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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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How are file folders organized? They don't seem to be in alphabetical or chronological order, just random. With the new look of "All My Files," I am surprised this problem wasn't resolved. If there is some method to the madness, could someone tell me...

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DuckDuckGo (DDG)  is not compatible with Canvas. Will it ever be compatible with DDG? 

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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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For years I have maintained a separate web presence to provide syllabi and other class information to my students before classes start. Additionally, students have an issue when a class ends, and it disappears from their Canvas board. In the latter c...

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I'm looking for the best crossword puzzle that embeds into Ecampus. When I was in college, there was a professor who used one and you could plug and play right on the Ecampus assignment page and get your grade for it right away.  Does anyone have a g...

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I have a student who needs to complete a module early because they will be going out of town. The module is set to be locked until a certain date, and I can't figure out how to set it to a different date for just one student. When I go to "Assign to"...

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I have about 100 qti question banks to import into Canvas. The LMS will only allow selecting one qti zip file at a time, so it takes a long time to do this! Each qti file has 10 versions of a question, and I have about 100 questions over the 3 exams ...

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I have created an account on the Instructure website. I log in on my desktop computer via a browser. I have looked everywhere for the Idea Submission Form. I have asked the Chatbot and searched the Community and all I get is a guideline on how to sub...

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We are switching our Canvas settings at the account level starting Fall 2025 semester and I want to confirm I am understanding all the various term/course dates and restrictions correctly. Past Settings: courses were synced and automatically publishe...

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A student incorrectly uploaded her Practice A remediation to the ATI CMS exam. Is there a way to remove it from the instructor view?  

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When selecting the "Excused" option for an assignment that was not turned in, but excused. Does the platform just remove those points from the student's final grade? How does it affect the student's grade?

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I have IXL assignments throughout my math class that require me to grade them. I would like for students to do them, but for me not to grade them. When I remove the grading, it removes the external link to IXL. Is there any way around this?  So for i...

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In cross-listed courses, is there a way to update all students in an entire section (so students do not have to be updated individually) to see only the students in their section?

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When I copy my courses with a single section, deadlines are easy peasy. I adjust the start date for the course and everything comes out perfectly with all the deadlines moving. I check them, but no extra work.But when I copy my course for the new yea...

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I am having an issue with assignments not opening up in Speedgrader.  There is just the "Spinning Wheel". I have refreshed the page - nothing. I have signed in and out, the same I have tried other courses running, still the same. Tried completed assi...

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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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I did a course copy into a new section. I have done this many times before. This time it copied all my previous students. It never did this before. The title of the course has the old course name. It appears the course copy brought in the old section...

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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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Hello to the good folks at Instructure,With the launch of the New Files Page, is there a timeline for how long the option to revert to the original interface will remain? I see in the release notes that this button is slated to be temporary.A concern...

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About 15 to 20 percent of the time when a student replys to another student Canvas records it as an assignment submission instead of a reply.  I have checked to see that they replyed corrected and they have. Has anyone else had this issue?

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I’d like to request a feature that allows the MyMav Final column, which is currently just a note field requiring manual entry to automatically reflect the Total column from Canvas.As it stands, instructors must manually input every grade, even when C...

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Pardon my logic, but if a student leaves the quiz 125 times while taking a 125-question multiple-choice quiz, should I consider the difficulty the student is encountering with my quiz?Is it not an issue of integrity when this happens and the student ...

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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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I type robust comments to students using the assignment comment box in Canvas. I start typing in the box, canvas refreshes on its own, and the cursor is no longer in the box. I type fast and when I look at the box, none of my typing has been entered ...

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