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I'm trying to pull Canvas data into Power BI and I'm struggling at the first hurdle.  How do you get Power BI to read the data from Canvas?   I've read through the guides and I'm still lost.  

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Back in August 2020, there have been issues with using the Khan Academy LTI within Canvas.  It is now 8 months later.  A teacher asked me to show her how to use Khan Academy within Canvas.  I am including the "correct answer" from August 2020 for you...

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Some assignments are not showing the status.  I cross-checked with other assignments.  I have a due date and the category doesn’t seem to play a role.  I use this to see when a student has handed in a late assignment that may need checked if there ar...

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When I am adding a new user to the Admin group, users are getting the email notifications from canvas successfully, however, when I am adding users to a different account than Site Admin then users are not getting email notifications, can anyone help...

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Hi, When I am trying to send a message via canvas inbox, it's not sending the notification to the users and when I try to open the message in the sent items, it shows an error message saying " Sorry, something broke". Can anyone please help me to res...

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I'm an instructor and need to post a class announcement, but when I go to write one the text entry box is missing. I can attach files, enable comments, etc. but can't write anything to the class. I had been able to post announcements all term without...

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I have recently been added as “Teacher” to several sections so that I can make observations. My “to-do” list now includes all of the assignments for these sections.  If I click to ignore the submissions, will that affect the assignment count of the t...

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My ALEKS is not connecting to my Canvas account and I can not complete my homework assingments. I keep getting a 403 forbidden message, why is this occurring? 

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I'm trying to use the Canvas API through Google Apps Script to send students scores in for the classes I teach. Currently, I'm attempting to use the "Grade or comment on a submission" documented here. I know that my URL is set up correctly as I can t...

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I have an instructor that has sent in a request for our Admin team to somehow correct the name sorting in Canvas to match our Institution's Portal [PeopleSoft]. "1. Students with more than one last name are sorted differently in Canvas. PeopleSoft s...

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I am a student in multiple Canvas courses and a teaching assistant for two Canvas courses. For both types of courses, I can only reply with file attachments on all discussion boards. Before today, I could reply with text.  Is there a way to solve thi...

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For the past week, I have been unable to access Canvas on a computer and on the Canvas app. I have contacted Canvas Support but didn't receive any replies. Does anyone have a solution to this?This is what happens when I tried to access Canvas.

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A student just messaged me that they can’t access my latest assignments. I went into Student View and they are grayed out in the Module and I can’t click on them, previous assignments have no issue. When I go into Student View when on the assignment ...

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I brought in a previous course to a course I am starting tomorrow. I am making some last minute changes to he Home page, but when I click on "Edit" I just get a blank page without any of the data on it. I am not sure why this happened.  Anyone have i...

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I have created assignments in excess of the maximum amount counted toward the student’s overall grade, in order for a student to miss a couple of assignments without it impacting their overall grade.  For example, the total of all homework assignment...

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I have created assignments in excess of the maximum amount counted toward the student’s overall grade, in order for a student to miss a couple of assignments without it impacting their overall grade.  For example, the total points available for all h...

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On the moderation tab for new quizzes, there is every option to filter "No Attempts Left," "Attempts in Progress," "Submitted," and "Auto Grading Failed." But there's not an option to filter students who haven't even started the quiz. While I can go ...

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  In viewing your instructional video as a, VIMEO video as opposed to a Youtube video; I notice that there isn't an option for "CC" for those that need it. Does Vimeo not have a closed captioning option for viewers to use?  Please advise or otherwise...

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The practice app only gives me the option to log in, but I don't have an account and I can't find a way to sign up, how do I sign up?

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Is there a canned report available to get the details of students and courses students are enrolled in?  If not, how can such a report be built?  Thanks in advance. kris      

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Hi  The video in my class Football and Society page 11-4 won't play and the students can't watch it. Anything you can do will be gratefully received. Thanks.   Dr Joe Mills  

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I copied a quiz from a previous course into my current one. On the new quiz, I deleted a couple questions so now the quiz is worth 56 points instead of 64. The quiz itself reflects the new point total of 56. However, the gradebook still thinks the qu...

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Hi all,   A while back we had to an exam, whereby the teachers used to student activity logs to indicate if you commited fraud. Although I haven't used canvas during the exam, had no browser window open and had my phone put away, the log still shows ...

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Has anyone else run into this sitution? I see the immersion reader button enabled on pages but when clicked the accessibily tools do not display. Thanks for the help! Jenn

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I had a student not follow directions and post on a discussion board where the groups have not been formed. I have deleted his post but need the page reset so I can create the groups for the next discussion. HELP!!!

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The "Students can only participate in the course between these dates" option is missing. Any ideas how to get it back? I understand "Restrict students from viewing course before course start date" is greyed out by admin settings, but not why the othe...

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Each term I have teachers reporting the same common issue happening in their Canvas Gradebook. We use course templates already built with course content, assignment categories, and gradebook. The Assignments have a point value already assigned and on...

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My students are submitting assignments online whether it's a screenshot showing they finished in another program or a pdf of a worksheet.  I would like each student to then be able to see an answer key so they can check their own work.  How do  I do ...

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Howdy! We have a user who ended up with two login ID's that we merged together in Canvas, but the classes they were enrolled into with their original ID don't appear in their dashboard when they login with the new one. Is there a way to fix that?

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In Blackboard it is easy to arranged one's gradebook categories by moving them around. In Canvas the manual move is awkward and difficult.  But if one of the sorting options was by assignment type, this would be helpful.  In any case, adding that sor...

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