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I am a TA at the University of Maryland. I had something to share with the students in the Chat. I noticed that I had typos only after posting my message. I tried to edit or delete it and none of those options were available. I had to contact my prof...

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Hello! I simply wanted to comment that the "Announcements" section is a little flaky sometimes and takes two to three times to get it to stop showing the "unread" blue marker. As a possible improvement to Canvas at some point, I would suggest impleme...

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Hello, I am taking a quiz for a class with no time limit (before screenshot). When I started the quiz, there was a countdown timer in the right-hand section. Does this countdown have another meaning? Why would the elapsed time be counting down (after...

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I accidentally signed up for my on ramps college course using my moms name. all the other information such as email etc is correct. how do I switch the profile name to my name, not seeing a place to adjust this. 

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I am a Canvas admin and I am allowing my teachers to cross list their courses for the first time.  A teacher asked me if she cross lists her course sections, if students inside the courses can see that.  I would imagine that the students would not se...

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I'm supposed to reply to a class introduction discussion, but I am unable to see the directions for what to say in the discussion. Its say's " This discussion board provides a chance to get to know each other a little bit. Please upload one...", I am...

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I had 5 merged courses into 1 spanish course.I gained one class from TEACHER A (Zavala) and they gave one of my classes to TEACHER B.   Zavala's class that I gained now appears on my canvas dashboard. When I attempt to merge Zavala's class into my Sp...

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Hi,I’ve developed a quiz in my Articulate Rise360 course and uploaded the SCORM package to Canvas as a graded assignment. When I launch the SCORM content, I receive the `studentId` and `studentName` from the LMS API. However, unlike with LTI, there’s...

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Hello, I am a student who found this extension for Canvas called BetterCanvas, it was interesting to me, although I was wondering if I could get some input from the Admins on how Canvas feels about the usage of this extension since it looks like it c...

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After the last update, some established instructors are not receiving about course updates.  Some new students are not receiving Canvas invitations.  Anyone else having intermittent communication issues? 

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My setup for each module is: 1) Note check (photo upload) 2) Discussion post 3) Quiz I have enabled the setting that students must work in sequential order. However, if I excuse a student from the note check in the gradebook, it does not unlock the d...

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I received a paper with a passkey copy to my class to receive the webtext. I am not sure how to obtain this. Can someone please help? Thank you.

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I am trying to view a video embedded in canvas and it keeps saying "myclasses.tegrity.com refused to connect." i dont know how to fix this

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i am new to canvas so this may be a dumb question but i always see a percentage circle on peoples canvas and i do not have that 

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Blackboard transferred over to canvas around 2022.  For prior students in 2021, how do we get access to those files to use for current course work?

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Is there any way to resize the time intervals on the Weekly Calendar so that I can see the entire course without it being cut off? 

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Something happened and I wound up exiting out and cannot get back in to check the other few boxes so that this is marked complete.Would anyone know how I can reset this and start over? thank you

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A student was typing up his response, but hit 'next' instead of 'reply' and now his entry is gone.  Any way to get it back?

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Why won't my Canvas update after I turn assignments in (specifically assignments that I need to complete in order to move onto the next module)?

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It appears there was an update in July that when the preferred name settings were consolidated into one section, resulted in the checkbox settings not working the way they used to. In our testing, with "Users can edit their name" unchecked and "User...

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Hello-With AP courses going all electronic starting next year, my school is starting to require students to take assessments using the Respondus lockdown browser on their iPads. Is there a way for students to annotate documents for multiple-choice qu...

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My Canvas dashboard was recently reformatted to only be 2 classes across instead of 3. I tried to clear my cache, refresh Canvas, etc. 

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I would really like to hear your personal experience with the Canvas inbox in regards to two points. The first being how it is mostly used between parents, students and teachers. Who uses it the most and for what purposes? Secondly,  in your district...

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New to Canvas Admin and I think I messed something up.  All of my teachers and students have open access to classes from several years past.  I thought I had archived the classes, but I'm not sure if that worked.  How do I clean up the list of classe...

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I am trying to book an appointment for N95 fit testing, which my instructors say can be done through the "Find Appointment" button on the Canvas calendar tab. I have booked appointments this way before, however this time as I am trying to book an app...

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I am trying to find a way to make individualized, recurring calendar invites for students that cannot be viewed by other students. As a speech-language pathologist providing individualized instruction, I cannot set one calendar for all of my students...

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Hi I was wondering if it's possible to remove the menu on the right-hand side of dashboard for students/ admin as we want (see image1 attached ). Also, can you please tell me can we remove only a section of the menu (see image 2 attached)Does anyone ...

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 I just finished doing a practice quiz but after submitting it the module froze on the assessment result screen which is preventing me from moving onto the next module. I've tried leaving the page, restarting my PC, clearing my cache and re-signing i...

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Wir sind ein Weiterbildungseinrichtung und würden Canvas gerne als LMS nutzen. Was kostet es im Jahr für rund 100 Nutzer? 

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