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Hi Rebecca, I will be out of town working the week 7/13-7/19/2025 and was wondering if there is any assignments for that week that I could get done now? I am a student in your CHIL 101 class.   Thank You  Donna Philpott

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I teach Independent Studies.  I have 45 course that I fascilitate.  I have a canvas tile for each class.  I now have put all these tiles onto 1 tile so I load the student once and they have access to all 45 classes on that one tile.  It works great f...

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Hi, I'm trying to use the "microsoft" authentication provider in Canvas and am having trouble with attribute mapping.  When I log in using an MSA/consumer account (e.g., an outlook.com account) rather than an org-owned Entra account, even though "nam...

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Is it possible to put up a reminder to inform instructors that specific course material has not been graded for (x) days?

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I have a whole bunch of Assignments from my course last year and, after the fact, I have decided that they would be better as Pages.   Is there a way to bulk convert them?  I'd like to be able to just select a list of Assignments and then select Conv...

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How do I cancel the PDE Class that I am in right now?

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I am a teacher taking a PDE class on Canvas. The instructor has asked everyone to download a PDE Log form from Canvas to keep track of our hours. 

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Currently in Canvas, late submission penalties are applied based on full days, and the system rounds partial days up. For example, a submission that is 1.01 days or 1.99 days late is both rounded to 2 days late.This approach can feel unfair to studen...

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The color options for highlighting appear to have changed to largely dark red, dark green, and purple (no yellow or lighter colors). This seems to defeat the entire purpose of highlighting, as the text can barely be read. Making a custom highlight co...

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I'm busy testing the self-assessment tool, unfortunately i'm able to assess my self as a student, but unable to submit the results (this button is missing). Are there any problems known at the moment? 

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Hi everyone,I have a question regarding user management and tracking admin activity within our LMS.If a student is manually added or invited to a course by one of our admins, is there a way to identify which specific admin performed that action? We h...

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I have just configured and setup my RCE for Canvas LMS. And have added the Youtube LTI and can embed public youtube videos in my pages. My institution posts their lectures on Youtube as unlisted or private. So that only those with the URL can access ...

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 Greetings to you my instructors.Tam a new student admitted for a doctoral in business administration. I am glad to finally enroll on the course and also log in on my canvas and LMS. I have been a struggling student with failing attempts to get me on...

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How is this possible? The guide still states we can only attach one document in Discussions.

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Is there a way to create a custom grading scheme in Canvas to fit this need: I want a teacher to be able to input any score out of 100, and the output would become either a 1 or 0. For example, any score of 1-100 would become a 1, and a 0 would remai...

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I just deleted a module I need. How do I find it and undelete it?

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SpeedGrader, accessed froM Assignments, requires "Select Group to Grade" be picked from a pull down menu. By default The menu is empty. One must assign students to Groups. I want to grade all students so I need to create a group that contains all stu...

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Can you apply a ready-made-template to courses that have already been built? I want to start building my courses now and just learned that a ready-made-template will take some time to arrive in my instance. Any advice on this is appreciated!

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As far back as 2023, Instructure and Khan Academy announced that KhanMego teacher tools and writing coach would be integrated into Canvas. A little less than a year ago, the teacher tools finally showed up. Is the writing coach still slated to be inc...

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The captivate classic lessons that I have on canvas (Free account) will no longer play. Some lessons are several years old, some were new in 2024. When we try to open the lessons, they initiate the spinning circle that signals it is starting, but it ...

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I have started using video feedback on assignments using the embedded tool in Speedgrader. A student says that they aren't able to view my video feedback on their phone. Is this possible? Is there a guide to walk them through how to access instructor...

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Does anyone have any recommendations? I’m having trouble importing quizzes from the D2L zip file. A notification keeps appearing, stating that there are issues during the import process, but I haven't figured out how to resolve the problem. 

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When you put a lot of videos on a single Canvas page, the page can become very slow to load due to several common reasons: Each embedded video loads separately. Every video you embed (especially from platforms like Canvas or similar) requires its own...

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I have my students placed in groups in Canvas, and I want to assign a Google Doc for the group to work on. I can create the assignment and then select Google LTI and upload the Google Doc. Then, when I scroll down, the checkbox for "This is a Group A...

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I'm probably just missing it, but how can I see which students have viewed an Assignment?  I know how to go to People and look at details for a specific student, but I want to be more proactive and look at an Assignment and see who has, and hence who...

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I see that in the Admin > Permissions view, I can disable the ability for students to create web conferences in Courses. This is valuable, since I don't want students in group project courses to create a conference and unknowingly invite the entire c...

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I turned in an assignment on 6/20, and have a screenshot of the submitted assignment. The Instructor is claiming they can't see it under submitted assignments. I have messaged the instructor three times (in inmail) with the attached screenshot of the...

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I have imported the QTI file however when I go to my quiz/assignment, I am unsure how to import the file into the actual quiz. How do I get this file into my assignment/quiz,  I have the free version so I do not think I have quizzes. Thank you!      ...

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