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Recently the CANVAS Inbox behavior changed in a way that does not allow to select ALL Students when composing a message. Only individual student can be selected.Any insight on that.Toshko

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I have always concluded courses in the past, and students have still been able to access them afterward for review purposes. However, I recently concluded a course, and several students have informed me that they can no longer see or access the cours...

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I cannot see "Conferences" in the "Navigation" tab from settings. Can anyone help?

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How do I get Canvas to ignore the case-sensitivity of a quiz answer?

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How do I identify "Key words" in a quiz answer so I do not have to enter every variation of an answer?

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Two students in my class submitted incomplete drafts to the peer review assignment days early and I want them to redo their drafts and resubmit. I have the assignment set up so that they can submit multiple times. When they resubmit, what happens to ...

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I made a mistake with the “shift dates” widget when I copied my last semester course into my new course for next semester.  It will be a tedious job indeed to correct all the dates, manually.  I read the Canvas background material but just wanted to ...

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How may an instructor access an Announcement's history? 

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After a "group" is set up, will the students get a notification?Are students able to start their own group?Are students able to start their own "discussions" for their "groups".I appreciate any help you can provide.

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i have pre test and post test that i do not want to be used as part of students grades bc i have chapter exams that will be graded. i still want the students to take the pre and post test how to i go about them taking it but it not effecting there gr...

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Is there a way to have Teachers post Announcements to all Sections even if limited in grading for their section? Based on my research so far, there is not a way to do this, except potentially through creating a custom role. But the information on cus...

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How do I duplicate a course including all assessments and documents with a new title? I have several single semester courses that I have to duplicate for semester 2 this year. Is there a quick way that I can duplicate these courses and simply change ...

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HiI have downloaded the test banks for 18 chapters from my publisher's site.  They now reside in Canvas and are accessible when searching for test banks.I would like 2 or more chapters to be included in each question group, but I'm missing something....

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We are trying to determine what triggers a graded submission timestamp. For example, when a faculty member goes in and enters comments on an assignment but doesn't enter a grade and hits the submit button does that trigger the system to say an assign...

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Is there any way to sort students into Microsoft Teams instead of Canvas Groups? I would love to save students from spending time on that.

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Good afternoon all, We are gearing up for the start of the school year. We use Canvas as our LMS and PowerSchool as our SIS. I have a few teachers who sync trades from Canvas to PowerSchool (not many as generally we find it can be troublesome at time...

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I am making a quiz question with multiple answers. Is there a way for an automatic response statement to appear when a student clicks on answer?

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I could use help with this! For my AP Courses, I am using Canvas Quizzes to mimic the platform of Bluebook and AP Classroom for timed essays. However, I want to be able to download the student submissions and print, like I can for Canvas Assignments....

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The top five colours in the colour palette disappeared (macOS, Windows; Safari, Chrome, Firefox). The palette is a rectangle cropped by the top row of colour swatches. How do we get the full palette back? Also, once our teachers' laptops are restarte...

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I accidentally created two profiles under the same email address. I would like to delete one of them. My instructors have requested I delete one of them to avoid confusion but I do not see a way to do that.I have two different usernames and I only ne...

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I have a PDF of a learner workbook uploaded to Canvas so each student gets their own copy to annotate.When I open the PDF (using a test student account), I can see the annotation tools but when the students open the PDF, they can't see the annotation...

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So I haven't been able to figure this out and so I am humbly seeking the wisdom of the masses. I have page where I would like to have some separation between tasks. However, I am unable to get the text to align directly underneath the headings. Unfor...

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Hi!We're moving to Simple Syllabus as our ONLY syllabus option for Fall 2025. If a student clicks a link to the Canvas syllabus, they will be redirected to the course homepage. This redirect makes sense to us, and we're fine with it, BUT we are wonde...

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Hi,  We have had a lot of turnover in our technology department and we no longer have access or know the contact for our CSM. We are attempting to transition from our legacy canvas integration to the API+ integration, but since we have no contact for...

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module 10 specifically the first quiz.

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I am having problems getting my Tophat class attached to the LMS and when I try launching it from the app it says something is wrong. I was wondering if there’s any way it can be fixed.

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Hi everyone,I'm Dario Schiraldi, trying to figure out how to access the next scheduled course or module in Canvas. I’ve checked my dashboard, but I’m still unsure where to look or if I’m missing something. Has anyone else had this issue before? I’d r...

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I have student and trainer resources for my course separated and accessed by clicking a tile. How do I lock students out from being able to click through to the trainer resources?

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I have submitted a second attempt for case studies in my first module CHCCOM005. My first attempt was marked and assessed in 24 hours. My system confirms I have submitted a second attempt however, it has been just over 3 days and I have had no respon...

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Hi Canvas Community We have a use case where we would like to show grades/completion achieved in one course, in another course.  For example: There is a Lab induction course which is used by many award courses.  A student is required to complete a co...

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