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Mike Zimmerman
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Fairly new to Canvas after being a Blackboard administrator for nearly 20...oh, wait, you mean my *actual* biography?
Born in Florida. Grew up moving around the southeast. Graduated from the University of Florida and the University of South Florida with degrees in psychology and computer science. Had my heart set on being a librarian but stumbled into IT instead...
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Hi @AbdulKhadar
Many people use the built-in quiz function to conduct polls/surveys in their Canvas courses. See the instructions a
https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-c...
Hi @Sonpham410
First, contact your instructor and have them check the LockDown Browser Dashboard in the course to confirm the settings. This error can happen if the instructor has never opened t...
Hi,
At my school, the most common situations for merging sections are 1) when it is really the same class is crosslisted under multiple sections/departments (which results in multiple course shells in...
I also agree. "Drafts" does not align with any previous documentation or terminology we've used to describe unpublished courses, and will just confuse instructors.I'm not totally sold...
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@ahess4 , I switched login attribute in the auth provider setting to "urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.6" and the test link started working, so there's *something* about the friendly nam...
Upon further testing, it looks like the new service does not pass "friendly names", so "eduPersonPrincipalName" is not passed but "urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.6" is...
We are seeing that auth providers configured using InCommon metadata (IdP Metadata URI : urn:mace:incommon ) are getting an "Auth provider not found..." error, so it looks like the new service...
Hi @jbeneventi
APIs only allow you to do things that you already have permission to do within the system.
The things that you want to do--in particular, create new users--require administrator pe...
Hi @CandraMack
Welcome to the Canvas Community!
This is a public discussion board for Canvas users from different schools all around the world. We have no association with your school or with a...
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