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I can't find any information on how to withdraw from a class?

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Hello,In Course Navigation when I click on the Grades link, settings icon, for some reason I cannot see Late Policies option.I only see View Gradebook History, Hide Students Names, other options related to columns and enrollment, but no Late Policies...

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I've been trying to access assignments for classes through canvas on my MacBook. I can see everything just fine from my phone and desktops but my not from my MacBook (which I've already made sure is up-to-date). It will load the side bar with Account...

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How can I clear my dashboard of old courses?

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Would I be able to create a "quiz" in the Quizzes function within Canvas that a student could access multiple times to edit? I have what I call a "final exam" in a class that is more of a thinking, writing, and content application exercise. "Grading"...

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I have most of my assignments set up for automatic late penalties, so that if a student submits an assignment, quiz, or discussion post late, there is a corresponding late penalty. However, I have some assignments where I allow students to resubmit w...

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i am an instructor and when i log into my course page i cannot add any content. i down see any edit button. could you help? rmy5@columbia.edu. thanks

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In the Canvas gradebook, am I able to weight different portions of the students' grades?  If so, how do I put the %s for each type of grade in the Canvas gradebook?

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I have assignments assigned to me but they do not load when I click on assignments tab on the left.

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I have developed quite a few pages that display #interactive molecular animations that all depend upon a Javascript library called Jmol. All of the pages work as developed both from local windows directory AND from a Linux server. SOME of the pages w...

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Canvas went live for us at the beginning of this semester, which was earlier this week. Although we didn't use them, we created course shells for the Fall 2019 semester in our Canvas instance. We are moving away from Blackboard, so faculty need to ge...

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New to Canvas and I am using Speed Grader for the first time. When I grade via my uploaded rubric, it shows the score for each criteria; however, it is not showing or calculating the total score once I've checked the student's respective rating. I th...

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I bought the ebook and cannot figure out how to get it in canvas, followed the directions in my email and nope. Please help. 

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I accidentally deleted a test. I thought it was something else and it was deleted. I was not the creator. 

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If you wanted to give every student the same comment, is there a way to do it as  "fill" or batch comment instead of pasting/typing it over and over in the Assignment Comments box?

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I edited the release date on a copied announcement but the post date still shows last semester.  How do I fix this?

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How do I share a class I've created with another teacher?

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Hello,My "to do" notifications aren't clearing when I am completing an assignment and it has really thrown me off.

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How do I copy another instructors course?

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How do you mute an assignment while grading, with the new gradebook

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Can I open and take quizzes outside of the United States? Is Canvas supported internationally?

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Hi,I have a blueprint with LTI integrations. When I sync the blueprint to a new associated class, the LTI keys are copied to the associated class.Does anyone know of a way to update the LTI keys used for an assignment in the new associated class post...

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I've been working with formula questions in Quizzes for a while and am trying New Quizzes.I would like to make variables that are dependent upon other variables.Example:"What is `x` plus `y` divided by `x^2 - y`"  and Canvas would display  "What is 3...

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I am an instructor. I have found that when I load a You Tube video that has auto generated closed captioning that the video will not play any closed captioning once inserted on Canvas. Is there a way to enable the auto generated closed captioning on ...

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I am able to access the course but each page shows just a blank white page when clicked. So far I can see the modules page but only assignment submissions and .png and .pdf files download pages. Every other page including home page, book registration...

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I wondered if anyone has found a solution to make marking completely anonymous in grade book? At the moment the assessment column hides the grade when anonymous but the grade still shows in the assignment group column.

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I have set up student groups on my course, as I did last year. Despite a lot of student activity in the Groups the Group Home Page, which is supposed to show Recent Activity, still shows absolutely nothing. This didn't go down well with the students....

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It is week three of 2nd semester of the school year and my students are still unable to access the assignments in my class.  I clicked the Help link on the left panel of my course and no longer see assistance from Chat.  This is an EMERGENCY, i.e. ur...

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