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I am in desperate need of help with integrating Canvas and Adobe CC.  My understanding is that my students should be able to complete assignments inside Canvas.  My students are using Chromebooks and aren't allowed to install programs on them.  We ar...

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We have a quiz with no time limit and no end date set with the Show Correct Answers Immediately set but for some reason we have one student that is showing the quiz as muted rather than giving the answers. I have checked the config and run through th...

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I know that this is not a feature, but how can we move this idea to be seriously considered.As more classes are moving to online, there are more creative ways to look up answers. Having a time limit per question in the quizzes would be helpful.

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In August I was able to create assignments that asked students to download an audio file (.mp3) from the assignment page (and then save it to their iPad to bring into an assignment in GarageBand).  With the new updates, the audio files I upload into ...

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I am trying to find Safari Montage as an option in my external tools in order to add a video, but it is not there.  Can I add it myself and if so, how?

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Is there a student video already made to instruct students to get to Zoom in Canvas?Thanks for your helpPam Hare

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Hi all,Ever since the most recent 6.9.5 update on iOS, there has been an error loading grades for certain courses for me. The error message says “there was an error loading grades. Pull to refresh and try again.”I’ve tried few different things but th...

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I'm a student, and my teacher says that whenever he tries to preview my assignment submissions he only sees the first page of the PDF. When you download it, you can see everything, but he's really bad with tech, and he doesn't get it when I explain i...

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Hi, I'm hitting https://utah.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/636288/quizzes/1980551/submissions to try and get a list of all of the quiz submissions, but it's only returning 10 results.  I can see in the gradebook that I have hundreds of submissions f...

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I used to be able to message people in Groups in Inbox. Today when I tried to, I tried to chose a person but it said No Results. Why is that? Is it possible for a teacher to disable it? Or for a group to "expire?"

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The student's Access Report displays the student's last date a page/assignment/discussion/quiz is viewed.  If the student has viewed the page multiple times, is there a way to view all the item's dates?     

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I'm teaching a photography/yearbook class and am looking for a good app/site, that can integrate seamlessly with Canvas. I want students to Be able to upload image, provide descriptionsSee each other's images, provide comments I have used Flickr in t...

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HelloI recently noticed that the buttons to my modules that I created work great on my laptop, desktop and even on my phone (if I log into Canvas directly) but not on the Canvas Student App.I tried clearing the cache and data on the app, uninstalling...

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Author posted an activity in the form of a slide show and self-check questions.  The answer to one of the questions is incorrect and now the wrong answer is being reinforced to my students. How can I contact the author to correct it?

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Is there a way that instructors can set up manual groups in such a way that the groups are invisible to the students in them, or otherwise manually create subsets of students within the gradebook? I am looking for a way to more easily monitor in my g...

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In the New Quizzes tool I am not seeing a way to set a Fill-In-the-Blank question to be case-insensitive. I see that as an option if  I use the 'Close Enough' option based on the Levenshtein Distance but it does not allow me to set the Levenshtein to...

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I use google chrome, and for some reason when I am watching a recorded lecture or taking a quiz, my page starts to refresh and I then lose my spot in the lecture. It's frustrating because I have to then again find where I left off in the video. I'm a...

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I'm a teacher and I'd like to do the next:Assign an assessment to students with multiple attempts, but that in each attempt the student takes, the grade decreases by a certain percentage.Assign an assessment to students with multiple attempts, but th...

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Can paired observers see submitted work? For example, could this observer see a Google Doc submitted by a student they are paired with?

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I submitted an assignment on time, then accidentally submitted it again a day late because i thought it had not submitted. How can i prove the date of the original submission

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I have not been able to log in to the trining portal. This is the message I receive, any ideas? 

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In the classic quizzes we have a setting that allows students 2 attempts, they can give if their answer is right or wrong after each attempt but the correct answers only show after the second attempt. I have not been able to figure out how to replica...

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I would like to quickly excuse assignments in Canvas for multiple students at a time.  For example, in 1st grade this week I have one remote class and 3 in person classes.  The remote kids needed to do the assignment (I have them created as a group b...

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As teachers, we can view each of our students' submissions (past and present) with our annotations and feedback.  However, it appears to me that students are only allowed to see their most recent submission.  That is, they seem to be unable to see th...

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I need either a thorough and in-depth tutorial on what is possible to do with rubrics in Canvas, or a work around.  If you could recommend a power-user/deep dive tutorial, I would appreciate that.  Rubrics are supposed to communicate clearly, and I h...

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Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but I could not find this particular error. Some students are experiencing errors when trying to submit an assignment using the Google Cloud LTI. Here is a screenshot: Any ideas what is causing this and/...

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So yesterday I couldn't figure out how to delete a few assignments out of my grade book. I removed the due date, said not for grading, etc., etc. Nothing would work, so eventually I just went to my assignments tab, changed the focus to Quarter 2 and ...

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Solution Posted: 11-06-2020 View Solution
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We have a summer institute that enrolls its attendees in, on average, about 10 Canvas courses to be completed over three weeks. The institute has about 40 courses in total, so not all attendees take the same 10 courses. The organizers add students ma...

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I created a group but I am not able to respond to posts nor enter the group.

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