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Our assignment is to upload video attachment and view everyone's video and post a reply, however nothing is loading for me...Am i missing something to get these video attachments to load correctly?

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My institute is currently designing online ESL classes to cope with the COVID crisis. In order to make things easier for our students, especially those in China, I'm trying to do everything natively in Canvas, including videos. My problem is that the...

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Solution Posted: 01-19-2021 View Solution
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Is there any way to remove the grade average in an assignment?  This feature seems like something that an instructor should choose to include, as it's not always beneficial for students to know the class average.  Thanks for any help!

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Solution Posted: 07-03-2020 View Solution
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Why isn't the Time Limit per question, when we already have at the bottom when the Quiz opens and closes.

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How do you place recent feedback on students homepage?

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Solution Posted: 07-03-2020 View Solution
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My college is looking into attendance solutions in Canvas, specifically to allow for taking attendance in large classes.  We need something that can incorporate scanning student ID cards or using something like a code that students submit.   In addit...

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How do you delete a course at the Dashboard ? 

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Solution Posted: 07-06-2020 View Solution
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Hello, we're having difficulty updating our assignments and modules - specifically the due dates. Is there an ongoing maintenance issue or issue with your system? 

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Solution Posted: 07-03-2020 View Solution
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Dear all,   I am participating to an online course based on canvas framework. Video content don't rotate when I rotate iPhone. I google the bugs and I see that it's something that user report several year ago. Bug is solved? there is a workaround?Bes...

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Good afternoonI am trying to hide courses from the course list and only view ones we are published or being developed not ones that we no longer need.  is there a way to do that?Thank you Michelle

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HELP !I am creating a QUIZ on Canvas and would like to add a picture. How do I add the photo?Thanks !

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Solution Posted: 07-03-2020 View Solution
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How do I un-embed a google doc form a page?  I cannot seem to delete the document I embedded.

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I'm including an audio file in a quiz question. I want it to look like this, with the rounded oblong shape: However, it's been getting harder and harder to make the audio icon appear like this. First, at some point, I started getting a blue rectangle...

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How do I run a late assignment through SafeAssign for a student's paper?

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I am working on a new version of a class using mostly the same image files from old classes.  All of a sudden all of the images are missing, all the links broken.  They are also missing from my old versions of the classes.    E

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I am setting up a "practice" class to show my pre-service teacher how to create a unit using a free Canvas account.  I keep trying to publish on the homepage, but get the following:I have checked numerous times, but not gotten an e-mail.

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Is there any way to make the columns all match (i.e. straight vertical lines)? As shown in the picture, they are not aligned after I saved the edits of the rubric.

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Solution Posted: 07-02-2020 View Solution
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What does it mean when you invite people to your course and it says pending? I entered email addresses of participants in my course. It says pending next to their name. What does that mean? Did canvas send them an email to invite them? Do they have t...

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Solution Posted: 07-02-2020 View Solution
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Several students have pointed out to me that WebEx recordings are not available, even when I receive an email from WebEx telling me that they are. The emails have a link that I'm able to click on to view the session. However, when I click through fro...

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I took an ASL class in the spring of 2020 and I am not seeing the class listed anywhere on my canvas account so that I can check my grade. I can see older classes but not last semester. Anyone know how I can get access to the final grade for that cla...

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Solution Posted: 07-09-2020 View Solution
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Is it possible to edit the nickname of a past course as an instructor? I would like to be able to have consistent nicknames that are easy and quick to sort through on my "All Courses" page. 

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can't access anything including the course. 

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I know this is an easy task, but I forgot how to link my canvas site to my name. Can you tell me the steps?

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Hello Everyone,We're looking to add additional tagging so we can ramp up the data collected in our GA system. Instructure has provided some documentation on how to add additional tagging but we'd really like to see if anyone else has gone down this r...

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Why am I not able to have Canvas randomly select a question from a question group in New Quizzes?  I have a New Quizzes Bank all set up with 4-5 question options for each question I want on my quiz so that not all students will get the same exact que...

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I need an recommendation / solution. When making Canvas API calls for one partner/customer, if the partner has 20K students (or more), we make 20K API calls to get each student’s LMS record.  Randomly, but often, we get “Unauthorized” and “Forbidden”...

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Solution Posted: 07-03-2020 View Solution
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In searching around, it seems like it's possible for an Admin to (1) change the student role so that no student-users can do student-to-student messaging or (2) create a different type of student role who cannot message other students, but are there ...

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How do you create closed captioning for an animated short film, music only, youtube video?

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Solution Posted: 07-02-2020 View Solution
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how do I migrate material from an earlier version of the same canvas course

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Solution Posted: 07-02-2020 View Solution
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I don't have access to add a new course.  How can I add this feature?

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Solution Posted: 07-02-2020 View Solution
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