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Hi - I'm a canvas newbie here but I have lots of Moodle and Blackboard experience.I'd very much appreciate any help with the following little problem.I'm playing about the different ways that we might be able to share 'template courses'I want to crea...

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How do I change my username?  My current email address is going to be decommissioned and I need to start using a different one.

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Solution Posted: 01-31-2018 View Solution
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Is there some way that I can import a quiz question bank from an existing spreadsheet, so that I don't need to manually create quiz questions one by one within Canvas?  For example, I have vocabulary lists that I would love to turn into Canvas quizze...

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I am grading student submissions, and for some of them, I would like to allow students to read my comments and revise their submissions. However, I cannot figure out how to allow students to do this. Is there a setting that I have to change?Thank you...

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Solution Posted: 01-30-2018 View Solution
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I would like to be able to check messages from my students via my school email account.  The program my school previously used allowed professors to link their email address so we could have messages automatically forwarded to their school email acco...

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Solution Posted: 01-25-2018 View Solution
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I made the mistake of turning on the "new gradebook" feature for my course.  Now my TA can't enter grades.I can't find any way to turn the "new gradebook" off again.  (It looked like a toggle before I turned it on, but the toggle disappeared.) How do...

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I have created a quiz already but none of the questions are in the question bank, how do I move the questions from the quiz I created to the question bank so I don't have to retype the whole quiz

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Solution Posted: 01-14-2021 View Solution
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I have a student who has an incomplete grade.  She recently completed the course after the semester expired.  I went into the course to change her grade and it is locked.  I can not make any changes.  I need to update her grades for a new final grade...

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Solution Posted: 04-07-2022 View Solution
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Hi all,I'm currently working on a chemistry course in canvas (migrating from blackboard), and I've hit a bit of a roadblock on Formula type quiz questions.I need students to calculate solubility from an equation, however the Canvas platform only allo...

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Solution Posted: 02-24-2018 View Solution
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As a teacher I send a message through Canvas to my students. It gives them a notification in their own email software, lets say Outlook in this case. A student replay to the notification (notifications@instructure.com) and attach a file.I can read th...

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Solution Posted: 01-19-2018 View Solution
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I want to calculate grades without any decimals, thus rounding to whole numbers only. Is there a way to set that up in a shell?

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In the new gradebook, teachers can flag assignments as late or missing.  However, this has to be done student by student.  It would be much more efficient if teachers could fill multiple students' scores as late or missing using "set default grade". ...

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Typically, when we assign discussion board posts in a class, there is a word count minimum,such as 250 words. I don't see the students' ability to know what their word count of their post is. Please tell me where they can see this in Canvas. Surely t...

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Solution Posted: 01-17-2018 View Solution
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Is there a way to export or download the names of students in groups?  As Speedgrader doesn't arrange students by groups, it would help to have a list of names so that I and the TAs (each of us grading different groups) can easily see who we should g...

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Solution Posted: 05-11-2022 View Solution
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Hi all,I rotate class projects from semester to semester.  I have created three 'Assignment Groups' in Canvas to organize the three different projects and nest the individual assignments for each project within each group. Let's call them Project 1, ...

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Hi all,We use the Kaltura integration with Canvas on my campus, and it seems like the only way to share content from My Media with students is to embed the videos into a page and then add the page to a module. It would be much more efficient to just ...

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I marked for the first time using the SpeedGrader and I was wondering whether there is a way to download the "Assignment comments" box which is in the sidebar, together with a student's submission, as it is possible in Turnitin. Alternatively, is the...

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Solution Posted: 06-08-2021 View Solution
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Is there a way to automatically give full points to all students who submit an assignment?

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I would like to assign a quiz to students to take that is for class preparation, but I would like the score to be based on completion. As far as I can tell:Graded Quizzes report the score earned on the quizGraded Surveys award fixed points for comple...

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This is happening in the new and old version of the gradebook in the individual student gradebooks.  it is calculating a final grade, but it no longer shows the calculation for formative and summative. This was working fine before our winter break (D...

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I would like to upload a file to Turnitin as a Tutor. The current stage of my students' essay assignment is on a preliminary stage, and I don't want them to extend their concerns with Turnitin just yet. Nevertheless, I would like to analyse some of t...

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Grades/Assignments:  I have unweighted my assignment groups, and have configured the grade total to show as points rather than percent.  I would like to have each Assignment Group view the same way: points rather than percentage.  I would also like t...

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Solution Posted: 02-21-2023 View Solution
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I am a student and my canvas instructure pages won't load the content of any of my classes. I click on every assignment, pages, courses, dashboard, and nothing comes up. No one else seems to be having this problem. It's got nothing to do with the wif...

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Solution Posted: 04-12-2018 View Solution
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I am trying to set up the Roll Call Attendance feature in my course. I do not have students loaded yet (new course development) so I am not able to get the Roll Call assignment to populate.My question is: Is it possible to assign a rubric to the roll...

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I'm a bit frustrated with adding LTI-tools that always have default course navigation = true. I don't have any possibility to manually switch this to false?My wish is that we can turn it on course by course, but authenticated on the institution level...

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Solution Posted: 12-19-2017 View Solution
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I have created groups for a class project. Is there a way to export the groups and the members in the form of and Excel spreadsheet? ThanksAnne-Gi

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Solution Posted: 01-18-2021 View Solution
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I am planning to take an online class while being out of the U.S. Does anyone know if Canvas works in other countries?

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Solution Posted: 12-11-2017 View Solution
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I'm trying to reuse quiz questions for a final exam. When I click on "find questions", it shows a little box with the first few words of quiz questions, listed by question number, for the entire course, so,14 questions number one, 14 questions number...

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Using a Quiz in Canvas, can students who previously submitted (especially essay questions) "unsubmit" and continue working on the questions?  I have allowed them to see their previous answers, but I would like them to be able to continue working, or ...

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Solution Posted: 04-05-2022 View Solution
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I have successfully created a new quiz/assignment using the beta LTI but can't seem to view any reports regarding said assessment.

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