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Several years ago I created a number of question banks for AP Human Geography.  It's a pain in the a**, because I cannot add new questions to them unless I import the bank, which then makes a copy, and now I have to try to remember what the current c...

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I want to post the same quiz I made in lms to a website, is it possible to export the code?   Thanks!

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Hi, I was just wondering if there was any way to recover assignment submissions after changing the group set.After collecting student group submissions (grades assigned individually), I wanted to allow the students the opportunity to change their gro...

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Hello, I did a sample assignment and did not know what feature to use to save my work and return later.  Instead when I saved my work it was submitted as if I had completed it.  Please advise how can I work on my homework or and exam, save my work an...

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I just noticed that one of my courses has a very strange looking Traditional Gradebook. It appears that nobody has a score, but if I look at Gradebook History, I see the scores. See attached.I have not made any changes to the course setup (to my know...

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When I upload an Word Document assignment to Canvas, I get a notification stating that it was submitted but I do not receive the green checkmark noting that it was indeed submitted. The submission circle is half filled with the green line to indicate...

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Someone posted this message a few years ago, but it looks like it was archived"When I use a nearpod activity through external tool, the window to see it in for the students is so small. The window should be much larger, or allow students to click to ...

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A colleague of mine and I were testing assignment submissions. On the first try, she got a "Submit Failed; please try again." This error message shows up in all browsers, including incognito. The assignment was only submitted after the second try in ...

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I have created some quiz assignments using Quick check tool.  I like its drag and drop feature. In this semester, this tool has crashed at-least once a month. Is this a "fragile" tool and do you recommend me to stop using it? Anyone else has used it?...

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 I am unable to create an assignment on Canvas using their external tool feature. It is having me make my preferences (unlimited, closed caption, no skipping) but then it does not save. I then have to go through the external tool again and it is an e...

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Instructor never got to manually assign groups and 4 students have posted/ submitting already.  Students are just responding to the posts.   Is manually setting up groups an option?  I attempted to request Automatically Assigning groups but even-thou...

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Our administration would like us to implement an academic integrity pop up everytime a student logs into Canvas. (Very similar to the Acceptable Use Policy that a first time account users receive when they log in). They want to students to have to cl...

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Hi I know there is a list of different shortcuts, that you can type in your URL, to make changes to the course. Like /undelete at the end to undelete .test. before instructure.com to work with at test version etc. Does anybody have a list with these ...

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I was receiving email notifications from Canvas before and then it randomly stopped and now it's saying that Canvas is unable to send me emails to my school email which hasn't changed at all, and I can't delete it I can only add an email. 

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I am a chemistry instructor and am attempting to build an assignment out of a quiz using the variables function.  Your variables do not allow exponents to reach values up to 10^-14.  This is a big handcuff for those of us working in pH/pOH, where que...

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I copied over an exam from course template and overwrote an existing graded exam, how do I go back? 

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How exactly does the Screen Capture application for Canvas Studio work? Does it allow instructors to capture (record) my primary screen while I am showing something in class so that students can later refer to the recording?   

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I can't enter grade from gradebook or speedgrader for 2 students. It gives me this message after I enter the grade and hit enter. There was a problem updating the submission. Any clue? Thanks. 

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I have spent the last hour trying to do this with no success. I think I've done it before but I forgot how and  the guides have been no help. I want to create a question bank with selected questions from 3 existing quizzes. Those quizzes' questions w...

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Hi, I have aligned questions in a quiz to outcomes in Canvas. However, is there a way for students to see the outcomes/alignments that they missed (without it being a rubric)? Or is there a way for students to view their results by outcomes?Thank you...

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Sometimes students type an answer to an essay question (classic quiz) but only some of the words are visible. If I select or highlight the entire area, I can see their answer. One student said that some of the words turned red as she was typing - tho...

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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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