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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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Hello!I'm trying to create a way to have faculty summative scores show up in gradebook.  The summative score would be entered after the students completed an in-person activity and submitted the homework assignment.  The assignments and the summative...

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I have online content from Cengage Learning.  My Site Admin has added the App and it shows up in External Apps, but it is a crucial step that the Cengage Learning App shows up in in the 'Hidden Area' of Course Navigation in Settings.  The online mate...

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I have quizzes that were written in Skyward.  How can I move those quizzes to Canvas without retyping them?  

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I have cross listed almost all of my sections that are the same course but now I am getting a error message with two of the same courses but different periods saying they can't be cross listed?  How do I over ride this?Thanks!Tim

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If my first grade team has one canvas course and specialists have one canvas course- is there a way I can link their canvas to my homepage. So that they can click a hyperlinked "PE" and it takes them to their page on their specialist course.

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I am currently trying to set up a class for my students and I want them each week to complete an unscored survey. I found it very easy to set up the survey, but my question is that I want them to be notified whenever I add a comment to one of their s...

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What is the best way to embed a video from Kanopy? I created a page for the video and used html to include the embed code. It seems to show up, but will not play. Thanks.

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Is there a way to modify the columns that show up in Gradebook history? 

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Does anyone know how to retrieve submitted assignment for a student that has moved from one course section to another (same teacher). Once she left the original section and was placed in the new section, the teacher was not able to access the submitt...

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Is there a private student folder into which administration can insert pdf score reports and feedback forms? We used a dropbox feature in Sakai and are looking for a similar feature in Sakai.

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In quizzes, I created a quiz. When trying to upload it to a module, it does not appear in choices

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What does it mean: The document preview is currently being processed. Please try again later.

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