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Feature request: Add an "assignment" link to the student group homepage left bar to access a group assignment.When students are assigned a group discussion, they can go to their group homepage and access the group discussion through the  "Discussions...

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Is there any tool in Canvas available to create Drag & drop kind of assessment activities? Thanks

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Hello, This is a emergency. Someone reply as fast as possible. Today I saw that all my modules got deleted in all my courses and someone was exporting them. So i changed my password and returned them. Minutes later,  I find my courses being deleted o...

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Hello!So, what I am trying to do is to connect multiple questions together so that if I am pulling from a quiz bank, I can pull the questions as a group, and they won't separate from one another.Here is an example. Say I have a quiz bank with 40 ques...

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Zoom has added sections to their LTI/API, and you can add meetings for specific sections now, great! That said, Canvas does not support calendar events by section apparently. According to Zoom. So even though students can only see zoom meetings for t...

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In MyLab through Pearson I see there are weights in my gradebook. In canvas all my groups are also weighted. Do I need to delete weights in Pearson? Dana

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Testing out the Zoom LTI in Canvas and it's really great - but would love for students to be able to use it in Groups. Right now it's just BigBlueButton. Is there any way to replace that with the Zoom LTI instead of the BBB tool?  Edit: although you ...

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I'm trying to add Rubrics to my assignements by pulling outcomes that I have previously created.  When I go to add a rubric, there is a line there ready to edit to add your own criteria, instead I am using the 'find outcome' option to bring my outcom...

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I find that when I create or edit a rubric, I often want to rearrange the order of my listed criteria. For example, late in the process, I will remember a criterion that I want located at the beginning of the rubric. As far as I know, I do not have t...

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How do students provide feedback when assigned a peer review? It appears that Canvas used to give students the edit/markup features, but they no longer have that.

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As an Instructor, I have the permission to "Reset Course Content", which I did. It reset everything as I desired, but it left my Item Banks. I wanted those cleared as well, so how can I make it so it does everything?

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What does a student experience when a classic quiz's time ends? When a student is taking a timed class quiz. what happens when the time is up? Does the quiz close? Freeze? Are they allowed to complete the quiz because they STARTED the quiz within the...

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I am working on a course that is huge with many items. When I want to add something to a module, say a quiz, there are so many already created that the one I want does not appear on the drop-down menu. The only thing I can find in the help says - Not...

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I'm Admin for an university and received a request on retrieving past course Inbox messages for a specific course. I went to the professors account to view the inbox for the specific requested course and even checked under archived and it was empty. ...

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For all assignments/quizzes in my course, when I use the left-hand corner eye icon in speedgrader to post student marks I am receiving a message that says "There was a problem posting assignment marks.". I have absolutely no idea why this is and ther...

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My faculty would like to cross-list course sections with different start dates.  For example, we offer four sections of a course this semester all with different start dates (end date is the same).  Is it possible to cross-list these sections in Canv...

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Hey folks-We are looking for a way to use a Canvas course calendar as a tool for planning and promoting events on our campus. The idea is to have all event producers added to our NSC Event Planning shell where they can add Events to the course calend...

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I am using calendar events in a course, and even after the date has passed, they continue to show up at the top of the Course Summary on the Syllabus page. Is there a way to make only future events or assignments show up on the Course Summary?  

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I notice that in New Quizzes, you get a System details captured right at the beginning of the log, at 0:00.    Sometimes you see it later on in the quiz. Example: the image below the new quiz did a new system capture at 2:27.    

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Is there a way to view only one students grades in the grades tab, or organize it by student. I have 4 students and it would be helpful if I saw just one students grades, for all the classes on one page, or have the one page organized by name of stud...

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I have a new canvas school that had its test version converted to the live version.  However all the dummy data for users and courses is still there.  How can an admin bulk remove users and courses?

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Are individuals not associated with schools able to purchase a canvas account to publish online classes?

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I work with faculty to support the implementation of student accommodation plans. An accommodation provided to students in a higher education classroom include splitting a quiz over two days. One solution to this is to duplicate the quiz twice, split...

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I apologise for being one of those people but it appears the name and contact details of our CSM have been lost over the years. Can someone please help me locate them?  Thanks!

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Does anyone have a good online attendance solution? We don't believe the State of Ohio would accept Roll Call or New Analytics attendance tool data for online school attendance. (If you want to look the rule is here). There is a new product called Pu...

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¡Hola! Tengo un pequeño problema, las tareas y trabajos en clase no muestra los enunciados que pongo para que el estudiante pueda saber que debe hacer. En el editor puedo ver los enunciados, pero cuando voy a vista del estudiante no se ven y de igual...

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Hola! Tengo un pequeño problema, las tareas y trabajos en clase no muestra los enunciados que pongo para que el estudiante pueda saber que debe hacer. ¿Alguien sabe que debo hacer? !Por favor es muy urgente, muchas gracias!

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Es posible ponderar los criterios de evaluación de una rúbrica a través de porcentajes, sin modificar los puntos de los niveles de desempeño? 

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Hi, when im signe in to canvas with an incorret gmail what can i do do edit my name?

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Hello, Hope your day is going well.   When I run the attendance report, it sends an email; however, I am unable to open the file.  It says the page is not working  HTTP error 500.     Any assistance is appreciated.    

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