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How do I add a phone number to get into Canvas?

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Is there a way to give teacher accounts the permission to create SIS ID's for their courses?I don't see that permission option in the "course roles" section in Permissions, only "SIS Data Read". The "Account Roles" only feature "Account Admin", "Outc...

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I have 504 students whom I do not assign a due date so I would type in their names under the "Assign to". However, this school year I have way too many students, and typing their names would take too long. I thought about creating a group with all my...

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How do we give partial credit on multiple answers without a penalty for correct answers? I thought the old quizzes gave points if they picked one of the correct answers but the new quizzes did not.Right now I have to go in a give points for every stu...

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Hi! I've tried three times to suggest improvements to the Roll Call attendance tool using the "Submit an Idea" page, and each time the page resets my input after submitting: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Ideas/idb-p/canvas-ideas Nothing g...

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I completed 7 out of 8 of the questions on the video Kaltura quiz. Question 6 on the video I can not access therefore it will not let me submit the quiz.

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I already have my daughter set up and now need to add my son.  I have the "pair with observer code" but don't know where to put it. Will he be added to the same dashboard as my daughter?

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When I watch the grade book videos and I view my grade book in my courses, it appears that I'm missing a few links for functionality purposes. Below is a screenshot of the video (I circled the links that I do not have) and a screenshot of my course.....

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While Immersive reader is great for students looking at a page or directions within a module, Immersive Reader is needed for quizzes that teachers create. Our district has a high number of students that require learning support and having a quiz read...

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My 8th grade module shows large grey lock images when on student view. 

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I am trying to add students to my course. I have their e-mails but every time I get to the next step and put their names in, I get an "internal error occurred" I work overseas so their emails aren't the typical yahoo or gmail. 

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I uploaded my 5.31-minute video (618 MB). Then I tried to caption it in English. The status is "processing" for more than 6 hours. I called Canvas and they recommended waiting for 24 hours and if it's still the same, I shall call them. Later I upload...

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I have added FlipGrid to my Canvas class. All my students except one can access our FlipGrid from Canvas. Why can that one student not access it? I gave her the join code and it says she has to join via Canvas.

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Currently a student trying to access my courses syllabus, every time I click the link, the message, "The folder 'unfiled,' which includes this file, has been locked." pops up. Emailed the professor, however, they've said nothing is locked. It doesn't...

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I am using canvas on a chrome book and none of the documents or power points the professor has uploaded for us to use to help with our assignments are loading. I have used canvas on a normal PC and and apple I Pad and the documents have always loaded...

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I have submitted my group assginment 2 & 3 on behalf of my group and canvas have shown the date and time of the submission (different days but for the same course). I was able to get access to the turnitin similarity report on the submission day and ...

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Hi All, I am hoping someone can help, we are trying to streamline our Assessment Competency record that we currently complete using a no submission assignment. Ideally, we would like the overarching complete to not trigger unless the rubric is comple...

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I have quizzes throughout the year. Some types of quizzes happen more often (Type A) and other quizzes happen less often but are more important (Type B). I want them in the same assignment category because I don't know how many of each I am going to ...

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We have a course with two sections in the same shell. One section was created in error and not meant to be used. However, as we were processing students through self-enrollment in Catalog, I added a bunch manually into the wrong section. We are now a...

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I recently took a collage math course with OnRamps and I am trying to get my transcript how do I do that? 

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An assignment is created in canvas and given a title, a description, a due date, and then saved to the course (Before screenshot). Then when editing to use the external tool function inside submission type to link the assignment to a specific labarch...

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I submitted an excel file into an assignment, but when I try to download the file again, it is downloading as an annotated PDF. How can I download the file I submitted as an excel/CSV file? I'm on a different computer now so I don't have access to th...

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Can someone tell me how to use italics, bolding, underlining or create a live URL in Canvas email?

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Did the latest version of canvas remove the ability to sort my grade book? I can no longer sort by module which has been a crucial timesaver in my workflow for years? Was this put somewhere else or is that feature just gone now?

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I was trying to register for a class with no prerequisites as a high school student and it says I am ineligible however I have already submitted my dual enrollment approval from my high school and meet all the other requirements.  Is there somewhere ...

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I am the admin of Canvas at my institution and I have parents wanting to sign on as an observer. I have gone through all of the tutorials about how to generate pairing codes, but when my students go to do that, the "generate pairing code" option is n...

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As an instructor, is there any way to view student' quiz answers when "student results view" is restricted?The students can't see what they got wrong, but I would like to see what questions my students got wrong.Thank you.Allison

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Hello! I put a lot of effort into making my Canvas course, connecting items within various modules, etc...   As a result, at the beginning of the school year, I import the entire course from the previous year, thus preserving all that.    The issue  ...

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Assignment point totals. Is there a way for Canvas to automatically total points for assignments? This feature would be helpful since in some courses there are many graded activities with points. Right now, we use a calculator to add up point totals ...

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I am a student and am having difficulty keeping track of emails. I would prefer the emails to be unthreaded, so each email is in sequence instead of grouped by recipient.Is there a way to do this?Thank you.

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