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Hi all, We've been experimenting using AI to generate quizzes. We now have a working prototype that will generate a QTI file, which Canvas accepts.  When importing this QTI file, there is a number of options when choosing the "default question bank"....

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I'm a very news Canvas user and admin. We have a combination of external students and internal employees who are required to interact with Canvas LMS as a student. We use SSO/SAML to log employes into Canvas. When we enrol employees into Canvas, they...

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Hello,I'm an instructor creating quizzes with short answer and essay-style questions in Canvas. These questions require open-ended responses because students may phrase correct answers in different ways. However, there are still definitive answers th...

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I set up the plagiarism checker for an assignment.I am not getting any response from the checker except a grey exclamation mark. When I resubmit the assignment, here is the response--You don't have enough credits to complete the request (required 11 ...

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Hi, from my subaccount admin access, I set up an alert admin functionality to send a reminder to multiple roles when an activity is submmited and more than a day has passed. As the days go by, no alert is sent. Do you know if there's anything else I ...

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Greetings, I am looking for a high school art teacher group to brainstorm ideas like creating an art gallery virtual tour with student worksheet in Canvas.  I emailed the Houston Center for Photography about accessing their virtual tours for my stude...

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In updating my links to Canvas videos for students, I noticed that the suggested replacement for the "Feedback Overview" video for students is “How Do I View Annotation Feedback Comments from My Instructor Directly in My Assignment Submission?” Howe...

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I have this issue all the time and it's SO frustrating. It just started happening this year (2025, maybe 2024), but never happened before. ISSUE: While typing in Speedgrader, the page briefly bounces (as if a quick refresh has just occurred). Then, n...

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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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I thought that this had been covered in the past but I couldn't find anything while searching this forum. I'd like to know if anything is being done to streamline the student Access Report so that it doesn't show each and every embedded image as thou...

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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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Someone asked a question about the Chrome extension Canvas Quiz Solver already (https://canvasquiz.com/) but the reply from Canvas was not very helpful. Is Canvas itself doing anything about this? Can Canvas make it so extensions don't work while in ...

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Hello All, I have been using Peer Reviews this semester and have run into a problem where students complete the rubric, and when they go in to add comments, Canvas has marked it as "done" and will not give them access anymore. I have worked around th...

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While I love having a Comment Library to house comments for easy insertion in Speed grader for assignment grading, I teach two graduate level courses and have many discussions, assignments, and projects for each class. I currently have over 100 comme...

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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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Currently, Canvas quizzes only allow for a course-wide report. Our course offers 30+ sections each semester with 10+ instructors. I understand that the section data can be induced from the xlsx export, but that is not suitable for immediate feedback ...

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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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When I am in the process of editing pages, I read through the content but then if I want to edit the content, I have to scroll all the way back up to the "Edit" button at the top. Is there a way to place an "Edit" button at the bottom of a page when ...

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The date listed on the calendar for HCI1650 is incorrect.  The date shows 6/27/2025.  However, the calendar should reflect a due date of 8/1/2025. Please advise how to fix.  Thanks

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Hi - trying to get clarification. In Classic Quizzes - if I choose "shuffle answers" I know that will shuffle the answer choices for each question. If I have a few matching questions will the answer options within the matching question be "shuffled" ...

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Hello!I am an independent teacher, not part on an institution/school. I am trying to create a new quiz but when I go to settings-> feature options -> new quizzes, I am not able to enable it (it is greyed out). I have read online that admin have to ap...

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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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The fact that Canvas pulls the percentage match for plagiarized material into the SpeedGrader and puts it in a convenient place right next to the file name is very helpful. However, I have not had a straightforward case of plagiarism in three years. ...

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When grading discussion boards in SpeedGrader, I have a rubric that assesses both an original post and a response post. While I can see the student's original post and response post on the left-hand side of the screen, it doesn't show me the post to ...

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I am having trouble understanding the Canvas grading protocol on Quizzes. Here's an example scenario: The Available From date is Jan 1. The Due Date is Jan 8. The Show Correct Answers is set to Jan 9.  They are allowed Multiple Attempts and Quiz Scor...

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I use rubrics to evaluate assignments. First, I 'hide' the grades in the rubric and only give feedback. When I need to calculate my final grade, I change the rubric and amend it to 'show grades'.Canvas seems to have had an update recently. The view h...

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Hi,  So hopefully this is an easy fix. My school uses A-E marking with an N for non submit or lack of evidence. I am trying to use the rubric marking guide for assessments and I have a 20 point rubric. The calculation of grades is off and I'm struggl...

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The text boxes that students write essay responses in are not reader-friendly.  It is difficult for an English teacher who has to read hundreds and hundreds of essays!  Students should be able to have access to tools, like double-spacing, to increase...

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I often draft announcements in advance. Most of the time, this works fine, and the date I set is the date students see as the posting date. However, I have found that if I edit the draft, then this no longer works. Example: I drafted an announcement ...

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