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I am a noob to the new quizzes feature and how it does item banks. With that out of the way...When I open the Item Banks link to build a new bank or look at existing banks, and I select "All Banks" I see ALL the banks from across my entire university...

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Hello!  Here's a puzzling issue associated with a Canvas assignment - it was changed from grading based on 10 points to complete/incomplete. All students received point-based grades but once the display grades changed to complete/incomplete, the grad...

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I can't use the speed grader to access students' discussion posts. Do you know what's wrong with it?

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When I set the grade posting policy of a classic quiz to Manual in the gradebook, will the quiz still be auto-graded?

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I have graders who work on my classes. I just realized that they don't have a to do list like I do as an instructor. Is there a way to get this feature for them?

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What is the best way to upload notes for students to write on? I want them to be able to watch my videos from canvas studio and fill out the guided notes that are in my modules at the same time on .

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Several of my students submitted a Google Doc for a Canvas assignment where I am the Instructor. However, when they did so, their Table of Contents did not appear to me in SpeedGrader. Downloading their submission as a Word document/docx does show th...

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Other links on page break when I update any link on the page. Has anyone else been experiencing this as of late and/or have a solution?

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Do you know what “Just In Time” Provisioning enabled in the SSO option does? What would it happen if we disabled that option?

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Reaching out to see if there's a way to change the text that students see when posting in a discussion set to "Users must post first before seeing replies". Now the students see this:You must post first before seeing replies. Is this something that w...

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In new quizzes, I would like for students to be able to see all of the possible answers, especially for questions they missed, so they can send me corrections for partial credit. I do not want them to see which one is correct. Currently they can only...

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I am a math teacher who has several question banks to use. As I check for questions to use in a new unit, I find that many of my previously created and/or imported questions have converted to latex code. Help! I don't want to recreate the wheel and s...

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If a student misses the midterm due to one of several allowed factors, I’d like to roll over the weight of the midterm to the final for that student. Can I do this in canvas?

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Hi all, I have a faculty member that created a 7-point grading scheme, created an assignment worth 7 points, and set the "display grade as" to Letter and applied that scheme for the assignment.   What we're noticing when grading is, the middle range...

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This is a minor UI/UX suggestion in my view, very low priority imho:Currently, when I create a quiz that needs to be copied to multiple courses, I need to click on the vertical "..." button, click on "Copy To..." which opens a panel where I can selec...

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I want to allow students to go back and retake an activity, but doing so seems to update their grade to their most recent attempt. Is it possible to "lock" or set a condition on a grade to something like taking their best attempt, or first attempt?

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Hello   I'm asking this here as I haven't found an answer yet. I have a blueprint page that I use to maintain further Canvas pages (all the edits and information updated in this blueprint page is then pushed out to the other course pages via a sync)....

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When moving from a specific module to an assignment in the module and then going back to the module, why does the back movement take you to a different area of the modules listed? It seems all I do is scroll up or down to do anything and can never go...

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Hi there, Does anyone know when this idea will be open for voting? It is part of the theme Improved UI Controls and Usability - Additional filtering and view options which currently has an "identified" status.  According to the how do themes work pag...

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Are there abreviations for all 5 status options? For example, ex for excused and mi for missing. What about Resubmission and late? Also, why when I enter in scores and I edit a status do I only see late, missing, and excused, but I cannot see resubmi...

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How do I create anonymous feedback for students? Link to the guide mentioned in one of the replies is coming up with error message. 

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Seems to be Issues with Canvas connection. No link between canvas and OneNote through tab on Canvas ‘Class Notebook’Any help much appreciated.  

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Our school is moving to the 4 point rubric for assignments and assessments.  Canvas has the option to add a rubric to assignments/assessments, but will not average the different criterions.  I can do it by hand, but this seems like an extra step and ...

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I have a Canvas teacher account and I want to become an observer for my son but I do not want to make a new account. is there a way to become an observer through my teacher account?

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Hi all!I am somewhat new to teaching and to using Canvas from the teaching side, so hopefully there is a feature for this or a workaround or something that I don't know of.I have been messing with using rubrics for grading, and they're great! However...

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I created a quiz, had students take it, and forgot to add my outcomes. I have since gone back and added them. When I go to my outcome analysis, they do not show up. Is there something I am doing wrong or is this not an option after the fact? 

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is it possible to make a copy of an entire rubric? (In order to save the old one but tweak a new one?)

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I created a survey as a quiz on Canvas, and previously I was able to download the results in an Excel/CSV, but cannot find that option now. Did something change and how do I do this now?

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Having an issue with text to speech recording. The button is there and I can record fine, but when I try to end a sentence and say "period" it literally spells out the words instead of ending the sentence, stopping me from continuing to give feedback...

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This has not been addressed, and many people need this update: Treat graded discussion postings like assignment submissions. When a student makes a posting to a discussion, it shows up on the to-do list regardless of whether they've already been mark...

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