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I am creating a new campus-based course which will be exclusively for mature adult learners.  The structure of the course consists of one VLE (Canvas) page per class and there are 10-36 classes per course.  Our institution has a 'learning' model whic...

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I thought this was a fairly common thing to do? Scenario: Your students take an exam, there are a few questions almost everyone misses and you decide that those questions are too difficult or confusing, so you want to "sort of" throw them out. But yo...

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I am looking for a way to convert an old hardcopy paper assignment to be on canvas and accessible, and am kind of stumped. The idea is that students have completed a small research project, and then afterwards need to reflect on the quality of their ...

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Hi! I cannot view scores in the Learning Mastery Gradebook. The score is visible in the normal gradebook and speedgrader. The rubric is connected to the Learning Mastery gradebook, the outcomes show. However the report is just blank. Is there a way t...

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Canvas Discussions have a cool feature - when creating a discussion, I can choose to "Add to student to-do". This is fantastic. Naturally, this feature is even more useful in conjunction with Announcements. However, I haven't been able to figure out ...

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I've been trying to fairly allocate points for student participation in the multiple discussion boards I've used over the semester.  I was pleased to find a method for supposedly (-- not faulting the script here, BTW) downloading student activity for...

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I need help understanding the "alerts" Canvas gives for tests. I have a student who received 3 alerts that all indicated different things about the quiz. "This quiz will be submitted in 30 Mins" "You have been given extra time on this attempt"  These...

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Whenever I click to open a google doc in a new window, I see this error attached. I am using Orion browser which I suspect is the issue since Edge works. 

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The draw feature for marking up submissions sometimes makes random drawings after the drawing tool has been used for other things.  A way to correct this is to choose select, then go back to draw and repeat?  This is really annoying.  Will this behav...

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As a former professor, the following article inspired me to look at the vocabulary used  in some Canvas course rooms in terms of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) levels: Studie: Vissa universitetslärare inte bättre än g...

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I will be co-ordinating a course with 1500 enrolled students. Piazza is used to manage student questions. This is time consuming. To address this I would like a chatbot integrated with Piazza on Canvas that is pre-loaded with data to respond to stude...

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My instructor added me to a group but the semester is now over and I no longer want to group showing up on my dashboard.  How do I remove it?

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I am trying to evaluate students based on their 'likes' of different discussion board postings. Canvas's documentation indicated that all of a student's activity with a course site is recorded.  I have figured out how to access student activity using...

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Is it possible to see exactly when a student had visited specific pages or clicked through buttons? I know the access report tells you the last time a student visited a page, but I have a student claiming they had uploaded an assignment just before t...

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I am using the new quizzes. under setting, I am randomized question but I want the first question not to be randomized because it is an agreement state where the student should answer yes. Is this possible  Thanks

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I have 2 classes and each has unique quiz banks, As far as I can tell I created the classes the same way, with the same features and settings.  In each class I can see the class quiz banks.  If I open a quiz and use the Find Question, I can see all t...

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Solution Posted: 12-16-2023 View Solution
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See question in subject line 

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The exams are given with two types of questions: stand-alone questions and case questions. Our exams try to mimic the NAPLEX which means questions are forward-only, one question at a time.I would like to have forward-only and randomized exam question...

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I have students who would benefit from being able to hear the quiz questions read aloud. Is there a way to get this feature?

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I have a student who changed classes during the first quarter of the current school year but he is now showing up on two class rosters and gradebooks. Is there a way to remove his name from the old class he is no longer enrolled in?

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If you have a module with the requirement in which an item is set to be “marked as done”can the teacher edit the content in that item that has already been marked as done by a student? Will the student need to mark it as done again if the teacher edi...

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I have had a student ask how they can print their answers once a quiz attempt has been submitted. When reviewing the responses the student can see all answers, but when they click the print page, only the submission/attempt page shows up for printing...

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I am finding a lot of conflicting information on this topic and need to know to prevent future problems. If I have a quiz that does not have a time limit set but does have an Available From and Until date and times set, what will the student see if t...

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Solution Posted: 12-14-2023 View Solution
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I set up a quiz with a mix of multiple choice and multiple answer questions, expecting one point to be awarded per correct answer.  Multiple answer questions often weren't marked correctly - it seems a wrong answer cancelled a correct answer, which w...

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Has anyone else discovered the standard Provisioning Course Report doesn't show Concluded courses? Should it show them or is there another report that has that data?

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How do i access my past courses. In all courses, I'm only able to access my current ones

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The attempts count is not increasing after the first attempt if the score to keep is set as first and a max attempt limit is set. Similarly, in the case when grade display is set to Highest, after the first attempt, the attempts count is increased on...

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Dear community, how are you?I would like to explain an improvement that could be significantly important to reduce user support when using the native Canvas player. In all players such as YouTube, Vimeo, among others, the user chooses an option in pi...

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Given the remote nature that some institutions have moved to, what community features does Canvas offer to bring students together with remote learning?  Discussion Boards?Opt-in only - maps for students to show their broad location for potential mee...

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Hi All,We recently changed our source of truth database so every user's sis id needs to be changed in canvas.I am experiencing issues when I try to update Staff SIS ID's I am using the required change_sis_id.csv file format e.g.,old_id, new_id, type1...

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