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I have email Canvas twice regarding the issue that students that have the app installed on their phones, can still access a closed test.  At this time, we still have not received an answer, and did not find one in the resources on the site.  And ther...

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Hello,   I will be teaching a "flex" class where some students will be in the classroom, some will be watching on Zoom, and some will watch the Zoom recordings asynchronously. I teach Math and we will be doing all problems during class time.  What is...

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Hello!I used one of Canvas' templates to make this course. Today I tried to update the course name multiple times within the settings.For reference, I go to the course -> settings -> course details -> nameI follow the above process, change the name, ...

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Hello all,What would you recommend to an instructor who wants to curve the final grade? The instructor does not want to curve an individual assignment or even assignment group, but rather the Total grade for the course. Final Grade Override will be t...

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Hi all! Let me state upfront that I hope I am communicating my question well. Please let me know if further clarification is needed on what I am asking. Right now I am designing a course shell for our campus to improve the accessibility and usability...

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Recently we have run a process to suspend the users who are not active anymore through the api, after that some users needs to be reactivated but the support area cant see the option(reactivate) in the users profile who have a SIS ID. which permissio...

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How can I report on which courses have been published in a specific time period, in order to monitor if people are hitting publication deadlines? Ideally I'd like to select the date range and get back a list of those courses. Is there a report that d...

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Hi everyone-- I can't seem to figure out a way to see a login count for our entire instance for a given period of time.  We had an SSO outage, and I'd like to do some number crunching to see what the impact was on our user base. I want to be able to ...

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Hey guys, I am just wondering how do I navigate to student calendar so I can schedule a meeting with my instructor? She told me it is in the "student calendar" on Canvas site, but I couldn't find it. Thank you!! 

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Is there a way to download submissions in the order in which they were submitted (or can they only be downloaded in alpha order)?  Alternatively, is it possible to download only late submisssions?  

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Jag undrar om man kan ta bort summafunktionen under omdömen i Canvas? Jag anser inte riktigt att den fyller någon funktion. Tacksam för svar! Translated from Google Translate I wonder if you can remove the total function under grades in Canvas? I do ...

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how do i add a course from the commons to my dashboard?

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  Hello, I need help I have created modules and set up completion rules for the content in the module, but when my students enter class, some students will display the status of the components in the module, while others will not.

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I need to add an unfiled question to an existing question bank. When I click to manage my question banks, the page only shows my bank of unfiled questions (not the other banks; see attached pic). Also, when I try to move an unfiled question to anothe...

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My student roster was emailed to me. How do I add it to Canvas?

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In the assignment, I can add a rule to drop the lowest grade in the final grade calculation. However, I do not want to drop the lowest grade (say, a zero) assigned for academic dishonesty. I would like to add an exception to the rule for a particular...

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I created a new account and the course I am working on will not allow me to change the visibility to public. It says "If you need to make your course public please contact your administrator/support." I am the only person associated with this course ...

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I have assigned a Delta Math test through Canvas.  I would like to set up the test corrections.  Is there a way to set these up so that the students' test grade automatically updates once they complete the corrections?

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My school had us reset our passwords but I forgot to and I am now logged out of my account. Thankfully I am still logged into my canvas but I do not have access to my email, google drive, etc. I tried logging back in but it says that my password was ...

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Hello,We have institution-wide memberships of both Google Workspace and Microsoft Office 365. Hence, all instructors and students have access to the Google and MS Office cloud products. Since both also offer good LTI's for Canvas, we actually can int...

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i accidently posted the incorrect rubic.  How do I remove or replace or replace a rubic?

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There are two of my daughter's classes that do not show up when I go into my observer account.  When I go to "all courses" these two are listed but are gray.  How can I pull them in?

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I added some Chrome extensions and then started a quiz for my class.  The quiz would not load.  I logged off Canvas using the Chrome browser and logged in using Microsoft Edge and was able to complete the quiz.  I deleted those Chrome extensions from...

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I am an assistant principal reviewing some teacher page views and have come across a teacher that has multiple entries with the following ending with assignments query string redacted.   These views are occurring at the same time throughout the day f...

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I'm new at this. How do I assign weightings for different types of work - e.g., homework counts for 30%, tests for 50%, class participation 20% - so that Canvas calculates the overall grade the way I want it?

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We are considering using "Folio" within our Canvas instance, the ePortfolio built by Portfolium.  When our students graduate, they lose access to Canvas. Does this mean they will lose access to the Folio (ePortfolio) they built while they were at our...

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Hi,  We give our advisors an admin permission set in Canvas.  It seems when they register themselves in Banner for a course as a student, ILP rebuilds their account and they lose those admin rights but I'm not 100% positive that's what's happening.  ...

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I am working with our IT admin on a project, and think this might be the right place to ask it.We’ve had our Teams integration (sidebar access) disabled in Canvas since we started using it because our college still uses Exchange 2013 for our email ba...

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Hi,I've manually assigned peer reviews to a group of students, and it shows up in their To-Do list.  However, they are getting 'access denied' error while accessing it. For context -The assignment is created for 'everyone', but only half of the class...

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