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I am attempting to use course templates for the first time in production (I have tested them occasionally over the past year). The problem is that -- after uploading a courses.csv containing 37 courses -- only around half are applying the template. I...

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I need to download a syllabus from a course I took last semester. Is there a way for me to look at my previous courses on canvas so I can find the syllabus on the page?

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Dear In Canvas support,My name is Mohammed Ibrahim. I am a clinical geriatric fellow at UNR - Geriatric fellowship program. I can't see the following required courses in my Canvas as indicated in my New Innovation:Sleep and Fatigue Education (1)Indus...

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Recently, I have discovered that I am no longer able to "hide" my students' grades for either graded discussions or assignments. (I haven't tested this out with quizzes.)Even when I have both "hidden" my students' grades and set the grading policy to...

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Solution Posted: 06-07-2022 View Solution
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HiI run and record Zoom sessions every day (not my personal room number – I chose not to use my personal room number so I could keep that room for private meetings with individuals).  I scheduled these recurring sessions via the Zoom web portal – M-F...

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Solution Posted: 06-03-2022 View Solution
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Hello Im a new student at Mission college in santa clara california. I recently enrolled in three courses and want to use canvas to get access to my course assignments and books for the class. Can someone please help me get set up. I am getting a mes...

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Ok - we've been using Canvas for years and I have not seen this.We had a course that needed some additional items.Our students had completed through week 26 (it's a 30 week course).All the check marks and submissions were present.We have a required o...

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Where is the acknownment quiz located 

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Solution Posted: 06-03-2022 View Solution
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When adding a new section to a canvas course, and using an existing discussion from a prior section, will the new section see the prior section's replies?

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I created a Wisdom Wall assignment (for the first time) where students are sharing course reflections in video format.  Now that I have some video submissions for the assignment, I am unsure how to download the video submissions from this current sem...

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Solution Posted: 06-16-2022 View Solution
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Thanks for adding the partial credit feature for Matching questions in new quizzes. Can we pleeeeease get partial credit added as an option to Category questions (and any other types of questions that allow for multiple answers.) I love the amazing c...

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Greetings,Thank you for your services, i am already undertaking the free online course on Home Care and my question is, will i get a HHA Certificate after completing the course and if so, when will that be!?

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There was a problem exporting the course COURSE NAME. Please notify your system administrator, and give them the following export identifier:ContentExport: 1853082 The popup message is:Gradebook Export Failed: Error exporting gradebook: Unexpected er...

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I teach an AP Class with a manually created summer assignment. I had a student who initially enrolled in the course for last school term who only partially completed the summer assignment activities because they found out the class time wouldn't work...

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Hi,Recently I took a Psychology Class at Middlesex county college,NJ and submitted 2 assignments on Canvas I got the confirmation message for the submission. When my Professor started to grade my assignments at end of the semester she couldn't find t...

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Solution Posted: 06-06-2022 View Solution
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Hi I am tech support for a recurring course every summer. Students have to discuss on weekly topics.  How can I go back to previous summer course (2021) and remove all student discussions?  The discussion topics themselves stay the same year after ye...

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I provide support for Canvas usage on University of Wisconsin-Madison. A faculty member teaches the same eight-week course every summer. And, we are having problems with the "date adjustment" feature during the course import.Are there any documents, ...

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Hopefully, this is the right place to ask this question. We have an issue where a student turns in an assignment and receives a similarity score from the Turnitin LTI in Canvas of 0.0%. If another student then turns in the same (or very similar) assi...

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With certain question types (multiple fill in the blank and multiple dropdowns, possibly others), Canvas, when showing students their quiz results, will show the student's answer twice, once inline and the other below (where the correct answers usual...

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Solution Posted: 06-21-2022 View Solution
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Could you please add a function so that we can mark a notification as favourite so we can basically save it. That would be very handy as I receive a lot of notifications on canvas.

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Solution Posted: 06-03-2022 View Solution
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There is a phantom calendar event on my Canvas page.  How do I delete it?

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Solution Posted: 06-08-2022 View Solution
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Hi Canvas Support Team,Our online school has a concerned teacher. I thought it best to reach out to you directly for this one. The teacher asks:"I have a student moving into my class from another, this has happened a number of times in the last year,...

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I have a civics teacher who is giving a Quiz in Canvas. Most of his students' scores are transferring nicely to the Gradebook in Canvas, however random students are not posting. To get their scores the teacher needs to get into the quiz and click on ...

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Solution Posted: 06-06-2022 View Solution
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Hi. I'm still receiving quiz notifications when I've clicked on "All Submissions" which says that I'll get "Assignments (except quizzes) submission/resubmission." I have grading clicked off. Not sure why I'm getting a notification every time a studen...

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We are trying to push global announcements into Canvas via API and we are running into a couple of blockers I was hoping someone could help with.We want to be able to send announcements outside the course context to targeted users for things like saf...

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Solution Posted: 06-02-2022 View Solution
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I added a quiz question to a quiz and didn't realize that 2 students had already taken it.  Didn't check to see open date so I thought I was good.  However, these 2 didn't have it to answer at that time.  Is there a way to re-insert this question to ...

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Where do i go to post to a forum?Where do I find the ebook listed under assignment?

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Solution Posted: 06-02-2022 View Solution
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To do list is not updating and deleting past assignments completed and graded, already tried deleting app and re-downloading. Only a problem on the app and not dashboard.. advice?

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Solution Posted: 06-02-2022 View Solution
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This is part three of a multi-faceted question.I'm the director of a student run free clinic for a large healthcare university. We have huge numbers of students and licensed professionals who volunteer for these events every year, plus hundreds of st...

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Solution Posted: 06-02-2022 View Solution
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This is part two of a multi-faceted question.I'm the director of a student run free clinic for a large healthcare university. We have huge numbers of students and licensed professionals who volunteer for these events every year, plus hundreds of stud...

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