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Canvas is a cloud-based service, so there is not really an "older version of Canvas". However, each school has its own policies and settings, and not all schools allow students to send messages to all other students in the course. You will want to contact the Help Desk at your school, since folks in this public discussion board do not have any access to your school's Canvas courses.

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Hi @AliErisi Is the course published? You will not be able to send a messages to students through the Inbox if the course is not published.

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Hi @farryn_weiss An "annotation" assignment does not actually require the students to upload a file, only to use the annotation tool on the file that you uploaded. So, it is not a "file upload" assignment, and can't be bulk downloaded.

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Hi @laogata The certificate is awarded when the last module is completed. You can set a requirement on the module so that it is not marked completed until the student achieves "X" score on the assignment. See https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-add-requirements-to-a-module/ta-p/1131

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Hi @JessicaCook2 Welcome to the Canvas Community. This is a public discussion board for Canvas users from different schools all over the world, so we have no information about or access to any of your courses. From your description, it sounds like your instructor is linking to some kind of resource outside of Canvas. You might try logging in with a different web browser to see if you see the same behavior. Otherwise, you'll want to contact your instructor or Canvas Support at your school, who can look at the course materials and investigate what might be going on.

mzimmerman · ‎05-26-2023

Hi @EvanDonovan No, it's not possible to "roll back" quiz grades, and in particular, grades for individual questions. The closest you can do is 1) Look at the "Grade History" to view the previous overall grade for the quiz, and manually re-enter the previous quiz grade, or 2) If the previous gradin was done more than a week ago, you/the instructors can go to your Canvas "beta" environment to view the previous question grades, then manually enter them again.

mzimmerman · ‎05-26-2023

The primary issue we have has is when there are several sections of the same course merged together, and students have dropped one section and added another within that merged course. In our environment (integrated with our SIS), that means that the enrollment for one section gets marked as "inactive" and the other is marked as "active". Unfortunately, the "People" screen can't display the "Inactive" tag for one enrollment and not the other, so there's not really a way for the instructor to see which enrollment is active from that screen. More critically, in cases where an assignment or quiz was set to be available to one section on one date, and the other section on a different date, Canvas could not distinguish that one enrollment was inactive, so the student had access on both dates. (It's possible this issue has been fixed, but I don't remember seeing a specific notice yet from Canvas and I haven't tested it lately...) The other issue, of course, is that if a grad and undergrad section of the same course are merged (a fairly common situation for us), a person who is a student in the grad section but a TA in the undergrad section could get access to things in the course that they shouldn't.

mzimmerman · ‎05-25-2023

Hi @MoatazKhan12 No, it's not possible to adjust the record structure of the "users" record to add new fields, at least not if you are licensing the cloud-hosted SaaS version of Canvas.

mzimmerman · ‎05-25-2023

Hi @cmccann1 You can simply toggle the display setting for the "Total" grade column to be "Display as points" or "Display as percentage": However, when you display as a letter grade, or "pass/fail", "S/U", etc., what you are doing is using a "Grading Scheme" https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Basics-Guide/What-are-grading-schemes/ta-p/41 Grading schemes are always based on percentages (points awarded/points possible), because otherwise you would need to have a new definition of what constituted a grade of A, B, C, or S, etc. for every possible number of points.

mzimmerman · ‎05-17-2023

Hello @ElisabethWillia Welcome to the Canvas community. This is a public discussion forum for people who are using Canvas at different schools all over the world, so we have no specific information about people or courses at your school. In general, if you want to contact the teacher from one of your courses in Canvas, you can message them through the Inbox. However, if the tutor you're looking for is not one of the teachers or TAs in one of your classes, you'll want to contact your school for assistance.

mzimmerman · ‎05-17-2023

Hi @DhanunjanReddy Welcome to the Canvas Community. This is a question forum for Canvas users from different schools all over the world. You will need to contact your school for information about how often Canvas enrollments are updated by your school.

