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Is it possible to download all of the users in my domain in one CSV? I don't have classes as a District admin, and cannot find in the Community how to download everyone. I want to batch create Sandbox courses for 4K+ teachers, and have the template f...

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Can someone help me make life easier for my students?  Right now there are three different options for the to submit through Google Drive.  Correct me if I'm wrong here, but Google LTI 1.3 is the preferred way, right?  If so, I'd like to get rid of t...

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We are not receiving the Title and Description claims from Canvas in the External Tool.  These fields are filled in in the Developer Key but when printing these out on the External Tool side I see this: [https://purl.imsglobal.org/spec/lti/claim/reso...

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We are using Canvas for all course grading but not all course administration, and I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this.  Basically we want enrollment and grading to be done through Canvas, but do not necessarily want to publish the course...

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Under Permissions->Course Roles, I have given the Teacher role the permission to Manage Courses (including add/edit/delete courses). Under Permissions->Account Roles, the Admin Account has permission to do the same (as is default). Under Settings, un...

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Hi Everyone,  Coming over from Blackboard I was really happy to see that the Quiz feature of Canvas had a decent Timer setup, that appears to keep counting down regardless if student leaves the test environment, and I had believed that this would the...

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On multiple occasions, I've accidentally clicked on the white space underneath the drop-down or text box above the "Show only blueprint courses" checkbox. Due to the styles set on the checkbox, the label for the checkbox extends nearly the entire len...

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I'm trying to log into my Beta and Test instances, but the MFA codes are not being pushed to my cell. I tried using the back-up codes logged within my Canvas profile, but those didn't work. Then I added Canvas to my Authenticator app so codes could b...

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We have been in the process of testing our ILP/SIS integration which is working well for our transcript courses. However, we have a question on how to send our enrollment over for non-transcript courses. In Sakai via sftp we maintained 8 cohort roste...

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What is the easiest way to limit student navigation options for all courses? We would like hide navigation links in the sidebar so that students only access home, modules, and grades. I know how to do this in a single course in the settings, but can ...

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Since the beginning of April, when students work on a Nearpod through the Canvas External Tool, they are having trouble writing and moving text boxes.  When they try to write, the whole screen moves and their lines are jagged.  This seems to only hap...

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Is there a Slack integration for Canvas? Trying to setup Slack in Canvas so that discussion board information is pushed to Slack channels, to save us time from logging into Canvas to check the discussion boards. Is this possible? I've already setup a...

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We are moving to a different SIS and in order to do so, I need to update all our current users with different usernames and potentially emails. In the past we allowed students to pick their own usernames and their email preferences, but the new syste...

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I am a Canvas admin but not a programmer, so I usually cross-list courses manually. But I have a number of courses with sections to be cross-listed, so I would like to try using the SIS import process. What fields do I need to include to make the cro...

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Hello We are looking at using the API to create a process to pull final grades from Canvas into our SIS and wanted to talk to those who have created this for their institutions. We are using Colleague but are just beginning the process of determining...

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As a district Canvas admin, is there any way for me to give teachers the ability to make a course a blueprint course from one of the manually created courses that they are already able to generate? I went in my admin settings> permissions> account ro...

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The new analytics feature in the course can pull page/content views by student for the previous 14 days. Is there a way to run this report for the entire life of the course? 

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We currently use Honorlock as our University solution for identity verification and proctoring. As we have had some questions about data we've been provided and integration with New Quizzes is an issue we are exploring other options. We are curious w...

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Can anyone share your experiences using LaTeX in Canvas? If the instructors are using LaTex, can they then just copy and post the LaTeX code into the Canvas equation editor?  Thanks very much. 

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Hi. I am having an issue with the grading rubric and I was wondering if anyone else is having the same issue? When I create the rubric and I click the range the program automatically calculates the numbers for me and will not let me adjust them. For ...

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I was happy to see that institution now have the ability to prevent instructors from intentionally changing term dates. However, institutions should also be able to prevent the overriding of SIS term dates when instructors make a copy of a course usi...

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Hi Is it possible to change the participation setting within Course Settings from Term to Course via either the API or SIS import? I've looked through the documentation but been unable to find anything. Also, I've tried uploading a sis import to upda...

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Estimados, Tengo un curso gratuito y deseo agregar el chat pero no tengo esa opción. Por favor su ayuda. Gracias

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Is it possible to move courses from a subaccount back to root level via SIS Import? We have a group of courses that are going to be blueprint courses so they need to be moved to the root level. Since this is many courses I want to use SIS Import but ...

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Hello, Our institution, Heriot-Watt University, is piloting the use of Portfolium. I have the role of administrator and I am developing a complex pathway in which the requirements are repeated for each of the milestones-which correspond to developmen...

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Hi, I can't delete files with rest api because it shows "Unauthorized to delete this file".. for example: DELETE /api/v1/files/893654 and the token. And this is the message returned:  [message] => Unauthorized to delete this file. Why is happening th...

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Are any institutions using external content management systems to create and manage their content? We've had some requests to investigate this so we can push content to various LMS' easily and to manage content more effectively. Any suggestions or re...

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Good morning Admins, We will be using a new 3rd party tool for our syllabi for the Fall term.  We have disabled the native Canvas syllabus tool in our templates.  The issue is that although it is disabled, it still shows in navigation for the Instruc...

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Hello - Has anyone created an API to integrate Assignment Group Grades from Canvas to their SIS?  We are using a Gradebook to calculate Final Grades in our SIS, similar to how Canvas calculates the final grades.  We have several key reports built aro...

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Hi all I want to hide course authors from our pages/discussions/assessments etc. Our pages are all collaborative, so makes no sense to have the name of the person who first set it up. Can anyone help me with how this can be done? Many thanks, ELLPIP ...

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