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Did Canvas take away the ability to view access reports and see when students are actively working in tests? We used to use the 3 dots beside their name in the People tab, but now only their parents have the 3 dots.

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When I try to print the Item Analysis from a classic quiz, the printout is offset on the left margin (it cutoffs a portion of the left margin).     Anyone else has this problem? I believe it's a configuration of the webpage, but for its worth I have ...

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Hi,    Does anyone have any idea how to track the usage of SCORM packages across the entire instance. I need the number of packages deployed and the number of courses that have at least one package deployed

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I am seeking ideas from the community about how to optimise our regulator-mandated self-assessment process. Our current process is: At the start of a course, students rate themselves in a range of skills, using a Classic Quizzes survey.At the end of ...

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We develop a system using CanvasLMS of OSS(It was released on December 2023).When endusers access to system from chrome browser by HTTP/2 protocol, 403 Forbidden error is occured partically.The target API request is following, and it is called multip...

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I am new to Canvas. I can see my upcoming courses, but cannot click on them to edit them. How do you edit a course that is not yet published? When I hover over it, it turns gray, but it will not let me click on the course and open it up to view and e...

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I teach Art- Drawing & Illustration on Canvas. Students have to submit images of their work not just to me but to the discussions so they can see each other's work. It is very important for students to look at each other's work and progress. Student'...

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Hi Everyone,My institution would like to purchase licences for Canvas. We have completed the online form several times. No one is responding. How can I contact a person at canvas through email?

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Canvas is not registering the assignments and quizzes the student submits. Since nothing is submitting, he has multiple assignments with 0 points earned so his grades are beingi impacted on. Professors have tried to reopen things for him to attempt t...

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Anyone else finding a need for a change to the "Submit Button" in Speedgrader?The educators and students I work with are reporting issues and assessment turnaround time is being lost.

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How to upload the video?Thank you,

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Hello! I am testing BluePrints and I am noticing once a course copy occurs locked BluePrint pages duplicate. Does anyone know a way around this? We would want those pages to overwrite each other when copying forward.

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Is there a way to reattach profile pictures to copied/imported course announcements? As you all know, Canvas strips out your profile picture from announcements that are copied into a new course. I get it. They want to prevent careless instructors fro...

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In the instructor grade book, I have always been able to adjust the width of the columns (now they are stuck, and some are only one letter wide, while others are far too broad). I also could reorder them. I still see the courser changing into the wid...

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Very frustrated here. I have a quiz/test I created in Canvas. A student needs to retake the quiz, but I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to allow this. I cannot find this "Moderate This Quiz" link. When I click on the quiz, there is nothing ...

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Code file types are not showing in Speedgrader again. I have tested this out with .pyt and .java file types. This happened around February 20th of this year and a fix was pushed but it is happening again. The toolbar in the doc viewer shows up but th...

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Hi I would like to hide the menu on the right side in Canvas, only for the students and only for specific courses. Is that possible? In the left side you can just go to settings and change it. But can you remove it somewhere in the right side aswell?...

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Is there a way to export Item Banks as QTI zip files? I am aware that quizzes can be exported. However, my question is about Item Banks. 

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I have created an "On paper" assignment and I'm not sure about the submission status.Students cannot submit an on paper assignment but I would assume that as the teacher I can record that the assignment has been submitted.When I look in SpeedGrader t...

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Hi there, Currently it looks like the only way to view Module progress if via the UI at the student level. Are there any other reports that get at Module completion in a different way at an aggregate level? I thought Admin Analytics was the key but i...

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When creating a table to create columns on a page, is there a way to default the columns that have text in them to automatically start at the top vs the middle, so that you don't have to go back in and figure out code to populate something to show a ...

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I'm curious....other than MasteryPaths, has anyone successfully integrated an interactive Field Notes, via Google Slides or Docs, as a course-long project, with gradable components threaded throughout each module and building up to a final Research J...

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I seek to create the capacity to monitor and control a live social seminar in an in-person class on the Canvas platform. Testing the following functions has not been successful. Any help from the community would be very much appreciated.  The require...

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Hi, As of yesterday, my instructors are noticing that their "Load External Tool in a New Tab" option is being ignored for the students.  Instead the external tool is being iframed in.  Is anyone else experiencing this? If so, I wonder if a bug has be...

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Hi I have had a number of instructors in my school ask if there is any way to import a rubric created offline in Excel into Canvas to be used within Speedgrader, A previous Canvas Community response states that this is not possible and if you want to...

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I create a student group by mistake and want to delete or leave this group. How can I do that?

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Advances apologies if this is a common knowledge question, however I cannot find the answer to this anywhere.I am trying to see if there is a way to create an quiz using new quizzes that randomizes that questions from different item banks to create a...

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I am an instructional designer and would like to develop an assessment map/document for faculty that includes assessment type (quiz, assignment, activity) and then prompts faculty to fill in the details based upon the assessment (ie. module #, instru...

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I like to use the homepage to have  links to modules and assignments. For the past month or so, I will upload a link and when I go to save, it gives me a message "Content is still being uploaded, if you continue it will not be embedded properly." I w...

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I would like to add a custom navigation item labeled Eg : 'Labs' to the Course Navigation menu. Please provide guidance on how to accomplish this within the Enterprise edition of Canvas. I will also upload a sample image illustrating where I intend t...

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