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How do I access a past enrollment class for Fall 2019?  I wanted to look up references for a source document I read and the whole course (INFO 285) is not listed in my enrollment although one from Spring 2019 is.  I thought I would be able to referen...

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Is it possible to set announcement dates via API? The reason I ask is that we are moving to Canvas from a home grown LMS which gave the students notifications when a course became available. We are trying to replicate this feature in order to facilit...

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Is there a quick way to view how many times a student has replied to one discussion thread? Is there a quick way to view how many times a student has contributed an entry to all discussions in a semester?

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I saw students enrolled yesterday in the "people" tab, but today all but one of them is gone. What happened?

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I am a choir assistant in my school. I made a dance for the people in that class to learn. I need to be able to send them all the video of me dancing but I'm not in the class on canvas. Is there some way to still send them the video?

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Hey everyone,I recently installed an open source version of Canvas on one of my servers. It mostly is working just fine except for two issues. 1. Is my delayed_jobs.log file is almost half a gig after a few days and when I tail the output, it just ke...

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Images uploaded into Files and embedded into Questions in a Quiz are not displaying properly.  I have sized them all the same.  Some are OK, some are not.  I cannot find the "Manage Permissions" area or anything else internet suggests.  I really need...

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If I create discussion groups, will students be able to see the posts from groups they are not members of? If not, is there any way to set it so this can occur? 

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Estoy empezando a utilizar la plataforma, ¿como puedo dar fecha de inicio a las conferencias?

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How do you load an audio file into Canvas?

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Hi I am having trouble I can log into my canvas but when I try to look at all the subjects in the dashboard only block shows up where a subject would be and its blank white and flashes.  Can you help me?

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I was able to make an account on a browser, following the link I received to join my teacher's course. However, this login email and password don't seem to work when I input them into the student app. it says that my username or password is incorrect...

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I am unable to publish my course because I get an error message about verifying my email address. However, when I go back to that old email to verify it, it says that I already did it. Please offer some suggestions.

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Canvas 24/7 support is not taking calls. I have faculty who cannot login. The answering machine says they have to use Chat to login. Where is the Chat? Where is a link?

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A teacher needs help with viewing concluded conferences on canvas. There's a concluded conference from over an hour ago and it's not available for viewing.   The teacher (and students) can't even view a short "trial" conference from several days ago....

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I need to reopen quiz for individual students but I don't want to open entire class, how do I do this?

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How do I make the announcements, assignments and modules tabs visible for students?

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Ahoy!In her March 13, 2020 blog entry, Tara Gunther, VP of Partnership at INSTRUCTURE wrote this:If you would like to connect with students using Google Hangouts Meet as your conferencing tool, you have the ability to add a Hangout to your Canvas Cou...

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How do I view student progress through course modules?

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In the old quizzes on a questions with multiple answers it gave the students partial credit for choosing some of the correct answers, and cancelled some out if they choice wrong answers. Example: Which of the following are color's. Select all that ap...

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My files are not visible to my students. How can I change this? 

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I'd like to download and embed a video that's in the Canvas Video Guide on my Canvas course. I know I can embed a link...but I'd like to embed the actual video to make it easier for my students. Any way I can do this?

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The link to the video is not supported - how do I still use my assignment with a new link?  I can add the new link but the old video still shows.

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Our non-profit org is using Canvas for training (training courses) the needy and currently we are working on developing the management system using Salesforce. Internal users should able to see how many courses does each of the client have assigned t...

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Chat function as virtual office hour?   I was thinking about using this to have virtual office hours (partly to deal with students in very different time zones). However, my concern is about privacy: are all chats available to all students in the cou...

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How can install Proctorio on canvas? I don't see it anywhere under settings. I heard it should automatically be there to be activated if desired to proctor exam taking remotely.

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I set up my page last year, but since then I changed my last name.  When I log on, my Dashboard is dim, gray, and blank.  I have to post information for my students in the next few days, but I don't know how to access my old page.  Can someone please...

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What is the standard lag time between concluding a Conference and the audio/video of the conference being available to students. We have had several teachers record Conferences earlier today and they are still not available for play an hour or more l...

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How do I upload a screenshot?  How do I get a screenshot to upload. I'm old. I need extremely specific instructions.

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I can't find the meaning of RAS scotomas self fulfilling prophecies  

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