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How long are Canvas courses retained in a subaccount? I have a faculty member asking 

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Hello,What is the Default Privacy on Projects imported from Canvas?  Our students are uploading an assignment by connecting to Canvas, but the Privacy within the Projects once imported is varying.  Can anyone help with this?thank you

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How can I assign time and the number of attempts to students differently? We have some McBurney students, so they need extra time for the quizzes.

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When uploading QTI 2.1 packages that include videos with WebVTT caption files in Canvas LMS, we encounter an issue where the WebVTT files fail to load, resulting in an "Unsafe attempt to load URL" error. Additionally, it appears that the crossorigin=...

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I am going insane here. I'm starting to wonder is there a limit to the number of account roles we can have. I recently created a new Account role (ReadyGO) for our org. I can see it was created successfully.  You will also note that IT IS an Account...

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Gradebook used to have a column you could add called notes.  With the recent update.....It now appears to be missing. Does anyone know where it is now located to use?

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Can the our student list from Canvas be exported into Excel?

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I have included screenshots below. In the instructor view it is showing that it has been published, however, when I switch to student view, they have not been published. 

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Lost Quiz data: scores column missing from gradebook

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I gave a "new quiz" that several students missed for legitimate reasons.  Now I want to give the quiz to them, but I don't know how to open the quiz back up for them to take it.  Can someone help me here?

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I have a teacher using Google LTI assignments and they love it, however, there is one question/problem that I haven't seen before.   The problem is once the teacher returns the assignment, the students don't regain their ability to edit the document ...

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In the New Quizzes Quiz and Item Analysis guide for the "improved Quiz and Item Analysis report" released 9/16/2023, what does this actually mean when explaining a data exclusion from the report: "Questions which have not been graded for at least hal...

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If I want to send a message on inbox to my professor, Can the entire class see my message that I am sending?

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Several colleagues and I have observed a new pop-up when accessing the Canvas homepage, which is unfamiliar to us. This pop-up requests users to confirm their humanity by completing a puzzle involving clicking on the endpoint of a car's path to a des...

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Gradebook is showing submission icon instead of grades. When clicked, it shows grade but then goes back to icon when you click away. Any suggestions?

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I am teaching a course with multiple instructors. If I dismiss a to-do item from the list because it is not my responsibility, will the item still appear in the to-do list for other instructors?

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I rely heavily on Canvas quizzes, but for some of the more intensive computational questions, I've found that it's easier to simply have students send me a photo of their work within a few minutes of submitting their quiz answers. When I get these ph...

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How can I add the Prince 2 ebook to my Bookshelf ?The Bookshelf on android or windows to read offline is asking for a codeWhete to find this?

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We are looking for a way to ensure students complete our Orientation course prior to accessing their degree courses.  Is there a way to gate courses so a user cannot access 1 course until they have completed certain activities in another course?

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My imported assignments that are copied from last year's canvas are giving students zeros, even though I have changed the due dates. When they sync to PowerSchool it automatically gives them a zero. I deleted the assignment through PowerSchool so stu...

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I have an in-person instructor, do I still need an online proctor for Mid-course exam?

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Hello, I am having trouble with Canvas on my laptop. I am able to log in, but when I click on things such as Discussion, Modules, Assignment, etc. it does not load and it just shows me a blank screen. This is very frustrating as I am unable to comple...

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My students are all encountering a red error bar when they attempt a second attempt on an assignment. I suspect it's related to "Enable Build on Last Attempt" because I made an edit on the assignment that coincided almost to the minute with them bein...

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I am trying to use a SIS ID for a new course I'm building and am getting the error that it's already in use. I have searched for this SIS ID in all of our accounts and can't locate the course it's associated with, which leads me to believe the course...

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I have occasionally copied assignments from old Archived Courses and never had this happen.  This year when I copy the assignments and change the due dates (before publishing with updated due dates). It automatically gives every student a 0, I have d...

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Hello all!I am a high school teacher and my students use ipads and the Canvas app. Up until this week, I have had no problems with Canvas, but all of a sudden, my home page won't load in the app (but just one out of my 4 courses). It is still accessi...

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Good Morning! I am currently working on compiling a list of the screencast releases within our Canvas course that is designed to help teachers.  Instead of embedding the entire guide, I would like to find the embed code for just the video. There used...

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We have been using this great solution by James for counting discussion posts in Canvas. A number of our faculty members like this overview file. Our school is switching from Google to Microsoft - and I wondered if there was an Excel version of this....

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Hello, I am aware how to have a test student, and how to anonymize student names in the gradebook in speedgrader. But, I would like to study and grade AI driven answers in my course to see how I would treat it as a student. Of course I need to not kn...

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As quiz multiple choice questions default to 5 answer options, how can I remove one of the options and reduce it to 4 answer possibilities? 

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