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I'm a middle school reading specialist.  I'm trying to create an assignment that will allow my students to read a text and record themselves.  I'd like them to be able to submit it to me.  Can someone please help me?

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Is there a way to set your Canvas activities within the Module to unlock for students at a certain day/time? For example: The English Language Arts is the Module. I would like to set this up so that each week within the Module unlocks or self-publish...

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I have 2 students who took a quiz. One student has disappeared from the gradebook and the other's quiz has disappeared from the gradebook. What can I do to recover the information?

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Can I tie a quizz to an assignment?  So it unlocks for the student only after they complete the assignment?

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My speed grader keeps defaulting to my 8th period, even when I go to grades and set it to all.

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I had an audio conference with my class last week and my professor said it would be recorded but I cannot find it.

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I have created pre-populated groups under the tab Project Groups and checked the box in the setting that allows students to self-sign up. Are students now able to drag their name into one of the project groups I created? I tried to see how this would...

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I was using the rich content to record an audio file. When I was done, I saved it and linked it to the page but as I was adding on to the page, I accidentally deleted it. Where would I go to access it again?

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I can't believe, as a tech savvy person, I am even asking this.  I am a choir director looking for an integration that would allow students to CALL in responses to assignments in Canvas.  A few years ago I used google voice, but that seems to be dead...

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Dear Q&A,As a co-teacher of a Canvas course that is a series of workshops, I'd like to grant visibility, though not yet editablity, permission of all the course modules to a larger, non-student, yet stakeholder group.I presume the recently added Obse...

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I am a co-teacher in a number of classes.  I need MY CLASSES' assignments to populate in Outlook using the Calendar Feed.  However, they are not.  The only assignments that have populated to Outlook are from another teacher's class that she has me li...

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I have found that you can sort assignments in the canvas api by using bucket=upcoming but I have not found anything to sort the quizzes.  Is there any way to do this?

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Hello, in "To Do" list I have to grade 2 exams. However, I can not submit the grades when I opened each quiz. Can anyone help? Thanks. 

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I am looking for a solution to build an activity in which groups need to interact with each other.Let’s say one group is supposed to create a puzzle or riddle and then pass it to another group to solve. This would be fairly straight forward in a face...

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I have lost a colleagues page while trying to edit it.I made the edits and pressed Save but now the whole page has been deleted.This was also happening to the colleague. Can you tell me what we are doing wrong?

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I had published a page for this week's math instruction in my Canvas course. Then, I imported a new page for next week's math instruction. After importing, this week's math page was gone.  I only have the new one for next week. I have tried the /unde...

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When I open canvas I get a message that says: Cookies RequiredPlease adjust your security preferences before continuing.How do I do this and what preferences do I adjust?

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I have a question regarding a problem in downloading files.  I have a class that I'm supporting has been running since January. The instructor has a various files and PDFs in FIles. I have one student who can clicks to open any file and it opens in t...

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My students are running into a new error message as of late. I prepared voice-over presentations (screencastify) saved as mp4 files for my classes that I stored in my Google drive (due to data limitations in CANVAS) . I then embedded these voice-over...

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external tool error message

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How do I go about: "deleting your browser cookies."  (What do these four words actually mean?)

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How do I view my Ecampus Badges?

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Hi everyone, I've had Ally installed in my instance of Canvas for about one year but only recently enabled it for all courses. Last week I noticed that it had been mysteriously disabled. Which lead me to the realization that all low-level subaccount ...

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My students aren't able to join my Zoom meeting in Canvas, even though it is enabled in Settings and it shows up in my course. Any advice?

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*I teach Art and students are uploading images for grading that are in the .HEIC format. Will Canvas please included an update so that it opens the .HEIC files like .JPEG? At this moment I have to convert each student submission on a separate program...

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Right now in school we have to add a virtual counseling course to our canvas in which a link was sent out but i didnt get it, this course i never had so it isn't in ALL COURSES so i need to know how to do before the before my assignment is due. Pleas...

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I have uploaded a video to my Youtube channel, but when I try to embed it in my course, it does not pop up in the search even when I type the exact name of it. It pops up tons of videos with names not even close to my video name. Having the same issu...

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Here is the situation.1. Students took the Quizzes (at that time I had NOT created the answers to each question).2. Students complete the Quizzes and I graded them all.3. Now, I created Answers to Quizzes.4. I used the option to allow students to see...

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I had my students upload an image of a test question to canvas. I made annotations on the image to give feedback on their work. The students are telling me they cannot see the annotations? What do I need to do so they can see their work with my notes...

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