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When I screen share on my laptop in Conference all I see is a maze of many windows making the feature unusable. How can that be fixed?Scott

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I am putting my email into the "forgot my password" feature and hitting "request password, and I am never getting an email back from the system. I tried multiple times yesterday and then even tried again today. This is really not working for me that ...

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Hello:One of my students indicates while taking a quiz she was kicked out of the system and she could not go back in.  Thus, I need help re-opening the quiz for the student.  The quiz was set up so students could only take it once within a 7 day peri...

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If using Quiz function as a method for creating a student assignment and have settings as per below - the students should be able to immediately see their results as they complete the quiz correct? If in the 'gradebook' the assignment is muted would ...

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i'm using laptop to enter my class. How do I video/audio connect/interface to the class?

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im using the app not the web browser

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I accidentally deleted some stuff from my to-do list... how do i get it back?

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Hello!  I found a guide about how to add a picture to a discussion post if you are a student.As a student teacher using an ipad, I’m trying to create a discussion board.  I want to add some pictures in the creating of the discussion board.  So I have...

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Some of Speed Grader scores not showing in Grades, may I get some help? Thank you!

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I have a Canvas installed on my server and want to create a structure where I have a group of people with access to some calendar and discussions in common (kind of same "workspace"), I managed to do it using institution groups but now I want to crea...

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In classic quizzes I can make the correct answers available to the students at a later date than when it's due.

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Hello!I have a teacher who is using the External Tool submission for her assignment. She has the due date set as yesterday at 6 PM and the Available Until today at 6 PM. Is there a reason why the grade book does not show the Red Status Missing for st...

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This is the message that I get from 1 students assignments all assignments.  Have ask she is not dragging and dropping  answer No, she is uploading from google drive answer yes, I try to download and get the same message."This file contains HTML and ...

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I would love to hear from others that are using Canvas + Seesaw in the elementary setting (PK-5).Thank you in advance!

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I have an embedded tutor in my course. I'm hoping to find a way to allow him to leave comments on essays as he would in class without enabling a role that allows him to see grades. Suggestions? Is this possible? 

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I gave a quiz yesterday from commons and had to reassign it today for some students who did not complete it.  When I hit speedgrader, the scores for yesterday are gone?  How do I retrieve them??

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Wondering if there is a #way to organize what gets displayed in the student to do list.  Some teachers are reporting that students are only seeing things appear from a couple of weeks ago and not the most current assignments.#todolist 

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I am building a quiz with a reading passage followed by comprehension questions. I would like to be able to build it with the option to show students one of several different passages, followed by a selection of questions related to that passage.I kn...

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Our university has added 6 custom links to course and user navigation. It is quite a few and makes course and user navigation very cumbersome because they are soooo long. I am trying to figure out a way to consolidate those links into one link that t...

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I want to create a matching section to a quiz. How do I do that?

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I have 2 graded assignments for each student in the grade book so far.  I have the Assignment group set to 15% of total grade, and each Assignment is worth 10 points.  The Assignment column for the total shows greater than 100% for the students.  For...

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How to access the webcam in Canvas?  

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Cannot locate the SRI.

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Can a teacher who creates a free Canvas teacher account track student time? The free teacher account tracks page views but I need it to track a student's total time (or time accessed by page). Is there a paid teacher version that has this? I think th...

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Migrating old quiz banks to the new quiz engine:I have about 100 different question types, each with 5 versions. These are ones I've made myself--they are not from a publisher's question bank. That makes for 100 question banks--one question type per ...

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Is there a way to pull up assignments once they have been graded?  

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Hi.  I got this request from a teacher and it makes sense. I couldn't find anything that really answers aside from organizing in Modules etc.  This is in relation to the Quiz index page only..."Canvas organizes Quizzes by separating Quizzes, Practice...

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When I try to record in canvas for a lesson, the record/upload media will only record my voice not video.  Where do I go to fix this?

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When I go on course progress, I see all of the grades listed. Some of the grades aren't listed and there are pictures. What does the picture mean?

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I have an admin in canvas as a student. How do I change her role?

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