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I used a template, downloaded to word, filled in the questions, and now I don't know how to upload it to be able to submit the assignment.  I know it was taught on the I-learn tutorial, but I don't know how to access that again.Thanks for help!Ruth T

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What are the colored tabs beside assignment submissions in grade book?

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Can observers book an appointment through the calendar to meet teachers? 

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Can you pause a test and resume later if you run out of time?

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I created a Google Doc, and did the submission type as an External Tool and used the Google feature, and my student submitted an assignment, but it was done wrong. I want to allow him to submit it again, so I marked it as incomplete. But when he open...

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How can I sort by student first name in gradebook?  Is this really not an option?  I find it absolutely ridiculous if this is not possible to do.  This would throw off my grading process for my students significantly, and might force me to stop using...

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I have three assignment categories:ProjectsPractice ActivitiesStudio PerformanceMy course grading scheme is set up in PowerSchool as such:25% Studio Performance75% "Total Points" of both Practice Activities and Projects combinedMy grades passback fro...

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We have several parents in our district who have twin students in the system. Many of these students have similar classes with similar assignments. When parents receive notifications letting them know that an assignment has been graded, observers str...

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How do I enter grades?

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Can you batch edit assignment dates?

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Is Google Docs enabled as a submission type for students?

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A user enrolled in the Canvas database with an email address that we now want to change. I removed her from the course and re-enrolled her with the new email, but the system defaults to the old email. Anyway to change this?

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I am registerd to a class and I get notifications, but I do not see the class assignments or announcements when i sign into canvas.

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Is there any way to access the full report of students' activity in a course? Under "Access Report" on the right hand side it shows these categories:ContentTimes ViewedTimes ParticipatedLast ViewedI would like to see the information of when a student...

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How does the general comment box become saved in a Likert survey?I am needing to add a space for written feedback, and have been unsuccessful in saving the box to the survey as an option.

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I've created a quiz to test out each of the question types in Quizzes.Next. As another test, I've put some of the questions into a couple different question banks. I want to change the point value for my matching question from 1 to 10, but when I edi...

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I am trying to complete assignments but other than the individual buttons I can click on there is no content appearing on the pages, no next buttons, and not allowing me to upload any assignments, I also can't view messages in my inbox , or my grades...

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In a module we have a quiz (see settings below). This is a quiz made in the normal quiz (not quizzes next). But after making the quiz we don't see the [next] button in student view. (see picture below). 

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How do I change the main color of my canvas?

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When I reigistered, I used my personal email.  No my webinar invites are getting sent there.  I need to get these events on my work email as this is the calendar I use but I can't forward the invites.How can I get that to happen?Thanks!

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Can I assign standards to my test items?

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Wondering if I make a person an observer, for the purposes of access to the class, but not wanting them to have the ability to interact with/alter the content, Do I have to have them observing someone? In other words, Can an OBSERVER see the course w...

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Is there a way to rearrange the order of the questions in a question bank? I'm working with a question bank that has 50 elements from the periodic table. I want them to be in order by atomic number so they will be easy to assign to a quiz. I did not ...

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I am looking for an easy way for students to upload and post a video they created and then comment on others posts. Simply, students are recording their screen and voice while they go through a Google Slides presentation they created. I want them to ...

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I have 2 children using different devices. do I merge them or do I have to keep their grades separate

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We as a school just transitioned to using CLEVER to operate our Canvas courses for our middle school classes. I teach music and have 9 different classes with a total of 276 students.Choir 3rd PeriodChoir 7th PeriodStrings 2nd PeriodStrings 5th Period...

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how do i import a zip file to be used as a quiz?

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I have a course which has almost 200 students, is it possible to create groups automatically adding students to specific groups, not just split them randomly into groups.  For example;  all students in the course belong to different years and need to...

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I finished all my modules, however, I can't see my badge. What should I do?

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I'm very new to canvas and am having difficulties streamlining practical assessment observation forms:Help !  it seems canvas wants each assessment to have its own page and an assessment cannot be conducted multiple times on one page and if doing dir...

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