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Canvas won't let me adjust the due date of an assignment even though the start and end dates have been extended for the course. 

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Solution Posted: 11-24-2020 View Solution
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Hi all, I recently had my students create their own copies of a jamboard to annotate and the submit as an assignment on Canvas, but when I go into SpeedGrader and try to open any of them I get the message "jamboard.google.com refused to connect. Does...

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Hello, I am using some auto graded assignments from a publishers website that is integrated into my Canvas course. When the assignment is completed the grade is then synced to my Canvas gradebook.  Sometimes I need to change the grade sent by the pub...

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I have never seen in old quizzes a student being able to double space without doing a copy & paste from a website.  A student said they misclicked something when he was typing and it doubled spaced his answer in the text box.  Are there any shortcuts...

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Solution Posted: 11-29-2020 View Solution
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When a student goes to submit an assignment using Google with the new enhancement 2 options show up (see image).   What is the difference between them and which one is correct to use? We are not using the new Google Assignments LTI because it does n...

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I registered a free Teacher account for trying out an External Apps integration using LTI but I can't the Apps tab in my account, either at the account level or the course level. Can someone help what I am doing wrong or missing? I confirm that the n...

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Solution Posted: 11-26-2020 View Solution
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I have a student who wasn't able to view our quiz because of some technical errors when I was making the quiz. I've fixed the errors, but without recopying a new quiz and assigning it to just this one student, is there a way for me to delete his old ...

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Solution Posted: 11-24-2020 View Solution
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Hi! I am trying to build a chatbot for a particular course using DialogFlow, the google owned chatbot tool.  I have a question around the integration of the chatbot in the production environment of the university. Could you please help me clarify the...

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I'm an instructor who was just putting the finishing touches on a new rubric for a Canvas assignment. Then I clicked the assignment's "edit" button to check on something, but when I went back to the assignment page again using my browser's back butto...

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Solution Posted: 11-24-2020 View Solution
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Hello,  I wanted to know why I can't see any of my classes on my canvas page?  I was able to see my classes and do my assignments on Canvas earlier today, but now I can't. I contacted my school's tech support, but they also did not know why my Canvas...

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Solution Posted: 11-24-2020 View Solution
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows how we can see all the discussion activities (throughout the term) for one individual student!?Thanks

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Solution Posted: 11-25-2020 View Solution
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Hi,I was wondering if anyone knows how to make a "discussion" a prerequisite for the next section!? It seems that we can only add prerequisite for modules.Thanks.

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Solution Posted: 11-25-2020 View Solution
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Generally, when instructors choose "Copy To...", the dialog window appears allowing that instructor to "Select a Course", and the accompanying drop-down menu lists the current-term courses for that instructor. However, for one of our instructors (and...

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Solution Posted: 11-24-2020 View Solution
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Buenas tardesDesde hace tres horas estoy tratando de acceder a las clases grabadas y sólo se queda pensando la página y hace rato me apareció el siguiente mensajeThe service is unavailable 

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Solution Posted: 11-24-2020 View Solution
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Hi Community, I hope you can answer a question to an experience one of my instructors has had. The instructor has a Peer Review assignment set up where students will leave annotation feedback to one another on their assignment submissions. The instru...

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My Institution is running a limited canvas pilot for a small subsection of our classes. I am one of the administrators. I'm interested in somehow accessing the info presented in paginated screens from Canvas > Admin > Coursesinto a flat file so I can...

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Solution Posted: 11-30-2020 View Solution
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He creado una colaboración y quiero saber cómo la hago calificada, es decir, cómo le asocio una rubrica.

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I'm using new quizzes and would like to see how the students as a class performed on a given question, i.e., I want to identify "bad" questions that few if any students answered correctly.  I don't see how to do this. Because of COVID and using onlin...

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Solution Posted: 11-30-2020 View Solution
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I have a student who had an incomplete in my class in Fall 2019 and now he needs to complete two tests in Canvas to make that up. However it appears that that section now has some features disabled, so I cannot get into those quiz settings to change ...

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Solution Posted: 11-23-2020 View Solution
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The New RCE has an interesting option under Formats > Blocks > Div -- what happens when I select "Div"? I am looking for easy ways to control padding around an image in the new RCE since I can't control CSS (at least I'm under the impression that I d...

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Solution Posted: 11-23-2020 View Solution
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We are a newer client for Canvas about to finish our first term using the product.  We found out some time after going "live" that we had a number of "phantom students" enrolled in some sections (i.e., real students assigned a class in Canvas but nev...

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Hello!We've created several SCORM assignments using Storyline 360 and are wondering what Canvas considers an "attempt" from a SCORM perspective. What we've noticed is that Canvas will record the grade and status for the first attempt, but subsequent ...

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Hi  I have created appointment groups for my students. some of them have booked their appointments but not all. I now want to add students to the slots that still are available. But how do I do that? Is it possible to ad students to empty slots in th...

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I use mastery-based quizzes as part of one of my classes, created through Storyline 360 and uploaded as a SCORM graded assignment. When I've implemented these quizzes in Blackboard, I can view a student's submission. This doesn't seem to be the case ...

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I cannot add another Module card to my Dashboard. My University put up the card that is currently up, and it is an FCE training card on how to use Canvas. The Current FCE Training Module has been completed, and it will not allow me to move forward an...

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Solution Posted: 11-23-2020 View Solution
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Hi. I have a student who left my class and joined another. The new teacher needs the submissions that I have received from this student. However, the student is removed from my participation list so how can we gain access to the submissions made by t...

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Solution Posted: 11-23-2020 View Solution
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Hi Canvas Community, I tried testing the "new quizzes" in canvas i found out that with "essay type questions", canvas sis unable to store the answer from the previous attempt and every time a teacher want as student to edit answer, students has to wr...

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Solution Posted: 11-23-2020 View Solution
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How can I use a rubric in several courses without having to recopy the WHOLE thing over and over again? I have an interpersonal communication rubric that I would like to use in all of my world language courses at various levels.  This seems like it s...

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Solution Posted: 11-23-2020 View Solution
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Tables in Canvas QuizzesCan anyone help with solutions allowing the students to answer inside the table rows interactively? For example Column 1 has the questions, columns 2- 4 are fields where the student can answer with multiple options for that on...

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Solution Posted: 11-23-2020 View Solution
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Hi, We are moving to another LMS next year and i have been asked to find away to bulk archive all of Canvas especially student submissions as we are required to keep data for min of 3 years. Is this possible without asking individuals to download the...

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Solution Posted: 11-23-2020 View Solution
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