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A question:  My students just finished a group project.  In the settings, I selected the choice that all students in the group get the same grade.  Now – after I have posted grades for most of the other teams, all of which populated automatically, of...

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copy MS word exam files into Canvas?#ms word

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How do I send a mass email to all of the students in one section?

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I am a TA for a course that I took a year back and I am trying to copy over the modules and content from the old course page to the new one. Unfortunately when I go to import course content on Canvas the only course options are the ones I am a TA for...

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How would I find a student's details (grades, past assignments, etc.) if he/she has been out of the class for a long time and is no longer enrolled in the class? 

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I use list view for canvas dashboard. I recently withdrew from a class and in the list view for dashboard the upcoming assignments are still showing up for it there. How would do I get rid of it? 

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I've been playing around with it, and I feel like I already know the answer....Curious if I could assign an essay quiz on canvas and add a rubric to it.

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I have a course that I made live today and nobody can access it. It consists of several modules containing pages of content, and a quiz. The course is an "ongoing" course, so it should be accessible and the start date under settings is yesterday.I ve...

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Solution Posted: 09-21-2019 View Solution
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My turn it in window is not completely showing which prevents me from submitting an assignment please help!

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Solution Posted: 10-03-2019 View Solution
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Is there a way to link publication of an assignment or discussion to the publication of a page?  I often have several assignments linked to a lesson page, and I'd love to be able to have them go live when that page does, rather than having to publish...

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Solution Posted: 09-22-2019 View Solution
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Who adds new course shells?

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Solution Posted: 10-17-2019 View Solution
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We are trying to align quiz questions to Outcomes in New Quizzes. So far, it has worked well to see how students are doing on each quiz with each Outcome. We would like to track the Outcomes for Quizzes to get data for the entire quarter. I wasn't ab...

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I want to revise an exam and use questions from another exam already in the same canvas course.

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How do I transfer a quiz from one class to another class?

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How do I view/join student groups? I want to view and also actually JOIN their group to see what they see before I tell them about their groups in class.  But when I click on 'People' while in Student View mode, then click on Groups and select a grou...

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When I choose arrange by assignment group I expect the grades to be in alphabetical order. They are not. Why not?

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I am an English teacher and I have students engage in essay "workshops" in groups in a Discussion where they post first by a deadline, and then interact later (I reopen the discussion with a new due date). Sometimes, after the first post deadline has...

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Solution Posted: 09-22-2019 View Solution
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We recently had an issue where students had a problem seeing the equations in our math placement tests. The question would appear, but where the equation should appear was empty space. The issue seems to have been confined to the Safari browser, but ...

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The place to submit my assignments isn't showing up. My instructors have not set it to where I can't submit assignments. How can I fix this?

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I can't create a parent account there is no link on the log in page. I did log in on my computer with my sonsinfo but when I go to his dashboard the outline of his courses flash blurry lines....why?

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Solution Posted: 09-23-2019 View Solution
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How do I find Speed Grader?

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My question is how to send file to my teacher if the Recipient name is invalid?

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Solution Posted: 09-22-2019 View Solution
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I am in the process of creating the major test for my class, HLTH 3202.  I can see how to shuffle answers, but I want to shuffle questions.  I got the following link https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-15053-4152780618  However I do not see the ...

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I tried to install Canvas-LMS, but when installing yarn v1.10.1, I got this error:[5/5] Building fresh packages ...[1/15] ? node-sass[6/15] ? uglifyjs-webpack-plugin[7/15] ? spawn-sync[8/15] ? fetch-mockerror / home / canvas / canvas-lms / node_modul...

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I've seen this issue occur with at least 2 of our instructors, and it's probably happened with a few more instructors, they just haven't alerted us (our office). The issue: after creating an assignment page, and then going in to edit it (add content)...

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Can i change the default to be something other than "Assignment" when i am creating a Page in the Modules section of Canvas?

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On the Calendar & Dashboard, How am I suppose to tell which class/teacher is for which kid? A few teachers on the dashboard have labels such as Math 7, English 5. but not all.

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Solution Posted: 09-23-2019 View Solution
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When syncing my test grade to Powerschool, the grades went successfully to Powerschool but are now missing in Canvas! How can I prevent grades from being erased in Canvas after sync?

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Google Cloud Assignments:I'm learning to use Google Cloud assignments and understand that using this tool creates both a class folder and an assignment folder.  Can you rename those folders and still have them communicate with Canvas properly?  Thank...

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It appears as thought the rating title is a required field but I don't remember it being that was before. Is this a recent change? Is it something I can control in the admin settings?

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Solution Posted: 09-23-2019 View Solution
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