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I created a quiz with five essay questions. Regardless of which question is #4, that question will not show the text field.I have tried everything: different browsers, different computers (all Macs), cleared cache and cookies, and ensured the questio...

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Is anyone utilizing Outcomes for Institutional Assessment with non-instructors (aka: Assessors) evaluating student artifacts?  If so, we would love to talk to you about your process!  Relatively new to Canvas and working on getting this set up at our...

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Does anyone have experience with creating courses that students can test out of assignments in a module after completing passing a test?After our students complete a module pre-test, we would like for our students to test out of assignments that they...

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I'm trying to add a rubric to an assignment where I can use the free-form commenting feature. However when I check the box and click Update Rubric, it doesn't save.    Why is this setting not saving? Is there something I'm doing wrong or is this an...

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Hello!  For those of you who use some kind of templates (or maybe you don't use templates at all) to give your instructors a sort-of “starting point”, do you make a custom home/welcome page and set that as your “Front Page”, or do you set your Module...

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I am building medical education courses which have multiple modules in one course which focus on a specific content area (3-5 content areas per course). I need to have each content module require 73% pass for the module, in addition to the total grad...

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Hi everyone, Recently, we’ve been exploring early indicators that may reflect student success, and we found that students’ on-time assignment submission rate is a good signal. This aligns with our intuition, as students who submit assignments late or...

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Syllabus needs to be exportable/printable. The linked post proposes solid explanation of problem and solution. how do I "like" this post/solution? I want to vote to have this changed or propose the same thing. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canva...

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When a discussion has the checkpoints option enabled the discussion no longer appears in the bulk date editor. This makes it more difficult to update all the dates for items in a course and makes it more likely a date will be missed. Practice quizzes...

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I am trying to create a user by api in beta instance and expecting the user to receive email notification about account creation but there is no email received. API end point: POST /api/v1/accounts/:account_id/users Payload tried is shown in pic. Pls...

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One of our teachers would like to create a kind of Wiki based on the questions from students. Instead of sending emails, the students would ask questions in a public forum, and the teacher could provide the answers there for everyone to see. They tri...

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Is it possible to send an email to all instructors of a particular term using Canvas? For example I'd like to send an email to all instructors scheduled to teach during our summer term, but want to send that email via Canvas (not our internal email s...

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A professor would like to revise a previous quiz to allow students to re-attempt the quiz.  I searched through the guides and see that there should be options to allow for this (see attached image), but our Canvas is not giving us the option to moder...

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Hello! I am an instructor, and my organization is building a number of courses in Canvas in preparation for a public launch later this month. These are adult continuing education courses that are free to the public and have a national audience, so we...

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Hi there, I have followed this guide to set up a local instance of Canvas for development.The purpose of this was to do integration testing for an LTI tool, so I need to be able to log in with different types of users and check that the tool is worki...

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Is it possible to configure certificate authentication directly in Canvas or can that only be done using a third-party identity provider?  More specifically, can Canvas support CAC authentication which requires installing DoD root certificates on the...

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Hi,We've identified a potential security and privacy issue with SCORM packages uploaded via the SCORM LTI tool in Canvas. When a SCORM package is embedded or added as an assignment, the content is hosted on a public domain (e.g. https://dub.scorm.can...

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We're planning to conduct assessment using Canvas Outcomes, and I'm hoping to find a way to do so using external evaluators. Has anyone used the method of creating an Assessment Shell, uploading artifacts, and assigning roles to evaluators?  Were you...

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Hi Community, Does anyone have a best practice that works for them with regard to unplanned disruptions to a timed quiz?  For example, say your students are taking a 1-hour timed quiz.  30 minutes in, the fire alarm goes off, and everyone needs to ev...

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When we attempt to export an attendance report for some students we get an email with this message:An error occurred when trying to generate your report:Could not find student with SIS ID V144159a In the past i have added a character to the end of th...

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  Hi looking for confirmation on whether all question types display answers when using the print key with answers functionality, specifically the information in Marking notes on Essay style questions   Thanks in advance   Andrew Dwyer  

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Isn't it the luck that we have lost Test Proctoring 3 days before finals on New Quizzes?  Other Yuja users -what options are you offering faculty? It does work with Classic Quizzes, but they would have to reenter the question banks..  Is there a quic...

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Anyone knows how the total activity is calculated for students. Since it's not clear where these numbers are coming from. Preferably if there's a way to calculate them using the data available in the database. 

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Hi Support ,For Several students unable to assign grades as admin/teacher , although assignment is submitted by them , getting following error: "There was a problem updating the submission"Error via API : "user not authorized to perform that action" 

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Hello,My team is attempting to quantify the growth of student enrollment in our course. How can I find the number of students enrolled at any specific date? We would really like to see the data by month.Example January 1- 252 studentsFebruary 1- 289 ...

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I need to unlink my Softchalk account from my Canvas account in the External Tool Softchalk. I used the wrong login for the external tool Softchalk cloud. I need to change the Softchalk account.

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When using a blueprint, with blueprint settings configured to lock the content attribute, but NOT the availability dates attribute, for locked pages, instructors still can't change the to-do date on locked pages in their associated course when those ...

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Hi I would like to make one of the elements on the left side an external link. I currently have one called study update, it was made by a former employee, how do you make them? so they can be on the left side, like files, participants, files etc. See...

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I would like to delete my account. How do I do it?

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