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As an admin, we must proactively go to People - Manage Profile Pictures - Submitted to approve those pending.  However, there is no notification sent making us aware that there has been a photo submitted.  This is easily forgotten and at times could ...

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I purchased Day 1 Access for my history class and I've not needed to access it until now.  Can someone please tell me how to do that? 

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I assigned an assignment to student groups. When one student submits his part, it submits on behalf of the group. In some cases, this works well, but in cases where each student in the group is responsible for a different part of the group project, t...

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Bonjour à tous, est il possible de mettre des points négatifs aux mauvaises réponses d'un quiz ? et si oui comment ? merci 

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I created student groups that reflect the students assigned to each grader we have for a large course. This works fine for graders to grade their specific students for writing assignments. However, for quizzes, the pre-existing section assignments in...

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Hi,  an export of one of my courses was made and my course is not shared on the commons.  Is there a way to find out who may have expored my course content?  Thanks.

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I'm new to the community and just started using Canvas a few months ago. There are some nice features, but overall I've been mostly disappointed. There are numerous basic features that all teachers would want that are missing or do not work the way t...

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Hi,I downloaded examsoft but I can't find the app to start taking a practice exam.  Where is it located?  Thanks.

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Simple question - what time is stamped when a student clicks submit? I had someone ask what happens if a student attempts to submit an assignment a minute before it is due, but because of the size of the file and slow internet, it takes 2 minutes to ...

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Are questions from old quiz compatible to new quiz format? In other words: can you pull questions from new quiz format as well as old quiz format in a single quiz assignment?  

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Hello I'm working with a professor at my campus, I'm a lab aide. He posted a quiz a few days ago. All of his students took the quiz using lockdown browser with a webcam. He came to me today, which was 2 days later and all of the grades for the quiz a...

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On my Canvas assignment, is there a way I can export an embedded Google Slides presentation into my Google Drive? I did not create the original Slides and I'd like to add them to my Google account without having to recreate them.

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All of our 20 courses currently have "Display Grade as" for class assignments set to "Complete/Incomplete." We are looking to transition this to "Letter Grade." Is there an easy way to make this change on a global level, or we would need to go into e...

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Hello, there is a issue at the question 9-[CF]-KC, I sent the submission but because of a bug, the question has not been graded.I sent the submission yesterday, 30 - oct.There is missing the number 2 question inside the resolution. See the image atta...

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Hello, My current late work policy is 1 day no penalty, 2 days, highest grade of 75, 3 days highest grade of 50. Is there a way to make this work on Canvas? Specifically I'm thinking of auto-graded assignments like quizzes. 

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I'm making a quiz with multiple answers and each answer will be worth a point. When my students are taking a quiz they can see the total points each question is worth so it lets them know how many answers to pick. Is the any way to delete that point ...

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I like to give my students a second chance after testing to improve their score. Is there a way to reset the score and have them do the assessment over again without having to create an entirely new assessment? Thank you. 

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Not really a question but I didn't find any other posts about this and want to lift it up to others. We have teachers who will unpublish modules as the year goes on for a number of reasons...clear up clutter for students, keep student focused on curr...

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Hello! Canvas will not load anything other than large, unclickable black-and-white icons. I have cleared my cache, cookies, and browser history. I have tried up-to-date and supported versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. I have also tried on my home...

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Is there a way for external tool assignments to automatically be marked as missing when the due date passes and no submission has been made? I currently spend a lot of time manually typing “mi” on each one. I’d love to know if there is an easier way!...

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I created a group inside of a subject, but, i created wrong. I want exit or delete this group that i created 

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I have the need to run the Last User Access Report for our Sub-Account.  When I do, I am given all users.  Is there an easier way to filter out a particular group other than using the filter function in Excel?  I need to view the teachers only when I...

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Hey I can't see my class on my Computer I don't know why.

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Hello, We're currently devising a new way to manage our students using SIS ids. I'm attempting to perform a SIS import with a set of users who need to receive a password creation e-mail from the system. As far as I can read here, this is possible - s...

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The three dots to alter the proportion the split screen shows of the assessment versus the marking rubric is right on the page border, so I cannot click on the dots to recover the rubric. Does anyone have any tips as to how I can recover this, so I d...

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I write courses for other teachers. I want them to be able to copy my courses but not be able to edit the master copy. Can this be done?

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Hello!A few weeks ago my CANVAS went into dark mode and I don't understand why... I don't have the browser in dark mode (I use OPERA GX), nor do I have a dark theme extension, or anything that can darken it... WHAT DO I DO???AID!!! I want to return t...

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Hi so I'm a student and was taking a test yesterday , using Canvas's quiz feature. I never changed my tabs during the test, however, my google search history shows the canvas quiz multiple times throughout the time I was taking the test. I hope that ...

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Hi.I am part of a course development team building a Canvas Application for Religious Education purposes. My question is how do I allow other people on my team to view our course without publishing it.?

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