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Suppose I have a question bank with exactly 15 questions and for some assignment I create a question group which draws 15 questions from this bank. Will all 15 questions from the bank appear, or may there be some repetition? Alternatively, is there a...

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Hello, everyone!I have 4 different preparation courses and usually, I add from 50 to 100 people at a time. I cannot do self-enrollment, I need to add them from the teacher's side.I can add only one person at a time now.So terrible and I am having ser...

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I have used the same code to make tabs last school year with no issues.  The tabs work as the template, however whenever I try to personalize the tabs (like I did last school year) and save it will begin to glitch as I'm trying to view the finished p...

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In Classic Quizzes, you could create tables or multiple columns for fill in the blank questions. For example: Type the capital of the following states: StateCapitalAlabama[Montgomery]Alaska[Juneau]Arizona[Phoenix]    Does anyone have a good workaroun...

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For years now, I've had this problem and can't figure it out. Sometimes (but not always) when I use the space bar to put space between two elements, such as images of buttons sitting side by side, Canvas will show the empty space as having a strange ...

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I'm trying to use Google LTI 1.3 to link to Docs/Slides/etc. within a Module, or to embed the item in a Page. However, I keep getting an error message that says "Drive items not shared. Share the Drive files publicly and try again." I am able to crea...

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We noticed a new button in the Rich Content Editor toolbar that promises to add buttons and icons. But nothing appears to change in the RCE. Is there a new feature coming to the RCE? https://youtu.be/RX4KFuo79j8

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Hi I'm Alexa i honestly don't know how to use none of this and I'm super new to everything of this and especially in canvas but learning new things is not bad and i know if one can do it then i can too and ill get through this 

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Does anyone know if the built in plagiarism checker does peer to peer submission checks or does it just compare submissions to things online or a database somewhere?  Thanks!

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I understand that iframe allows you to embed a web page within a web page, but when it was time to try it out, I get a message saying that the page may have moved, edited or eliminated.  Can someone show me how to do it properly? I´d really appreciat...

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Why would the Pages tool need to be visible in Course Navigation in order for the MS Immersive Reader to display? That seems more than just a little odd. Hiding inventory bases tools, and linking to Pages within Modules is an important and common des...

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I can't figure out how to assign multiple due dates (1st for post, 2nd for responses) in the 8/18/21 release of Canvas Discussions Redesign. Will there be directions or a breakdown on how to do this? 

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Hello, I have students both in-person and online so all of my assignments have a digital submission option. This means all my in-person students (about 60 of them) have their assignments that they submit on paper automatically marked as missing. It i...

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Hi everyone, in our course we want to make some content available to every students and some content available only to specific sections/workgroups. How is it possible to do that?I found posts dating to 2016, this is from 2018, asking this same quest...

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Colleagues, we enabled attendance in New Analytics, but I have a question regarding options/configuration. There are options for Admins to set quizzes, assignments, etc. as attendance indicators. If I enable these options as an Admin, does that force...

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Im not sure if I am doing this right lol  

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Hiya! My school is currently shopping around for a new LMS and one of the options we're considering is Canvas. I'd love to hear what your experience with the platform has been like and possibly how it compares in practice to Google Classroom (+ G S...

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Trying to batch edit dates from a course that was copied from the previous year and the dates were not removed or adjusted. If the "Sync to SIS" (Aspire) box is checked, you cannot use the batch edit feature. You have to go to each assignment and unc...

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Hello  I \uploaded an mp4 video submission to my canvas course discussion board. But when i view it, the audio and video are out of sync.  It's perfectly fine when i view it as saved on my computer, but once it's uploaded, the speaking no longer matc...

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I have found some great explinations on shifting assignments. The problem is that it counts weekends so when I shift 3 days, they can become due on Saturday or Sunday?  Is there a way to aviod this?

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Is there a way I can control which documents have a "preview" feature and which don't? For instance, it can be helpful when pdfs open directly in the browser. However, I have Power Point Shows (.ppsx) in my modules. These .ppsx files link directly to...

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I have some assignments that are showing as locked until 12 hours before the due date. I can find no locked dates anywhere. There are no prereqs and no locked modules. Does anyone have any suggestions?  

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Is it possible to add an email address using the SIS Import tool?  In my tests it seems to only overwrite the current default email address.  (Also, all the notification options were turned off, when we would like to have them turned on.) I may be co...

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As an instructor, I would like to be able to email a student in Canvas AND include either the other course instructor or their TA as either a cc or bcc on the message.   But when I click the "send message" icon for a student I don't see an option to ...

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When I open canvas and go to dashboard I get this message:   Welcome to Canvas!  You don't have any courses, so this page won't be very exciting for now. Once you've created or signed up for courses, you'll start to see conversations from all of your...

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As an instructor, when I go to view gradebook, the grades are compressed and placed on top of each other making it unable to view.  I use chrome as my browser and I've tried with Edge and IE.  How do I correct this issue?

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Hi Team, We are facing the issue after LTI 1.1 app launch. It shows XML data after the tool launch. Please find the attachment for your reference. This issue is facing some times .Why this data showing after tool launch? Please guide us with this iss...

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We are new to canvas in our district this year.  I am the media specialist for my school and I have teachers that are wanting to have multiple assignments but only have one grade for them in the gradebook.  For example, a daily warm up that needs to ...

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I have recently started using the New Quizzes in Canvas, and grades are not populating into the gradebook correctly. I have quizzes that allow an unlimited number of attempts and should keep the highest score, but they are not keeping the highest sco...

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