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I'm developing a canvas integration that uses LTI 1.3 to embed an iframe on a page in canvas, and am running into an issue. When I check Safari's "Prevent cross-site tracking" checkbox, I am able to embed my LTI tool on a canvas page in our test canv...

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Using the new RCE and it appears the ability to easily wrap text around a picture no longer works.  I used to be able to click the picture then left align, and it would wrap.  I cannot get it to work now.  Was this feature removed?

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Solution Posted: 03-11-2021 View Solution
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Is there a way to get the first login date of a user: I looked at this:https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/authentications_log.html But it seems it only goes back a year? Another idea was to use pageviews as it seems to go back right to the start ...

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Has this ever happened to anyone and is there a way to retrieve it?

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How do I get text next to an embedded image rather than just above and below?

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Only teachers have access to Student's previous submissions and annotations for their assignments. Students can only access past submissions via the Canvas App. I was wondering if that feature was available on mobile, if it should be available as wel...

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It's been reported by our instructor that similarity reports are only available for the first drafts of the submission. For resubmissions by the students, the "resubmit to Turnitin" button does not always show in Speedgrader, especially when they are...

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Student was given a second attempt on a quiz. I used the Moderate quiz function. Student did not submit when done and now  the submit button is not showing up on her end since the quiz is locked. When I look, it still shows she has time even though i...

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Hello! I teach 3rd grade, all subjects. My question specifically focuses on writing and submitting in the text box. I have been a little frustrated lately with the way kids can't go into their submission and make revisions/edits and then resubmit. Su...

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Hello, I don't know if this is a thing but when I'm entering grades and synching them to Synergy i would like to be able to enter grades as 0s and have synergy mark them as Missing. right now it does carry 0s over but in order to mark things missing ...

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I have some optional assignments. Students can complete four of eight for credit. Is there any way that a module (or some mechanism) can lock them out after completing the maximum?  The idea is to keep students from doing work that won't count. Thank...

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Solution Posted: 03-12-2021 View Solution
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I downloaded the Student Analysis report, however, it is missing data. About half the student's are missing grades in a section that I recently finished grading (last night vs today so it's been over twelve hours). Is there a way to regenerate the St...

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Our students want to be able to see letter grades as well as points. Is there a feature teachers or administrators can enable?   I'm not talking about a final percentage in the class, but rather, right next to the assignment - seeing that letter grad...

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Is there a way to create a 'Group' (five students) instead of 'Everyone' (all students) when making an assignment? So that I do not have to individually assign assignments to only 5 students every time I make an assignment?

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Hello , I'm trying to embed jupyterhub as a homework app in Canvas LMS. LTI authentication works and if I open it as an external tool the login is done and the page loads correctly.   URL: https://xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/hub/lti/launch?next=/hub/user-re...

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We had a quiz on Friday. Our professor gives everyone different versions so there is no cheating, it is a pdf quiz that we upload when done. I’m in the morning class so I did it and turned it in. Something went wrong with the afternoon class so the t...

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Who exactly can view New Analytics in a course?   Only the instructor?

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Solution Posted: 03-10-2021 View Solution
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Hi all! Apologies if this has been posted already and my Google-ing failed me.  I'm using Classic Quizzes and creating Question Banks. I just assigned a Quiz in which a subset of questions will be "Questions will be pulled from the bank". As I'm goin...

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In my synchronous virtual class, I want to open the quiz once review is done and then lock it so students cannot start the quiz later.  The whole point is to be flexible with the start and end time, so students can take the quiz then we immediately r...

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I have the instructor contacted us with this question. The instructors and TAs received an automated email from a student in Discussion Group 7 for discussion topic 1. So, he assumes TAs and Profs would not receive the content alerts for student post...

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I am a Canvas Admin: I am trying to figure out how to add a message that will pop-up when students log in. The school counselors are wanting to push a daily "mental check-in." Let me preface by stating each student is enrolled in a Counselors course ...

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Solution Posted: 03-10-2021 View Solution
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while developer key setting for LTI i did the following setting 1.Redirect URIs :   https://mitwpu.instructure.com/login/oauth2/auth?client_id=176300000000000006&response_type=code&redirect_uri=https://erp.mitwpu.edu.in/Canvas/CanvasTest.aspx&state=&...

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Does Canvas have the capabilities to detect screen sharing software? 

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I am a student and watch Kaltura videos on my laptop and the playback speed button always appears. However, on the iPad, the playback speed button seems to be replaced with a button with a screen icon that allows me to toggle between the view of my t...

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Has anyone made sub-menus in the global Help menu? We are trying to provide so many resources for students that the main Help menu is getting quite long.

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Solution Posted: 03-09-2021 View Solution
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I am an instructor. I have posted all grades for a quiz, but my students still cannot see them. They are not hidden; they are not muted. I have gone to course settings to make certain the Hide totals in student grades summary is unchecked. My 'instru...

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Is there a way to lock students into a quiz until they submit? As a teacher I have multiple students open separate tabs and begin to look for answers or begin typing in the search engine to receive answer prompts. If there was a way to lock them in a...

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Solution Posted: 03-21-2021 View Solution
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I know I can monitor submitted quizzes, but is there a way to see how many are in progress? My quizzes are 75 minutes long, but I want to reach out to student who hasn't begun. Any insights are welcome. PM

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Solution Posted: 03-09-2021 View Solution
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É possível criar um fórum para que alunos de diversos cursos possam participar?

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I am writing clinical simulations which requires providing types assessment data that the student have selected. I can include these in the comments under the correct answer, but Canvas will only allow the students to see these comments after the ENT...

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