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My school recently set a grading scheme at the Account level. It uses percentages. For faculty who use points that divide evenly like 1000, there's no problem. Canvas' grading scheme doesn't work well when entering a points grading scheme for faculty...

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I accidentally published the wrong assignment in my AP Bio class; however, 1 student actually submitted something for it. (I caught my mistake before the rest did.) Canvas will not let me unpublish it because that 1 student submitted something. Do I ...

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Our students are required to complete a lesson that uses a SCORM gradebook pass back. The lesson must be completed before the quiz unlocks. Up until last week, this took under a minute. Recently, however, we have had many students complain that their...

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I am teaching four courses.  How do I create my ABOUT your INSTRUCTOR profile just once and then copy it to all my courses?   When you click the three verticle dots to COPY CONTENT...that module is not available to transfer.

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I was wondering if there is a quick way to share a list of banks of questions to someone else. I have a list of 20+ banks that I want to share with a colleague, but I don´t want to click the share button in each bank. Is there an easier way to do it?

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I am trying to set an automatic reduction in grade for late assignments.  I go to the gradebook and go to settings in the gradebook.  The ability to give 0's for non submissions is grayed out, the ability to automatically deduct points for late assig...

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My SpeedGrader suddenly started alphabetizing my students from Z-A instead of A-Z and there doesn't seem to be an option to change that.  This happened suddenly without me changing any settings.I can go into the gradebook and change the order from A-...

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Somehow my speed grader is sorting students in reverse abc order. The list starts with my Z's and has A (last names) at the end of the list. I tried randomizing and resorting, and the gradebook is sorted normally. Any suggestions?

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I try to log in as a teacher, but it's only showing my parent account. This didn't happen the first three years I've used Canvas. Please help now, school starts tomorrow! Got no help yesterday, getting desperate... 

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I have come across several instances of teachers reaching out after creating a quiz, sharing the quiz with another teacher using "send to" and then the recipient can see it in their 'shared with me" content, but when we try to import it into a course...

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Hi Canvas Community!   My institution is currently searching for a course survey tool that integrates with Canvas. Integration with our SIS (Anthology Student) is also an ideal feature. We have already hosted demos for Blue by Explorance and Watermar...

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I teach at a popular online university and must comment on almost every student's assignments. Is there a way to have a predefined comment such as "please use APA v7 formmatting when submitting your assignments". This gets very tedious during the fir...

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I run a Culinary school, and we've switched to Canvas this year.  I typically use attendance/participation as a large portion of each students grade, as we are primarily teaching hands on principles, with limited canvas based assignments.  Is there a...

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My students submit mock-ups, physical models, working prototypes, or make a presentation or give a talk. Canvas only features No submission/Online/On paper/External tool. What can I do? The Canvas online help offers no advice.

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All assignments have the same availability and due date, and in the student's Grades view, their order is messed up; also one assignment, despite comparison with all other assignments, shows the "-" sign instead of the "crossed out eye" symbol. What ...

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My students show up in alphabetical order from z-a instead of a-z.  It only appears this way on my computers, yet on my iPad they are in alphabetical order when I go to my to do list to grade. I have sorted to list alphabetically, but they are still ...

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It would be helpful if students were able to draw out their responses to questions. I am aware that this is an option in assignments, but then I am not able to add multiple choice questions or other question styles. I have seen that some people use o...

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I am an accounting professor and need some help creating a quiz. The issue is that I need to create a table for journal entries. (I am currently having students upload a word/excel file). I can see how to do multiple drop down and multiple fill in th...

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Student enrolled in my Canvas class. Student shows up in Edpuzzle class. No videos available to this one student. Other assignments work (i.e. Kami) All others in this class and other classes have no issues with the video assignments.

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I would like to understand that even when I check "This is a Group Assignment", how come I still get the option to select Everyone from under 'Assign To"? What does this signify?

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Does anyone know of any third-party Canvas apps that can extend the type and scope of question types (and response types) for new or classic quizzes?

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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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My outcomes in canvas for Ohio Science Standards are still from 2011 even though they have been updated since. I have asked my technology department and they have said they have contacted canvas. 

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I've read the instructor guide on Quiz Setting Options (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/What-options-can-I-set-in-a-quiz/ta-p/683), but I'd like to do something that perhaps is not an option (yet!). It would be helpful if there wa...

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I am a tech coach and a teacher came to me with an issue I have never seen. When she is looking at a Module, she is seeing these boxes instead of the green publishing circles. It was working one day and then changed on her. No one else, that I know o...

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Our institution just switched from Blackboard to Canvas. I rely heavily upon SCORM in one of my online classes, and everything worked well in Blackboard. One major issue with using SCORM in Canvas, however, is that Canvas only keeps the most recent g...

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The redirect tool is not showing up when you filter by name in the search bar.  When I go and manually add it tells me that it has already been added, but it doesn't show up when searching for it. I need to use the redirect tool to add a google doc i...

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I'm putting a new Canvas course together.  Because of the idiotic non-inclusion of sub-folders in Canvas Modules, I have an enormous number of modules set up in my course.  Because my slide narrations are sometimes spoken quickly, I decided to offer ...

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The process for one page is: open the pageclick "Edit"scroll downfind "Add to student to-do" box and click itenter dateclick "Save" I need to do this for some 100 pages! Is there a simpler way than going through all those steps for each page? Also, I...

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In the Canvas Gradebook, there was an option in the Grade column for an assignment to send a Canvas message to students who were missing the assignment.  Where did this go?  This is frustrating as a teacher who wishes to send communication quickly to...

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