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Why is the Syllabus button inactive on the Canvas Course homepage? I have used Canvas for many years at my institution.   Courses are created every semester.   The Syllabus button has always been a boilerplate button on the home page, along with offi...

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Hello,Hope you are doing great,I'm experiencing a bug in the new desktop version of Canvas while trying to complete the pre-course assessment. When I'm trying to select multiple-choice options, the page scrolls or jumps, but no selection is registere...

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I am registered for a class that was published 9-12-25. It isn't showing up on my dashboard, and when I go to all courses, it shows that it's published, but the course name is not showing as a hyperlink for me to open it. I did get an email from my i...

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Hi, my Canvas To-Do list is not showing any assignments, but when I go into each course’s Assignments page, I can see they have due dates. I have refreshed the app, logged out and back in, and my courses are starred. Can you notify me when this issue...

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I have created 5 discussion posts for students in Canvas LMS.  How do I reconcile the gradebook for the 3 that are not chosen so that the ones not chosen will not count against the student's final grade points?

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how do i make a quiz available for students to take and how do they submit?

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Greetings,I recently created rubrics in the Canvas LMS and I would like to take screenshots of them to include in my professional web portfolio. However, when I attempt to screenshot a rubric the screen blacks out. Now I'm not sure how to share these...

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I would like to deliver in person quizzes on paper, but enter scores for each question in Canvas Quizzes in order to generate Quiz Analytics and Outcomes Data that can be disaggregated by question.  All guidance says to create a Canvas Assignment "on...

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My classroom policy is 10% off per day an assignment is late. Is there a way to use the attendance feature included with Canvas so that a student marked as absent does not have that day counted against them on auto-grading assignments?  For instance,...

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Just recently, my to-do list has been reduced from displaying all my courses' work until the end of the semester, to only displaying one or two assignments. Is there any way I could revert my to-do list to go back to what it was before? 

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We are having an issue with professors who need to use more than one rubric to rate an assignment. Our goal is to have faculty use a university-wide rubric to rate an assignment using the Learning Mastery gradebook (Outcomes). However, some professor...

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Is there a way to have the rubric score automatically added to the grade score or do I have to type it in each time?

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My students would like to be able to review their responses to quiz prompts to identify correct answers. They would also like to retake the quizzes for mastery.

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I am trying to create a courses that sync to multiple blue prints that appear in the course as modules. For instance, Course 101 includes (and syncs) content from Blue print A (The basics) Blue print B (Growth). Course 301 includes Blue Print A and B...

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Student groups and assignment settings are correct the Canvas. However, when students submit their assignment, the speedgrader does not have them organized in student groups. It treats student submissions as individual submissions, not as group. 

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I'm trying to find the most efficient way to make changes to multiple pages and the best way so far is to add a CSS code to the original HTML. However it gets stripped out when I preview page. Is there a way to add the CSS code without issues occurin...

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Can you please change the to do list back to how it was before, it was so such better and it helped way more helpful and everyone in my classes are suffering because everything we already did is still posted and we can not swipe it done please change...

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My student started online schooling a week ago and has been completing all scheduled modules, tests, and live group sessions each day. A majority of the graded assignments are showing as missing, and the modules show that they have not been opened or...

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In learning from @DrNufer 's How to Canvas site, I've been working on adding background images to pages (https://www.howtocanvas.com/create-amazing-pages-in-canvas/background-css). Unfortunately, it appears that the code if being altered on copy, cau...

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I'm an administrator and an ELA teacher in my school shared with me that after we imported course content from her previous course, for each Assignment that used Google Assignments LTI as the external tool, she had to do this: Edit the Assignment to ...

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If a new teacher has existing teachers in the building send/share classes and lessons will the new teacher change the existing modules/assignments/due dates if they edit them for their classes. We used this method to Import them:How do I copy content...

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How do I edit the number of attempts in an assigned assessment after the assignment has been published?

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I am a middle school teacher, mt students recently received Chromebooks that flip into tablet mode. I am having the upload photos of their work, however they are unable to turn on the rear camera and take a photo in tablet mode. This is creating a fr...

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Apologies if this question has been posted or answered in the guides and I didn't find it; the keywords are a bit tricky as you might imagine. I'm new to Canvas and trying to work out policies and resources for our K-12 district ahead of our August 2...

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We have installed the new Microsoft Education (LTI). In the Admin Settings is the option "Hide Admin settings for all users" is fade out. I can't find any artikel of documentation how I can enable this option. We don't want the users to change the se...

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Why are some green published indicators a lighter shade of green?

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In a classic quiz, I want the ability to have a specific number of each question type included (random questions pulled from several banks so that all question types appear in the quiz). The main reason is that I want to ensure essay questions are al...

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I am a student. The Canvas to-do list is blank on desktop, only showing the phrase "Nothing for now". This happens across multiple web browsers (Firefox, Chrome, and Edge). However, the to-do lists for each individual class are working correctly and ...

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