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How can I change my password?  

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Hello, Can somebody please help me to adjust my profile picture.  When it was dropped into the profile it appeared sideways. I hovered over the image to try to rotate it, but the rotation arrows I would have expected never showed up.  I have noticed ...

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Hello, looking for some help! When I am working on creating assignments, my students have been receiving notifications about files I am uploading, when I haven't even PUBLISHED the assignment? Often times these notifications are being sent out at 1-2...

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How do I get the Navigation tab back? It is missing in the settings display.

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I am trying to create mastery paths, however, I do not see the "setting icons" to enable the mastery path. Mastery Paths have been enabled within the course. Suggestions?

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Trying to create a Google Doc to use on the Collaborate tab.  Before I can create or access Google account I must first log-in to Google account though an Authorize page in Canvas.  I log-in to Google and hit "allow" button so Canvas can access my Go...

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Why do some students show up with a name and others show up with a string of numbers? How can I change those with a number to show up with their name in Grades and elsewhere? Thanks in advance! 

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This is about Cloud assignments from Google drive. I am having trouble with where the scholars find their assignment. When they click on link they see the slides, but can't edit them. They are very tiny unless they click present. How do they edit? I ...

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When I click on launch external tool for the activity that connects to google slide it gives me a message that says Invalid Request. How to I get the activity to work?

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Is there a way to make the Assignments, that are passed, into a different color or to move them from the main Assignment page? It is so unproductive to see all Assignments on the same page when I want to see only those that are left until the end of ...

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When I go to watch a video I can't hear what the teacher is saying. How do I fix that? 

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We are starting to get our LMS integrated with our homegrown SIS and I need a way to hide students' ability to change their password or their student name (I have no issue with them changing the Canvas Display Name, and would like to let them still c...

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Hello everyone!At my institution we have been working on reassessing our introductory writing courses in light of two factors: 1) the fact that students come to college with varied writing ability; and 2) the reality of the COVID situation and its im...

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How do I get my courses on Canvas? I start on Monday with a new class and need to set it up however there are no courses listed on my dashboard.

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I am having problems, like so many others, with the 'processing until'..... or 'you assignment has not been graded' when assigning masterypaths. I believe that I have done all of the correct things (at least according to Canvas guidelines and the gui...

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Hello Friends,I would like to buy paid version of canvas for our institution as we want to integrate it into our official website and want to manage students login along with the payment gateway. If these things could be done with open source please ...

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Why am I getting every notification twice  - just within the last couple of weeks.  I have turned off almost everything and still get everything twice  

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Good Morning!I have a free teacher account. I have created a module and published it. I teach 120 students, so I sent them a link to create an account. Once they create an account and enroll in the course, they can't see the module that I published.1...

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Is there a delay sending feature for emails through Canvas and how can we access it?

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I want to ad a distribution list of faculty to this student club so faculty can view their event calendar. 

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Hello,My name is Jocelyn and I went from a student to an instructor in CANVAS. Due to this change, I have been trying to change my picture and it gets stuck after I press save. If I try to change it on the app, it says the file exceed the size quota....

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why I can't see the options in the chemistry quiz

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I have my course set up using Modules and prerequisites where they have to go in order, earn certain scores on quizzes in order to move forward.  Is it possible to disable this feature for one student? Or a work around? TIA   @kona 

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Recently I graded an exam in Canvas.  Each question in the exam had a place for "additional comments".  This is not the "Assignment Comments" box on the right, but it is a text box located at the end of each question.  When grading, I entered several...

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como se hace un banco de preguntas?Este mensaje ha sido traducido usando Google Translate.Title: Bank of questionsMessage: how do you do a bank of questions?

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Just like the title says, some students get the assignment in the module as greyed out.  Some have completed it.  It is assigned to EVERYONE, and the Available dates are clear, too.  Any thoughts?

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How do I access You tube videos for my discussion/research assignments on canvas?

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Can I invite just one student or a small group to a conference in Canvas?

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I cannot access pdf files from my teacher, it gives me an error message (attached). It says "Authorization failed" now matter how many times i attempt it. How can I make this work?

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Hello, Zoom is not embedded in my menu. During a webinar they said if it didn't show up to go to settings, navigation and it would be there and drag it over. However it is not there. Can you help me?thank you,Jennifer

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