mzimmerman · ‎05-15-2023

Hi @JaiWOwen If your sub-accounts have SIS IDs, then you can use the SIS imports tool to upload a CSV that places the sub-accounts under different parent accounts. There is some documentation of the file formats at https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.sis_csv.html , but the easiest way to get a CSV of your existing accounts is to run a provisioning report (Admin > Settings > Reports > Provisioning...) and choose "Accounts CSV" as the report you want to generate.

mzimmerman · ‎05-12-2023

Hi @BISADMINLMS2023 If your users were created using the SIS Import tool, you can upload a list of users with a status of "deleted" as a CSV file in order to mark them as a deleted and no longer available on the system. The file format for user files (with an explanation of all the fields) is at https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.sis_csv.html

mzimmerman · ‎05-11-2023

Hi @Adminteam If you don't want the questions to have right or wrong answers, the simplest thing to do is to create a survey instead of a quiz. See https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-create-a-survey-in-my-course/ta-p/782

mzimmerman · ‎05-09-2023

Hi @PandaLovesAll1 Welcome to the Canvas Community. This is a discussion board for Canvas users from different schools all over the world. The kind of issue you are describing is something that you will want to discuss with your instructor and Academic Affairs at your school.

mzimmerman · ‎05-05-2023

Hi @yolanda_ Welcome to the Canvas Community. This is a public discussion board where people from different schools all over the world to discuss the Canvas learning management system. For questions about local school policies for instructors or staff, you will want to contact your school.

mzimmerman · ‎05-05-2023

Hi @ScottGlabb There is an "undelete" function in Canvas which lets you restore a lot of things that have been deleted, including most assignments. See https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Admin-Blog/Undelete/ba-p/270560

mzimmerman · ‎05-04-2023

Hi @KDE1 No, it can't. If there's no SIS ID on the existing sections, then the SIS import process has no way of knowing that they are the same sections as the ones in the feed, since the SIS ID is the value that the import process is trying to match on.

mzimmerman · ‎04-28-2023

Hi @jfrugaletti If you're cutting and pasting from another source like MS Word, my guess is that there is a lot of hidden formatting code that is being included in what you are pasting. The first thing I would do is take a look at the page in HTML view (see https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-use-the-HTML-view-in-the-Rich-Content-Editor-as-an/ta-p/876 ) to see how much excess formatting code is there. If there appears to be a lot--more hidden formatting code than actual text, for instance--I would look at using the "Clear formatting" option in the text editor to see if you can get rid of the excess formatting codes.:

mzimmerman · ‎04-21-2023

Hi @JessicaDeanSVC Can you clarify what you mean by an "alias"? Users accounts in Canvas can have multiple logins, but there is only one name attached to the account (correction, there are actually 3: "Full Name", "Display Name", and "Sortable Name"). It is the name, not the login, that shows up in the grade book. The grade book tracks things based on the actual user account (actually, the Canvas ID number for the user), not the login used to authenticate to Canvas. Then, in the grade book (and elsewhere) it displays the name that is currently attached to that user account.

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Check individual user disk usage? Just a quick question, since I can't seem to find a straightforward API to do it: Is there a way to get a check our report on the disk usage for individual users? We're contemplating r...	09-16-2019	834	1
Preventing default email from being changed We appreciate the option that Canvas allows for users to create multiple channels to be notified within the system. However, we are seeing the same issues described inhttps://community.canvaslm...	11-08-2018	2450	6
Sending messages via the Conversations API I am taking my first fumbling steps at scripting using the Rest APIs, so please be gentle! We have a survey coming up that will require us to send out individual/unique survey links to students, a...	10-19-2018	2047	5
Observer pairing for advisors without Pairing Code? As a university, we haven't played much with the "Observer" role and our user creation and enrollment is centrally managed so we don't allow self-registration. However, now there is some in...	10-10-2018	2029	4
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