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A student in my Canvas course reported a peer's photo as "offensive" by mistake.  I didn't even know such was possible.  I can't even figure out how to do that myself.  Please advise how I can "undo" the offensive or really "see what happened."    

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Topic: using the Chat feature, more or less privately. First, I believe that I've searched, and the most recent, relevant post seems to be from 2020. I'm building on that, but if I've missed a post that answers my Q, apologies and please correct me. ...

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Hi everyone/anyone!   I am trying to access Slack - and the first instruction is to locate account navigation - can someone help me through this process as I cant seem to find "account naviagation"   KR Lynn

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I am trying to set a course end date to allow a student to turn in something late. I have access to change the date, but every time I do it defaults back to a specific but random future date in 2026.   Picture 1 : pasted date with desired time (note ...

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I am a teacher and I need to access a past gradebook from fall term.  When I go into the course, and to the gradebook,all the grades are missing. It shows only one random assignment.  How do I get those grades back into that gradebook?  Any help is a...

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Can New Quizzes please allow partial credit on these types of questions? It frustrates students and I spend way too much time going back through them to award points.

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Some of my students missed the assignment due date and sent me their assignments by email. Is their any way I can upload these assignments to Canvas manually?

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Hi- I've recently started having an issue with my canvas course. It's been published for 3 years, and for the last few weeks, when I try to add a learner it states that invitations will not be sent until the course is published. It is published. I do...

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I have set up my class so that each week, two students submit papers for peer review, and I manually assign everyone else in the class to review these two students. I assign the assignment to everyone, even though only two students must submit, becau...

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Hi, We are looking for a simple, easy to use survey tool that integrates with Canvas seamlessly (users can create and assign surveys to enrolled members on the course and track responses). The main use of this survey tool will be course evaluations b...

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Students aren't able to see assignments in a certain subject on their calendar even though the subject has been colored in. It also does not show in agenda view or weekly view. What can I do to help?

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How do you Sign into accounts@google.com ?

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Within the last 48 hours, Quizlet no longer gives me the option of printing out paper flashcards. I've been doing this for me students for YEARS, and now its gone.  My question: can anyone else confirm this?  Thanks in advance! Matt in Pa.

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Solution Posted: 04-22-2021 View Solution
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Hello, I recently had a midterm and needed to email the course coordinator because I couldn't submit my work. The issue was that I sent the email at 9:02, just 2 minutes after the deadline but the instructor said he received it at 9:14. Is there any ...

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I am a parent and I need to change my email address, there is NO HELP tab on my account only SUPPORT and that will not help me  The Star does not appear even after I have registered my new email and there is not customer service number to call which ...

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Is there a way to increase the size (number of characters) that can be entered in the NOTES in the Gradebook?  I like to track data for students specifically email communications regarding failing grades. 

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Hello all you genius helpers! Time-sensitive question: A "new" icon/link for downloading embedded documents from a Canvas Page is suddenly appearing, and I am looking urgently to discover a way to disable or eliminate this item. We have copyright pro...

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Prior to this weekend the gradebook would display grades for assignments even before they were due.  Now, assignments only appear in the gradebook after the due date.   I like keeping certain assignments open for longer periods of time and having the...

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How can I have students receive an email of a delayed posted announcement

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If a course ... Belongs to a TERM with an end dateHas "Participation" field changed to "Course"Has a course start date enteredHas NO course end date (blank field)   When will this course soft conclude? On the end date of the term?Never due to the mi...

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Not sure how to search for or if Canvas is even capable of performing this function… I’m looking for a way to have multiple (randomly selected) questions for a single question (i.e. like a rolodex of question choices for a given question). There migh...

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When calling the courses API I get a 504 Gateway Time-out error at random times. This is not a consistent error, but is happening once per month at least and I cannot find a cause to this problem. It doesn't seem to be related to outages and is alway...

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Trying to release a course to students today, Under 'participation', I chose 'course' and today's date at 4 pm. When I save details in reverts to Jan 01, 2025.

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I attended a webinar about Equatio integration into the RCE in Schoology (a true integration versus the current "insert  Equatio menu" - the Equatio rep said it would also become available in Canvas. Any idea when that might occur?

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Hello, I try to subscribe to canvas  webhooks for an  LTI2 tool. (I'm using canvas-lms stable brach on github installed on my server).  But to create the subscription, canvas (the file live_events_subscription_service.rb) do a request on an external ...

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I'm creating an IF function and I have several others that I know work -  such as if(b+c<a,0,if(a+b<c,0,if(a+c<b,0,1))) can be used to determine if 3 given numbers create a triangle - so I know my general process is correct.My new formula determines ...

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Is there a way of reordering the list of the courses you are enrolled on in the Calendar view? It's easy enough on the Dashboard view but any changes I make there don't seem translate into the order I see them on my Calendar view.

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Solution Posted: 03-25-2021 View Solution
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Hello, I have been importing quizzes/exams from a previous semester into my current semester which I then edit or update rather than starting from scratch. So far I have imported 2 exams but when I went to import the 3rd it showed up differently and ...

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Is there a way to set a minimum F of 50% for any attempted auto-graded assignment? I know we can set a 50% for any missing assignment - but that isn't what I need.  

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Solution Posted: 03-24-2021 View Solution
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I am assigning specific students make-up assignments, only under a different name and a different module. When assigning the students who need the assignment, it does not give access to those specific students. It doesn't show due dates and those stu...

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