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Grades for some students do not occur in gradebook, despite rubric marked - why?  

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Multiple instructors are receiving error messages when creating Inbox messages. Is this just my instance or is it widespread? As the field admin for my instance, I submitted a help request to Canvas Support, who said that engineering is working on it...

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I used to be able to "moderate" a quiz so a student could have multiple attempts on a quiz - I am unable to find that option now. Need some help with this - thanks.

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I am the instructor for the course and I accidentally submitted an assignment for the wrong student. Now there is no way to remove the submission. Can you help with this?

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Wondering if anyone knows how an instructor can see the usage of a particular file by all students on the roster. They want to know how effective a particular study guide file is before creating more like them for all the assessments. An individual s...

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Hello Canvas Community, I am using a tablet and can't log in. I've checked to make sure my password is correct, checked my email, etc., but nothing is working. I need help 

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Can an instructor see what question(s) a student flags during an examination after submitting a New Quiz on Canvas.I am able to pull up the "View Log" showing the students start time, end time as well and changing answers but I do not see if they fla...

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Our group is beginning to utilize Canvas Outcomes for reporting for ABET on a mastery (0-4) scale along with the previously utilized 0-100% scale for specific assignments. Utilization of free-form comments prevents the rubric from also being able to ...

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Can students see the actual grade change in a grade change notification? For example, if I entered a new grade for a student by mistake and then (a few minutes later) entered the original lower grade again, will the student get a notification that in...

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3 questions,  all dealing with how canvas arranges assignments in the gradebook.  1) In Canvas Gradebook Settings, under View Options, I have Arrange By set to Due Date - Newest to Oldest.  However it won't stick and I frequently find it set back to ...

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Looking for a way that my colleagues and I can input assessment dates onto a calendar for our student body.We are teaching online via Canvas and need to maintain a “working” calendar throughout the year for our entire cohort of students in each year....

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In the past (more than a year ago) when I posted an Announcement in Canvas, it was also sent to students via email.That doesn't seem to be happening now, and I don't see any reference to this in my class settings.

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I'm one of the few people doing Learning Mastery having to input my own outcomes, so I don't have help from my district or site, so hoping someone can help me. I have inputted my own outcomes in my courses (so much work!). I have linked each individu...

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How does Canvas determine the "average" grade for a "Category" ? For instance, if the category is "Lecture quizzes", but individual quizzes within that category are worth different amounts of points, is each quiz "weighted" equally???? This is import...

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Good morning,I am a teacher and i use Free-for-Teacher account of Canvas. After finishing modules with mastery paths and check the student view, after taking the quiz the massage "next mastery path is still processing" appears on the next button as t...

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I have been using the free canvas app with my students as my school is a private school without an LMS, and I have not been able to find a way to disable student to student messaging on inbox. I saw a supposed checkbox that I could unmark in the sett...

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I need some function in Canvas LMS available for Admins/Instructors that, based on a given quiz (New Quizzes!), generates a printable version of it. This function should adjust the layout of different question types to a format suitable for solving o...

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I'm an instructor. I've published an assignment, but students don't find a window to submit it. Also Student View shows no "Submit" button.  What do I need to do to enable students to submit the assignment?

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I have an instructor who has lost his modules through no fault of his own. both modules from previous courses and recent course are not visible and no content is visible. we were unable to use the delete command to restore the data. How can we find o...

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I have folder with 70 files, one for each student group, that I want to link to from the Assignment page, but I cannot seem to get a link to the folder, which is inside the course's Canvas page. None of the (archived) suggestions help: https://commun...

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I am my school's Canvas admin.  A teacher accidentally deleted 29 assignments from a course.  He meant to delete only one but was distracted while in class with his students - separate discussion, so let's not go there.  If I am correct, there is a q...

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Hello, I am an instructor, hoping to get in contact with a CSM to assist with integrating Office365 with Canvas, in Australia. When trying to add the app, I am asked to contact my CSM for a Consumer Key & Shared Secret. Please let me know how I can g...

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I am requesting a change to the Canvas feature "Add to Student To-Do List." Currently, when a page is added to the Student To-Do List in Canvas, it is immediately visible to students, regardless of its scheduled publish date. This can be problematic ...

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When I revise my lesson plans and hit 'save' there is a reply that says "Lock date cannot be after course ends." But I've checked this and even re-entered dates that are before the last day of the course and no matter what date I put I get the same r...

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There were three required Discussions in my class. Some students missed the deadline for completing one or more of these discussions. Thus, I want to create a 4th discussion that is optional for students to complete. The student who would likely opt ...

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In this term, we have several students without 0's in the Gradebook for Missing Assignments. However, our Gradebook Settings, under Late Policies, is set to "Automatically apply grade for missing submissions" of 0%.  This is true in all of our course...

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Hello Community,  I am a district technology facilitator and I have a teacher that has created an assignment using Google Slides. One criteria for this presentation is for the students to create animation within the slide deck. However when they subm...

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Is there a way to batch edit assignment details? I would like to change the settings for all assignments at once. For example, change the Allowed Attempts from the default number to Unlimited. 

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A teacher of ours has made a peer review assignment and students have 2 attempts. Now a few of the students missed the due date and did not turn in their first assignment. The result is that they can't give feedback on the other students assignment. ...

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I've been asked these questions by a teacher regarding student booking appointments in Canvas for one-to-ones. I've had a scan of previous posts and read guides on the usual way of doing this but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing another way of ...

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