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Hey all-Looking for some help for myself and other teachers in my building. When creating assignments in Canvas last year, the boxes to enter dates, calendars, etc. were just at the bottom of the edit assignment page. This year, we now have to click ...

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Hello @chriscas Please help in resolving the issue of email not being sent to users after uploading through CSV in canvas. Any solution would be greatly appreciated. Also I have attached  the screenshot for  your reference.Thank you in advance.

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Hi,I hope you can provide a solution to this problem.I am adding new questions to a new Question Bank (classic) but it only saves a single question!It retains the last question I have saved to the Question Bank.It is extremely frustrating to lose tim...

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As a student new to Canva, where do I find course due dates for assignments and course start dates?

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Is there a way to disable the "Record an audio or video comment" option in Compose Message?     We have already checked 'Disable uploads to Canvas Media from the enhanced rich content editor'. Thanks,BJ

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There used to be an option in Canvas to add a rubric from another course. It would allow you to scroll through a list of rubrics and select one. Is that option gone now? Is the only option now to import existing content from another course? 

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I just talked to Canvas about the issue of students seeing two timestamps in a delayed course announcement. The first being the stamp when the announcement was created, and the second "Edited" timestamp showing when the announcement was released.Canv...

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Previously in speedgrader I was able to have students resubmit assignments and quizzes.  That option has dissapeared.  Any suggestions on how to have the students resubmit.

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I have various sections for one course. I want to combine all these sections when taking attendance instead of selecting each section for attendance. How can I do this?

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I am in my teacher dashboard and there is no to-do list showing up on the side. I've tried to search settings and I can't see any option to "turn it on" per say. I've tried different sizing of my browser to see if it's just hidden because the window ...

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My Canvas dashboard was recently reformatted to only be 2 classes across instead of 3. I tried to clear my cache, refresh Canvas, etc. 

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Is there a way to code a link in a course blueprint that automatically links to the Canvas Inbox of whoever is assigned as the instructor of the course when the course is published and populated? I'm not looking for how an instructor can create a lin...

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My gradebook will not load on traditional. The wheel just keeps spinning. I only have three or four assignments posted, and it used to load really quickly under those circumstances. What do I do??

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I would really like to hear your personal experience with the Canvas inbox in regards to two points. The first being how it is mostly used between parents, students and teachers. Who uses it the most and for what purposes? Secondly,  in your district...

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I might be asking too much of the system here but....here it goes. I want to make a page that links to the assignments due for a student that week. But I am also using learning mastery and prerequisites/requirements, so not all students will have the...

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I just set up the new Google Meet LTI 1.3 in my Canvas instance.  It was a very easy and straightforward configuration.  I spent some time as a teacher using it to create a course as well as a student seeing the created meeting.  However, upon checki...

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As an institutional Canvas admin, a common complaint teachers who teach courses synced with Blueprints is that the see unexpected shifts in the order of items in modules. Are there best practices which would minimize this problem? The blueprint syste...

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If I build a quiz with question groups that pull from a quiz bank, can I continue to add questions to the bank and have them get pulled into the quiz via the question groups AFTER I've finished building the quiz? Or, do I need to have all the questio...

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New to Canvas Admin and I think I messed something up.  All of my teachers and students have open access to classes from several years past.  I thought I had archived the classes, but I'm not sure if that worked.  How do I clean up the list of classe...

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Students took an exam that I assigned them but I had to assign it to 1 student and instead of adding that 1 student in the assigned to link I accidentally assigned it to everyone (but closed it immediately). The previous gradebook I have has records ...

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Does anyone has a sample of a csv file to upload Students Learning Outcomes in Canvas via an API call?How should I fill the csv for new outcomes to link them to the appropriate courses.We were able to link and see them to a outcome group, but it does...

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Hello,Where are the video recordings stored if they are recorded via the speedgrader? Does this count towards total course storage?Thank you, Ana

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Hello, I teach multiple classes and would like the ability to post announcements to multiple (or all) at classes once. These classes are not subsections but are different courses altogether, so the "post to sections" line is not an option. Can we add...

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I have an assignment where all the grades are calculated incorrectly in the grade book instead of the point value. The calculation is more than what the actual % should be, and some are recorded as more than 100%. What can caused this?.

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My school recently set a grading scheme at the Account level. It uses percentages. For faculty who use points that divide evenly like 1000, there's no problem. Canvas' grading scheme doesn't work well when entering a points grading scheme for faculty...

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I accidentally published the wrong assignment in my AP Bio class; however, 1 student actually submitted something for it. (I caught my mistake before the rest did.) Canvas will not let me unpublish it because that 1 student submitted something. Do I ...

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Our students are required to complete a lesson that uses a SCORM gradebook pass back. The lesson must be completed before the quiz unlocks. Up until last week, this took under a minute. Recently, however, we have had many students complain that their...

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I am teaching four courses.  How do I create my ABOUT your INSTRUCTOR profile just once and then copy it to all my courses?   When you click the three verticle dots to COPY CONTENT...that module is not available to transfer.

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I was wondering if there is a quick way to share a list of banks of questions to someone else. I have a list of 20+ banks that I want to share with a colleague, but I don´t want to click the share button in each bank. Is there an easier way to do it?

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