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Is there a notification setting to receive an email when someone replies to a student's discussion post in Canvas?

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Not a big deal, but I was wondering what the new "levels" were since the community was redone.  I noticed I was a Surveyor, but now a Learner and I just wondered what that all meant.  

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I need to download guides for Spanish speaking students and parents. I found a place to download guides but it says I have insufficient privileges.https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Colder-Storage/Where-can-I-download-the-Guides-PDF-manuals/m-p/26163...

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When you pull a video from google drive and its too big for the canvas box how do you resize it?

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There are students in a high school setting who will be using the Canvas platform for their main instruction. There are several students in the high school I am working in who have a hearing loss and on their IEP there is a service called captioning ...

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I need an pdf to be auto previewed, however when i follow the tutorial here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-set-the-auto-open-for-inline-preview-for-files-using/ta-p/1051 i end up just having it buffer and buffer forever...

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There is a quiz in my gradebook that I have graded. In fact it was the very first quiz. Grades were there and now they aren't showing up. I happy to re-grade, but canvas "thinks" they are graded, which they are, but the scores are not showing up. All...

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I’m wondering how do we cross-list courses that may not be of the same content area , and is there a way to allow a grade for each subject instead merging all grades into one overall score?Here are a couple examples. Teacher 1 teaches Reading & Engli...

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Hi,I am a student of University of South Alabama.I cannot see individual course calendars altogether in my calendar located in the global navigation. I can see ONLY events that I created in my calendar. There are NO option for me to see individual co...

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Hi People,  I am Trying to download the samples that are in DAT102-2020 2.3.2 Milestone 2 Samples. They say its Excel but when I go to open it error message saying different format.  can not complete milestone 2 without these samples.Please helpRegar...

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I have had this course show up on my dashboard for multiple years now and I would really like to be removed from it. I was added to it by the teacher so the drop out option is not available to me. I have tried to contact this teacher in the past, but...

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I created a page that is being used by our whole school as the Homepage. I have shared the page with every grade level in the building and have had no issues with the images in the page displaying after the teachers import it to their courses. Howeve...

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Is anyone else getting this error message when clicking links in community.canvaslms.com pages? One example: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/FRD-Colder-Storage/What-is-New-Quizzes/m-p/254161  received after clicking on "Learn more about New Quizze...

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How can I assign the grade or tips to students who are taking the quizzes. For example, if the student misses an answer, I want to give him a tip and allow him to try to answer the question again, without restarting the entire quizz.

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In the last few days my imported links form TestOut do not come into the modules in the correct order using Chrome or Edge.  They appear at the end of the module like they used to but don't sort numerical causing me to have to manually sort them. In ...

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I would like to post a quiz that is non graded. Canvas keeps automatically adding 1 point. There doesn't seem to be a place to change the point value to 0. I've tried changing the label to non graded survey and it again adds a point value. How can I ...

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If the fill-in-the-blank answer is photosynthesis and the student answers photosynthisis, it is Autograded wrong.  I just don't have time to put in all of the ways that students can misspell that word, plus, it is marked as correct if I put that miss...

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I created two classes learning this mess and now I need to delete them.  How do I do that?

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How do I post a question on the New Quiz Forum? I subscribed to New Quiz but there're absolutely no instructions on how to post.  Thanks for any help.Don LotterCSU Sacramento, Biology

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I would like my assignments to have 3 scores each:- A group score for the assignment (40 points)- A participlation score for each individual in the group (5 points)- A writing score for the assignment (10 points)Is it possible to create one assignmen...

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I am confused about these 3 items in the subject.  I read in a post that Drive Cloud Assignments will be depricated in 2021.  Does that mean that what you have existing will no longer work or is it just you can't add assignments that way any more.Is ...

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I am teaching a course this semester that has two sections. I have each section listed separately in Canvas (I did not set it up that way, I found it like that). Can I combine both sections into one course? If so, how? I don't want to post everything...

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IS there any way to use the Collaboration function with Groups while using a specific Google Drive Cloud Assignment and it not populating a generic doc or slide?

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Is there a way to embed the google slide to make the links work on an iOS app?   Thanks!

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Let's say I wanted one of my rooms to view a video in their break out room, Can I add a video or a pdf to their specific room? and how

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     So with this whole COVID thing going on, we are currently running a hybrid schedule. For the purposes of this post we will call them Group A and Group B. I have all my sections for each class period, but then within those class periods, we have ...

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I was wondering what the word limit is on the Essay Questions in Classis Quizzes. There isn't any stated word limit, so I was wondering how much text Canvas allows students to enter in the RCE before cutting them off. 

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I'm trying to create a collaboration, but the "Submit" button is grayed out.  I just created one for Google docs and I didn't even include any people and it let me submit that one. Also, why are observers showing up in the list to collaborate with? ...

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Hello,I have a homeroom course, and I was wondering if it was possible to link an image (say of a beaker) to a different course (Science). That way, kids could easily have another link to click on so they can navigate from my homepage to the other co...

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My students just completed a lengthy final exam. When they tried to submit, the page just continued to act like it was loading but the students could not submit their exams. When I go to the exam management screen, Canvas shows "no grades" for my stu...

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