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In one of my classes, we have weekly quizzes, and each quiz contains 1 categorization sorting question using drop down boxes. It it a three part question. Last quiz, I only missed one part, but it counted me off for the whole question. Many other stu...

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If I download student analysis, I can see when the student submitted the quiz. If I click on moderate, I can see the list of students and there's a time column, but it's unhelpful - some students needed "about an hour", while others needed "about two...

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The menus and filters at the top of the gradebook dominates too much of the screen. I want to be able to see MORE student names and grades, and have less wasted space at the top. Additionally, the scroll bars are MINISCULE and they disappear constant...

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I like to leave my students comments on each individual rubric criteria. Is there a comment library feature for in-rubric comments, or is it only available for assignment comments in speed grader?

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I use rubrics for all of my assignments. There are two ratings: "Complete" and "Progressing." If a student gets a "Complete," a green line shows up on the rubric. If a student gets a "Progressing," a red line appears.More than 10 percent of the popul...

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Hello community,  we have an issue where the text input field font size comes in too small for our Hebrew quizzes.  We do have a work around that where we edit and then import the quiz but it's a bit of work just to update one or two questions. I'm h...

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Good afternoon, So we are having an issue with rubrics and attached Canvas Outcomes. We are using Canvas Outcomes to track their progress over a program, and we foresee an issue arising where students receive a high mark as a grade, but then on the O...

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Much like a website has a plugin to register when a 360 image is loaded, it shows the true 360 view vs a thumbnail. Does Canvas have anything similar to allow for 360 images to work when loaded into the course?

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I hope this question is comprehendible!  Is it possible to take the guardian info from the SIS and somehow make that guardian the observer for a student?  This way, all students have a guardian linked right from the start?  We are finding that there ...

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When I am missing a student assignment, I mark it as such.  Later, when I enter a grade for the late assignment, the missing status stays on the grade, even though there is a grade for it now.  It is confusing for the kids when they go to look for mi...

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I am trying to post an announcement to my students. When I type it, it looks correct, but when I post it, there is a HUGE gap right in the middle of the announcement. I cannot remove this gap. What is going on here?

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Hey everyone! I have one more-Actually, I’m setting up an orientation on Canvas for Freshman 2025 at State University, and I’m wondering… is there a way to add some kind of checklist so students can track what they’ve completed?I’m worried they’ll ge...

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Good afternoon,Before I reach out to Support I wanted to see if anyone in the community has heard or experienced this issue:I have had a couple of teachers that have had grades disappear from their Grade book after entering the grades. While I have n...

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I've graded a short answer quiz for my students, and some of them had to reattempt due to a glitch. For any student who reattempted, I cannot get their score to show up in the gradebook. When I click to enter, the grade they made pops up, but it will...

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Can anyone help with linking NCCER My Lab more than one level to A Canvas course?

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Hi everyone,Does you know of any Miro boards (or similar) that are designed to help teaching staff plan the structure of their course? Which Modules and assessments they need, and how it's organised?This overlaps with learning design tools, but I'm t...

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I'm trying to organize a self-paced orientation on Canvas for next year's summer intake.Any advice on how to set up a course where students can go through the material at their own pace but still stay on track?

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I am seeking feedback on how various institutions are setting up rubrics.  I am currently testing a few options: One rubric per assessment piece that a student will submit, set up in the relevant curriculum area sub account (pros - helps with naming ...

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One of our teachers created a discussion in a course and shared it with all students. However, when students try to access the discussion, they receive the following error message: "Access Denied: You don't have access to view this resource." Here’s ...

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Is it possible to access the submission of a student who has dropped the course?In a group activity, one student submitted the assignment on behalf of their group. Since the course instructor hadn’t set up groups in the LMS, marks are manually assign...

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I need to assign modules to specific students. Canvas let me assign 20 out of 50 students in my class but now keeps giving me the error message in the title. Now I can't assign this work. I'm pretty sure that Canvas and AI are going to drive me out o...

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I have several formula questions in classic quizzes whose answers require scientific notation.  These questions have worked in past years. Today, students cannot input scientific notation (e.g., 6.02e23) even though the algorithm is unchanged and the...

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We recently conducted a mid-term test using the Quiz application in Canvas, and we encountered an issue. Individual teachers were unable to find the option to hide quiz scores from students until the scores are published. This feature was available f...

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I am an English instructor in a 9-12 high school. I spend time adding feedback to student essays and written work submitted through Canvas only to find out they are not reading the feedback. Is there a way to 1. Make feedback more visible to students...

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I am having an issue with assignments opening up in Speedgrader.  There is just the "Spinning Wheel of Death" as I describe it.  It works great for a few submissions and then it stops.  I am having to download each assignment submission to grade it, ...

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I need a excel file from the grades in Canvas. Copying manually is not possible due to large number of students. Exporting works but after loading CSV to excel the file is not organize well and unusable. Think the separation of data is not done propp...

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I'm trying to setup Canvas with SCORM assignments that open in a new window. Right now there's a ton of extra clicks required...The student clicks on the assignment button -> opens a page with a link to launch the content -> opens a new window that s...

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We have the assignment submissions set to one attempt. How do we do in and give only 1 student an additional attempt? I know in quizzes we can do this but not finding it in the assignments. 

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I am trying to setup a user roll that can only see grades and attendance. I created a roll called Career Technician (permission.jpg). When the user looks at their menu they have a whole bunch off items that we dont want (menue.jpg). How can I set thi...

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A faculty member has subscribed to the Calendar feed using Google Calendar. In Canvas, they added an "Available From" and "Due Date" for an assignment. The assignment appears in Google Calendar. However, the assignment appears as an all day event on ...

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