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I recently transferred a course from Commons into my Canvas account.  Unfortunately, when I publish the modules, not everything publishes,  I have to go into Files and then click on EVERY SINGE FILE in order to publish them  I have tried numerous way...

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Hi My name is Gagan Jain and i am managing the canvas in my organisation which is IIAD - Indian Institute of art and Design yesterday i deleted 1 user from our account accidentally so i need to recover or restore that user kindly help me   Thanks Gag...

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I am using Canvas ungraded quizzes.  If the student chooses a wrong answer I wish to provide a hint to the student to help them understand the topic better.How do I do this in classic quizzes.  My institution has not enabled new quizzes.If it is poss...

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There are times when instructors want to view multiple Modules at once using the Filter tool in the grade book. You can add multiple filters, but they have to be from different categories. If you try to select an additional Module it toggles to the s...

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This has been an ongoing problem: I make comments on student assignments, or make a comment in the "Comments" box, but many students never look at them. I've posted on Canvas and in my Syllabus a step-by-step guide for them to view my comments, but s...

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Does anyone know how to send out a link where students can automatically join? Thanks!

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Hello, I am an admin and I am just wondering if there is a way to hide the notification which appears after regrading a quiz. By default it says "this quiz has been regraded; your score reflects the changes made". The article below doesn't show an op...

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Hello,I want to send an email notification for new assignments to the students registered in my course, however I only seem to get those notifications for myself as a teacher / administrator.What could I do to effectively carry out the notification?T...

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Would it be possible to create a feature to round grades to a specific decimal point or no decimals at all?  If the feature is there, where is it located?  Does not seem like that would be overly complex.

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I set an "available until" date for discussions and for quizzes. The available until date has passed. Yet, I have reason to re-open the discussions and the quizzes for one student. I would like to do so without entirely removing the available until d...

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Hello, I am following up on this post, as I am having the same exact issue. Essentially, I cross-listed courses after the first term, which I now know I should haven't done. That said, to prepare for the cross-listing, I exported the cross-listed cou...

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A parent account is not showing the Observing link to click on to add the pairing code. Did the parent somehow create their account incorrectly? Can I fix as a school administrator?

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  We have assignments that involve the provision of feedback by students to their teacher, and subsequently the teacher, after seeing the students' feedback, provides feedback for the student via a pdf file they attach to the submission in the Speedg...

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Hello Canvas Community,I am using the Free-for-Teacher's version of Canvas, and have created 3 different courses. I am having trouble downloading the course content for one of my courses to import into a paid version of Canvas. After I navigated to A...

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When using the elementary theme, the instructor can view an assignment rubric and grade using the rubric.  The students are not able to view the rubric after the assignment is submitted and are not able to view the graded rubric.   Any help would be ...

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Why can't canvas implement a feature that allows one to automatically go to the next assignment that needs grading, rather than having to cycle through all students, or by having to use the pull down menu to access the next student with an ungraded a...

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Several years ago I created a number of question banks for AP Human Geography.  It's a pain in the a**, because I cannot add new questions to them unless I import the bank, which then makes a copy, and now I have to try to remember what the current c...

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I want to post the same quiz I made in lms to a website, is it possible to export the code?   Thanks!

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Hi, I was just wondering if there was any way to recover assignment submissions after changing the group set.After collecting student group submissions (grades assigned individually), I wanted to allow the students the opportunity to change their gro...

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Hello, I did a sample assignment and did not know what feature to use to save my work and return later.  Instead when I saved my work it was submitted as if I had completed it.  Please advise how can I work on my homework or and exam, save my work an...

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I just noticed that one of my courses has a very strange looking Traditional Gradebook. It appears that nobody has a score, but if I look at Gradebook History, I see the scores. See attached.I have not made any changes to the course setup (to my know...

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When I upload an Word Document assignment to Canvas, I get a notification stating that it was submitted but I do not receive the green checkmark noting that it was indeed submitted. The submission circle is half filled with the green line to indicate...

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Someone posted this message a few years ago, but it looks like it was archived"When I use a nearpod activity through external tool, the window to see it in for the students is so small. The window should be much larger, or allow students to click to ...

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A colleague of mine and I were testing assignment submissions. On the first try, she got a "Submit Failed; please try again." This error message shows up in all browsers, including incognito. The assignment was only submitted after the second try in ...

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I have created some quiz assignments using Quick check tool.  I like its drag and drop feature. In this semester, this tool has crashed at-least once a month. Is this a "fragile" tool and do you recommend me to stop using it? Anyone else has used it?...

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 I am unable to create an assignment on Canvas using their external tool feature. It is having me make my preferences (unlimited, closed caption, no skipping) but then it does not save. I then have to go through the external tool again and it is an e...

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Instructor never got to manually assign groups and 4 students have posted/ submitting already.  Students are just responding to the posts.   Is manually setting up groups an option?  I attempted to request Automatically Assigning groups but even-thou...

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Our administration would like us to implement an academic integrity pop up everytime a student logs into Canvas. (Very similar to the Acceptable Use Policy that a first time account users receive when they log in). They want to students to have to cl...

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Hi I know there is a list of different shortcuts, that you can type in your URL, to make changes to the course. Like /undelete at the end to undelete .test. before instructure.com to work with at test version etc. Does anybody have a list with these ...

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I was receiving email notifications from Canvas before and then it randomly stopped and now it's saying that Canvas is unable to send me emails to my school email which hasn't changed at all, and I can't delete it I can only add an email. 

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