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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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We have a community for our careers content where we've set up 11 modules. There are no prerequisites for the modules and they can be completed in any order. The community is very large with over 78,000 students enrolled so our support team has set u...

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Hello! New to this position in my Organization and while I am a confident Canvas user, I am new to being a Canvas Admin, and have already blundered a few things. All postings surrounding my question/s point to reaching out to my CMS.... However, I ha...

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Hello, I use Quizzes a lot for different assignments in my course, and it's come to my attention that students can download different browser extensions (e.g., Aceify.ai, etc.) that might give them the answers to the quizzes.  Are there ways we can b...

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We would like to use Rubrics in Canvas with additional conditions, such as a maximum amount of insufficient grades or a minimum of points in selected criteria.For example: max 2 criteria has 1 or 2 points AND the criteria 3, 4 and 5 have at least 9 p...

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Hello everyone!  Is there a preferred document template that can be used for assignment creation?  I.E. a curriculum developer can complete a document and then upload it to Canvas and Canvas creates the assignment from the upload?

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My team of digital education consultants and instructional designers have flagged an issue around the behaviour of items in the Course navigation menu. We've had feedback from local administrators about it causing confusion, particularly when it come...

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Problem Statement The current Canvas Gradebook creates confusion when tracking assignments that require resubmission after instructor feedback. When a student submits work, receives feedback indicating the work is incomplete, and needs to resubmit fo...

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My class has 4 Units, and each unit has 4 quizzes (Classic Quizzes) available to students - they just pick one of the four to submit for a grade (I drop the three lowest scores). Many students open each quiz to see which one they want to do. That mea...

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Recently my campus notified Canvas admins and teachers that there was a new system for manual section enrollment where we could download a csv template, create sections then upload the csv to sort students into the chosen sections. In my program, we ...

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I need to batch move questions between item banks in New Quizzes the way we could in Classic Quizzes. Please prioritize this.

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User: TeacherRecently I use my laptop to use canvas, what I only can see is homepage. I want to see the announcement page, people and conversation page, I am attempting to open any specific page in a blank white page. I've tried troubleshooting by cl...

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Hi, Everyone,Our college reports student grades to academic coaches so they can outreach to the student. Faculty can successfully report a student grade using the following flow of actions. Go to grades (using "grades" on the left column in Canvas), ...

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Our compsci teacher has been an active member of our Canvas pilot. He's pretty interested in thinking about how he can have his students store their programming work in git repositories, and then turn in commits as assignments to Canvas. Is there a t...

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Hi I've been exploring using AI to generate quiz questions. There are two possible uses. Firstly, you can use AI to generate actual questions. For example you could feed the AI some relevant course content, and ask it to generate questions. Secondly,...

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How can I add more Module pages in the left nav bar? Not more modules in the Modules page, but actually more "Modules" links for users to click on. I uploaded my screen shot here to give more visual guidance.

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I  "This video's privacy settings require you to sign into your Guidde account". Why???? Does anyone have a work around?

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We're thinking of turning on discussion checkpoints, but we don't have Modernized Speedgrader, Enhanced Rubrics, or Enhanced Assignments turned on yet. Has anyone in that situation experienced bugs with checkpoints? 

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Hi, I need help. I would like to embed the interactive page of Google NotebookLM into Canvas. Anyone has any idea on how to go about this?   

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In New Quizzes, the Pretty HTML editor within the RCE environment does not seem to be as robust as that within Classic Quizzes or elsewhere in Canvas. In these other locations, the RCE offers colorized HTML tags and autocomplete of HTML tags. From my...

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I have a single question graded survey in Classic Quizzes that is set up to award 5 points to the student if they complete it. When I take the quiz as a student, however, the points show up as 5 points out of 1. Why would this be? Is it getting the 1...

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I am a faculty director at the Berkman Klein Center. I would like to offer an orientation course to next September's incoming fellowship class. May I use Canvas to do this?

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