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Why are some student responses in open ended questions in quizzes bolded? 98% are regular font as opposed to bold. Does that mean they copied and pasted from somewhere?

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We have a user who has two email accounts in Canvas Notifications.  They keep trying to set one email to receive all notifications, but the system keeps defaulting back to the other email account.  We are using ILP if that could be a factor.

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how do I get a demo developer key to develop against the API.  I have a canvas demo login but do not have access to the admin area.  Can some tell how I become a partner and develop using the canvas api? Joe

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 when i click attendance tab I am getting Roll call page like shown in attachment. Can anyone help me in getting ROLL CALL page with seating alignment. I wanted my course to display take attendance and edit seating chart page. Please help me in this ...

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Do all edits in any new quiz save to the course for future course imports?Whether it is edited before publishing, after publishing, before students take, or after students take it, will it always update as the latest quiz moving forward?This is not s...

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I am having an issue with grade book that started a few weeks ago.  When I click on gradebook it just spins and spins until it freezes.  I've cleared the cache and cookies several times.  I have tried several browsers and it is happening on at least ...

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We have a couple of Pages that act as external URL tools. Somehow, URLs were added to the HTML content that redirects as soon as you try to view the content on the Page. It is impossible to edit the page because it immediately redirects. We employed ...

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I have created New Quizzes using questions pulled from an Item Bank. How can I edit the answers if I want to fix a mistake (or add extra "fill in the blank" options), or add feedback, after students have already sat the quiz? (In Moodle I could updat...

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I am taking Pilates and my professor requires a submission of multiple videos for one assignment. Is this possible? If so, I need assistance in learning to do so. Thank you

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Hi - I'm a Canvas Admin and would like to know if anyone knows what it means.  When entering grades in Canvas, our instructor is adding/updating one grade for one student and the grade he enters changes all students in the class to that same grade.  ...

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Why are the quiz directions on each page of a quiz when I select show one question at a time? This is distracting for students and unnecessary. The directions should only be on the first page or there should be an option to only have on first page. C...

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I work as an Educational Technologist to support faculty with various learning tools; mostly Canvas. I had an instructor tell me that they had their students take a Classic Quiz with 7 questions and required them to only answer 6 questions for full p...

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How to add a reply option for students? 

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Hello! My institution created a new blueprint for all courses, but the courses for Summer 2024 had already been automatically created and associated with a previous blueprint course.  We are planning to manually disassociate the Summer 2024 courses f...

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I have about 5 old tests that i want to merge into one big final exam. Is there a way to do this? Or do I have to go through and manually add each question to an item bank. Thanks!

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Hi, i manage a canvas instance, i try to publish all courses in my canvas via csv, changing the status to "active" But nothing happen. course_idshort_namelong_namestatus20241U03-44-CA10N1-CA3104CA10N1CA10N1-CASIUSTICA DE NIC´S Y NIIF´Sactive Any idea...

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Question from instructor: I’m reviewing my student’s recent test results there are a couple questions I’d like to answer: Am I allowing enough time? Too much time? Do students who take longer score better? The “Moderate Quiz” view isn’t particularly ...

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Hello, We are testing the free-for-teacher Canvas platform version. Our courses' content uses links to css and javascript files for styling and interactivity. Unfortunately, the content editor strips out every <link> and <style> tags as well. Is this...

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  Canvas New Feature Request  -  Enrollment count Please add a column with the Stundent head count on the COURSES Page. This lets us see current and past enrollment counts for each course/term.  Just need to add - ADD - Student Count  Currently, the ...

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Dear Canvas Support, I hope this email finds you well. I wanted to reach out regarding a recent yellow flag I received on a Turnitin submission. I apologize for any confusion or misunderstanding that may have occurred. Please contact awojick@nvcc.edu...

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I have created my canvas account a day before but still there are no courses available on my dashboard.

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When I import a course using a Canvas Course Export Package, how do I change the dates so assignment's due dates reflect the new term dates?

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Hola.Quisiera saber si es posible en los exámenes, restringir o bloquear a un alumno en específico que quizá no obtuvo el derecho de presentar dicha prueba,Gracias.

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I have already done peer reviews successfully but suddenly there is some bug. Before, I manually assigned one on one peer reviews - in partners. I did the same thing this semester but when I check students' peer reviews, their inputted rubric score i...

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I can't find how teachers can view an assignment analytics, such as the average. Everything I search tells me how to hide or show the grade distribution graphs from student view. As the teacher, I would like to see this data. 

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What does it mean if the Help Icon has a number next to it/how can I replicate that? Does that mean that someone has submitted a "report a problem" ticket, and the user logged in is an admin, a field admin, etc.?

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When a user clicks "Report a problem," who receives that ticket? Does it go to Canvas, or does it go to the field admins? 

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Hi! So our college started a new program a few years ago so we're still trying to get a footing on what we're doing, specifically with tracking our students' work in the program. We serve about 80 students in the program. At the end of each quarter, ...

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