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Students are taking an exam but they are being met by a loading screen and then it goes blank. I have found this to be a very common issue within the canvas community upon researching and I would like an immediate answer or tips on how to fix this if...

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When I attempt to reply to a discussion put up by my professor, I get the error "Sorry, Something Broke". I have tried refreshing the page, trying it on a different google browser, trying it on a new tab. Nothing has worked.

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I have a habit of changing the colors of my courses to match them with my preferred color scheme. However, today when I tried to change the color of one of my courses, it didn't stay and kept reverting to its original color. On the other hand, someti...

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Is there any way you can restore a deleted canvas conversation if the person you sent it to isn't replying/re sending the conversation and you don't have access to it anymore since you deleted it.

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I used to be able to provide and view submission comments for my assignments in SpeedGrader.  However, all of a sudden, I cannot see any submission comments (both my students' and my own) unless I go to the individual grades page for the students.   ...

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  We have just set up Turnitin as our plagiarism checker, and I have created an assignment specifically for students to get used to it and check their assignments against Turnitin (without Draft Coach) before attempting their 'live' assignments  I wo...

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How can I get access to courses that I've taken in previous semesters? I only see one of my previous courses listed on the "All Courses" page. 

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Hello!I keep encountering a problem that seems simple enough but I can not figure out how to solve it.Whenever I try to respond to a student email through Canvas, the email error message comes back:   I do not understand how to confirm a communicatio...

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It looks like Blueprint “works” for Announcements and for External URL links (items in Modules). However, there’s no mention of support for these in the documentation that I can find. Is this a “use at your own risk” kind of thing? Anyone have any ex...

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 Hi Canvas Community!Is there a Canvas resource to assist faculty understand/show what copies over from one course and what does not. I often have faculty looking for their assignments groups when they copy a course, but groups do not copy over. It w...

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  In the Learning Mastery Gradebook, is there a way to export the pie charts that show up when you hover your pointer over an outcome?  I know that I can export a report into a spreadsheet, but I'm looking for a more visually friendly way to present ...

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I am using a trial of an LTI that we are exploring and when I add a student to a course in either the test or beta environments and log in as them, I get the following error: Students are not allowed to access test installations.If this is the case, ...

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Hello.  Years ago I had asked Canvas if it is possible for students to see their earlier submissions after uploading a revision. For a writing class--wherein students need to reflect on their drafting--this is very important. (I realize they can down...

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Is there any way I can Import excel sheet to canvas gradeing book, with students marks? When i tried to export the students details and add marks and import back it is not taking. Importing excel is easy as we can work off line and once the final gra...

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Hi.I wanted to make "my recorded BBB session" posted longer.How can I do it?Is the feature related to "Enable waiting room"?

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I need your help, please.I have been trying to add a new teacher to one of our courses offered here at my school, but I keep receiving the below message, given that the email addresses provided were absolutely correct.We were unable to find matches b...

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On my canvas I can clearly see my assignments on my calendar, however when I click them rather than it bringing me to the assignment it just brings me to the entire class. My assignments are available and I can find them in modules, but it would just...

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I have a teacher reporting that she cannot grade the Turnitin LTI assignment in Canvas. She receives an error stating "The membership service has encountered some errors." Has anyone experienced this? If so, what was the issue?

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Hello!  Has anyone used a Canvas site as the home for a mentoring community?  Any references or examples would be greatly appreciated.Gratefully,Joan Combs Durso

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I have saved points for 1.4 and 4.4 of the EDU 5822 Trine Course yet are not showing in "Grades".  I have updated my browser. Please advise.  Dawna Clawson 

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Hello,I created four courses in Canvas that all used the same template.  However, three of the courses are missing the navigation tab found in Course Details, under Settings.In the image below, there should be a Navigation tab between Sections and Ap...

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I must object to the use of paginated lists in the listing of students names in the grade book, rosters, Peer review assignments, groups, etc.   This is making my job harder not easier. How can I switch back to complete lists and get rid of the annoy...

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Is there a way to have students take Canvas quizzes and then canvas takes their quiz percentage and converts that to a 4321 Standards Based Grading Scale? 

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Hello, For the past couple of days, I have noticed that I can no longer click on the icons in the grade book (such as the ungraded icon) to get a quick view of the comments on the submission, etc. Has this been discontinued? Or am I missing something...

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Our students are using Canvas on an iPad in Safari or Chrome. We are unable to use the mobile version due to using Google SSO.  Previously, we have not had an issue when assigning an annotation assignment using the free draw annotation tools. Student...

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On 11/1 turn it in was functioning in my canvas assignments.  Today, 11/2, Turn it in is not appearing at all within the assignments that I have already created.  As a result, I don't have access to any of my submitted assignments from my students.  ...

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Howdy, amazing Instructure Community!  What issues may arise if a Blueprint course and all associated courses live in a subaccount and the owner of the BP course requests to change this and all associated courses to a different subaccount?  Thanks! 

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Our enrollments are created/updated by automatic SIS import every 2hours. I recently had a situation where an enrolled user needed to be immediately removed from a Canvas course (not be able to access anything). Obviously I can delete the user or dea...

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When a student is unenrolled, the anonymised identifiers in Assignments change. Can these be made constant? Anonymised identifiers are not associated with a specific student they are associated with a randomised order:   Student B = Student 1 Student...

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In speedgrader, When entering a comment then hitting the submit button, a pop up dialogue box with "Your comment has been submitted" covers the zoom controls.  Now that's annoying!  Any fixes?

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