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How do I let my students see an announcement? The crossed out eye won't go away.

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Hello all,I'm a Canvas admin for a school and we recently have started heavily using Canvas for our now online classes. Professors want for students to be notified of announcements and changes to their grades via email as soon as possible and we woul...

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I am trying to access my dashboard page on the specialized education program thru the PGA and the boxes just fade from light grey to a darker grey. They are acting like they are loading but never do. I am using firefox as suggested but google chrome ...

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It seems we cannot set new quizzes question points below 1. Is this correct?

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I've tried this in two different blueprints and multiple browsers, but nothing I do seems to trigger the blueprint functionality to prompt a sync. I've asked support and they've not yet been able to help.Is there some trick to it?I'm the primary acco...

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I have a very specific question about how break out rooms function. To me, it is not clear from a student perspective what I can do when I am in a breakout room. I know that I can go back to the main room. and back to the breakout room I originally w...

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Hi everyone, NEW ADMIN HERE!I understand courses can be exported into .imscc files. Can these files be loaded on to a terabyte hard drive? what are our options for storing exported courses? Also, my computer had a hard time reading the file. Is there...

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We have a student that cheated and is being academically disciplined.   In order to process the grade, we need the student account to remain enrolled in the Canvas course.    But we do not want the student to access the course while on probation.   I...

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Do students need a code to access or join their classes on CANVAS?

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 There is no "Add A Class" button on my dashboard page.How do fix that?

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I have already uploaded a PowerPoint into one of my modules.  I have modifed the file offline and would like to replace the file in canvas with the new file.  Should I just go to the "files" section and upload the file again or will this break the li...

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i have uploaded a file. i want to create a new announcement and include a Link for that file

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Student answers are running off the page.  I cannot scroll to see all that they have posted.  How do I fix this for assignments?

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How do you open the "replies" to your announcements?  

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How can I cull out a student's posts in Discussions? Essentially, I just want to find a way to queue up all of a student's Discussion posts to give them feedback - not simply within one week's one question threads (the only way I've been able to do i...

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How can I edit the theme of a sub-account?

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How can I download the quiz log for an entire class from NEW QUIZZES?I know how to go to Moderate to see the log for a single student, but that page is really not formatted well:a) The student's name does not appear anywhere on the log page,b) It is ...

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I use the stylus to comment on students' assignments, using a Surface Pro stylus. The process is slow, frustrating and cumbersome. Each time I lift the stylus from the surface a popup menu appears asking me if I want to save or delete. This makes the...

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Hi I cant see my course in student view I cant find those glasses that usually show at the top can you help me to find them please? Joy Course is First Course 292. MFC292 Its an art course. Joy

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Good morning.  I would like to take some summer classes however I need advice on what classes I still need in order to get my degree.  Is there anyone that can help with this?Thank you very much. 

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Can we assign any assignment or homework to observers as well ? thank you.

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How do I find a students sis?. its not listed on the people page

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Can a response section other than a discussion be added to a page?

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If I send an announcement to my students before I publish the class, will they get the announcement?

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I put the wrong number of points assigned to a quiz.  I can not seem to change the number even when I am in the quiz area after marking the edit pencil.  It just stays the same number.

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In March I made buttons for links on the front page.  They disappeared.  I had pictures in Discussions that I used previously.  They disappeared.  I just tried to upload a picture into Discussions as a JPEG and PNG.  Only got a "?".  Will this be fix...

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I have looked for instructions in the Canvas guides and on the TurnItIn site and have found none that specifically show how to access these assignments through Canvas. If there is going to be this kind of connectivity, we need to be able to guide our...

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When I try to open canvas on safari it just attempts to reload a few times and that gives me the error message "a problem repeatedly occurred with canvas" but on the app and on browsers such as chrome it will load and work fine. 

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I have created a "NEW" quiz in my existing course.  I am able to see the quiz in the list of quizzes that I access by the selection panel on the left side of my screen.  However, when I attempt to link the quiz in a module, the quiz cannot be found i...

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When creating a student account, what is a join code?

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