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Trying to reset my password but got this emai, instead: You requested a confirmation of your password for logging into Canvas. This address is associated with the login, "116075409168895416297". The password for this login should have been given to y...

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Sometimes when i do my work and it takes a long time, when i click submit, it logs me back in and then all my work is lost, at first i thought it was just a bug, but then it happend again, this is very frustrating, please fix it, or create something ...

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I want to link a document posted on canvas to hypothes.is

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In our school we make a module for each week. I'm in elementary so under each day I have many items (math, ELA, science, writing). This makes my modules very long. The only solution I have found is to try to indent to make like an outline format. It ...

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Solution Posted: 03-20-2021 View Solution
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Our previous LMS would tell students where they ranked compared to all students in the course, and I would like to enable this in Canvas. I'm not looking to share scores in any way, simply a number, so students understand where they stand and perform...

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How as an instructor can I change the headings and percentages in Gradebook?The way they are listed does not align for me. Thank you.

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Over the last few months our team has been noticing missing words, or words being randomly cut out when copying pasting from Word to the RCE.  We're trying to narrow down the issue.  But it seems that it happens whenever there is one word at the end ...

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I was taking a final earlier today and every time I clicked an answer my whole page froze so I had to refresh my page for each question. Does anybody have a solution to this problem? I tried restarting my computer and I have not had a problem like th...

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I have logged into our course and see all of our tabs, however when I click on them nothing happens.  For instance, when I click on the people tab none of our students is shown.  Actually I click on any of the tabs and nothing happens.  I was checkin...

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Hello, I created a free k-12 account for grad school, and today it was all gone. Under all courses shows only the template. I can see the course name under history, but once I click on it, is says "Whoops... Looks like nothing is here! We couldn't fi...

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I have created a rubric inside of an assignment. I want that assignment to be the same in 8 modules in the same course.   I can copy to into each module, edit the name, but then it changes the name for all previous copies I have made.  

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Solution Posted: 03-21-2021 View Solution
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I would like to be able to leave a narrative comment reflecting on each student's performance during a grading period. There currently doesn't seem to be a way to do this--instead, we can only leave comments in response to specific submissions. 

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Our school recently purchased surface pro tablets. I currently use a dell laptop and a chromebook to record my lessons and they upload just fine. My lessons range from 10-40 minutes. However, my surface pro won't upload anything that is loner than 1 ...

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I am working for a grader at a college course, and so far we have had two assignments and a midterm.  The assignment uploads in speedgrader allowed us to see a preview of the .pdf or .docx file that students uploaded like this:     But for the midte...

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The instructor has SSd students and uses lockdown browser for all her students. The students she moderated did not give the extra time to and quizzes were submitted and graded. Is there a way around this or fix this?

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i think it would help a lot of people like me if canvas made a search bar at the top of the modules page so we can search the lesson right away

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Hi, We face a need to customize attributes imported from Microsfot 365. We have succefully configured microsoft authentication, but we need for automatically created users to have a diferrent sortable_name than thei full name. We're running an open s...

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How do I get an excel spreadsheet report for the class results from a Canvas New Quiz?

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Dear Altruists Currently, I am working as an LMS coordinator with a vocational institute. Our trainers asked for a facility to allow students to write their assignment in an Editable PDF opened within the Canvas.   At present, our student downloads a...

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Dear Altruists I am working as an LMS coordinator with a Vocational Institute. On Canvas we have set the students enrolment into Canvas in such a way that instead of enrolling our students into a qualification (say Diploma in IT) we are enrolling the...

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I am setting up a new course and need to edit the name as well as add a background picture. How do I do both of those things?

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Where did my in progress rubric build go and why did it seem to lock me out? screen went grey, froze then took me a firefox screen info site that I have no clue how to read, interpret or navigate and doesnt appear to offer a pathway back to my rubric...

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Solution Posted: 03-18-2021 View Solution
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For 1 subject, I had 4 submission requirements (4 reports, submissions 1, 2, 3, & 4). I uploaded 2 reports within minutes of each other - under submission 3 and 4, via CANVAS Apple Mac desktop. CANVAS shows me the date/time of my submission. My lectu...

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How do you save content in the Canvas Course Cards?

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Our campus is looking into EesySoft as a tool that could help us track how users are using Canvas 3rd party tools within Canvas and provide contextual help documents and support directly within Canvas. I have spent some time going through the partner...

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Classic Quiz submissions will show on the instructor to-do list but New Quizzes submissions will not. This is very frustrating for instructors. Anyone know why New Quizzes behaves in this way and how we can fix it?

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In the following XML configuration the option's enabled property false value does not hide the section. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><cartridge_basiclti_link xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticc_v1p0"xmlns:blti = "http://www.imsgloba...

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i feel that there should be more pronoun options like she/they he/they and added neo-pronouns 

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Solution Posted: 03-18-2021 View Solution
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There is an API to start and run reports and check the status of a running report and when status=complete it will even give the download url of the report file:  https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/account_reports.html When attempting to download...

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Solution Posted: 03-23-2021 View Solution
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If students begin a New Quiz format, can they stop mid-quiz and come back to it a different day?  I know in the classic quizzes, they can close the quiz and then 'Resume Quiz'. My team is putting together a stimulus with questions that won't get done...

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