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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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Typically the only option I give students is the text box entry option yet students are still somehow uploading documents. How to I prevent this?   

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Can we create an option to have only "student graders" accounts to grade anonymously? We have found that the Anonymous Grading feature is helpful but we cannot determine which students have submitted the assignment or not.  

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Is there a way on the admin side to default notifications to be off on all course? I would like to be able to turn them all off and then have teachers have the ability to turn things on if they want to, but right now there is just way too many notifi...

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Outcomes in Merged Course/Sections to help reporting and importing.Is there a way to have Outcomes report to a specific section of a Merged/Crosslisted set of courses/section? All information reports back to the Parent/Primary section number. I'm thi...

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I find the limit of only 25 questions for the preview of questions extremely frustrating!  Please increase this or loet me decide how many I want to see at once.  Ideally, allow for ALL as an option!    

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I'm trying to add the 'integration_id' fields to a batch of users (just working on Canvas TEST instance at the moment) but I'm getting the above error message when I come up with a csv file with 4 columns only: integration_id, user_id, login_id and s...

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Currently we use a third party website to leave frame accurate comments on video submission (we use Kollaborate.tv).I don't believe Canvas currently has this option, but I'm wondering how do I see about getting something like this integrated?

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How can I send an appraisal to each single student?

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Hi everyone, Canvas is automatically submitting course evaluations (surveys) for one of my students. Each survey for each module has no time limit, and the student says that she's not sure why this is happening. It's already submitted every survey fo...

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I have a sub account that needs to change the 2024 Summer courses end date. Is there a way to change the date for them all at once or do you have to do it individually? 

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I work at a school in our tech department and have run across a weird issue.  I have a student who uses an iPad for his schoolwork and when he completes an assignment (either views a lesson or submits work), the assignment or lesson will have a green...

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I am an instructor in multiple courses. Students are submitting to an assignment portal after the assignment has already been graded. My question is if the assignment portal can be set to "locked" after a grade is given to a submitted assignment to a...

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We have a professor who was gone for years; since that time we moved from Canvas logins to SAML logins.  When they came back, there was some login confusion, so we updated his login information in Canvas, removing his Canvas credentials and keeping h...

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Where is the notice that said All courses was going to be moved?

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If I create a quiz and accidentally delete it, is it GONE or is there a magical recycle bin somewhere that I am not seeing? I hope....  Help! 

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How do I get students in my Canvas class?

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I teach a self paced course. Is there a way to mass assign due dates per module? This needs to be added!!  I understand the bulk edit where you can adjust by # of days but that doesn't help me. Can bulk edit have an added feature to assign an actual ...

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Is there a way once the grading period has come to an end to mark all assignments missing? Or do you need to do this individually per assignment?  

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This year I'm having multiple students end up messaging the whole class when they meant to just message the teacher using inbox messages. They insist that they're selecting just my name and not adding the whole class. This wasn't something my student...

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Hello, I will be out of the country for the first two weeks of the second semester. I was wondering if I need to create new courses in Canvas to submit assignments via Canvas during those two weeks that I will be out.

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We are using the Learning Mastery Gradebook for about half of our classes and the traditional gradebook for the others. We just began our winter term today and the courses using the traditional gradebook have rolled over to the winter grading period....

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how do i get to do my final exam 

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I originally linked my school google drive to my canvas account, but now want to change it to my personal google drive.  I can't find a place to do that.  When I go into Google Drive on the Menu, it just tells me that I need to Authorize the gdrive, ...

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