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Currently, we can save comments in our rubrics (particularly those I use when assessing discussions).  As my assessment has become more refined, I am discovering that I no longer need some of  my previous comments, but must scroll (and in some instan...

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Hello, I am hoping to provide two final project assignment options for my students, so that they only need to pick and complete one of the options for their final grade. How can I set up the gradebook so that student's grades aren't impacted by the a...

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My Accessibility Checker constantly flags my content for lists. I would happily comply and use the list function (bullets, numbers) in Canvas if it weren't so difficult to use. It is practically impossible to create any list resembling an outline in ...

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Hello, I need help fixing my grade book. For the final grades it is showing all F’s. How can i change and fix that issue. Professor Jimenez

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A parent reached out because they are not receiving grade notifications for their 4th grader. The teacher post grades. Has anyone run into this issue? 

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Hello,   Does anyone know how to turn off the new default setting "open in new tab."  I do not want the assignments opening in a new tab.  After 5 years of using Canvas, I keep forgetting to unclick it, so I have to keep going back and unclicking it....

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It says im in a class on my teahcers end but on mine it just shows one of the two classes im in 

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Hello, In Canvas we have encountered a problem with courses we loaded via SIS where many of them the course dates did not transfer to the sections tab of course settings. Upon investigation we did notice in some cases it was due to instructors in the...

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I would like to download the New Analytics "Student" section directly to a CSV.  It currently downloads one rather small CSV to a ZIP file which I then must unzip.  Yet all of the New Analytics "Report" downloads go directly to a CSV and they are muc...

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When using the rubric Comment Library, I noticed (last semester?) that it now removes any blank lines from the library text when applied during grading. I can confirm this worked as intended in prior semesters.  In my mind this renders it a bit worth...

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Is there a way to automatically resend course invitations? Currently, our institution manually resends invitations at 7 and 14 days for our shorter courses and 30, 60, and 90 days for our year-long access courses. This is creating a lot of work for o...

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At the moment I am creating quizzes on Canvas and it is taking too long, pasting each answer in the boxes.  On other platforms, the import function provide you a Spreadsheet excel template so that you can create multiple quizzes using the spreadsheet...

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Hello team.I have a question about bulk exporting grades.I have an outcomes-based gradebook that is set up by my government education department (DoE markbook).When I bulk export my student grades and open them in excel, they are sorted in the date t...

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What suggestions do you have for Building Substitute Teachers to leverage the different aspects of Canvas if it isn't currently being widely used at the school?    

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Friends of mine are using the ‘free for teachers’ version of Canvas and have asked me to look into their best CDN options for delivering audio and video assets into their course. After spending a couple of hours looking into this, I’m still no closer...

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Hi all,Our colleagues are using SCORM extensively to bring in a large number of Articulate Rise resources into Canvas in Page or Assessment formats. Is anyone out there doing similar and could help answer the following? 1) Is it possible (in the Cour...

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Hi All,  We've encountered an interesting error while trying to edit a sequence of HTML files for pages:  We have been getting the body of individual pages from Get calls through Postman API. We've been copying this code to a Google Sheets spreadshee...

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As title says. I LOVE rubrics, they make grading really easy, and I’ve used then for years. In one course the original rubrics were not set up to populate the grade. I’ve fixed that (when I updated the rubric) and it doesn’t matter. The rubric score ...

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Hello, I'd like the option to remove my students ability to contact me via Canvas message.  The message that gets forwarded to my faculty gmail doesn't include the message history, or allow attachments.  For that reason, it ends up wasting a lot of m...

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Hello, when I post an announcement in my class, I just want them to be able to "like" it and then allow me to see who's "liked" it.  That way, I can hold them accountable to the information.  Is this possible?  I replied to my own Announcement so the...

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Hi, I am trying to embed an article link and make it preview so that other students can view it while replying. This is on Canvas discussion reply. If someone can help me please. thank you!

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Our teachers began having an issue with students not being able to access Google Cloud assignments or not being able to submit assignments when we returned to class, January 7th. We have cleared cache, reauthorized Google, confirmed only the student'...

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When using the Import Existing Content feature and "Copy a Canvas Course", the choice to select from a dropdown list of other enrolled courses is no longer an option. It was there 2 days ago when I helped a teacher, and the Canvas documentation shows...

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Are we able to import our Outlook Calenders into the Canvas Calendar? Or is it just from Canvas to our other Calendars we can do? Thanks 

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I have looked and could not find anything regarding this.I am looking to see or audit who created or provided admin access to certain users.I have looked at different reports, notificiations, and enrollments but havent found which other admin provide...

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It would be really useful is Item Banks allowed subfolders. We have traditionally used ExamSoft and it has this feature. For a course's bank questions can be saved under folders, e.g. Final, Midterm, etc. Also for the test alignments, the test questi...

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I have a teacher who wants to download the student's responses and sheet from a downloaded PDF from a Student Annotation assignment through Canvas. We have opened the document using Adobe Reader and checked to ensure we are printing the document and ...

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Hi,The forum speedgrader update is extremely slow and clunky. It seems to work like a video slot machine with each student going back to the top and then scrolling down to the most recent post/reply. Then, to see other replies or posts, clicking the ...

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Hi I have created a blueprint course, and made a check mark in "make the course a blue print course" in the settings. Afterwards a have associated two courses to the blueprint course. In my settings I have added two courses. These courses are syncron...

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