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In Canvas Quizzes, is there a way to require the student to answer all or specific questions before they submit the quiz? For example, I want to prevent a student from just guessing on all the Multiple Choice and then skipping the Written Response an...

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Does anyone know of a way to add a marker/grader to an individual learner assignment/quiz (outside of course sections).

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Hi,My teacher asked me to connect with the Canvas help.  Every time after I take the chapter pre-test, I receive a score but do not receive credit for taking the pre-test.  It shows on my end as "done".  My teacher thinks it may be a tech issue that ...

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In Gradebook,there is no "action" or "view" button

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Hi Community,  I'm an instructional designer, and I work with a team of faculty who use collaborative testing as the second stage of their two-stage (or, "two-step") exam process. In this scenario, students take the exam on their own in the first sta...

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How do you delete class course cards that you aren’t taking anymore?

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I am new to Canvas. Once my account is set up on my laptop, how do I make it accessable to my students through the app?

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The table functionality is not working properly in my courses.When trying to add a table: I click on the table icon and there is no caret next to "Table" (image attached). This used to open the grid view to the right of the menu where you could selec...

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The menu caret in the upper-right hand corner on mobile devices (Android phone and tablet-Samsung) has stopped working. It's the menu for all the course links, such as Assignments, Grades, Syllabus, etc.---the course navigation links. When I click on...

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Hello Good People, I'm having an issue with a Canvas test.  Two students' tests remain "open" though it is well past the "due" and "until " ti submission time inputted in the test details. All the other students' tests closed at the appropriate time....

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Hello everyone,I am currently working through an issue in our organisation, and I was wondering if anyone else have had it:We did setup a course with an assignment group, consisting of two quizzes. One for first sit, and one for 2nd sit. Those two qu...

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Recently we've had a weird behavior start up when trying to add a course link into an RCE text box. When an instructor clicks on the link icon and then chooses "Course link", the tray that pops up on the right pops out and immediately back in. The se...

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I would like to be able to choose a variable from a set of distinct values, not only from a range. To give an example: "You throw a dice with `n` sides. What is the probability of an even number showing?" In this example I can't choose from all numbe...

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Hello, I am a math teacher and I´m having a hard time giving my students good comments when they have taken Quizzes because I can not use math terms in the comments. Is there any way that the comment boxes can have the math formula tab so math teache...

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Hello, I set rubrics for grading for an assignment, so that grades will show up automatically in the Grades section. I set the grading in percentage (0 being not graded, and 100% fully graded). However, this assignment has multiple reviewers/graders....

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How to receive badge on canvas 

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Is there any way to get back a course that I deleted entirely? I accidentally deleted my final for my college class, and I don't know how to get it back. It was an entire course

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Hi everyone,  Basically, the title question: Is there a way for me to determine which student in a group submitted the assignment?  I'm searching for an answer, but thought asking might be quicker.  Thanks, Traci GardnerDept of EnglishVirginia Tech

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Solution Posted: 12-03-2023 View Solution
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y do we have to use canves last year it was itslerning and now i miss it

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I ended up with two canvas accounts, one from my employer and one from a provider of professional development. How do I merge these two accounts? Thanks!

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Can anyone help me with this? I am in the Modules area. I created an External URL link and set the External URL to "Load in a new tab." When I click on the link, it opens the link in a new tab (works great), but it also changes from the Modules area ...

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Solution Posted: 12-04-2023 View Solution
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Hi Canvas Experts,   What happened to the Conclude button in some of my classes?  I don't see it in previous terms courses as Administrator. When I looked it up in Guides, it said that I'd have to use software to automatically Conclude classes after ...

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I would love my student to be able to submit more than one picture to the same assignment. Is this NOT possible, or am I missing a setting? If I select Text and File submission, I know they can do both, but not two files?TYIA!~Academic Technology Coo...

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I administered an exam to 30 students All exams were submitted and graded.  1 student was permitted to take the exam at a later date, after all other exams were graded.  I (thought) I allowed only her to sit for the exam  But what I apparently did, w...

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How can one create weighted subcategories within a weighted category? For example, I'm required to have 90% of my grade be in a "summative" category. I would like to weight my final exam as 15% of my summative category. How do I do this?

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   Hello, I would like to know how do I submit an anonymous peer review. I received 5 assignments to review, but unclear of where to submit it. My instructor told me to submit it the comments section, but I attached them where it says "attach file" a...

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I'm a parent with 2 students.  A few weeks back I made one change to Notifications, like turning off receiving a weekly summary and now I'm not getting any notifications, most notably I have turned on always to be alerted immediately when grades are ...

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There are a bunch of assignments I have in my modules that aren't showing up under "assignments" or in "grades." All the modules are published, all the assignments are published and there are dates for all of them.  Can anybody tell me why they're no...

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Is there a way to schedule a Zoom meeting with an individual student and not notify the entire class?  Better yet are there tutorials that go into this level of detail? (The ones I have found are pretty basic/general.)

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