if students are actually accessing this information. I know that through analytics ...

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The update described in the Deploy Notes (2024-19-09) changed how assignments with varying due dates display. Each assignment (not in Edit mode) used to specify which section was assigned to which date/time.  Now it just says "1 Section,"  which mean...

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Administration wants students who drop left on the roster. I have set up Canvas to mark all missing assignments with a zero. I have to now manually change every zero to excused for the dropped student. Is there a way to mark all future assignments fo...

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