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I have some instructors, including myself wanting to automate some of the more tedious grading.  Some instructors have over 200 students in total.The goal is to give consistent feedback (modifiable in the comments box) for all student receiving a 0. ...

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I wanted to see if anyone in the Canvas Community is also experiencing problems with Cloud Recordings not appearing in the Zoom Integration under Cloud Recordings. This change in behavior started on October 21, 2020 at our institution where faculty r...

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Good dayHas there been any change in the process or in GA? Suddenly it stopped registering the information in GA in the Overview section, in the Real-Time section information is recorded at the moment, but the history does not record information for ...

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Hi there, I'm finding that if i need to make a correction to a global announcement - it's taking AGES to update to the dashboard? Any ideas?I appreciate, I SHOULD get it right first time, but hey, only human and it's a PICNIC issue (Problem In Chair ...

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Is it possible to build a course in canvas, and then sell it to someone else?  For example, we would but their university's logo on the course instance and they would recruit the students.   There would be a central repository for the content that co...

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I am kind of new at setting up our Canvas terms.  Here's my question.  I work at a high school.  For those of you who work at a high school, do you have your term end date the last day of classes or on the last day of the mid-term/final exam?  My gut...

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I've submitted a ticket to Canvas, no response yet.  Some parent/observer users in our school district receive the message in their parent app on their calendar with a red exclamation mark and the message "There was an error loading events.  Pull to ...

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I need to contact our CSM. I have the name, but no contact info. Can you please let me know how to contact this person?

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For those of you managing enrollment through a SIS (we use Skyward), how are you managing day subs who don't get access to Canvas through staff tables and report pickups.  We have a process for our long term subs, but with fully remote, our day subs ...

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We are a large district that has allowed schools to set up a wide variety of grading periods. Why, I do not know. Those are definitely conversations we'll be pushing with out directors in the future. In the meantime, that variable situation does not ...

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Hi! I'm trying to figure out how to best create groups within a course with over 200 students and 7 teachers. I set the student size to 4 in each group and also filled in that the students need to be in the same section. The strange thing is, that in...

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I'm a staff member at an institution that's comprised of three schools. I'm trying to write a simple python script to retrieve the current grades for a select group of students to save myself and others the time of doing it manually through the web a...

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This article / post says that institutions must allow teachers to set course logos: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-add-an-image-to-a-course-card-in-the-Dashboard/ta-p/624However, I can't seem to find an article that desc...

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Hi Folks, Was wondering if anybody had any good examples/ideas of explaining the different levels of publishing in Canvas? We're just migrating over at the moment at our uni and we're looking to create a shareable resource to help remind staff to pub...

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Anyone got a solution for when students are trying to log into Canvas and they keep getting the 403 Forbidden Access page. According to our Canvas people in our district there is nothing that can be done that Canvas' server is just too busy but it is...

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@erinhmcmillan I don't see the updated notifications interface. I see the added History button in the Global Navigation Menu. Do I need to do something to enable this update?Thank you!Newbie Admin

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Does anyone have a list of possible items or settings for teachers to use that cleans-up the look of the modules page and condenses the viewing of grades to just that of the current at the end of a marking period? Or any ideas for how to help teacher...

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Hello,If I do not select record the conference before I start it, is there a way to go back once the conference is live and record? Or am I out of luck?Thanks!!!

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I'm trying to get a list of all courses in the "Manually-Created Courses" subaccount, however, courses without an SIS ID seem to not show up in the stock reports.  Anyone have a method to generate a list?

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I am looking for an  highered institution who is using Canvas subaccounts, using Banner as its integration.  We would like to set up this feature and are looking for someone who has implemented this who can spend a little time with our OIT Canvas tea...

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Presently when you upload a quiz from exam view into Canvas, it only uploads to Old Quizzes. With the release notification that Old quiz functionality is going away in Feb 2021, how can we ensure that this process will still be able to take place? We...

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We do not want to allow users to edit their names - especially studentsIs there a way to allow faculty ONLY to update their profile with their titles - and not edit their names?Only see a click to allow users to edit their names in the global setting...

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We have a building where after the original master schedule was made, changes were made and some students were moved to different teachers. When that happened, they were listed with two teachers in Canvas and we went in and deleted the students from ...

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The link structure of all the SCORM links have changed after this maintenance event and they stopped working. Please HELP!

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Hi,This question is for anyone who uses Articulate Rise courses as SCORM packages in Canvas.Last week (Thursday night) we received a ton of e-mails from students who were not able to progress through their courses anymore. In these courses, we use Ri...

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We don't want to delete the account, but not allow them to log in. How to do it?

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Hi there, Personal Pronouns were released back in January 2020, and there was quite a bit of commentary around the release. Has anyone had either negative or positive experiences with enabling pronouns? Did you use the default settings, or adjust to ...

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Has anyone heard about Canvas creating their own Course/Student Evaluations for terms end.  It would be nice to have something integrated into the Canvas program for ease of use.  On the same note, what are others using?

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Hello! Are there are any apps one could use to enable the students to read epub-files directly in Canvas?It would be awesomeif they could open a regular page in a course and then find the e-pub reader ready for use on the course page. Thanks!!Radar

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I am a relatively new district admin for Canvas, but my experience is very limited.  I have a parent who, when they log in via the website or parent app, shows a blank calendar and no upcoming events for the student she is observing.  Her account loo...

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