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I am trialling marking assessments within Canvas and this requires me to annotate a task sheet as well. I have asked students to upload a task sheet in addition to their assessment but it is making them all appear to have high similarity. Is there a ...

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Help!My quizzes show up everywhere but on the home page. They are in the gradebook too. But I need to get them onto the home page.

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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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When I embed an image into a Canvas page, I would like to add a caption (not just alt text), sometimes with an attribution and/or link to the image's source. Is that possible?

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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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I'm trying to add a rubric to an assignment where I can use the free-form commenting feature. However when I check the box and click Update Rubric, it doesn't save.    Why is this setting not saving? Is there something I'm doing wrong or is this an...

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I'm an instructor and I want to use the Front Page to orient students to my class, including a brief video they should watch first and then tabs linking them to the Syllabus and Modules. I know how to embed a video and course links, but I've seen som...

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Does embedding videos take up storage space in canvas? Or are they loaded from a third party website. Would including a lot of embedded videos in my canvas course make the course too large to import or export? 

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Hello all,In a bit of a pickle, I have a student saying that they submitted an assignment right before the due date and saw the “confetti” pop up. However, on my end it showed that there was nothing submitted, so naturally I assigned a zero for missi...

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Is anyone else experiencing new problems with the assignment rubrics? It no longer works when I want to select the "freeform comment" box, it automatically unselects when I try to update the rubric.

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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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Using the web version of Canvas, I'm having an issue assigning a Canvas Classic Quiz to both a class section and some individual students. Then I save the Quiz, Canvas splits the class section and the students into different Assign To blocks. This a...

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One of our teachers would like to create a kind of Wiki based on the questions from students. Instead of sending emails, the students would ask questions in a public forum, and the teacher could provide the answers there for everyone to see. They tri...

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Hello! I have a journal entry in my imported course that does not have the option for a due date or a score (in the gradebook). This is my first time using Canvas at my school. Any advice is welcome. Laura

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I have 30+ past courses that are listed by semester in my canvas list of all courses.  I would like to be able to create folders to organize these past courses into so I do not have an extremely long list of past courses.

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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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Is there a Canvas role that does not receive announcements? My colleague wishes to look at my documentation in my modules. I don't necessarily want them to receive my announcements. Can I add them in a particular role so they don't receive them? Than...

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How do I find my Pathway email address?

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Is it possible to see "page comments" that students give one another when peer reviewing ePortfolios? I assumed that as the instructor of record, I would be able to view these comments as I do in the individual peer reviews of files, but I do not see...

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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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Hello! I am an instructor, and my organization is building a number of courses in Canvas in preparation for a public launch later this month. These are adult continuing education courses that are free to the public and have a national audience, so we...

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I am yet to access my assignments/quizzes cause I'm unable to access the IinkedIn link which I'm supposed to monitor my progress with. thanks for all you do.

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I have a quiz that I gave last year that I'd like to use (again) tomorrow morning. I'm working to make it accessible using the Secure Exam Browser but the option doesn't present itself. My questions are: 1) Is it possible that I have to create this q...

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I'm a math teacher, and I'm trying to create a number line in Canvas for a quiz for my students to teach about inequalities. I don't see any way I can make a number line. I'm trying to figure out how to do that, or if Canvas allows you to do that. Ca...

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I'm having a strange issue with a course. I automatically have my grade book mark late submissions with a zero.  However, when the due date passes, the assignments without submissions are not marked "Missing"; they remain "None", and so they don't ge...

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I want to include a short quiz as part of an assignment. How do I do that, and does the number of points earned show up as an Assignment grade?

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