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I'm wondering why after archiving a conversation thread and receiving a new response the thread and new responses also remain in the archived section rather than getting pushed back into the Inbox. I feel that even if at the very least the new messag...

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I am trying to track my students' activity with New Analytics, but it isn't available. I was getting a rocket image, now I'm getting a desert image. Not sure what either means. Then, when I check Analytics from the home page, it shows everyone having...

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Hello! I am wondering if there is a way for students to view a quiz after the due date if they did not take the quiz. I currently have the settings such that there is a start date and an end date (available until). Students that take the quiz can acc...

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We have been trying setup google drive integration with Canvas LMS.  I have added my google drive account in the admin setting.  Now, when i try to use the Drive Button when creating any course, I get 401 (unauthorized) error. There are few doubts: I...

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Hi. I'm new to Canvas and keep seeing references in the forum about Instructure. Who are they and what role do they play in creating Canvas? And how can I suggest changes? It's week 04 of our move to Canvas, and I really miss Blackboard. There was so...

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I'm having a hard time following discussion threads in the "new" format.  Are there ways, in the inline view, to: show some kind of divider between individual posts in a thread?show a connection between threaded posts? In the "legacy" discussions for...

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In the new discussions, is there a way to sort by the date of the initial post in the thread?  Not by the date of the most recent post in the thread?  Appreciate any help.

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I keep getting an error message each time I try to submit my first day attendance. It tells me that my progress is saved and to try again in a few minutes, but it's continuing to show this error.

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Is there a simple way to export the questions/answers of a canvas quiz so I have a record of them off canvas please?

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In recent weeks embedded and uploaded Google docs have "disappeared" from long established courses. We are trying to determine if it is an internal issue or is it an LMS issue.  Has there been interruptions or glitches that may have caused a google d...

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How to install turn it in on my canvas course. 

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When we try to import the IMSCC it creates the new App always into the course level. We just want to create simple module which will point to the LTI 1.3 App created at the account level. Could you please help here?

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Hello all, I am fairly new to Canvas and online teaching. I teach Biology, online lectures and in-person lab. I would like to test my students using Canvas Quiz, but while they are in person in lab. I think I have almost all figured out except the ti...

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Here's the question: can you search every course and page in a Canvas instance simultaneously to find a particular string?    Here's more details: We are looking to identify and update all the external links from an academic library in our Canvas ins...

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Good morning, I was attempting to trouble-shoot problems that a student was having with her exam.  To do so, I looked in her URL history and saw that some of the links were "user-generated" as seen in the screen shot below. How are these created with...

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Can someone provide instructions on how to upload Rubrics created in Microsoft Excel? Thank you. 

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I would like to upload a powerpoint presentation to Canvas free for teacher for my students to view it as a slideshow on the LMS but not be able to download it. Can someone please help me with this? 

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The new "whole post" only view for Discussions is unwieldy. Especially for large classes. All other LMSs have the option to collapse the Discussion to view just the Subject Lines or just the First Line of the posts so students and the instructor can ...

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I am the administrator for a course run on the 'free for teachers' version. A user changed jobs and no longer has the email address used in our course.  She is about to graduate from the course and needs access to the resources and materials to compl...

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The video won't play saying I must first accept the cookie policy. How and where do I do that?

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One of our courses was using self sign-up for student groups and opened them during the class period hoping that all students could sign-up while together in class. Unfortunately, the groups staggered their opening slowly and it took over 30 minutes ...

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I have a question regarding Speedgrader and Turnitin. Last semester, I had the ability to resubmit student assignments to Turnitin, and now as I am looking at Speedgrader, I don't see that as an option now. Did that go away on purpose?

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I am a student of AWS Restart program Jan-Mar 2024; After the course completion, the course content ddisappeared; I wanted to go though the course content again, but accidently I declined that new invitation also after logged in to Canvas; Is there a...

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Hi So we make use of the Kung Fu Canvas course to help onboarding new staff.  But during a check of the course I have discovered that one of the embedded videos is no longer available. I was on Vimeo, but it's not any more. The video is from the Gree...

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I have hundreds of emails with discussion threads each quarter.  I noticed that Canvas is placing new emails received in "Archive" when I place the original email (root email in the thread) in "Archive."  As such, Canvas does not notify me a new emai...

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Are auto close captions a feature of the new screen recording option in SpeedGrader? What about when you create a video from a page?

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It is not letting me access Mt San Antonios college canvas account for the summer course I am enrolled in. The error keeps popping up that I do not have a canvas account with them. How would I solce this

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Hello, everyone! I'm having trouble finding a feature that prevents teachers from changing their Front Page selection on their Blueprint courses. We'd like to maintain a consistent student/parent user experience for each course's Home Page when they...

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