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Our school has upgraded and now when creating an assignment I need to use the three dots for the create assignment that goes through Turnitin I can only mark through Turnitin. The rubric I loaded into the assignment will display but when i open into ...

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Hello! I want to enable the people tab to be visible to students. Although I have set it properly in the course setting > Navigation and the eye icon is removed from it, it still does not appear to the students. I have cleared my browser's cache and ...

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Canvas gradebook has, in the past few days, started trying to auto-fill grades on the gradebook on Chrome. Another post (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/How-Do-I-Turn-OFF-Canvas-Gradebook-Suggestions/m-p/599627?attachment-id=...

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Hello, I was given an extension on my assignments on Cultural Diversity that are due on April 6th, 2024 at 11:59 pm. For some reason, the assignments/discussions are not letting me submit any type of work. I have talked to the chair of the department...

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I could not attend workshop on Canvas, so I am trying to figure some of it out. When I select "Assignment", I do not see anywhere the type of questions I could include (MCQ, open-ended questions, essay question etc.).What is the difference between "A...

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Has anyone else experienced an issue with the docviewer in speedgrader not being able to display plain text files (specifically .cpp files) within the last week or so. It will display files with a .txt extension but it doesn't seem to display any oth...

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We are setting up a quiz with a specific submission timeframe. It is timed, they cannot see their answers immediately, no multiple attempts. We have set the Due Date, along with Available from and Until (with the same due date). attached screenshot. ...

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Good evening, I would like to find out if the quiz on above-mentioned subject also count towards your marks at the end 

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Does anyone know of a way to force videos to pause when the student steps away, opens a new application or browser tab/window, etc.? We tried using Javascript to accomplish this but have not been successful with auto-triggering the pause. Thoughts or...

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I've been told that there is a way to generate a warning to students who fail to access a course for a given period of time (10 days in the specific instance). Basically, if a student doesn't have activity in a course in that time frame, they receive...

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Why doesn't Canvas have a word count on Discussions? It would help ensure student success and show them and instructors whether they have met the requirements of the assignment.

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Does Canvas provide the ability to build keyboard shortcuts for repeated text (like macros in excel)?When building questions and in other rich content editor environments, does Canvas have a way to build a macro or keyboard short cut to paste repeate...

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  Problem: User mistakenly thinks they are in student mode because they see the 'Student View' text, in top right, and they don't understand that it is a button to click on, which would then bring them into student mode.   Improvement Suggested: Add ...

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Hello, thanks for your help. I am a teacher who has used canvas this year. I am moving to another state and that school district also uses canvas. Is there an easy way to transfer my current course with my current district/account to my future distri...

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Hi! I'm investigating online student behaviour in a number of units at my university. I love that I can download a csv file of Weekly Online Activity which shows overall student engagement in resources. However, this information is generic - e.g. X n...

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Hello everyone! Is it possible to create a quiz for prospective students? We are looking to test a few incoming students before they are officially enrolled in the program. Can the quizzes created in Canvas be shared with individuals who are not enro...

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hello the discussions tab is not showing under my course what do I need to do 

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I need to do the petition process in Canvas, advisor told me i can find the petition in "Academic Resources " " in Canvas, but i didn't. Please help me. Thanks!

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Hello,I appreciate the Late Submission settings in Gradebook, however I would like more options here.  I really need there to be an option for a ONE-TIME late penalty of 50% of what is EARNED on an assignment.  This is my class policy and it frustrat...

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I also strongly request color coding options for modules.  This green and grey coloring just blends together and it is hard to differentiate types of assignments for students.  Additionally, for accessibility, if you had it pre-programed for us to se...

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I have a quiz that has let's say 24 questions in it.  Is there a way to put a rubric on one question and not on the whole quiz?

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I have lost an assignment that was already graded. It's an attendance tracker in which students have been receiving negative points for absences for the entire semester. I need to recover this assignment somehow, otherwise I will need to re-enter the...

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We are having some issues with student access to courses when they have an incomplete. To give you a little background: Our SIS is Banner. We currently have our SIS course create CSV feed files that are set to run every four hours in Canvas and they ...

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Hello, is there a way to sort/order our gradebook by students' FIRST name. Currently, we do so only by last name. Since we are an international college, however, students from certain countries have no last name; So fields are left blank, or contain ...

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Is there a way to get a direct link to the elements of the Training Portal without signing in to canvas? Trying to provide option to faculty that is 1-2 clicks vs. 5-6. Any suggestions?

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How can students view rubric results when the instructor uses the rubric built into the Google Assignments LTI 1.3 external tool assignment type? 

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Would appreciate any help with locating a list of common problems/solutions that educators may face when importing content from another LMS into Canvas. 

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Hi all, I am trying to find a solution to the following: Our courses are organized by weeks (week 1, week 2, etc.). The issue is that students don't know what week it is. I want to create on the home page a button that links to the current week's act...

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Please can someone advise?There is a 25 to 30 second lag from my typing to text appearing in the Comment boxes on Speed Grader.This is making marking impossible!Nothing else is running slow on my laptop.  Have used Chrome and Int Exp.Windows 10Thanks...

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Is there an OOTB early alert feature in Canvas that I can enable for the institution? If not, what options are available? I saw many articles about how to enable early alert on a course in Canvas, but I am looking for enabling it for an institution i...

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