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Hi everyone, I'm looking for basic documentation for the Ally Course Accessibility Report. I have some basic questions that I'm trying to find answers for, but I can't find anything other than local school documentation from various colleges and univ...

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In Speedgrader, the comments now allow teachers to use the RCE tools; however, they can now only see comments made by teachers and students for the current submission.  It used to be the comments made for all submissions still showed up on the new su...

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Hello!  I am about to launch a self-paced course that people can take at any time (no start or end dates).  It is also ungraded.  I do have modules that are set as prerequisites and parts of the modules are set as requirements.  If I need to update/s...

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Hello team   So I am familiar with the reset content button. On the official Canvas guide it states that "Course details and enrollments will remain intact within your course. "My question is which course details will remain intact? Is there a define...

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I want to require students to complete an assignment before proceeding to a group meeting. Currently students are skipping the assignment until after meeting with their group which makes them unprepared for the group meeting. One solution we came up ...

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Is it a possibility to give a moderator certain restrictions such as the moderator ONLY being able to see certain students and modules? We have a course where we need our moderator to check ONLY 2 modules of 3 specific students within the course.   C...

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How much lag time is there between making a change to Canvas, and having that change register in the link validator?

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In 2022 it became possible to message observers matched to students from the Gradebook.  We use this feature to message academic observers (advisors) or students.  However, there is no way to automatically include the names and/or emails of the relev...

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I am trying to fix this: Links to other courses in this resource may not be accessible by the students in this course: 254541?wrap=1  I have several pages (Pages) with the same error number and comment but when I go in either in Teacher View or Stude...

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In the New Quizzes, there is a way to attach a question to a stimulus.  Is there a way to randomize the questions, but ensure that the questions that are attached to that stimulus come as a set rather than an individual question? For example, if a ma...

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The Canvas Studio button is usually supposed to be on my side UI, but it's not there. Is it only available for certain users? And what is Canvas Studio?  

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Hello, Wanted to see if anyone else has encountered this weird issue. An instructor at our institution had an assignment due on Dec 14 at 11:59 PM and saw the next day that multiple students were marked as late in Grades and manually gave them 0s. Th...

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Can anyone tell me wher to turn on the student  self-assessment capability for Enhance Rubrics? It would be nice have videos of such very visual changes.

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Please make it easier to suggest improvements to Canvas.  My understanding based on past experience is that the helpdesk personnel are not supposed to pass on suggestions, and instead instructors are supposed to come to this Canvas community and ente...

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How to change a font in Pages, Discussion, etc.

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Can we make the "View Feedback" button bigger from the students' end? It is so small, my students don't see it or know it's there, especially my online students who are not in the classroom with me to get direct instruction on how to do this.

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Is it possible for 2 courses in the same sub account to have 2 different themes? I cannot seem to find the answer... I have 3 courses in a sub account. Themes are enabled for sub accounts. I have a teacher that wants to change the theme of her course...

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How can you change a student's grade after the final submission? 

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set feedback in content library has disappeared, anytime lecturer goes to add feedback the content library of saved ones disappears and anytime lecturer uses set feedback it wipes out the previous comment. 

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Hello I'm looking for a way where I can assign a rubric to quiz that include same outcome but for different criteria.example in quiz I want to add "criteria1" is out of 4 and "criteria2" is out of 7 and I want their average to be assigned to an "outc...

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Is there a way to sort assignments by date submitted? For context, I am grading a year-round rolling course and would like to grade assignments in the order they are submitted.  (There are no due dates on assignments. I currently use the ‘To Do’ list...

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Can I (instructor) download the full list of assignment grades for every student as a single csv file with New Analytics? Similarly to exporting the gradebook? 

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I have a teacher who "turned on" the Late Policy for missing assignments and it doesn't seem to be behaving the way we would expect.  Our division policy is that the lowest score a student can get is a 50.  So he had it set for 50%.   The issue - it ...

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I have a course with rolling enrollment that students sign up for to use machine shop tools. All students have to periodically complete a safety quiz. All students are currently in a single section and remain enrolled in the course for as long as the...

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Is direct linking HTML pages via Iframe being Blocked in Canvas now? We've had reports this is now showing errors when attempted, however it was working previously.Browser console (Firefox) is showing the following:"Blocked script execution in '<URL>...

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I'd like to be able to mark student assignments as "Submitted" or "Extended" in some circumstances, similar to the "Missing" or "Late" tags. Is there a way to do this?Use model: As a teacher, I want students to clearly see what assignments are missin...

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Do we have the option of reviewing Students' Announcements that they submit in the group Before Publishing Them to the group home page?

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