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It would be helpful to add a feature to the moderate screen that shows each student's quiz progress in real time. Specifically, I’d like to see how many questions they’ve completed out of the total number in the quiz.

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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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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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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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Is there a way to hide discussion board responses until a certain date? One of the courses at my institution has a challenge. Each student is to make a post to the discussion board of their presentation. They are then required to watch the videos of ...

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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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I would like to create quizzes that I am calling "progressive".  In other words, the first question is easy, the student answers it and sees if he got it correct. If not, an explanation comes up.  Then he can do the second question, which is maybe sl...

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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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Our institution has two courses that use Mastery Paths in one module. We have two issues coming up. The first is that in one course using it, all of the assignments in that modules appear for all students in the gradebook instead of just the ones des...

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Hello, I would like to request that Instructure add the `main` HTML element to the allowed list of HTML elements as seen on this Canvas HTML Editor Allowlist page. It's odd to me that they allow `aside`, `footer`, `header`, `details`, and `picture` w...

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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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As of last week, audio files are not playing on Canvas in the iPad application.The files are all mp3 files and regularly play on Desktop/Windows, but when students try to access them on their iPads they do not have the "play" feature or button.Has an...

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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'm finding that the new media player has removed the play/pause button from the controls in quizzes. This is a shot from one of my quiz directions pages. Also, to support my students in quizzes I embedded audio in each question, correct answer, and...

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Good afternoon, I am working with a faculty member who is uploading many QTI files for Item Banks in her program. According to Instructure documentation, Item Banks should be named as the QTI file that is imported into it. It isn't doing so, and I'm ...

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We set up our master courses with the discussions set for the Default Thread State, as seen in the image. However, when we made a copy of this course for the offering that students will be enrolled in, the feature did not copy over. Is there a way to...

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Hi there!I am looking to see if there is a potential asynchronous one-way video interview solution for Canvas LMS? My goal is to use Canvas (or, most likely, some form of tech that can be integrated with it) to facilitate asynchronous viva-style asse...

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Hello!! I hope you all are doing well! I was hoping to reach out to this community for your expertise on a grading issue I am experiencing for a course that I am helping with. The course is designed to give students autonomy over their learning, with...

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Good morning from the East Coast!My role as an instructional designer left me with a question we have not been able to sort through on our end that maybe this will help bring a resolution.Has anyone ever encountered an issue with Canvas Quizzes where...

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The course has students working on a project in groups, and in each group, there are 4 students. One of the assessments requires that the students of each group assess the other members within their group, so each student has to do 3 peer assessments...

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I have been using a website to turn quizzes made with a word processor into a QTI zip file. I have uploaded so many quizzes to Canvas this way. Suddenly the QTI zip file is no longer a choice for me when importing content into a course. I did this to...

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Hello! Many of our instructors here use the Google Assignments 1.3 LTI to have students submit work. Teachers do really like the Google Assignments grading interface, but we're having an issue with students being able to actually see the rubrics for ...

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Hello everybody, we have this issue in our CANVAS, our time zone is Asuncion (-3:00 / -3:00), but it seens there is an error, you configure a quizz with a date and CANVAS save it with one hour +, for example, the time you put is april 4, the canvas c...

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For example:Outcome_PLO_1: the statement was originally set as yadda yadda yadda until Spring2025 Term, but then is later revised to be blah blah blah as of the incoming Fall2025 Term.Outcome_PLO_2: the mastery score is changed from 2 to 3.Outcome_PL...

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Hello All:I've created a script with Claude that will automatically create an IMSCC archive consisting of HTML files. When I load this file to https://common-cartridge-viewer.netlify.app/, everything loads perfectly. However, when I load it to Canvas...

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