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I have applied the Mark as Done button to assignments for my class that require that they do work on an external website.  I want them to go to the website, complete the assignment, then return to Canvas to click the Mark as Done.  How do I know if t...

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I have an interesting scenario where only certain "groups" of assignments are being passed from Canvas to Aeries.  I have two periods tied to one gradebook, and certain groups push to one period, one group only pushes to another period in Aeries. Any...

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Estamos usando la plataforma INSTRUCTURE FREE FOR TEACHER, pero queremos migrar todas las cuentas de FREE FOR TEACHER A CANVAS K-12, pues algunos módulos que están creados en la plataforma no se hacen visibles, y queremos usar una sola plataforma. Gr...

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I have assignment groups that have 0% weight towards a final grade. The grades from these groups are brought manually into other assignment groups that are weighted. This is a work-around for not having a nested assignment group feature.Within the st...

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Is it possible to sort by sections when you are looking at the People page in Canvas?  I look at the students' activity for attendance purposes and it would be so much easier if I could separate them by individual periods (ie. period 1, 2, etc).Thank...

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I'm the Academic Director at my school and I'm trying to find an easy way to pull progress reports for student progress for all students enrolled so that we can determine "attendance" for the week. Besides asking my staff to record who has submitted/...

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I'm working in Canvas. I want to give a pre-test that is 20 questions.  The pre-test is worth 20 participation points for completing the assignment, no matter the score.  I want the student's grade to be participation points, but I want them to recei...

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Only one of my three classes gives the message "Your LTI tool has been misconfigured, please contact your institution's Canvas Admin"I was told to ask here for help.

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Hi. I have a student who completed a couple of quizzes on time, and today, as preparation for the test, he  re-took them (which he could do because he had unused attempts). I would have expected that, first, all penalties would be applied as appropri...

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A teacher using our courses is in a district that won't allow students to receive emails from outside their domain.   The students had to sign up with a code, and several of them immediately forgot the password they created. HOW can we reset a passwo...

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So, I am a Teaching Assistant for a course and, in instructor view, see this when clicking on the zoom section.I tried to permanently change my email to my work email though canvas kept changing my default back to my personal email. Any tips?    

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"As I was grading and sending feedback to my students in Canvas I noticed that this system will kick me out of the assignment I am grading every time I try to use the ñ with Alt 164." What options do we have within Canvas (as opposed to having to ope...

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Set up a new quiz as complete/incomplete, in Grades students who have taken the quiz shows a checkmark, in Speedgrader drop down list of students shows as graded (w/checkmark next to their name) but the teacher hasn't reviewed responses. Is this expe...

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I have a large quiz that another professor created.  I have moved the quiz into my Canvas course, but would now like to make it a question bank (ultimately, I want to add and delete some questions, then deploy it as a quiz).  Is there an easy way to ...

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I set up my grade book so that all missing assignments would receive 50%. It worked on some assignments, but on others it doesn't even mark it as missing when it's past the due date. I double checked that I assigned due dates and that the automatic m...

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My son cannot access to zoom class and the reason according to the instructor is that his name has changed. To update the name we are being asked to login, unfortunately we cannot login because the instructor does not recognize the name. Any help out...

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Hello. I am a student and I had a small problem with canvas. whenever my teacher shares a screen, I am the only who is unbale to see it but my classmates can. How do I fix this problem?

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Hi All,  I'm interested in looking into automated essay grading tools that integrates with Canvas quizzes. This would help faculty grade essay questions in exams more quickly and catch any plagiarism/mistakes. Does anyone have any recommendations or ...

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is there a way my students on the dashboard can see all their accumulatove grade of all their classes? for parents they need to go to individual classes to see the grades, same for guidance, any app i can install to change what info is presented on t...

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I need to be able to reject an assignment submission when it is incomplete. Right now I simply leave the student a message but end up sending multiple emails when they don't look at the assignment comments. Is there a way to send an assignment back o...

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When trying to grade discussions in Speed Grader it is only picking up my first class. When I try to switch classes it says there are no students in the other two classes and defaults to Class 1. This only happens in Discussions, the other assignment...

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How can students see each other?

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If I cross-linked courses together and assign an assignment to a particular section - will the grading piece still work with our SIS?  For example, I cross-linked my SIS generated math course into my SIS generated Homeroom course.  If I assign someth...

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I have weekly reading quizzes for my students that have a due date (but no time limit). It seems that when a student needs an extension, the only way to do that is to create a new version of the quiz and assign it to that student alone. Am I missing ...

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I am missing a full section of essays on Speedgrader. I can download the essays, but when I select the drop down menu for Speedgrader, I only have "test student". Any thoughts?

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How can art students upload more than one Google Drive file (JPG) for a single assignment that has multiple parts?  I see the computer file allows you the select + add file but no such option for Drive?  Our students save all work photos in their DRI...

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Canvas has somehow managed to block access to my students assignments. Their apology for three days of no access is a stupid error message, “Whoops! Something went wrong on our end. Don’t worry, we’ve recorded this and will be taking care of it short...

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Students uploaded videos to an assignment on Canvas.  I watched the videos, make comments, graded them through speed grader and now everything is gone.  All sections of the courses videos are gone as well as all grades???

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I have not been able to upload the assignments on Canvas. I get this error message every time I try to submit the assignment. I have to submit the assignment either as a PDF for one subject and by scanning using Adobe Scan & saving it as a file for o...

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My son is a student using Canvas. He has multiple Google accounts and, therefore, Google Drives, one account from the school and one personal account. We realized that some documents are getting created in his school Google Drive and others in his pe...

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