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Hello everyone, Could you please help me with this issue? The lecturer has created 10 group discussions for 10 groups in his course, and students have uploaded their posts in group discussions. However, students couldn't see their posts in their grou...

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Hello, I would like to create a grading scheme that eliminates percentages all together.  I want to use a 4 point scale and have a 4 equal a 4 and NOT 100%.  How can I make that happen? Thank you. Raquel Littleton-Nelson Archie Williams High School

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I've created some new sub-accounts and added an existing Canvas user as Admin for each sub-account. When these sub-account admins go in and create a course from scratch, they always go into "Manually Created Courses." They do not have the option to c...

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Has anyone encountered any issues with the Google Drive resource key update. My very vague recollection is that the Google-delivered integration relies on these kinds of links. The timing is not great.

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I added an image to an announcement, but when I received the notification email the image was not included. Is this the expected behavior for announcements?

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Hello everyone, I would like to notify you that we have a Scheduled Maintenance planned for August 14, 2021. Turnitin will take a 2 hour maintenance window on August 14, 2021 from 08:00-10:00 PDT, 16:00-18:00 BST, 01:00-03:00 AEST (Aug 15th) [go to h...

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I've built a custom navigation link using the redirect tool, but I want the link to be available only to teachers.  How might I go about this?

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Do blueprints import lockdown browser requirements to each copied course?

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Good morning Canvas community, As we ramp up to a full Canvas rollout for Semester 1 2022, I was wondering if any members might have a solution for this: We have a small number of courses (Subjects / Units) that are Ungraded. That is, they are PASS o...

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Hello! Having a bit of trouble with the REST API. We are attempting to get a singular user from an API, but need to do so from a specific field, that field being the login_id. We have found success is using this call:     {domain}/api/v1/users/sis_us...

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I've set everything as the guide doc. tellls but it still get errors here.  " For improved security the Approved Domains section of the LTI Pro configuration page needs to be configured   " Redirect to Zoom... If you can not launch LTI Pro, please c...

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Hi, I am an account admin. I came across this page in a training video, and the instructor said that it would be under the "Admin Settings" section of the instance. However, I cannot find this page. I am trying to ensure that Direct Share is enabled ...

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I made an error and locked some modules that were rolled out to our campus. Is there any way to allow instructors to edit the locked modules after they are published or is there a work around? Thank you.

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I am having trouble formatting a value array in Postman to post a Global Announcement to specific roles using the "account_notification_roles" as referenced in the Create a Global Announcement API. The documentation doesn't give much of an example an...

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We are doing a review of roles and permissions in our instance of Canvas. Right now, we have a list of all permissions and are hoping to apply a risk level or rating to each permission. Has anyone done this kind of thing before, and do you have a ris...

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We have a connection with Ellucian Banner ILP for Grade Retrieval and receive an error that the grade is not valid when submitted from Canvas to Banner ILP SIS ID: 60013.202160Research Ethics (ETH-60302-01)Teacher: Julie Aultman Steps: Proxy in as Ju...

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Hi, I cannot get outgoing emails work so I cannot add any user to my Canvas instance. I've set up the instance via Bitnami on Azure, and configured the SMTP settings exactly like I did with my Discourse instance, using my company's Google SMTP Relay ...

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I imported these courses into our Canvas instance, and configured Badgr. I created my college as an issuer, and imported all of the badges from Instructure manually. I'm wondering if for future reference, is there a way to simply use Instructure Trai...

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Hi I have had the occasion when a tutor has forgotten to add the rubric to an assignment which had a Turnitin type submission, this was noticed when they went to use speed grader to mark the student submissions. Up untill recently it was not a issue,...

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I had a faculty member say that suddenly the "Reset Course Content" button is gone in their settings menu. They contacted Canvas support and were told that Canvas admins at their school removed the permission and they are the only ones who can reinst...

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Hi All, New to the Canvas Community.Have had a request to disable students ability to nickname their courses. Found an old post from 2018 but wondered if anyone has done anything with this? Regards MarcCanvas AdministratorICT Leader

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Hey Ad-miners, My understanding of alt text is that if the image is selected as "decorative", then screen readers don't "see" it. Just random checking a page in Student View, and lo and behold, Microsoft Immersive Reader is reading the alt text of a ...

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I have the Box.com LTI tool configured on our site and it works in some contexts, but not others. Instructors adding documents to Canvas courses using Box works. Adding links to documents in the RCE works, etc. Where the problem comes in is if an ins...

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I posted a fix for the admin courses page (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Admin-Discussion/Blueprint-Checkbox-on-Courses-Page-Fix/m-p/461993), which works in my beta environment, but does not in the production environment. Has anyone else ...

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Hello Admins,  Checking to see how you handle monitoring of LTIs.  I know I can subscribe to a vendors status page individually, but is there something on my side I can use to make sure all the LTIs are behaving and not throwing errors.   Thanks, Jus...

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I receive a LOT of requests from faculty to merge their like-courses in Canvas, which isn't a big deal in itself. However, we are now coming across more & more issues the divisions having to cancel & merge courses on their end the week before the sem...

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Not sure if I'm overlooking something, but is there a way to change the number of results shown when I search for users? It seems to be limited to 15 results per page. It would be nice to be able to select some different options, like 25, 50, 100 or ...

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Hello, I am the administrator of the Portfolium platform that Heriot-Watt University (located in Scotland) have started to pilot with several programmes. There have been some issues regarding the SSO integration Canvas-Portfolium for the automatic cr...

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All of the sudden our teachers are not seeing  the old courses list in the drop down.  The only courses showing up for the teacher I am working with is  last & current term.   She is looking to copy content  from older courses.    Thank you       

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New to Canvas, near the tail end of implementation. Banner school using ILP integration. Need to pull student activity reports for fully online program courses. Due to the way Banner is set up, the courses are created in department sub-accounts which...

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