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How do I get the mathquill equation to enter in the text for a quiz or an assignment to be entered into the field via LayTex?

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I was testing this feature with a preview it seemed that to make a new attempt I had to preview again, which resulted in the problem having a different randomly chosen variable in it.  How can I make it so the student gets another chance with the sam...

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Hello,As a parent, can I send a message from my parent canvas app to my child on their student canvas app? I know I can email their teacher but can I send a message to them?

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I am looking for an SMS software that I can integrate into Canvas. Does anyone know of a good one that I can use.   Thank you  

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Hi, I needed some tips on managing large classes using question banks, groups, randomizing or not..etc.  What is best? why? 

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Can they see if i reported their DP? Its gone now from their profile i cant see anything. Im worried they might fail me!m for accidentally reporting their pic!

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I am a middle school teacher. I have an issue with my module navigation buttons (previous and next) at the bottom of assignments. If I place an assignment in the middle of a module, after my students complete it and submit it, the buttons disappear. ...

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How does a teachers setup canvas for substitutes?  For example, sub plans, teaching activities, materials, etc. How does the substitute teacher get access to the lesson plans, materials from the teacher?  

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We have a report that runs every four hours to update our Canvas account but for whatever reason today when it was processing the batch files it became stuck and now reads "2 batches waiting to be processed." Has anyone seen this and if so were they ...

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I have a college student who is paid by the university to assist my class.  He cannot get access to Canvas as an observer because there is some magical button clicked that doesn't allow someone who isn't in our district to get an account.  How do adm...

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Hello,I am assisting an instructor experiencing the following issue with the Roll Call Attendnace LTI in Canvas:The Roll Call Attendance Assignment grades are not syncing6 class sessions have been marked so far and no grades are populatingThe setting...

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I just had one of our teachers come to me because the comments she had made in Speedgrader showed up in Skyward after she synced the grades. This has never been the case before, and is not necessarily something we want to happen as many of our teache...

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I'm seeing a lot of similar questions are marked as solved, when nothing is solved here!I am having to manually make grade adjustments rather than letting the system run because of unintentional submissions/issues. I allow two attempts on my assignme...

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Supposedly, FlipGris is "integrated" with Canvas. I AM able to post FlipGrid assignments, but they are not showing up "embedded" in a Canvas Page (have to use the "open in another window" option to get it to work. AND it is not integrating with the S...

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I have manually released the grades for my first few assignments three times now, and when I go back in, they're hidden again.  I know that the students can see them briefly, as I've received some comments back, but then someone else emails to tell m...

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New student has problem with sign Access Denied You don't have access to view this resource.What should I do ?

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So you cannot assign modules to student groups. To explain:Course C has 8 modules, M1 through to M8. Students need 6 modules to complete the course and these are chosen for the students.Class A and B are both on Course C.Class A has modules M1, M2, M...

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I have requisites set for each module.  Students need to view each page of the module before it is complete.  I have a few students who are saying, even though they've gone through this week's module, it is not saying completed, viewed, nor is there ...

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I have several ELL students, two of which speak no English at all.  They are very bright students and they want to succeed in my course.  I am trying to find out how (if possible) to have Canvas translate my course work into Spanish from English.   T...

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I want to create an image where I can overlay other images on top/in front so I can link those specific images to external links rather than only being able to link the single image to a single external link. I can't figure out a way to do it; I trie...

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Two ThingsI'm having students submit pdf copies of my drawing assignments, (no problem).  I am able to download if necessary to view, etc. (no problem).  Since going virtual last semester, I have been able to use the markup tools on the screen to; hi...

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I created an assignment and differentiated it using the groups feature. One student did the assignment in her assigned group and submitted it, however it shows that submission for ALL members in the group, when they didn't do it yet. I am worried tha...

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I would like to draft a message to students and have it send at a later time. Is that something I can do via inbox? 

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If I have an old module in an unpublished course can I delete the module from my published course?  I hate having to see all of the modules that have been created and I am only in the 4th week of school. 

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I have a parent that can't remember her username for Canvas. What should she do to get it?

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Is there any quick way to delete all students that I have added in a group set?I used to look for the names of each student in a group set and delete them one by one, which takes a long time.

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I have videos embedded on Canvas from Microsoft Stream.  I can't get the Stream videos to work on iPhones regardless of what settings I change.Has anyone else experienced this?  Is there a solution?Many thanks

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Hello experts,I am an IT developer planning to build some analytics out of canvas data and blend it with other reports from Peoplesoft Campus solution. I need a dev/test version of the canvas application with sample data from where i can extract enro...

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Hi community, This question may have been asked already. I am trying to un-enroll students in bulk from a section using a CSV file. Can someone help me with the content of the enrolment.csv or share with me what file I should be using? Thank you!

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Greetings,Has anyone set up the Microsoft Teams Meetings App for Learning Management Systems (LMS) on a self-hosted canvas environment? I am having the hardest time tracking down documentation on it. Chrisitan C

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