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Hi, I'm enrolled as a TA on a range of modules at Queens University. I have been asked to make a new announcement on these modules but when I click new announcement it brings me to a blank page and won't let me create one. what do i need to do to get...

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Hi there, we are still testing out New Quizzes, and are seeing something somewhat unexpected. When we create a new quiz from Quizzes tab, we see the box pop up asking us to Choose a Quiz Engine. But we don't see this same box pop up when we create a ...

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Hello all, is there a way to print the rubrics we create? The one I have made for my midterm I tried to copy and Paste onto a Word document but it is just too big and I fiddled long enough to resize and make it fit onto one sheet but no luck...It wou...

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I need to know how to download videos submitted by students to make a combined video.

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I have created# a course inside Instructure platform. In summer,  I will teach it in a university which using its own Canvas. Will I be able just move this course to their Canvas? Thank you. 

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When my child is logged in and doing his assignments; how can I see they are submitted successfully? 

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As an admin, can you disable the file uploading for teachers but not with students?

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I have a quiz that isn't showing up the marks in the mark book. When I checked in Speedgrader is says This submission is not in any grading period. How do I fix this?

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I gave 7 quizzes. Five were 100 points each. The last two were 21 points and 24 points. I want each quiz to count equally in the average. Canvas is calculating the average quiz grade from the total number of points, which slights the last two quizzes...

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I would like help creating a quiz. I usually import the questions from Blackborad 6,7, 8, but for this particular assessment the quiz is a word document. Is there a way other than manually typing each question or cutting and pasting each question in ...

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How do I extend the "Available Until" date for an assignment after the original Available Until date has past?

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How do  I move a course from Evolve over to Canvas? 

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What is the difference between "last request", "current login" and "last login" when looking at a user's login information? It's confusing because all of the dates are different.  

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I teach Drama in a high school in Australia.  My region is in full lock down, so our new term start has been delayed for at least another week.  Our entire school will be operating through Canvas, with even the students whose parents are essential wo...

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I've searched and searched and can't seem to find the answer anywhere. My question is about formatting tabs in a Canvas page. I know how to create tabs within a Canvas page by entering/pasting in the HTML code, but I would like to format the tabs the...

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I cant preview PDFs in my browser. They were working but it has been like this for a couple weeks now Tried on macOS and windows 10Chrome Version: 81.0.4044.129 (Official Build) (64-bit)It works fine on FirefoxI also cant seem to report a porblem any...

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Is there a way to navigate within a page so that you can have a hyperlink at the top of a page that links to a bookmark further down on the page?

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How do I add a square root as an answer in a quiz?  I can put a sq rt in the question, but not the answer.

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Permissions for file use appear to have changed very recently. Some of my files, regardless of how I mark them, are not being made available to students to download.The material meets criteria for fair use, I've tried marking it as "Publish" and as "...

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User Course Access Log in reports.   Anyway that the log can be set to pull data prior to 30 days?  I know I can manually access the access log per user per course but am interested in downloading the info beyond 30 days.   If log file unavailable in...

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I cannot view a shared New Quiz that a coworker sent me. I can view the quiz and add it to my modules, but when I open the new quiz, there are no questions. Another teacher she sent it to is able to see the questions. Is there something else I need t...

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Ahoy all,This is a request for plain English about Sections & Discussions - because that help page isn't really clear to me. I just need someone to tell me succinctly that I'm allowed to create 1 discussion (no need to differentiate due date, etc), a...

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Why are some of my calendar assignments crossed out and some not regardless of their due and availability dates? 

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When a course says textbook can be obtained through ICON Direct, where and what is that?

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How do I allow a student to resubmit an assignment once it has already been submitted. How do you delete the initial assignment upload that will allow the student to resubmit or upload the assignment with corrections?

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How do you know what you made as a final grade in the last course you took?

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I need to change a user from Student to Teacher. How do I do that? 

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I've decided, based on some excellent advice, that I want to make my ungraded discussions graded, but with a value of 0 points to make them show up in my list of things I need to grade. But I have three classes and 20-30 discussions for each class. H...

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How do I create a multiple choice quiz in canvas?

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