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Hi how do students whose enrolment in a course has expired - see teachers general comments for a quiz? I am not talking about comments under individual questions. But the general comments box that is visible for teachers down the right of the screen....

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Our CSM isn't giving us the help we need. It's been a month of horrible service, slow responses, no responses, a response that includes only the information we already presented, etc.  We need help from someone else. School starts in a week and we ca...

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We are looking for a way to automate attendance entries for a course.  I have a Microsoft Power App that gathers the student data as they check in and puts it into a SharePoint List.  I can export the data as a CSV and manipulate it as needed.  Is th...

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I've contacted the support hotline over 10 times the last 24 hours and each support member states they'll have my CSM contact me. It's been quite some time now. How come out CSM's contact is not located inside our Canvas hub?   All I need is an Oppor...

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TENGO UN IPAD ACTUALIZADO Y NO ME DEJA VER EL MODULO 2 Y LOS SIGUIENTES.SOLO ME DEJA VER EL MODULO 1. ES UN ERROR DE LA APP DE IOS Y DE ANDROID. TENGO TODO ACTUALIZADO. GRACIAS!PD: USO LA APP DE CANVAS CON LA UNIVERSIDAD SIGLO XXI.

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I have looked at a number of LMSs for self-paced compliance courses and a common feature is a view which shows the percentage complete of the course in pages or assignments. Does anyone know if this is possible in Canvas through the native interface....

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I had a student delete another student's comment in a discussion board. That removed the comment entirely and neither I (the teacher) nor the original student author can now see the original comment. This seems like an ethical issue—having the abilit...

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With the change in the Files Structure in the latest update, is there any chance a similar set up could be put into the View All Pages format?  It would make things a lot easier to run a search for pages and even arranging pages a little more into gr...

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Is anyone else exporting data to Faculty 180, from Canvas?  I need to update our Classes Taught in F180, which can be bulk uploaded, but I need to extract the course name, sis id and all Teachers for courses in a given term. I wanted to check before ...

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With a lot a self-paces course work, is there a way to trigger an email when a student completes the course to the correct teacher?

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Hello, At InstructureCon, presenter Sean Mikkelsen showed a tool he called "Eligibility Dashboard." How would I go about acquiring this tool for my school? Thank you.

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Hi! Is there a way to set up a grading scheme in Canvas that relies on multiple criteria, not just final point total, to assign a letter grade? I've been poking around in Outcomes to see if that might help, but haven't been able to finalize a solutio...

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As admin how do I get my theme connected to all the classes?

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I have a use case where I need to add groups of users to a course each semester but they are all external to our Campus. They would not be able to authenticate through SSO. Should I set them up manually? Looking for ideas on how others navigate and m...

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I need some clarification on the status of access tokens if an account is suspended and all associated user sessions are terminated. The info here is not clear and seems to say that even if an account is suspended, and all user sessions terminated, t...

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We are switching our Canvas settings at the account level starting Fall 2025 semester and I want to confirm I am understanding all the various term/course dates and restrictions correctly. Past Settings: courses were synced and automatically publishe...

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Hello! I uploaded grades from one course to another and it appears that the students can't see their grades from the recent upload. Am I missing something? How do i fix it so that they can see them?

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I'm a Canvas Admin and allowed the Differentiation Tags to be enabled in our system. BUT I'm not seeing it in any instructor course based on the Guides. Can someone tell me what's up and why it's not showing up?  Thanks, Jodi 

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In cross-listed courses, is there a way to update all students in an entire section (so students do not have to be updated individually) to see only the students in their section?

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Hello! I have entered an ungraded survey for both of my school courses. I have set up the survey to allow multiple attempts but not sure if they complete part of the survey is that saved so when they go back to finish the survey they don't have to st...

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I am an instructor and have not been able to find anything in Help about this.  I have 6 periods / sections of a course, but all of them will have exactly the same content, assignments, exams, etc.  I would like to combine them into one for student (...

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Suggestion: Please make it possible to change the due date for all the quizzes in a single Assignment group at the same time. Problem: Currently, to change the due dates, I need to do it manually for EACH individual quiz, which is very tedious, as I ...

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We are working on a course template and want to provide faculty with pre-sized banners. Is there a way to add alt text to course images so faculty don't have to do it later? Or is the only way to add alt text through the accessibility checker once yo...

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Hello to the good folks at Instructure,With the launch of the New Files Page, is there a timeline for how long the option to revert to the original interface will remain? I see in the release notes that this button is slated to be temporary.A concern...

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Hola a todos Desde el rol de instructor y de administrador, estoy intentando exportar el CSV que se encuentra en la opción de Evaluaciones/Informes/Análisis de alumnos/Exportar a CSV. Cuando exporto este CSV con el fin de poder ver todas las respuest...

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Canvas Speedgrader date/time stamps do not accurately reflect the date of submissions/resubmissions. The dropdown lists every assignment submission with the date/time of the most recent submission. We can tell the submission dates in the dropdown are...

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I have my quizzes in modules, assigned to everyone with no due date. The students are instructed to use them for practice whenever they want; occasionally, I will verbally some of them. I would like to assign a quiz with a due date for the kids that ...

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I teach multiple classes every semester and my Canvas shells each have a number of pages that inform students about how something works. Many of these pages are the exact same (and I want them to be the exact same) for each class. If I make a change ...

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My gradebook is currently set up to show the module assignments beginning from Module 1-10 and then it shows quizzes and tests at the end of the gradebook when I scroll to the end. I don't want to have to use the "search assignments" feature when loo...

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is there a report that can be run to view a Teacher's activity in a course, as far as deleting and / or hiding/unhiding items? 

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