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I set up an anonymous discussion board for my students to discuss the Electoral College during this election week. With how polarized the election is, I wanted to make students couldn't see their peer's responses, but I didn't realize I also wouldn't...

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How does one add a video to a course?  I can see a tag on the home front page on my phone for panopto video but I do not see it on the computer

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I am an Admin and I still do not have the attendance option. I am having to create multiple "assignments" as a means to record attendance and link it to a Google Doc. Can someone assist with this? Is there a number or individual assigned to regions? ...

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We have Canvas Studio for video submissions to assignments. What is the difference between that and "media recording" submissions? Are they the same? Does Media Recordings still have limitations compared to Studio? There is no choice for submitting j...

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"Response Questions" is a category that made up 25% of my grade in my AP World class. Last time I got 11/12 for the Response Questions in the last unit, and my grade went up at least 2% or 3% I think. I got 11/12 again for this unit, the teacher ente...

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I believe Canvas should add the option to give students partial credit for sorting and categorization style questions so that faculty can more accurately assess students' understanding of the material. If one aspect of a student's answer is wrong, th...

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Hi everyone,  I hope someone can confirm my understanding here. I am setting up a new quiz where I want student's answers to be automatically submitted once the due date is reached. I have read this article: How do I make a quiz available before or a...

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where do you set preferences about grade notifications?

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Dear Madam / Sir.My current three Canvas LMS courses, DG4BBR, 98FMXT, and GETP3G, are their course codes, but I have an issue with posting new or reading the old announcement messages. My students and I can read the title list. However, the message i...

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When I opted to Restrict quantitative data in my course settings, my view as an instructor of student grades still showed missing assignments with the missing label, but the corresponding student view of missing does not show the missing flag. When I...

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So i've tried to do my introduction employability, all is fine except for the fact that i have tried 50 times now to get the CV badge, im sure i have passed it by now, i will post my most recent attempt; 1.A marketing document, promoting the most rel...

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Hi all,I am a student who uses Canvas for college. I would like to download all course content that was available to me as a student so that I can keep it after I graduate. I'll likely lose access to my two-factor authentification, which means I prob...

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Hello everyone,I'm currently exploring the PDF annotation tool on the Canvas Student App, which allows students to highlight, annotate, and bookmark directly within PDFs. Does anyone know if this tool or a similar one is available through the Canvas ...

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This was asked in a meeting today and no one really had an answer.  If the students click on notifications about grading (daily), will they receive a notification that the faculty put a comment in the speedgrader box? I have heard about a "push ALL ...

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Hey i have a teacher who is describing this issue.  1. Many English 11 Honors students have reported to me that they submitted their assignment yesterday on time, but it was noted as submitted late on Canvas. I checked and it seems the majority of th...

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Hi EveryoneWe are currently exploring the Canvas Calendar functionality to help students with organising their work.The To-Do list is a great tool for helping students stay organised. When items are set as "to-do" in pages, by setting the item as a r...

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Hi, new student here trying to access the Banksia Care intranet portal. I have to do a role play and the page told me to click the link and enter password and username.Does anyone know what this is? I can't find that in my student handbook either.I h...

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Hello, I am a student that is interested in using Notion to help organize my work. My primary concerns is finding an integration for Canvas that can help port over assignments and data from the calendar to Notion. Notion is a productivity software th...

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I registered for courses for the Spring Semester and want to find out the syllabus and the textbooks so that I can get them in advance. Where do I find that information? Thanks.

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Images wont show up during exam in Google Chrome or Firefox, intermittently. How can I fix this?Thank you.

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I cannot find a upload or submit assignment icon for turning in my mid-term project.  How do I submit my assignment.  Thank you in advance.

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I am trying to login to Respondus Lockdown browser, but every time I enter my user and password, I get a message stating "unable to login" and "no issuer configured for OpenID connect provider." I have tried to uninstall and reinstall Respondus, rest...

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I'm part of my institution's support team for Canvas. An instructor reports that some students are unable to see comments on Quiz attempts. After one of the students helped me investigate, we traced the problem to an apparent inconsistency in navigat...

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Anytime I must take an exam, I have to do it through Canvas. I can click on the given assignment; I get a message asking me to open the Lockdown Browser. The application does open, I can log in with the teacher's given password, but when I want to st...

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We need dark mode. The white is too bright and hurts my eyes. MAKE DARK MODE

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I am a student and trying to do my proctored exam on canvas using constructor proctor. I have tried four different browsers on windows and safari on Mac and got same error message that the browser does not meet the minimum requirements for canvas. Ki...

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My Knewton browser keeps refreshing every minute or two. I have not found a fix for this and I am going crazy because I can barely type in the answer before it refreshes and makes me restart the problem. Do you guys have any advice?

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The comment features for assignment submissions (i.e., when I, the instructor, give comments on student work) now enables rich text features. Good on ya, it's nice.However, the Canvas mobile apps display these comments in HTML markup (including HTML ...

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I have imported a course from the Commons into Canvas a few times. But with a couple of the courses the students have issues accessing the Puzzle part of the course and receive the following error:   Has anyone seen this error before or know how to ...

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I joined this site to use it at school. After signing up for, I needed email authentication to set the password for my account. But I didn't get the email. So I couldn't set the password and couldn't go back into my account. When I pressed Find Passw...

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