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I am trying to create a quiz in which students will read a passage that has missing sentence parts.  Students will need to click a drop down list and choose the correctly worded sentence part and then continue reading.  Each passage would have 4-5 se...

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Our instructors report that when they: Go to CalendarGo to Undated AssignmentsDrag and Drop an Assignment to a Due Date Square The default time is off. Most are set to 1 or 2 in the a.m. I have checked the Default Time setting for the course and it i...

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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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When creating a discussion Podcast Feed, I am not able to edit the button next to reply to link the Topic: Podcast Feed button. How do you edit this and link your podcast?  Currently when I click on that button it shows:  <?xml version="1.0"?> <rss v...

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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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Is there a way in the Canvas Gradebook when setting up a course to view the total points as a column to ensure that the course totals a certain number (i.e. 1,000 points) and no errors were made? Or, is the only way to manually add every assignment/e...

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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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Hello!I use this code to embed HTML files: <. iframe src="link to uploaded file here" width="1000" height="600"></iframe.  >And now, after the new file update, each page has this bar across the top (which students accidentally close and lose the inte...

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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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With the phasing out of the old/legacy Course Analytics, I've been left trying to figure out how to quickly and efficiently determine the # of missing assignments a student has.The legacy version of Course Analytics included this information in one o...

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I find it incredible that Canvas doesn't allow the batch editing of assignment options like it does with dates or a limited setting like points. If I want all my assignments to use the same options (how many attempts, if feedback offered, keep the be...

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Hi Canvas Community! I am trying to set up an assignment where students will upload their submission but I will not grade it and it will not appear in their gradebook. I essentially just want them to upload their PPTs by a certain date then I will pu...

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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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The top five colours in the colour palette disappeared (macOS, Windows; Safari, Chrome, Firefox). The palette is a rectangle cropped by the top row of colour swatches. How do we get the full palette back? Also, once our teachers' laptops are restarte...

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So I haven't been able to figure this out and so I am humbly seeking the wisdom of the masses. I have page where I would like to have some separation between tasks. However, I am unable to get the text to align directly underneath the headings. Unfor...

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Hi all,We've encountered a recurring issue in Canvas where students are blocked from progressing in a module due to unmet prerequisites—usually a required quiz score—even though the Gradebook shows they've met the requirement.When a student attempt t...

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I am designing a course that the administrator created a uniform set of templates to utilize. They were organized under a singular module labeled 0 Template - X for each type of discussion, page, etc. I used "Copy to" to create copy of this and used ...

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The color options for highlighting appear to have changed to largely dark red, dark green, and purple (no yellow or lighter colors). This seems to defeat the entire purpose of highlighting, as the text can barely be read. Making a custom highlight co...

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I'm busy testing the self-assessment tool, unfortunately i'm able to assess my self as a student, but unable to submit the results (this button is missing). Are there any problems known at the moment? 

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SpeedGrader, accessed froM Assignments, requires "Select Group to Grade" be picked from a pull down menu. By default The menu is empty. One must assign students to Groups. I want to grade all students so I need to create a group that contains all stu...

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Can you apply a ready-made-template to courses that have already been built? I want to start building my courses now and just learned that a ready-made-template will take some time to arrive in my instance. Any advice on this is appreciated!

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When you put a lot of videos on a single Canvas page, the page can become very slow to load due to several common reasons: Each embedded video loads separately. Every video you embed (especially from platforms like Canvas or similar) requires its own...

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I see that in the Admin > Permissions view, I can disable the ability for students to create web conferences in Courses. This is valuable, since I don't want students in group project courses to create a conference and unknowingly invite the entire c...

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Hello, It's very possible this question has been answered elsewhere, and I am just not looking in the right place.  Any guidance would be greatly appreciated! I'm new to New Quizzes.  I have been using Classic Quizzes for years and feel I might need ...

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Did the topic about having a choice for module headings come up in the past? I'd love to visually color-code different parts of my classes. Any suggestions?

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Context: I am assisting with management of a placement test administered in a "course" through Canvas. Students self-enroll.  We are using sections to distinguish between placement test takers in different years. Currently, new students who self-enro...

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