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mpropes

Canvas icon meaning

what does the 4 leaf clover and the yellow face with grill teeth mean beside an assignment?   

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02-03-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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FYW_Asst_Dir

Assign Peer Review Shuffle

Students are submitting papers for peer review late and finding they have no peer reviews assigned to them. So . . . I hit "assign peer reviews." I have 100 students, so I can't really tell if those how have not completed peer reviews have been shuff...

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02-03-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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rsauls

Bulk or Batch Updating URLs included throughout Canvas

I am looking to batch update 1000s of URLs throughout Canvas, but I am not finding a process for this type of update.  Any advice?  The URL's may have been added in Canvas in a variety of areas and in a variety of ways.  Needing to find and replace p...

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02-03-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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Womackak

Duplicate a module

I want to duplicate a module.  It won't give me the option.  I have no LTI assignments in the one I want to duplicate.  Why can't I???

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02-03-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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dsubrizi

How Do I Invite Guest Speakers Into Conferences Who Do Not Have A Canvas Ac...

I am teaching a class that is virtual this semester because of COVID-19.  My guest speaker is not on Canvas, nor does he work or belong to my institution.  Is there a way to invite him into the Conferences option on Canvas?

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02-03-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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dan_baker

Discrepancy between Classic Quiz Item Analysis and Student Analysis Reports

I'm using Classic Quizzes as I find the report data vital for the data I need to report to my department.  Today I discovered a discrepancy between the "Correct Student Count" values in the Item Analysis Report vs. the aggregated count of students wh...

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02-03-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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cwright1

Question Breakdown not showing in Quiz Summary

I have a 25 question quiz that is mainly multiple choice.  When I click on Quiz Statistics, the Question breakdown is not populating, it is just a blank box. HELP!

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02-03-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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tlyn

log in problems

I have problems logging in to CANVAS. I enter my password in the Log In to Canvas option and it tells me that I have incorrect log in information. I know my password is correct and my username, so I have no idea what is going on. I use the incognito ...

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02-03-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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clohse

Embed not working in New Quiz

I am trying to embed a widget (generated by  Bookwidgets.com) into my Quiz. I used the Insert/Edit Media button and pasted the code below into the Embed tab. <embed type="text/html" src="https://www.bookwidgets.com/play/2BZ8L2R" width="500" height="4...

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02-03-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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bradwinterton

Change Multiple Due Dates for One Student

How do I quickly change multiple due dates for a single student?

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02-03-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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jenna_scheub

Module Copy to vs Course Export

Question I'm curious to know about the pros and cons of using the "copy a module to" function versus using the canvas export package. Context This is my third year using Canvas and my course content varies from year to year. I teach year-long high sc...

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02-03-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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lauragriesel

Gradesync error Error closing OneRoster REST client

Another teacher assigned something to different sets of students so that she could use different due dates for different students (blended schedule here) . It's giving her the error Error Closing OneRoster REST client... Anyone seen this before?

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02-03-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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martin_rowley2

Turnitin Alternatives

Morning everybody, My institution is looking to purchase some anti-plagiarism software.  The only real one that I know of is Turnitin which has a good LTI integration.  Does anyone have any experience of other platforms that offer the same level of i...

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02-03-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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elui-131

How to assign a resubmission due date for quiz?

Hi all,   I have employed the quiz function and used it as a marked text-entry/ essay question assignment. This will then manually marked by trainers/ assessors. I am looking for ways to set up a due date for resubmission so the students have to resu...

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02-03-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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sangeethaj03

Due date not available in lineitems api

Hi all, I have implemented IMS LTI 1.3 for a tool provider , now I an trying to list the assignments for a course using lineitems api (/api/lti/courses/:course_id/line_item) .I am able to list the assignments, but I am not able to get the due date in...

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jamathomas

Why doesn’t Canvas Inbox have a trash/delete folder??

Canvas inbox has no delete/trash folder. Why is that? I need to recover a conversation that was mistakenly deleted. Unfortunately, when I went to search for the deleted thread of messages. I noticed that there was no trash box. How can I retrieve los...

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02-02-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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katherinenewton

students saving their quiz submissions

Is it possible for students to start a quiz and save their answers so that can go back to complete the quiz at another time.  We've allowed for multiple submissions, but it seems that when the student goes back to finish the quiz, their previous answ...

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02-02-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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erica_wagner

How to adjust just one student's score to remove lateness penalty

I have one student who submitted her quiz on time but for some reason canvas "lost" it, so she had to resubmit after the due date. It is a graded survey (worth one point to every student who completes it). I assigned the point to each student via the...

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02-02-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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Ethan27

Can we use the 'appointment schedule' option in teachers free account ?

Why I  can't see the 'appointment' option ? 

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02-02-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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VH87

i need help finding my class English 124

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02-02-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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sh2021

Maximum storage allowance

Hi there, I am using the platform for free and wondered how many videos I could upload as I create our modules? We are quite video heavy and wanted to make sure this was the right platform for me. We have about 51 GB of video and around 550 videos, e...

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02-02-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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Zariah3

First video played, but second one did not

  Every week we have videos that I am  are required because there are questions embedded into the videos that are taken for grades. This week we have two to watch and I was able to watch  and submit the first one with no problems. However, when I was...

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02-02-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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djjeffreys

PDF not showing up in the DocViewer in SpeedGrader

I have a student who submitted a PDF file for his test today, but unlike all others I cannot view it in the DocViewer where I write on it for feedback. I can download it but that doesn't help me if I want to write on it. Any advice? Is his PDF saved ...

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02-02-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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mcordes1

Linking to a Redirect App on the Course Menu within a Page

I created a Redirect App and placed the link on the Course Menu. Within a page, I want to link to the Redirect since it is on the Course Navigation; however, when I am on the page and select Course Link and Course Navigation I can only select the nat...

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02-02-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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kerry_whigham

Blueprint Course Sync disrupts module settings

I am using a Blueprint course to manage several different associated courses, each of each has different course dates. Whenever I sync the Blueprint course, however, the course dates and module settings for the associated courses change, even though ...

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02-02-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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JasonLevy

Adaptive Release using SCORM in Canvas

My institution is moving away from Blackboard to Canvas. Our classes in Blackboard were student-driven, and we relied on Articulate created SCORM packages to deliver the content. The final slide of the SCORM package used a Pass/Incomplete LMS reporti...

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02-02-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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marvin_patton

Separate Gradebooks in Canvas???

Hello, Everyone: I am planning to transition way from using a certain publisher's online content platform for my Human Development course.  In fact, I want to go OER in the near future--but it's hard to jump in "cold turkey".  I need to develop and c...

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02-02-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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estelagonzalez

CALIFICACIONES

Buenos días , pueden ayudarme? necesito ver las respuestas de mis alumnos y calificar los archivos manualmente, como entro?

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02-02-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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jlmarshall

Canvas grading

With canvas grading, if a student has a missing assignment it automatically puts 90 as a grade.  If the scale score is  from 0 to 100, why does the computer put 90 beside a missing assignment for a student?

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02-02-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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lkobus

Forwarding email out of a canvas course

I used to be able to receive student emails from my canvas courses forwarded to my regular college email account.  I've noticed that is not happening anymore.  It is convenient to know immediately when a student is trying to reach me and this service...

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02-02-2021 Canvas Question Forum
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