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Are there any plans to add the ability to reorder rubric criteria?  I just had to start a rubric over that I was a third of the way through.  Talk about a bummer...

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Like many high schools, we have some students serving as "peer tutors" in academic classes. Our students all have Canvas student accounts and normally have single-sign-on via an Active Directory integration. One teacher would like to have their stude...

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I have a MacBook Pro and for some reason I can't get into my assignments. I turned off pop-up blockers, but still have no availability to my assignments. I have a few due tonight at 11:59 that also close tonight. Please help me figure this out. 

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If you want to use the gradebook, do you have to enter due dates to separate the grade book by semester?

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I'm taking a prep course for a state license, the course run by an extension of a state office. In order to proceed to the next module, you're required to watch an unskippable video with a one-answer question at the end of the video to confirm that y...

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Hi, Is there a way to automate an end of course document with each week’s submission into one doc in Canvas?Thanks,Ada

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I keep getting an error message with 400 in the message.  I need to post a new version of some ppts and canvas won't let me. 

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If a professor resets there course following these direction from Instructure, does this remove the template content that was placed in the course when IT created it, or just the content the professor added since the course was created?

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Hello,I am trying to integrate turnitin with canvas assignments on my free for teacher accounts. The instructions for the new LTI 1.3 require an administrator to connect from the canvas side (https://help.turnitin.com/feedback-studio/canvas/lti13/adm...

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It would be great if the date of when a student was added to the course is displayed under the "People" tab where all faculty with access to the specific course can view it. Each term the students are added all through the first week and until half o...

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One teach set up a Canvas course with two sections: BIOL.041.03 and BIOL.041.04A student was transferred from one section to another section. So, the student is active inBIOL.041.03 but inactive in BIOL.041.04.  We set the enrollment status according...

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I'm the Canvas admin for our district & I'm looking for ideas on how to not give course visibility permissions to faculty but to have the course default for the syllabus setting to be public. Or give teachers permission to only the syllabus setting. ...

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Updated to clarify the issue: We've had reports similar to this issue where students' assignments are not being rendered with the correct formatting when an instructor tries to view them in the Speedgrader. Does anyone know if this issue has been add...

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Within the Assignments link, Modules to which the assignments have been added are no longer showing. Now it is only showing dates and points. When did this change occur and why?

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We have finished a course last academic year, and this year, they are using the same canvas page for the class. The to-do list for that class still appears on my Canvas and Canvas calendar. Is there a way to disable this? 

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I may be wrong but did the Timestamp previously display in Admin Analytics? I am creating some guidance in which I was going to direct those using the tool to check the timestamp as the data is not real-time. However I can no longer find a Timestamp,...

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Hi all,   When you write a comment giving feedback to a student, you can add spaces, use enter, bullet points to make the text more readable. When you post this comment, this lay-out is still visible for the poster. But the student receives a flat te...

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My MKTG course has the book link under the modules tab and when I try to access it shows a lock screen with access denied. I reached out to the professor and he asked me to reach out to you.

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Hi! Im trying to record for my class and it stating that it can not reload

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I have one course that isn't an actual class but instead an advisory hub for my major. Every announcement from this course creates a to-do list item which then spams my to-do list. These aren't assignments or anything relevant to my to-do list so I w...

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On a canvas quiz, essay question, do students see the grading notes for each question, or does only the instructor see these notes? I do not want to waste time copying and pasting the grading notes which have the correct written equation if the stude...

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If I have published all Assignments, why are they not visible to students?

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Hi all - hopefully this is an easy one. What Admin Analytics considers Participation is pretty intuitive on most items, but I am curious about what constitutes on participation in the following categories, which aren't mentioned on the "Analytics Pag...

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I am unable to open a pptx slideshow posted by the instructor in Discussions. A blank tab opens on my computer.

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I'd like to request a "Message Students Who" toggle to be added to the "Total" column in the grade book to send out failure notices faster. We can "Message Students Who" for an assignment but not under the "Total" column. Thanks! 

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Was connection different today?  I was unable to access the lecture 3 on Michaelanglo.  Do I need to access differently? Margy  

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Ten students in my class of 180 are peer TAs, able to help classmates with their assignments. The peer TAs are expected to submit their own assignments early. I know how to make an assignment available to a student early. Do I need to paste in all te...

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Can you please tell me what the icons at the bottom of the rich text portion mean?

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Canvas Speed Grader shows the message "This student does not have a submission" in the preview but then it shows "Submitted:no submission time" in the grading panel.  I can go to the assignment and see the student's work but it is not showing up in S...

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