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Hello, thank you for being available to help in my time of need. 

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I am trying to use a single Canvas shell for each of my classes, and NOT make a copy of it each semester. For years, I've had to make a copy each semester, then spend an hour fixing the green navigation links (Try this five times a semester!). To sav...

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We are looking to move from Classic View to Elementary View.   We are all on board except for two issues.  1.  Is there any way to get rid of the Banner on the individual course pages?   Several teachers are concerned about all the real estate it tak...

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I am trying to add a Studio quiz to a new assignment.  The tutorials show to add it as an External Tool.  BUT - Studio is not an option.I looked at available Apps.  Not shown there either. so - how to I add my Studio Quiz? Thanks!Debbie

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We have a teacher getting this message repeatedly : You are attempting to save content containing course links which may not work when used in other courses. She is getting this when adding images to questions in her item banks. She gets the alert ev...

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In the Outcome Results report what is the difference between "outcome score" and "learning outcome rating points?" In some of our rows we have a learning outcome rating points value and not an outcome score. What creates this?

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I have placed assignments in modules in their correct order, but when I go to the bottom of the syllabus it shows the 6th assignment listed as the first one. The due date is for October, and the next assignment, which should really be the first liste...

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How do you upload and link external content?

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I am teaching two sections of the same course and do not want to have to duplicate the content twice.  Is there a way to copy the content from one canvas course to another?

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I instruct 5 courses for the student organization community on campus, each with 250-400 users. I have used the 'notes' column as a space to identify the student organization the user is completing the course on behalf of. Due to the volume, it has a...

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I ENROLLED MYSELF IN PG IN MATERIAL MGMT.AS I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED MY IST YR ONLINE EXAMS.REQUEST YOU TO REFLECT 2ND YR AND 3RD YEAR COURSES IN DASHBOARD SO THAT ATLEAST I CAN BEGIN WITH SUBMITTING QUIZZES END TERM AND MID TERM IN TIME MY ADMS...

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I have searched this community about self-grading functionality for Canvas, and the most relevant threads I've found seem to indicate it's a feature which has been requested but unimplemented since 2016: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Idea...

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I've always wondered way there's zero error capture on initial input(s).  Typically, when one programs - you assume that the user will make mistakes and not allow for 'simple' mistakes in the first place. Eg:  You have a field that is asking for a nu...

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I'm new to canvas, and just testing out speedgrader.  I notice that on one assignment (but not another, oddly), comments on the attempt show up on my ipad but not on the web interface.  They're there - I can download them - but I can't see them.  Wha...

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Is there any way to auto-enable captions for all uploaded videos? 

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Every year, I import my Canvas course from the previous year into the new year's shell, and go through the announcements, deleting the ones that were specific to events last year and changing the release dates on the welcome and reminder announcement...

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Module - publish items in an unpublished module I recently noticed that I am unable to unpublish a module while leaving the items published. The function to publish/unpublish an item is the priority, meaning if an item is unpublished in one module, i...

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An administrator, the User Course Access Log has been helpful to me in attempting to retrieve student activity data at a global level (all courses) for our Canvas for reporting to my management.I would like to ask for advice to get more data for repo...

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 ( As A teacher) , I worked on my course content with editing section , for some reason it doesnt auto load the pages and sometimes shows a dialog box for autoimport ,but today when i opened it shows nothing after clicking the section name, the page ...

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I often copy and paste a comment that I want to use for another student making the same mistake but the clipboard does not preserve it if I type anything in the interim.  Whatever I typed appears when I click paste. Why won´t the clipboard hold my co...

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Hello I am a supervisor of student staff at a university. Using Canvas as a platform for training student staff. Last year, we didn't put the students into Sections because we were unaware of them existing. Now that we are in a new year, the students...

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Our campus just switched from BlackBoard to Canvas. One of the features we utilized in BB was the ability to create a calculated column using both assignments and *another* calculated column. We did this to document any necessary grade adjustments wi...

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I'm trying to view my final exam grade but when I log into Canvas the course isn't there. When I tried to view my grade it said "Access Denied" and "You do not have access to view this resource."

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We have built Outcomes at a subaccount level and the instructors are going to be adding them to the rubrics they build in the course. They appear in the Summer Term when you click Find Outcomes, but do not appear in the most recent semester about to ...

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I'm looking for come code that I can add to a Canvas course that will capture the student's ID, name, email and then send that data using a mailto link to a specific address. Our challenge is that our auditors are saying that they need independent co...

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Until this semester, if I deleted a file from Files, it would automatically remove references to that file in Modules. Now, it does this IF the File was published but LEAVES IT THERE if it was not published. This is a huge pain to try to deal with wh...

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I imported the new template my school will use to my fall course shell.  Next I imported my sandbox to my course shell.  When I went to check, the sandbox course (which I had updated and revised for the fall semester) was not imported.  Can you pleas...

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We've started adding important dates according to the School System's calendar. I wanted to know if there was a way to create block events (range of dates for the same event) in the Canvas Calendar. I think it would look better if there a block event...

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Hello,I hope it's possible to set access to a file based on a condition, rather than timing, etc. I would like to make the solutions to problem sets only visible to students who have attempted the problem set. Can I set and automate file access condi...

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Hi  Can someone please offer some guidance.  I've loaded some course content onto a discussion page rather than a normal page.  Can you please advise how I can change this? Thanks

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