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Hi! As a brief background, I use Canvas for a student program and not for courses or a classroom. This program provides support to students for two years. And each year there is a new group of students, so there are multiple sections on our Canvas sh...

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When trying to print student assignments I receive a type check error. If you know how to help fix this, I would greatly appreciate it. Respectfully, ~Danny Bellow is the error code.   ERROR: typecheck OFFENDING COMMAND: readonly STACK: 2 -dictionary...

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Good eveningWhen I click on library - I do not seem to have access to research material, or search. It states that eother access denied, or nothing is loading or no  content. I can not include a screen shot here either. I have had trouble gettong on ...

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We've experienced some employee layoffs, specifically those who previously served as account course developers and admins.  I'm not certain what my assigned role is (I cannot see my role when viewing my Canvas profile/user settings).  I also see a ne...

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The parent email notifications are not helpful with our log in set up to Canvas. When a parent clicks either link at the bottom of their email, they are redirect to our Microsoft single sign on page and the parents don't use that page to log in. I'd ...

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We have a number of courses that were created from templates (the Enable course as Course Template is selected in Settings). There is something new happening. When we copy a course created from a template, it's copying the course itself AND all of th...

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A teacher marked a students piece of worked and made some annotation comments within the document. The student saw them that evening and went to make changes to the document the next day.However when the student went back into the assignment all the ...

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Hi thereI am a teacher and I have been using the video recording function to provide feedback to my students. I disable the camera and only audio is recorded. Perfect! Now, i am teaching a unit with group assignments and I need to provide the same fe...

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Are you comfortable granting admin level permissions to third party integrations?  As a Canvas Admin, we go with the vendor instructions to install Developer Keys, API Keys, LTI apps, Admin level Access Tokens, custom JavaScript, etc.  If the third p...

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I am wondering if there is a way to "lock" the Syllabus tool in the course settings Navigation tab?  It was requested to have this tool locked so that instructors could not have the ability to remove the Syllabus tool from the course navigation menu ...

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When I click on my quiz to start it nothing pops up and the area is blank. I only get 3 attempts and I am on my 3rd because I have tried logging on from different computers to see if it will work but it is still blank when I start the quiz PLEASE HEL...

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I would like for Canvas to randomly assign students a number when hiding student names option is selected. After several trials, it seems that Canvas is programmed to assign these numbers alphabetically. For the primary teacher, this poses a non-rand...

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I've uploaded a SCORM package with a virtual tour. It can be implemented as a page and the tour functions (360 view works, going from hot-spot to hot-spot works). The integrated video however does not work; it shows a dark blue frame (which is indeed...

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As anyone done a questionnaire within Canvas to define a students VARK Learning Style? Very similar to this, but the results can be given within Canvas.https://vark-learn.com/the-vark-questionnaire/ It would be fantastic if I could get add this withi...

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In gradebook, assignments in the heading and grades (columns) do not line up.https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Ib7sLyTliABgjf85zrgChEZ50Rpkj1D/view?usp=sharing     

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Hello there!Our school will transition from our current LMS to Canvas this summer, before thoroughly implementing it with all our students in the fall. In our current LMS, in order to post assignments, reminders, or any content on the Student's Learn...

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We are synching data between Canvas LMS and Salesforce and wondering if we can create custom fields on Canvas side to store Salesforce Ids. On Salesforce side we can create custom fields and store the Canvas id. In similar fashion we want to store th...

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Hello wonderful Community members Our institution had many sub-accounts (courses separated by faculty) and in the past we have been able to add users (our tutors) as admins (with restricted permissions) to specific sub-accounts, which would allow the...

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Hi,I assigned a final and distributed a maximum of 100 points. On the syllabus, the final is said to weigh 30 points out of 100. Unfortunately I forgot to adjust this on the final itself, and now the final outweighs all the other assignments combined...

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I am trying to add a designer to help me create a course, and it says the user does not exist. Which is true. However, I cannot add; do I have to add another way? Talk to the administrator.  How do I find out who is the administrator? 

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Hello Everyone,  We recently became an entire Microsoft school. I am looking into connecting Collaborations with our OneDrive. Our security team is concerned about the app permissions it grants. I wonder if anyone in this group came across this at th...

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I have graded an assignment, made it visible to students in speedgrader, and posted it.   When I review the grades, some grades are hidden by an icon that looks like a piece of paper.   If I hover over it, it will show the entered grade.  How can I b...

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Hi,I am an instructor. The Totals column is missing from the gradebook. Is there a setting that needs to be changed? It's not that in the Settings, the "Hide totals in student grades summary" (which applies to students anyway) is checked.Thanks,Asif

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I manually paired students and observers in my course, but parent observers are saying they still need a code. How can I help them connect?

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Hi there, I am a new student here, day one, just want to make sure this is where we post a discussions. LoL Can someone help me with this please? Thank you. 

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Hi there,I have uploaded a SCORM object as a graded assignment and configured the settings to open the SCORM object in a new tab. I have included learner instructions at the top of the page. When I review this in Student View the 'Previous' and 'Next...

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Is there a way to set a default grade with a default comment? It is really takes a lot of time to have to individually copy and paste the SAME comment into each student's assignment using speedgrader such as "Good job on this assignment!" Can we get ...

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I set up groups for students to join but they are locked. Why is that? Desiree

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