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In my understanding, Canvas only allows peer reviews to be assigned from one individual reviewer to another individual student. However, for group assignments this is often not what's needed. For group assignments, there is only one submission per gr...

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It’s the first time I have online class. I tried  but I couldn’t access the module 1 by iPhone. Is that possible to have online class with N iPhone? Could anyone help me? 

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When writing test questions with "multiple answers" I am only getting two options for grading:1. Partial credit with penalty2. ExactI am not getting the partial credit with no penalty.  My institution is adopting Canvas for the coming fall semester, ...

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My class does not start until next week. The gradebook is showing all of the students' assignments as "Missing," which gives them all a 0% total before the course begins. How do I change this without having to go through each individual student and t...

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I'm new to Canvas and I'm finding the point-based rubrics very confusing for 'thinking' with letter grades. I have a few related questions whose solutions I've tried to search for but I haven't been able to get clear answers. i. Are there any rubrics...

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Announcements - Podcast - what is this? Does it mean the system will send out an email to all enrolled students? If so, why don't you say that? Why call it a "podcast"?

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Our instructors are running end of month attendance reports today and after running the report as shown below, we get a notification that it will be in our inbox as shown in the attached image below. The email never arrives in our inbox. Furthermore ...

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Is it possible to have a question be auto-graded if it's correct, but then reviewed/graded by me if it's wrong? It would be great for students who pass to just get instant feedback and be finished, but I want to give more specific/constructive feedba...

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I am doing a quiz in Classic Quizzes. Ordinarily all of my questions are objective, but I have two essay questions at the end. After I save and return, a big red UNANSWERED appears next to each of the essay questions and I cannot get rid of them. Mor...

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I'm looking for student demographics in my course canvas page. Where do I find them?

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When doing a course copy from a course that has blueprint content pushed to it, will the course copy include the blueprint content (as static content)? Obvously the blueprint course will not automatically sync to the new course, nor would we want it ...

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A faculty member just asked me:  I am wondering if there is a way to clean out the Files sections in some of the courses I support more efficiently. Is there a way to tell from the Files section if something is in a Module? Or some way of telling if ...

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When creating a New Quiz there is an option to assign total points, and when you click Build to create the questions there is an option to assign points per question. If the points per question do not match the total points for the quiz. When the stu...

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Hi everyone,I’m currently in the process of creating a new course and have been using the Canvas tutorial video as a reference. I noticed that the video states it will expire in December 2025, and I wanted to ask if there is a more updated version av...

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We are using OpenStax textbooks in many of courses. We are also trying to keep the students in Canvas so we embedded the chapters of the OpenStax textbook in pages. The issue us that since the textbooks chapters are so long, we have a scroll bar insi...

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There's a student in my class who dropped on March. After she dropped, she automatically disappeared from the Canvas. However, I want to get all the grading I gave to her right now but I cannot find any record on Canvas. I selected inactive students/...

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I am teaching a course called Mathematics for Programming.  As a part of that, I am teaching about logic and truth tables.  I would like to give quizzes that included formula questions about boolean functions.  The only function I've been able to fin...

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We are new to using Canvas here for the US Coast Guard. We have different officer accession courses, but we use many of the same files and question banks. Is there a way of sharing these same files and question banks or transferring them both from on...

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I am entering a large amount of content onto a page in the rich text editor, and there is quite a bit of mathematics taken from LaTeX source. I enter the math surrounded by the standard \(…\) delimiters. If I save the page at that point, all works sm...

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Hi This seems like a "no brainer" to me, so not sure why it is as challenging as it is. I have staff who have video submissions in Canvas that they need to access as they are required as evidence for moderation. Accessing these videos seems to be cha...

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I need an algorithm for rounding whole numbers in a quiz. Is that possible to do? For example, the number is 405 and I want the student to round to the nearest hundred.

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I feel certain that Spring 2025, I was able to set a specific time and date (ex: Friday at noon) for the course to automatically publish so students could see it. Now, I can't remember how I did that, nor am I finding the answer in a guide. I do know...

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Hi all,I've enabled the Google Gemini LTI in our Canvas test instance according the setup instructions here - https://support.google.com/edu/assignments/answer/15672747?hl=en#turn-on-gemini&zippy=%2Cturn-on-gemini-lti-as-an-authorized-external-toolI ...

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After uploading SVG files as a part of our standard course design process, the files are no longer viewable. SVG files that had already been uploaded are still viewable, but only files uploaded as of today are corrupted in Canvas. The files are not c...

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Hey everyone, I hope you all are doing well!I'm a rising second year instructor and grad student at my university.  I've never had an issue with this last year so I was curious if anyone else has dealt with this before and knew a solution.On a lot of...

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I am an instructor and want to use Student Annotation as the submission type.  My question is - can students copy and paste into a comment?  In other words, can they get AI to write the comment and then copy and paste it into Student Annotation assig...

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How do I (admin) access the data from an institutional outcome? I need to download the results from an outcome.

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I am an instructor reveiwing a student's previous exam attempt scores. The student failed their attempt, and we can review the attempt to provide test mentoring prior to their next retake attempt. I briefly saw the exam attempt, question by question,...

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 Hi Brains trust... Why does it show an unmarked document in the marks position when the submitted document has been marked and is complete... I'll attach pics... first pic is what I see then second pick is when I click on drop down box... TIA...!!! ...

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I don't know if there is already a similar inquiry like this one. In the Pages link, would it be possible to have a sub-info or a note if the Page(s) belongs to a certain Module? This is similar to the Assignments link, where an assignment has module...

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