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Hi,I am having an issue with our free edition of Canvas LMS. It has bee very useful for us but now due to the Covid-19 our requirements towards disk space has grown larger.I have tried to contact Canvas team several times but I haven't got any reply ...

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I received notifications about assignments were been created but I cannot find the assignment anywhere on canvas.

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So after 2 weeks of using this integration I'm stuck with this question:"Is it better to use the Class Teams we've set up in our MS Teams infrastructure or continue to use the Canvas Integration which created meetings in the Chat channel?"Currently t...

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I invited my friends to join a course on Canvas. When they try signing up, the system asks them to enter student or pairing code.I have no idea what the student or pairing code is.Please help.

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I was invited to join a course but every time I try to join it says "The enrollment link you used appears to no longer be valid. Please contact the course instructor and make sure you're still correctly enrolled." what can I do. I attached an image t...

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What if there are two registered accounts of students in the "people" section, how should I deal with that? I can't remove any of them since I'm not sure which between them is the active account. 

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I'm a student. 280 points worth of assignments that are weighted at 40% have accumulated in grade book over a couple weeks, but not even a 0.01% shift in my grade. These assignments were done on Labster, a virtual lab, then automatically transferred ...

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I am suppose to sign up for a test time slot using canvas and I do not know how 

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en la vista de tarjeta he visto que es posible cambiar los colores de cada curso por algunos prestablecidos, me gustaria saber si es posible cambiarlos por una gama de colores mas amplia e incluso por imagenes. ademas, en la configuracion del sitio s...

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I teach a college English course in which matching questions on tests are common, questions in which students, for instance, must match themes or characters or quotations with the titles of the novels they're identified with. I imagine that professor...

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hi - I want to require students to make at least an 80% (unlimited attempts) on the first quiz before they can move on in the course (so I need to lock Pages and Modules). How do I set that up? Thanks. Cathy M

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Seamless transfer of MS Word quiz/exam (with images) to Canvas Quiz. Suggestions like Respondus, I tried it.  It only adds to the workload.  I made a quiz/exam yesterday on Canvas, cutting an pasting from MSWord, embedding images/schematics, resizing...

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I got a new e-mail address, and was able to add my new e-mail address to my account but unable to delete the old one.

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When I embed a picture, it shows up on my laptop but not on the students' ipads.  What am I doing wrong?

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When I go to the Coastline Community College Canvas log in, I get an error saying "The account "username" is not authorized to access this application" I've attached a screenshot. 

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I have 5 sections of science and they are all cross linked on Canvas. In Announcements I wanted to send my students a specific link for each class period, so In the "post to" section I chose a specific class with the specific link. However, when I ch...

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Another dumb question from me, but I'm full of them.What does the capital U within the picture ID circle mean in an ANNOUNCEMENT?  My picture does not show up and (I think) students must request access to the announcement when the U shows up.  Is the...

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How do I change the color on the box that shows the module and how do I add an image to it?Also,  I have a few unpinned discussions from trying different things on Canvas and I can't delete them; please advise.Sincerely, Helen Paris

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is there a way to download an entire course (including forms, videos, etc) that i've put on Canvas?  I've been adding/subtracting to it online, and don't have a full hard copy of it anywhere. 

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What is the purpose of empty small box that you can check or leave blank once you've made an ANNOUNCEMENT?  It is located to the left of the circular photo ID of the instructor in the announcement itself.Would love to know.  Please forgive my ignoran...

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The discussion is not letting me mark the graded discussion option. it is showing grade discussion but it is inactive?

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If I unpublish a course to make some changes and then republish it, will it have any affect on the class?

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How do I drop a course?

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I am creating a question for a quiz using the formula-style question, so specific values will vary among students.  Is there a way to ask multiple questions from the same set of generated values?  Part A, part B, etc.?

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How can we check papers submitted thru Canvas for plagiarism?

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I have prepared a quiz on CANVAS.  The first student accessed the quiz and all of the images appear as big locks, rather than the images I embedded into the questions.  I tried to follow the instructions provided to ensure that the images were "publi...

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What is the difference between "due date"and "Available until date" while putting up Assignments for my students? Are they same or have some specific difference?

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Hello, I am trying to simply send an email to my students, grouped by section, to individual recipients, and I keep getting an "invalid recipient" response. MY COURSE IS PUBLISHED. Can you please tell me WHY it is so difficult to simply email student...

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How long do Conferences last once you create them?  Is 14 days the maximum and then you lose them?  I wanted to create some Conferences (ppts and talking) that students can use any time during the semester (and possibly other semesters).  Is this the...

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Drop down menus in Canvas seem difficult to use.  Especially on my phone but also, overall.For instance, in the Inbox when I'm trying to create a new message:  When I'm trying to click on just one course in the drop down menu of courses, I click in t...

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