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  I am beginning the process of setting up subaccounts for our college.  I was encouraged to do this for reporting purposes for assessing program outcomes.  I am trying to understand the process and have some questions and hope I can explain well eno...

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Solution Posted: 03-23-2022 View Solution
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Hello Canvas Admins,  We have deployed Proctorio globally in our environment. I was asked to pull data of Proctorio usage.  Has anyone conquered this task of gathering data of what courses have used Proctorio within a given semester? Thank you!   Kar...

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We run many courses in our Canvas account and I'm able to "hide" or unstar the course itself when it concludes. However, the calendar for all courses are always visible and continue to open when I click on the calendar icon. Is there a way to remove ...

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Solution Posted: 03-29-2022 View Solution
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Is anyone else experiencing this today or has anyone found or heard anything from Canvas/Instructure about this???To be clear, this is happening when, in any course where I have SCORM enabled, I click on SCORM in the course navigation. Where usually ...

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Solution Posted: 03-23-2022 View Solution
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I am trying to copy a "New Quiz" from one course to another and every time I copy it over, the content does not come with it.  The name and amount of points are all that carry over.  None of the questions copy.  What am I missing? 

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Solution Posted: 03-29-2022 View Solution
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Many of my assignments throughout the year did not require a due date.  I also have many imported assignments that I have never actually used that do not have die dates.  These are no appearing in my assignments list when I sort it to Marking Period ...

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Solution Posted: 03-29-2022 View Solution
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Good morning: I looked in the Canvas guide and am trying to specifically identify the percentages of faculty/student interactions.  As of right now, I have been simply looking at the Teacher Activity Report. Is this the only place to view this?  Is t...

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Solution Posted: 06-08-2022 View Solution
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Hello Canvas Community, I was hoping I could pick your brains please? We have a course which is actually many individual courses in one. So, in fact each Canvas module is a stand alone course. To help identify pages in the Pages section (i.e. which p...

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Solution Posted: 03-28-2022 View Solution
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Just wondering if I have too grandiose dreams... Is it possible to create a "mashup" Front page where we have text (like a regular Page in Canvas) at the top, and the listing of the modules below it..? See example below. Canvas offers us much more op...

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Solution Posted: 03-23-2022 View Solution
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One of our schools uses an external system for exams where students are anonymous to faculty members. They enter their grade for the exam and never see the student's name or ID. We would like the students to be able to take exams with anonymous gradi...

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Solution Posted: 03-29-2022 View Solution
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My courses are divided into quarters. I want my gradebooks to only show assignment groups from the current quarter, Q4. Even using the grading period filter, I am still seeing a bunch of groups from earlier quarters. None of their assignments are in ...

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Solution Posted: 03-24-2022 View Solution
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Lately, every time I try to access the Canvas Community, I want to pull my hair out!  While already logged into Canvas, I click on the Help option to Search the Guides.  I try to post a question and it tells me that I'm not logged in.  I follow the p...

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Hello. I opened a Canvas account yesterday for an ESOL course that I will be teaching for our adult education program. However, my homepage looks different than my future co-worker's. Now I see that I opened it with 'K-12' as the organization type, i...

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Solution Posted: 03-29-2022 View Solution
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How do I add a bar similar to the one in the picture? Is this a new feature?    

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Solution Posted: 03-22-2022 View Solution
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Our learning community faculty are assigned to grade groups of student assignments (10 students in a group). Is there any way for Canvas to notify individual faculty that a student in their group has submitted their assignment for grading?

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Solution Posted: 03-24-2022 View Solution
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Is there a way to enter an arc symbol over letters in new quizzes? I have tried entering the workaround in both the question body and answer choices. I have tried to put it in MathQuill as well, but I am not having much luck. The workaround I have be...

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I have posted items in Pages, which are published. All of my students tell me that they get an error message that they do not have permission, how do I fix this

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Solution Posted: 03-22-2022 View Solution
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I am confusing for introduction date and time, please advise There are 2 period of time on Web annoncement : Mar28 12:00pm-1:00pm or 07:00pm-08:00pm or I can select only one period or I need to attend for both period.

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Solution Posted: 03-22-2022 View Solution
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Hi Canvas Support Team, I am an IT Technician with Crimson Education trying to help our staff ready for accreditation season. Our IT team received a request to bulk export all assignments submitted by 4 specific students with SpeedGrader annotations ...

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Solution Posted: 03-24-2022 View Solution
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Perhaps I am misunderstanding the Discussion purpose as a new user... As instructor, I posted a question in my course under discussions. Several students posted replies, but they can only see my initial entry, not that of the other students. Is this ...

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Solution Posted: 04-14-2022 View Solution
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After multiple attempts to enroll a certain student, I continually receive the below ERROR CODE and I am not allowed to enroll the student:     The following users could not be created. EMAIL OF STUDENT: The email address provided conflicts with an e...

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Solution Posted: 03-22-2022 View Solution
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Hello, When I log into my free teacher account at https://canvas.instructure.com/login/canvas, I am directed to my institution's account. The goal is to edit my course pages in the free teacher account. Once I like the revisions, then export these ch...

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Solution Posted: 03-21-2022 View Solution
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I created a course as an individual and I don't have a school name. I was able to enable the link for open enrollment but this only allows the students to access the course via the web. They cannot access it on the app because I do not have a school....

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Solution Posted: 03-21-2022 View Solution
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Hello All,I intend to save my designed poster containing text hyperlinks as a png or jpg file (and not save as PDF), such that through these image files I'm able to access the hyperlinks attached to the text. Kindly guide me on the same.Thank you!

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Solution Posted: 03-21-2022 View Solution
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When we upload our PDF slides for BigBlueButton sessions, the slides will sometimes "glitch" and look different from the PDF version we have. In particular, random photos will rotate 90-degrees, the bullets will change to a different type of bullet, ...

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Hi there, All my enrolled units have spamming pop-up requests to complete feedback surveys every time a new page loads. It is distracting and becoming a nuisance and deterring me from visiting canvas. I just want access to my unit modules and not hav...

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Solution Posted: 03-20-2022 View Solution
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Hello.  I have coursework due and unfortunately, I am unable to login. I have submitted multiple time for the forgot password without ever receiving a reset password email. I have been checking spam and retrying for days without a win. I am enrolled ...

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Solution Posted: 03-21-2022 View Solution
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Hi community,   I hope you and your loved ones are well and healthy. Is it possible to configure the "roll attendance" tool to show specific days? Typical sessions meet on either Mon/Wed/Fri or Tues/Thurs. I would like to have the option to configure...

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Solution Posted: 06-08-2022 View Solution
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Hi I have not been added to the buddy group.What can I do?

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Solution Posted: 03-20-2022 View Solution
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So Canvas "updated" the gradebook to this new filter system, and I really hate it. It doesn't work half the time, and when they're not loading it displays the grades for the entire year for all my students. Just want to know if I can "undo" this upda...

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Solution Posted: 03-21-2022 View Solution
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