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My instructor added me to a group but the semester is now over and I no longer want to group showing up on my dashboard.  How do I remove it?

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I am trying to evaluate students based on their 'likes' of different discussion board postings. Canvas's documentation indicated that all of a student's activity with a course site is recorded.  I have figured out how to access student activity using...

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Is it possible to see exactly when a student had visited specific pages or clicked through buttons? I know the access report tells you the last time a student visited a page, but I have a student claiming they had uploaded an assignment just before t...

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I am using the new quizzes. under setting, I am randomized question but I want the first question not to be randomized because it is an agreement state where the student should answer yes. Is this possible  Thanks

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I would like to download slides to Microsoft oneNotes or MS Words. But right now alternative format does not allow either. I have to copy and paste. Any suggestion? Basic idea is to make my life easier when listening to professor lecture and make the...

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I have 2 classes and each has unique quiz banks, As far as I can tell I created the classes the same way, with the same features and settings.  In each class I can see the class quiz banks.  If I open a quiz and use the Find Question, I can see all t...

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The exams are given with two types of questions: stand-alone questions and case questions. Our exams try to mimic the NAPLEX which means questions are forward-only, one question at a time.I would like to have forward-only and randomized exam question...

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I have students who would benefit from being able to hear the quiz questions read aloud. Is there a way to get this feature?

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I have a student who changed classes during the first quarter of the current school year but he is now showing up on two class rosters and gradebooks. Is there a way to remove his name from the old class he is no longer enrolled in?

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If you have a module with the requirement in which an item is set to be “marked as done”can the teacher edit the content in that item that has already been marked as done by a student? Will the student need to mark it as done again if the teacher edi...

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I have had a student ask how they can print their answers once a quiz attempt has been submitted. When reviewing the responses the student can see all answers, but when they click the print page, only the submission/attempt page shows up for printing...

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I am finding a lot of conflicting information on this topic and need to know to prevent future problems. If I have a quiz that does not have a time limit set but does have an Available From and Until date and times set, what will the student see if t...

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I set up a quiz with a mix of multiple choice and multiple answer questions, expecting one point to be awarded per correct answer.  Multiple answer questions often weren't marked correctly - it seems a wrong answer cancelled a correct answer, which w...

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Has anyone else discovered the standard Provisioning Course Report doesn't show Concluded courses? Should it show them or is there another report that has that data?

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How do i access my past courses. In all courses, I'm only able to access my current ones

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The attempts count is not increasing after the first attempt if the score to keep is set as first and a max attempt limit is set. Similarly, in the case when grade display is set to Highest, after the first attempt, the attempts count is increased on...

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Dear community, how are you?I would like to explain an improvement that could be significantly important to reduce user support when using the native Canvas player. In all players such as YouTube, Vimeo, among others, the user chooses an option in pi...

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Given the remote nature that some institutions have moved to, what community features does Canvas offer to bring students together with remote learning?  Discussion Boards?Opt-in only - maps for students to show their broad location for potential mee...

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Hi All,We recently changed our source of truth database so every user's sis id needs to be changed in canvas.I am experiencing issues when I try to update Staff SIS ID's I am using the required change_sis_id.csv file format e.g.,old_id, new_id, type1...

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Hello hope have a wonderfull weekend  I'm wondering is there a setting in canvas that I can limit the professor to not grade empty online submission or a js code that can help with that?  

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I needed to update the navigation menu in 27 Blueprint courses (added "Grades" to the menu). After I made this update the option to sync to their associated courses was not available. The only way I could trigger the Sync button to appear was to eith...

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While grading a quiz, I entered some fudge points and updated score. Then I decided against the fudge points, and deleted them. But when I then updated the score, the fudge points came back. I cannot seem to get rid of them!! (Do i maybe have to ente...

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I want to view Quiz (Classic) Action Log for each student to monitor progress, look for departures from Quiz Page, etc. I have 50 students. As far as I know, I must open the exam page itself, then click 3-dot menu and open "Slow student quiz results"...

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i have last year's final exam. I want to use some of it, but not all of it, and add many new questions. So ... what is the equivalent to "Save as ..." if I were using Word? That is, I want to edit the existing quiz but not lose it, and have the newly...

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Has anyone been able to set a minimum time limit on quizzes?  One of the problems I am facing is that I have several test-takers who want to race and see who can get done first. Obviously this is not a true measure of how much they know and gives the...

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We have links from our Canvas course sites to selected Canvas resources (Student Resources, Student Mobile Guides, Instructor Resources, etc.). The links, all of which start with "https://design.instructure.com/courses/", are now broken. Does anyone ...

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I prefer to only have one module open at a time.  How do you set open and closed dates for a module and all of its contents?  I'd like to set it so that when a module opens, the previous one closes and this goes on for the duration of the course.  I ...

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Can you rebase a course to another? Like git rebase stage to master. We have 30 courses in which we have had a "stage"/"qa" course and a "prod" course.  However people have directly made changes in the "prod" course. Now we need to totally revamp all...

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We have just added the Microsoft OneDrive integration (twice, as we could not believe what was happening). It now appears that the link to the file or embedded document is NOT dynamic. Any changes you make mean you have to re-upload the file. What is...

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