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How do I revert to default notification settings for courses. I’m not receiving notifications and earlier had blindly reset my notification settings before I understood the Canvas program and procedures.  Still absorbing the processes. Thanks   About...

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I noticed a disclaimer stating that this video would be retired in December of this year.  It then mentions something about "shorts".  Where are the shorts???

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I've contacted the support hotline over 10 times the last 24 hours and each support member states they'll have my CSM contact me. It's been quite some time now. How come out CSM's contact is not located inside our Canvas hub?   All I need is an Oppor...

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I am trying to create a quiz in which students will read a passage that has missing sentence parts.  Students will need to click a drop down list and choose the correctly worded sentence part and then continue reading.  Each passage would have 4-5 se...

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TENGO UN IPAD ACTUALIZADO Y NO ME DEJA VER EL MODULO 2 Y LOS SIGUIENTES.SOLO ME DEJA VER EL MODULO 1. ES UN ERROR DE LA APP DE IOS Y DE ANDROID. TENGO TODO ACTUALIZADO. GRACIAS!PD: USO LA APP DE CANVAS CON LA UNIVERSIDAD SIGLO XXI.

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Our instructors report that when they: Go to CalendarGo to Undated AssignmentsDrag and Drop an Assignment to a Due Date Square The default time is off. Most are set to 1 or 2 in the a.m. I have checked the Default Time setting for the course and it i...

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Can two or more instructors who teach in the same course delete each other's announcements?  Example: Instructor A & B are teaching in the same Canvas course. Instructor A creates an announcement for a class meeting time and Instructor B wants to del...

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I have looked at a number of LMSs for self-paced compliance courses and a common feature is a view which shows the percentage complete of the course in pages or assignments. Does anyone know if this is possible in Canvas through the native interface....

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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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Is anyone else exporting data to Faculty 180, from Canvas?  I need to update our Classes Taught in F180, which can be bulk uploaded, but I need to extract the course name, sis id and all Teachers for courses in a given term. I wanted to check before ...

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With a lot a self-paces course work, is there a way to trigger an email when a student completes the course to the correct teacher?

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Hello, At InstructureCon, presenter Sean Mikkelsen showed a tool he called "Eligibility Dashboard." How would I go about acquiring this tool for my school? Thank you.

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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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As admin how do I get my theme connected to all the classes?

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I just logged in to try and share last years courses with new teachers and the courses from last year are completely gone...Any clue as to how I can find them?

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Is there a way in the Canvas Gradebook when setting up a course to view the total points as a column to ensure that the course totals a certain number (i.e. 1,000 points) and no errors were made? Or, is the only way to manually add every assignment/e...

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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 use case where I need to add groups of users to a course each semester but they are all external to our Campus. They would not be able to authenticate through SSO. Should I set them up manually? Looking for ideas on how others navigate and m...

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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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Hello all! I am returning to middle school science after a 5+ year hiatus and I have a question about the confetti icons that randomly come down after on-time submissions.  I used to pass out BINGO cards with the icons on there to encourage on-time s...

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What are the best courses to take i am currently doing Supply Chain Management to level me up please  after  graduation to add to my Masters.

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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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I need some clarification on the status of access tokens if an account is suspended and all associated user sessions are terminated. The info here is not clear and seems to say that even if an account is suspended, and all user sessions terminated, t...

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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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