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How does a student in a course initiate a private message or other post or e-mail to the instructor?

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I have tried to upload, mp4, mov. files and always the same ERROR message comes up. Already checked with the IT department in my company and they couldn't find anything wrong on my end...Please help, I have a new video assignment coming up and anxiet...

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The Canvas SpeedGrader Tool Bar disappeared. All of the assignments are submitted as a PDF. When I first access a student's assignment, the tool bar will show for a second and then disappear. There is no peer review involved. I would appreciate it if...

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While researching how to prevent downloading of proprietary videos and content, I came across a 2015 post discussing a workaround for locking files. The post mentions the need to "Go to Files and choose the option to lock the file unless you link to ...

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Can you make it so that you can bypass waiting periods?

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I know how to add a single answer to an existing FITB question by clicking "add answer" and having to type in a new answer.  But it is a cumbersome process, and when we have a class of 120 or more, having to do this for each answer that could be adde...

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I'm unable to get into the freefirstaid.comonline-Cpr-course. It keeps telling me my username is illegal, it also tells me my password is incorrect.

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Hey!I need some help in understanding solutions to practice questions in course Principles of programming language (CSE340). Who should I approach?? 

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I am an instructional designer at my university's CTL. We had a student call in about an error he was getting during a mid-term where near the save button on the bottom of the page, he was getting an "error" message. He restarted his browser and the ...

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How do I post stuff to the students?  When I create courses for the students I see them but they don't.

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When working in a  Canvas page, when the link icon is used to open the Course Link right hand menu, it quickly opens and shuts the first time "Course Link" is selected.  When Course Link is pressed a second time, then the menu side bar opens and sta...

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Good morning! Quick question: I have run the User Access Token report for my institution's instance of Canvas, and by far the largest number of associated tokens is "Inst-FS (Production)." "Inst" is likely Instructure, but can anyone shed some light ...

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Hi I have Readspeaker installed in canvas lms and its not being displayed when browsing canvas pages , assignments or quizzes, is there a setting you must select to use it?

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When I get on to use classgather at like 9 at nights classgather saysNo content available for this course.even though there is content that is supposed to be available 

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In Canvas Quizzes, is there a way to require the student to answer all or specific questions before they submit the quiz? For example, I want to prevent a student from just guessing on all the Multiple Choice and then skipping the Written Response an...

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Does anyone know of a way to add a marker/grader to an individual learner assignment/quiz (outside of course sections).

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Hi,My teacher asked me to connect with the Canvas help.  Every time after I take the chapter pre-test, I receive a score but do not receive credit for taking the pre-test.  It shows on my end as "done".  My teacher thinks it may be a tech issue that ...

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In Gradebook,there is no "action" or "view" button

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Hi Community,  I'm an instructional designer, and I work with a team of faculty who use collaborative testing as the second stage of their two-stage (or, "two-step") exam process. In this scenario, students take the exam on their own in the first sta...

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How do you delete class course cards that you aren’t taking anymore?

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I am new to Canvas. Once my account is set up on my laptop, how do I make it accessable to my students through the app?

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The table functionality is not working properly in my courses.When trying to add a table: I click on the table icon and there is no caret next to "Table" (image attached). This used to open the grid view to the right of the menu where you could selec...

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The menu caret in the upper-right hand corner on mobile devices (Android phone and tablet-Samsung) has stopped working. It's the menu for all the course links, such as Assignments, Grades, Syllabus, etc.---the course navigation links. When I click on...

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Hello Good People, I'm having an issue with a Canvas test.  Two students' tests remain "open" though it is well past the "due" and "until " ti submission time inputted in the test details. All the other students' tests closed at the appropriate time....

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Hello everyone,I am currently working through an issue in our organisation, and I was wondering if anyone else have had it:We did setup a course with an assignment group, consisting of two quizzes. One for first sit, and one for 2nd sit. Those two qu...

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Recently we've had a weird behavior start up when trying to add a course link into an RCE text box. When an instructor clicks on the link icon and then chooses "Course link", the tray that pops up on the right pops out and immediately back in. The se...

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I would like to be able to choose a variable from a set of distinct values, not only from a range. To give an example: "You throw a dice with `n` sides. What is the probability of an even number showing?" In this example I can't choose from all numbe...

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Hello, I am a math teacher and I´m having a hard time giving my students good comments when they have taken Quizzes because I can not use math terms in the comments. Is there any way that the comment boxes can have the math formula tab so math teache...

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Hello, I set rubrics for grading for an assignment, so that grades will show up automatically in the Grades section. I set the grading in percentage (0 being not graded, and 100% fully graded). However, this assignment has multiple reviewers/graders....

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