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I created a matching question for a quiz and made the question worth 8 points (there are eight vocabulary words in the question).  I added it to a test bank.  I then created a second, similar quiz using the test bank but now the item in the bank says...

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I have a teacher who sees the following attached image on one student's submission and not on all the others.  Has anyone ever evaluated this question before?  Does anyone know why this happens?  Why does it have a box around it?  Why does it grey ou...

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Students are posting their original response to a discussion assignment, then they delete it which allows them to see their classmates' responses.  After reading the other students' responses, they write their own. This completely defeats the purpose...

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Hello there, I am currently experiencing a problem on Canvas where the webpage for the site itself breaks to the point where it's impossible to navigate the site using provided text links in random parts of the page. I don't believe the reason it doe...

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I have courses in multiple languages. The grades view fine in all languages that read left to right. When I use Arabic, everything gets flipped right to left per how the language users read (that's not the problem). When I go into the grades section ...

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I set up an anonymous discussion board for my students to discuss the Electoral College during this election week. With how polarized the election is, I wanted to make students couldn't see their peer's responses, but I didn't realize I also wouldn't...

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I can't enter letter grades. Regrade options are wonky. These and several other issues sit for years, but they're pretty basic. The process of submitting something to a community vote or whatever is abysmal.  I shouldn't have to run a campaign to ent...

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I'm looking to create an orientation course for 200-300 new students who join my institute. We have 2 campuses, and two intakes each year. Our orientation course currently runs for over two weeks, but I want to extend it for up to a month and spread ...

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This just started a few hours ago.  When I try to assign something (discussion, assignment, etc), the assign box is greyed out.  I have logged out and in.  Nothing seems to be working. 

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How does one add a video to a course?  I can see a tag on the home front page on my phone for panopto video but I do not see it on the computer

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I was reading about the Canvas Late Submission Policy.  https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-apply-a-Late-Submission-policy-in-the-Gradebook/ta-p/965  How does it work with external tools such as SIMnet when it syncs its score...

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Good morning,In the last week I have had two students submit assignments that they shouldn't have been able to since the assignments were closed.In one case, the assignment isn't set to open till next week, but one student has already posted their wo...

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Hi, There are some inherited developer keys where the names have leading spaces resulting in some issues (e.g. sorting, odd results in Canvas Data). Is it possible for Instructure to remove these spaces, considering that inherited developer keys can ...

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Hi  I have discovered that the download button has been removed from Canvas, when you are adding PowerPoint slides to a Canvas modules, using iframes from OneDrive. It is no probem when you are attaching other Office365 files (Word, Excel, pub etc). ...

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I’m trying to add a profile picture? Where do I navigate in the canvas app to complete uploading my photo? 

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So - I am grading discussions and I realized that it's a bit frustrating.   Like most instructors, I ask students to respond to a post.  HOWEVER, I sometimes ask students to (politely) DISagree with a post.  Even when I ask them to agree, I ask them ...

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I wish that there was a way to hop from one submission to another for a single student. Then the next feature that I would request is to have submissions of two students appear side by side. Sometimes I want to compare their work. In fact, having a t...

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Can I program the Return button in a course to redirect to the Modules list?

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We have installed Accredible to issue certificates to our learners successful completions. Our learners are now clicking on the module link to take them to Accredible to print out their certificate and it is throwing up an error. I have asked the Acc...

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Hi Everyone,The latest update to Canvas has each initial post showing, and under each how many replies. This requires both me as Professor and all students in the class to hit that to open and see the peer posts for that specific initial post.What I ...

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I am an Admin and I still do not have the attendance option. I am having to create multiple "assignments" as a means to record attendance and link it to a Google Doc. Can someone assist with this? Is there a number or individual assigned to regions? ...

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I have about 4 teachers who use Canvas Quizzes regularly. When students go to take a quiz from this teacher, they are having issues submitting their finished quiz. They get the spinning wheel of death. Often, the quiz will be submitted later, but mos...

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We have Canvas Studio for video submissions to assignments. What is the difference between that and "media recording" submissions? Are they the same? Does Media Recordings still have limitations compared to Studio? There is no choice for submitting j...

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Students who are dropped from a course in our SIS (PowerSchool) are still appearing in the course on Canvas as "Inactive."  I've tried removing them from the course directly in Canvas, but they reappear after the roster sync.  Is there a way to not h...

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Hello, All!  We have an instructor at our institution that has made updates to the master course, but when the master course was copied over for her 8-week session, the changes did not copy over.  One example - The instructor updated the unit 1 quiz ...

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Has anyone successfully gotten Microsoft Editor (grammar, spelling checker) working within the Canvas RCE when using Chrome? Microsoft Editor says that adding the browser extension makes it work, but it does not seem to be able to work within the Can...

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If you are an instructional designer at a small private university, and there are four or less instructional designers at the institution, who manages your LTIs (TurnItIn, etc.)? Do you, or does the IT department?

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Hello community, since october 21, we cannot generate the Student Submissions report from canvas, it got stuck in this state (image 1), we tried everything to get it unstuck and nothing works, any  help?         

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  Hi All, I can't stand this ⬇️ and am looking for any and all advice.  Thanks so much, Chérie

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Good day,I’m looking for the correct format to include feedback on individual answers in my multiple-choice quiz.I’ve tried using the @ symbol as well as + or - indicators, but neither approach seems to work. I’ve successfully imported the quiz along...

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