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Our instructors are running end of month attendance reports today and after running the report as shown below, we get a notification that it will be in our inbox as shown in the attached image below. The email never arrives in our inbox. Furthermore ...

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Has anyone had issues using the peer review? I have found it a little difficult to use: the link to access the submission to review is not obviousthe submission doesn’t appear in the preview window, only a linkthe assignment moves into Past Assignmen...

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I'm looking for student demographics in my course canvas page. Where do I find them?

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When doing a course copy from a course that has blueprint content pushed to it, will the course copy include the blueprint content (as static content)? Obvously the blueprint course will not automatically sync to the new course, nor would we want it ...

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When creating a New Quiz there is an option to assign total points, and when you click Build to create the questions there is an option to assign points per question. If the points per question do not match the total points for the quiz. When the stu...

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Hi everyone,I’m currently in the process of creating a new course and have been using the Canvas tutorial video as a reference. I noticed that the video states it will expire in December 2025, and I wanted to ask if there is a more updated version av...

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There's a student in my class who dropped on March. After she dropped, she automatically disappeared from the Canvas. However, I want to get all the grading I gave to her right now but I cannot find any record on Canvas. I selected inactive students/...

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We are new to using Canvas here for the US Coast Guard. We have different officer accession courses, but we use many of the same files and question banks. Is there a way of sharing these same files and question banks or transferring them both from on...

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Hi This seems like a "no brainer" to me, so not sure why it is as challenging as it is. I have staff who have video submissions in Canvas that they need to access as they are required as evidence for moderation. Accessing these videos seems to be cha...

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When I do a Course Search, the past term dates are all jumbled in the search function. The term dates should be putting them in year order but they are not and I see it there a couple of times. What can be done so there is a year order to the Past En...

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I feel certain that Spring 2025, I was able to set a specific time and date (ex: Friday at noon) for the course to automatically publish so students could see it. Now, I can't remember how I did that, nor am I finding the answer in a guide. I do know...

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Hi all,I've enabled the Google Gemini LTI in our Canvas test instance according the setup instructions here - https://support.google.com/edu/assignments/answer/15672747?hl=en#turn-on-gemini&zippy=%2Cturn-on-gemini-lti-as-an-authorized-external-toolI ...

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After uploading SVG files as a part of our standard course design process, the files are no longer viewable. SVG files that had already been uploaded are still viewable, but only files uploaded as of today are corrupted in Canvas. The files are not c...

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How do I (admin) access the data from an institutional outcome? I need to download the results from an outcome.

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I am an instructor reveiwing a student's previous exam attempt scores. The student failed their attempt, and we can review the attempt to provide test mentoring prior to their next retake attempt. I briefly saw the exam attempt, question by question,...

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I'm retiring from my college this month, but I still want access to my material.  How does that work?

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Hi,   I've got this question, enable item/s on course navi panel is easy, but does Canvas Admin can set up course navi panel that applies to all courses under one account/sub-account?    Cheers,Pitt

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Buenos días, espero que estén muy bien Solicito ayuda por favor para identificar en qué informe masivo puedo obtener el campo de "Actividad total",  donde se ve el tiempo total que ha invertido en su curso. Muchas gracias

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We have 2 apps called Auralia and Musitian (same provider), they recently reached out to say that our names where showing incorrectly on their side e.g.Givename: SmithSurname: MaryWe check all the configuration for our users and the only thing we cou...

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I've been doing quite a bit of work in creating a comprehensive style for my institution. A lot of the work was done in setting up custom CSS classes, so that the average teacher simply needs to put in code like the following:<h1 class="heading-dark"...

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I have this new course based on science experiments and learning how things work. Do you mind if I promote it here on the Instructure Community? To help you write a simplified reply, here are some criteria: Criteria 1: Educational Canvas Course Work:...

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Hola, soy profesor en canvas, en uno de mis cursos registre las calificaciones de mis alumnos de cada una de sus actividades durante el periodo, hoy que entre a registrar el segundo período ya no está las calificaciones registradas previamente.¿Cómo ...

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Greetings friends! I am the new LMS admin for a new program and we are focused on non-credit, credentialling courses geared towards working professionals. Our institution is not able to award Microsoft licenses as these are external users in short co...

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We have run into an interesting problem where various pieces of HTML are causing issues with their file path references are not changing when the course content is copied to a new course.It appears that the reference (in this case an audio file) in t...

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We have tried to import outcomes at the institutional level.  We can only see the groups.  None of the outcomes are showing.  What are we missing here?

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   I cannot assign a due date to the class for the 18th because the "section" ends on this day even though class still runs until 20/6. Is there any way to solve this? See screenshot below:

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How are institutions handling multiple users logging in during exams on Canvas? We use the Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor. We recently discovered user (student) ability to share Canvas access at different locations. Enabling others to complet...

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Hi,I would like to get in touch with the Customer Success Manager for our organization.I am currently facing an issue with uploading files to a course. As the IT support for our organization, I have investigated the problem and tried every possible w...

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I am petitioning to keep most of the current Canvas Overview videos or for Canvas to update them.  The "shorts" in the Guides are not the best.  A lot of them are AI-generated and basically read the Guide.  It takes forever to find videos for the sam...

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Hi all, I understand there is no quick way to transfer grades from one class in an account to another for the same student who has swapped classes with the same assignments. I know it can be done using an export and import (this is the method we use ...

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