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How can I download the list of signed up students in groups in a tab delimited or comma separated file?  

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As Admin I can set `participation´ in the root account. Picture below is in Dutch, sorry about that, but I hope you will be able to figure out my question                  Please imagine with me. The participation is set to start on august first 20...

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Suspend or delete a year group ie: year 12  students can we bulk suspend or delete?

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When is canvas going to allow student to customize their courses with photos? It's so annoying to have some courses with photos and others without.  

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I am an instructor. My course has several assignments that have variable due dates. Students can submit some until the end of the semester. Their total grade displayed gives the impression they have an A+ in the class. However, if they do not submit ...

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Hi,I just started my training. I am asked to embed stuff/links. Where am I supposed to do this?Am I supposed to follow along and practice on my Sandbox Course?  

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I hate hate hate when you open "Record/upload media comment" it steals the browser focus so you can no longer scroll through the document you are leaving a media comment, which makes it totally useless. I always end up opening the doc I'm commenting ...

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Problem:I like to grade all of my assignments on canvas and then sync those assignments to my schools gradebook with the Sync to SIS option canvas offers. This is great, but I have noticed an issue from it. When I make an assignment that has a paper ...

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Hi!Hope your well.I'm looking to try install (or have access to a Canvas instance) so I can code frontend pages in HTML/CSS/JS and use it as a sandbox. Its for my own use to learn and develop at home. If anyone can help I would really appreciate it. ...

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Hello,I wondered why Canvas doesn't have the option to review an uploaded file before submission, leaving room for one to submit a wrong file accidentally. You can only what you submitted after your submission and it doesn't seem right. It's like pri...

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I have been told by our school ITS personnel that Respondus Lockdown Browser only locks the student into Canvas. In other words, it does not lock them into just the page with the quiz that employs the Lockdown Browser. Is my understanding correct?

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Is there a way to submit multiple file types in one Canvas Assignment Submission?  For example, if I want a student to turn in a video from STUDIO in addition to a PDF file turn-in sheet, can both be turned in at the same time?  It seems when a video...

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How do I add the TimelyCare quick link tile to the banner on the left hand side of the screen (where the icons for Courses, Dashboard, Calendar, Outbox, etc. are listed)? Yes, we already have a partnership with TimelyCare.Thank you

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Our department is considering transitioning from the Questionmark testing system to using Canvas quizzes for administering exams. I understand that Canvas is not designed to be a testing system so I have a question about how robust it is. Most exams ...

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I am a teacher. can't see the information for the last student on my grade screen. Anyone else having this problem? Here's a screen shot:     As you can see, it is hard to read the information in the last row. Clicking on the scroll bar does not chan...

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In trying to keep some of our students on task during the day, we have built an allow list only group so they can go to school related sites but nothing else.As part of the allow list, we added everything on the allow list we found in the community: ...

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is there a way to select a couple of students and download just their submissions for an assessment? I know I can do 1 students or all submissions for the assignments. I'm seeing this as a problem where the student file can be quite large or i want t...

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A major design flaw with Canvas is that it will save your progress on a discussion post so that you can access it later until it randomly decides to delete it. I find it incredibly frustrating that I completed a discussion post days ago and it had sa...

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Hi All, Having issues with a Quiz. It is NOT retaining the Students correct answers when they go back to correct a wrong answers. I have gone in after their first  attempt and reset the QUIZ settings to Build on last attempt. I ticked the Enable buil...

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Hi,I am a student in Interior Design and I would like to book an apointment with a tutor for Sketchup (arch 20) for tomorrow morning, Friday the 19th, but i don't know how to contact them. I saw this is only by appointment on Fridays. i saw the videa...

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When individual discussions posts are inadvertently deleted, the instructor should have the opportunity to restore information without going through an administrator  

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Hello;The New Quizzes icon is not displaying in the Course Summary. It does show in teacher and student view under the Quizzes nav item, but not in the feeds. Is this a setting?

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Is it possible to require invitation acceptance by students when they are automatically enrolled in Canvas courses?

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Does anyone know if it is possible to change the categories for the Display Grade as... window? A teacher asked if, instead of complete/incomplete, we could have "collected/not collected." I am pretty sure the answer is no, but I thought I would ask ...

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Our administration is looking for a report we can run per term for instructors access to Canvas and each course they instruct.  Logins and possible access to and interaction in the course.  

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I set up my courses to use groups for discussions.  All discussions are set as group discussions, but occasionally, around midnight, some students wind up outside of their group discussion and in the main area which should not been seen by them.  Whe...

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In the Account/ Sub-account Admin Analytics Overview tab, there is the 'Interactions by category' card. It is not clear (can Canvas confirm?) if this includes all users interactions (students, teachers, admins).  It would be useful to differentiate b...

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I'm submitting this ticket because I just took a test and in the last couple (10 or so) seconds the test prompted me that it was about to be turned in and I even believe one of the main options was to just turn it in immediately as opposed to continu...

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Hi,I used to see "module" icon between courses and calendar icons. However, I cannot see that icon anymore from this week. (See the attached file.) What should I do to enable that module icon?Thank you.

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I'm trying to use the gradebook to show the students what their scanned markings from scantron look like by making a column in the standard way for grade book uploading. I attached some screenshots of what the CSV columns look like as well as what th...

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