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gmflood

Disabling email notifications in 'announcements'

Hi Team, can anyone advise whether you can disable email notifications being automatically sent when you post an 'announcement' in a group?

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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lori_martinez2

How do I access the video tool

How do I use the video tool

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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greg_dabelstein

How do I release grades on a specific date?

HiI currently have the grade posting policy set to Manual on an assignment. I want to release the results on a set date. How can I do this ? I know I can go in on a set date and click Post...but i want to be able to set a date so i dont have to remem...

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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garciajw

Quiz Submission

I was taking a quiz, and when I hit submit, the following page failed to load. So I had to refresh my quiz page, which led me to my submission page. My quiz was submitted, but were my answers affected? As in, were they cleared or anything of that sor...

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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jdalldorf

Complete/Incomplete and Zero for no submission

Is there a way to use complete/incomplete for distance learning and set up your grade book so if students who don't submit online work automatically get a zero?  I'd like to see who is doing partial work which I score as incomplete verses a zero for ...

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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dbradbury2

Tracking Discussions

Is there a way to track which students make comments in a discussion?  I sure is a way, but i just cant find it.

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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shawn_feller

Homepage

How do I make my Homepage more inviting for my second grade students?

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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diane_graham

DROP BOX

How do I create a drop box?

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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fdmartel

Elementary Module - Import

Administrator importing lessons to several of my teachers for week of April 27.  I am now a member of each class and each teacher's name shows up when I import except one.  I am unable to import lessons to her.  Not sure why?I already have her on my ...

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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joewagner

Print/Save Quiz Activity Logs

Can I print, or save, a student's Quiz Activity Log?  I tried and it only previews one page at a time.  Thanks!

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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higginbothamh

Why does the partial credit for multiple answer only work in some of my New...

I am only seeing this partial credit feature for some of my new quizzes but not others. I have taken a screen shot of me making a new multiple answer question in two different quizzes I have. In one quiz, I am given the partial credit option, and in ...

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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jeremy_childs

Gradebook Messaging

When I use the feature in gradebook to "Message Students Who Haven't Submitted Yet," often times a number of students receive the message even though they *did* in fact turn this in.  This leads to loads of emails from students freaking out that thei...

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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lazar_konforti

Single student grade was posted despite column being hidden

My grade posting policy was set to manual. Grades were hidden. The moderation process was enabled. I did this while grading and wanted to release grades at the same time when all was done.Lo and behold, a single student grade was posted anyway. A sin...

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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fvescial

Publishing student grades on CANVAS

How do I publish student grades that I've entered in my CANVAS student grade book so that my students can see their grades?

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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bmoran06

Change a quiz to Closed

Hello,I would like to keep a quiz that the students already have taken "published" so it stays in the grade-book, but I would like to close it.  I want it to say "closed" directly under the quiz in the quiz menu.  I did this a few weeks ago but have ...

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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martha_etchart

When I click next, the next activity does not come up, home page comes up.....

After I have created a discussion and go through to check that all the links and all are working, and click next, it DOES NOT take me to the next activity but back to the home page. How do I fix this?

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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rpsimon

Is there a PDF comparing Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes?

Hi, is there a PDF that shows a comparison between Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes?  I have been using New Quizzes and I have some teachers who use Classic Quizzes.  It would be great to have PDF or some type of document that compares and contrasts t...

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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bradleydutson

How can a student change their notification setting so that whenever someon...

I didn't see it in the notifications settings, but maybe I am totally missing something obvious.

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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susan_polster

Canvas automatically putting a zero in assignments not handed in

How to I make Canvas automatically put a zero in student's grades who did not submit an assignment?

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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cdonahue

How do I grade essay response surveys?

I created an online graded survey and left it anonymous. Great right! no -_- I had essay question in there and it says I can't look at them be they anonymous

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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cchandler2

Fill in the blank on new quizzes

Is there a way that I can get Canvas to understand that order does not matter in fill in the blank questions? Otherwise, I have to go through each quiz and change the answer to correct or I would have to change the question to a different type.

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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jschmidt21

Restarting a quiz after disruption

A student's exam was disrupted on Canvas.  How do I restart the quiz for the student and erase the grade that they had up to the time of the disruption?  They had completed 14 of 40 questions when the disruption occurred.

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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michelle_urban

clean-up

How do I "hide" the cards on the dashboard so that I am only looking at the ones I need?

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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silvaayersr

Seeing a graded assignment

Why am I not able to see a graded assignment upon downloading the graded submissions?

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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jbevelaqua

How do I upload images from my computer into Files?

I have forgotten how to upload images from my computer into Canvas Files

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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a_heble

How do I hide some of the course details?

I want to hide some of the details on the course menu

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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anca_sala

Reply to Canvas email from Google mail

How do I set up Canvas email to allow me to respond to Canvas emails directly from my regular email?

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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rdclark

Creating groups for taking a quiz

I want to have three versions of the same exam (e.g. Mid Term 1).  I want to divide the 33 students into 3 groups of 11.  These 3 versions will vary (quantitative problems).I tried creating one group, but I can't find a way to put the other students ...

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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jschofield

New Rich Text Editor Keyboard Shortcuts

Just wondering if any the keyboard short cuts like CTRL+K function still works in the new text editor or is there a different keyboard shortcut for adding in links with the same options (alt tag, open in new tab)

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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klmarkel

Uploading powerpoint with audio

I need help posting a powerpoint presentation with audio (I recorded the narration in PPT).  When I tried to upload to canvas it forced me to download the file and I couldn't get the audio to play

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04-23-2020 Canvas Question Forum
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