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I've found bits and pieces scattered around, and maybe everyone already knows this, but when I am linking files (from within Canvas), irritating icons appear next to my links and/or large icons (for videos) present themselves.  I wanted them all gone...

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I have a course set up and students are saying they can't see my concluded conferences.I can see them and I have the link enabled for conferences? Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Can students email all group members at once? Students need to send surveys to one another. I see they can click a group member's name and then 'Send an email.'  But if they want to send the survey to all members of their group, or if they want to se...

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The Dashboard only shows flashing boxes, two short horizontal black rectangles (one is shorter than the other), and 4 equally sized black circles. Whenever I enter certain classes, all the tabs are blank except for modules, but every module is blank ...

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I am curious - does anyone know when the ability to move a pinned discussion to another section was removed?  I know that I used to be able to move discussions between sections as I used this to move the current week discussion up to pinned and then ...

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how can I get the correct answers to the rotary website assignment?  Or how can you tell what questions you answered incorrectly?

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I was wondering if there is a checklist for the following action. I have a quiz that has 20 questions that I would like to have 10 shuffled to get 10 total.

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If a student/user edits a discussion post after others have seen and marked it as "read", Canvas does not seem to indicate that there is something new/edited in the post. This is especially problematic if students make improvements/fixes to posts tha...

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I have had trouble recording a video announcement using the rich content editor feature.  It records just fine and then I click save and nothing happens.  I wait and wait and wait.  It will not upload.  What am I doing wrong?  Thanks,Annie

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I have a Surface Pro that doesn't have Google Chrome or Firefox as the web browser, so how am I suppose to use Canvas now?  My app store does not have either one of those apps.

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Students submitted the wrong assignment, how do I allow them to resubmit the correct assignment

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I am wondering if it is possible to set banks or a list of keywords that students must include in their response to an essay question of a quiz. In this case I have 5 keyword categories of similar words and would like the essay response to be automat...

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Looking for any suggestions on how a teacher could do a timed writing activity that allows students to go back in and edit the response after submission? I was playing with multiple submissions in an Essay Question Quiz, but that won't work with bein...

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Why are my posted grades listed as "missing"?

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As a student, how do I change my course grading system to pass/no pass?

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How do I go about contacting Canvas IT? I had a discussion that did not post and my instructor said to contact IT and see if they are able to pull any record of the post. Thanks!

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In other words, is it possible to see and grade all the student submissions for Question #4 on an assignment vs. grading an entire assignment for one student and then move on to the next student? I don't think it is, but I just wanted to check. Thank...

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The Dashboard only shows A pattern of a Large black box, two short horizontal black rectangles (one is shorter than the other), and 4 equally sized black circles. Whenever I enter certain classes, all the tabs are blank except for modules, but every ...

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When I bring up an assignment on Speed Grader I do not get a menu bar to allow me to annotate the document submitted by the student.  Why?  What setting do I need to change?

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I keep getting the same "Loading" screen when trying to log into the assignments and quizzes for one specific course. It doesn't happen for other courses I teach, and it also doesn't happen for another instructor who tried going into the same course....

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How do or can I find a quiz that I accidentally deleted?

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Hello,In one of my new online classes that began this morning, we need to read a particular document in a file, however, when I click on it, I get the "Access Denied" message and locked graphic. Does the instructor need to personally grant me access ...

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When running an item analysis for a quiz, 3 questions had Point biseral greater than 1 (1.09, 3.56, -3.56, -5.97), and the number is followed by E-15.  What does this mean?

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I am list on the course, why can I not see the content?

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I had students post attachments in a discussion board rather than just type their post for the first time ever, and I'm really hesitant to download and open the files. Does anyone know if Canvas does any type of virus/malware scan of attachments?

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canvas doesn't load. i can't see anything from the dashboard, and when i click on my class unable to load my homework, so i have to upload everything through my phone. 

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Since the school year has started, I haven't been receiving any email notfications about class announcments, grades, etc. like before. In my settings it says that Canvas was unable to send emails to my email address. How do I fix this? Also, I was to...

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How do I turn in my work from a word document to my assignment in canvas

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