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where do you set preferences about grade notifications?

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Dear Madam / Sir.My current three Canvas LMS courses, DG4BBR, 98FMXT, and GETP3G, are their course codes, but I have an issue with posting new or reading the old announcement messages. My students and I can read the title list. However, the message i...

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When I opted to Restrict quantitative data in my course settings, my view as an instructor of student grades still showed missing assignments with the missing label, but the corresponding student view of missing does not show the missing flag. When I...

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So i've tried to do my introduction employability, all is fine except for the fact that i have tried 50 times now to get the CV badge, im sure i have passed it by now, i will post my most recent attempt; 1.A marketing document, promoting the most rel...

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What is the deadline for withdrawing classes?

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Hi all,I am a student who uses Canvas for college. I would like to download all course content that was available to me as a student so that I can keep it after I graduate. I'll likely lose access to my two-factor authentification, which means I prob...

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Any advice about pages assigned to a Mastery Path being deleted without intentional action by an ID, instructor, or student? I'm working with a few courses that use Mastery Paths. In each path, students complete a MC quiz as a pre-assessment. One ite...

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We are forced to use Canvas for our classes by our district. there are many aspects I love. The inbox is not one of those things because it gives me a second inbox to check. |"Why don't you just forward your messages to your email address? You can ju...

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I am a teacher using the grade upload feature for the Canvas grade book, where I create a CSV file and upload it to my grade book. I can do this successfully. My question is about marking assignments as "missing."Is there a way to code a grade as "mi...

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Will the block editor for Canvas Pages feature be in the December 2024 Canvas Release?  It's listed in the Q4 2024 Canvas Product Roadmap but has not been released yet, nor is there a description for it in the Canvas Product Roadmap page.

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Will the block editor for Canvas Pages feature be in the December 2024 Canvas Release?  It's listed in the Q4 2024 Canvas Product Roadmap but has not been released yet, nor is there a description for it in the Canvas Product Roadmap page.

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I was guiding my students through peer review on Canvas today, and apparently they don't have a side-by-side document window and comment/rubric window like I (as the instructor) do. They have a pop-up that obscures the document window, which defeats ...

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All of my sections have the same name from SIS ID, can you please add a nickname feature so I can tell the difference between my sections?

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Hi,When a teacher creates an assignment with multiple attempts, the grading only shows the score from the last attempt. How can I set the gradebook to use the highest attempt instead?I noticed this option is available in quizzes, but not in assignmen...

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I (the course instructor) would like to have another faculty member on campus have access to view the course materials posted on ELMS.  Nothing seems to be available for such an addition under the People tab.

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Hello everyone,I'm currently exploring the PDF annotation tool on the Canvas Student App, which allows students to highlight, annotate, and bookmark directly within PDFs. Does anyone know if this tool or a similar one is available through the Canvas ...

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Hi,Is it possible to globally (or by sub-account) set the default announcement "Post To" audience to nobody? I've had a look and can't find a way to change the default. Attached is an image of the "Post To" drop down menu on a New Announcement page. ...

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It seems like the observer role in Canvas is very basic but maybe I'm not finding it correctly. Here is what I'm picturing and not sure if it exists (YET). Observer logs onto Canvas.Sees a list of their children.They can easily see their children's g...

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Is there a way to see old versions of assignments and discussions (similar to how we can see page history with any Canvas page)? This would help with a variety of issues and would be incredibly helpful!

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Good Morning, I've got a learning mastery gradebook that is showing inconsistent data that I'm confused about.    Within many of the outcome columns, some of the students are shown with their result/score (1.5/1.0...), while others are shown with jus...

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Hello, I am trying to figure out how to deduct negative percentage points for student absences missed after the allowable amount. For example, after the student has missed a set number of absences, there is a 5% deduction to their final grade per abs...

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This was asked in a meeting today and no one really had an answer.  If the students click on notifications about grading (daily), will they receive a notification that the faculty put a comment in the speedgrader box? I have heard about a "push ALL ...

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I am building a new Canvas site for a training community for student employees and want to connect it to an existing Microsoft Team that we are already using.  The instructions for Canvas/Teams integration suggest that the Canvas site will create a n...

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These old eyes are starting to struggle seeing the small font sizes on Canvas.  Is there any way to enlarge the font that I can see, especially when grading online submissions. The student online submissions and my comments on the side are really sma...

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I was wondering if there is a list of which course settings are altered when pushing content from a blue print courses. I understand the homepage and course Navigation menu can be pushed to the associated courses as well as the individual contents (A...

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With the release of Discussion Checkpoints, I could not find anything about this feature and its integration with the Course Pacing feature.  Does anybody know if this new feature will nicely integrate with Course Pacing? I ask because we are using c...

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Can you set an Out of Office auto reply to students who msg you through Canvas when you are not at work?

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Some assignments are still showing but most of my future ones are just not appearing in the calendar. The due dates were not changed. 

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When instructors set a Manual Post Policy students are not able to see grades or submission comments until the instructor posts grades. We recently noticed that the date/time associated with the submission comment(s) is the date/time that the submiss...

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Apologies if this has been brought up elsewhere. I was testing Checkpoints, and when you select "Automatically assign" for the "Peer Reviews" type you are prompted with an extra date and time box. When you enter a date it defaults the time to 12:00AM...

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