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Hello - I'm trying to find a student pairing code so I can add my child to my canvas account.  However, when I go to my account and then settings, the option to "Pair with observer" is not there - how can I add my child then? Thank you.

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I am an administrator. We need some faculty doing work for the program to be able to see student work from courses but not see their grades. Is there any way to give someone access to all submissions but not grades or feedback? I am not sure if this ...

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I would love to open the quiz bank and search for any question that references a specific concept--the Greek idea of phthonos, for example, or any reference to "deconstruction" in any quiz question.  If this is possible, I have not found out how to d...

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Does anyone know how to either hide old courses or change list of courses in the View Grades tab to just show current first?  I have been using Canvas for 6 years and have not had this issue until this current school year.  I was observing two studen...

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I am  a Teacher's Assistant for a course and wanted to change the timings for my office hours, just wanted to know if people get notified when i change the simple syllabus or would i have to send out messages to the entire class about the change i ma...

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I received a pairing code from my student's teacher but when I signed up, I think she paired me with her account and made me a student instead of an observer for my student. I deleted her courses (I think) and now I don't have the option to use my st...

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I have a student who started test and was kicked out immediately. There is no record of her attempt in "Moderate" section however, I can see her attempt in Proctorio gradebook. The poor student is waiting. How can I reopen it in moderate tab when the...

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Hello, I think it would be helpful for there to be a "Mark As Read" button on the Canvas Notifications email when there is a discussion post. I usually read all of the posts there and then later see in Canvas that I have multiple unread posts only to...

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Is there a way to mark "all entries" as "Read" in threaded discussions? For graded discussions, I use the "Speed Grader" interface (with a rubric). After I grade all the entries, I need to go back to the Discussions and "read" the entries so Canvas m...

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When I enter comments in the "Assignment Comments" section of a quiz through the speedgrader, line breaks in the comment disappear after I submit the comment and the comment appears as a wall of text. (See the attached images.) I tried viewing the co...

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I am looking for a way for tutors to give feedback to students without being able to access grades. Currently, if they want to use SpeedGrader to give feedback to help a student with their work, they also have access to grades as these permissions ar...

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Hello, We have recently begun using the Observer role in some courses to link student mentors and tutors with students in need.  However, we're running into an unforeseen issue. Some observers are also students in the same class.  When they look at t...

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Why can't i download reading resources from my students courses? When I try and enter my email and password for canvas it says my password is incorrect.  Does the observer login not allow for down loading? 

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I frequently disappointed at having to use the Gradebook through a "letterbox" view on a large monitor.  Many of the list-based screens in Canvas are restricted to a pixel height, which results in a table of only 10 rows (with a scrollbar), when the ...

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My two kids are in the same grade, same school. I set myself up as an observer for both of their accounts.  When i log into canvas and view their pages, the UI is almost completely different. On the left panel, Student A has Home, Subjects, Calendar,...

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I accidentally created a student account instead of a parent account. Now, when I try to create a parent account with my email address, Canvas won't let me do so because it says the email address is already in use. How do I resolve this error?

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Is there a way to separate only missing assignments in the Dashboard view or any other view in the application?

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I had 5 merged courses into 1 spanish course.I gained one class from TEACHER A (Zavala) and they gave one of my classes to TEACHER B.   Zavala's class that I gained now appears on my canvas dashboard. When I attempt to merge Zavala's class into my Sp...

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Hello Hive Mind, I am told that Canvas has the basic functionality as Kami. I need my students to be able to write on PDF's and than resubmit them to me for grading. I for the life of me can not figure out how to do that. Does anyone have a quick how...

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I have a teacher whose course is published, but the parents cannot see the content in the canvas parent app. Any suggestions? 

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I would really like to hear your personal experience with the Canvas inbox in regards to two points. The first being how it is mostly used between parents, students and teachers. Who uses it the most and for what purposes? Secondly,  in your district...

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Hello Dear Reader!I'm struggling to get my code block to save and display properly when utilizing the embedding function in a Page; it quite literally only saves and runs the first 27 lines of code.Any suggestions or fixes?Code:"""<!DOCTYPE html><htm...

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Why did the assignment and quiz due dates change locations? Extra clicks? "Manage Assign?" It doesn't make very much sense.

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In trying to fine tune some account permissions & roles, we are wanting to give the ability for a faculty member to add a support person to their course in an observer role to help consult or troubleshoot their course, but we don't faculty to be able...

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Why can only instructors get access to the conversion tool of PDF or document, changing it into the alternate download form of mp3 or audio file?

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I've recently been exploring Observer Accounts and Pairing Codes.  We have a program at our school where some students have a mentor who comes along with them to classes (physically and virtually) and assists them in understanding and completing assi...

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Hello, I submitted an assignment on canvas before a due data and all seemed normal. I checked a few days later and it said 'missing' but my assignment pdf was showing up as an attempt so I thought it was just some sort of simple glitch. Now that the ...

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Is there any possibility of enrolling multiple users to a course through Canvas live APIs.If yes , How to do that ?

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I seek to create the capacity to monitor and control a live social seminar in an in-person class on the Canvas platform. Testing the following functions has not been successful. Any help from the community would be very much appreciated.  The require...

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When observers receive a notification, the embedded link takes them to the student/staff sign-in page.  Can that be changed to include the observer login page?

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