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I see that in the Admin > Permissions view, I can disable the ability for students to create web conferences in Courses. This is valuable, since I don't want students in group project courses to create a conference and unknowingly invite the entire c...

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I have imported the QTI file however when I go to my quiz/assignment, I am unsure how to import the file into the actual quiz. How do I get this file into my assignment/quiz,  I have the free version so I do not think I have quizzes. Thank you!      ...

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Instructor saved and published Modules, syllabus etc and made an announcement but it all appears to have disappeared. Any advice on what the glitch might be? Urgent thank you!

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Hi all, We've been experimenting using AI to generate quizzes. We now have a working prototype that will generate a QTI file, which Canvas accepts.  When importing this QTI file, there is a number of options when choosing the "default question bank"....

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Hello,I'm an instructor creating quizzes with short answer and essay-style questions in Canvas. These questions require open-ended responses because students may phrase correct answers in different ways. However, there are still definitive answers th...

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Hi everybody When I want to create a report in settings. e.g. Provisioning, Canvas I will send a mail when it is finished. I never receive any email, where can I see which email it sends to? Best regards Flemming

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Greetings, I am looking for a high school art teacher group to brainstorm ideas like creating an art gallery virtual tour with student worksheet in Canvas.  I emailed the Houston Center for Photography about accessing their virtual tours for my stude...

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I have this issue all the time and it's SO frustrating. It just started happening this year (2025, maybe 2024), but never happened before. ISSUE: While typing in Speedgrader, the page briefly bounces (as if a quick refresh has just occurred). Then, n...

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How do you submit a discussion board assignment in canvas? 1) Modules2)the chapter discussion board I need to submit3) a page comes up with a notice "You  must post before seeing replies. Edit history will be available to instructors. Below that is a...

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Hi everyone My name is Dario Schiraldi, and I am the CEO of Travel Works, a company focused on building digital tools that simplify and enhance travel planning and management for both individuals and organizations.I joined this amazing Canvas LMS Co...

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I thought that this had been covered in the past but I couldn't find anything while searching this forum. I'd like to know if anything is being done to streamline the student Access Report so that it doesn't show each and every embedded image as thou...

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As a Canvas Admin - What would be the best way to enable New Quizzes for a hand-selected 20ish courses? I have considered creating a new Sub-account, and only enable New Quizzes there, but that would mean the courses might lose sub-account specific L...

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Did the topic about having a choice for module headings come up in the past? I'd love to visually color-code different parts of my classes. Any suggestions?

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I was wondering how this information on underling HTML is useful for plain Rich Content Editor users - especially if the formatting is present in the toolbar too in a way which is more insightful. Do you have a specific reason or use case why this wo...

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Someone asked a question about the Chrome extension Canvas Quiz Solver already (https://canvasquiz.com/) but the reply from Canvas was not very helpful. Is Canvas itself doing anything about this? Can Canvas make it so extensions don't work while in ...

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I remember seeing a webinar presented by Instructure (maybe a CSM webinar) a few years ago (between 1 and 3 years ago) about doing some rearranging of your Canvas instance to "archive" courses. It did not actually archive them, it just designated old...

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Hello, I am from a K-12 school district.  Once our rosters are synced with SIS for the 25/26 school year, is it possible to prevent students from being able to see what courses/teachers they have been assigned to?  Changes are still being made and we...

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Hello All, I have been using Peer Reviews this semester and have run into a problem where students complete the rubric, and when they go in to add comments, Canvas has marked it as "done" and will not give them access anymore. I have worked around th...

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Hello, I'm working with a user who is having an issue with the UI displaying correctly.  They have tried in both Chrome and Edge with the same result.  Icons are not showing and the text is misaligned.  We have cleared cache, updated the browser, res...

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While I love having a Comment Library to house comments for easy insertion in Speed grader for assignment grading, I teach two graduate level courses and have many discussions, assignments, and projects for each class. I currently have over 100 comme...

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We have a community for our careers content where we've set up 11 modules. There are no prerequisites for the modules and they can be completed in any order. The community is very large with over 78,000 students enrolled so our support team has set u...

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I couldn't find if this had been asked before and it is most likely because I am not wording the question right. I have been brought a situation in which a student was dropped from a course but the professor still sees that student showing up when ge...

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Hello, I use Quizzes a lot for different assignments in my course, and it's come to my attention that students can download different browser extensions (e.g., Aceify.ai, etc.) that might give them the answers to the quizzes.  Are there ways we can b...

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Hello!We recently developed our 1st LTI app and submitted for approval. We have been working with a few school districts in the US and testing out our platform and LTI integration. We set our app status as Ready For Review.Could you please kindly let...

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Issue Description: We've noticed a problem when previewing PDF documents on Canvas. When users—regardless of their roles—click the "Rotate Page Clockwise by 90 Degrees" button in the preview screen, either intentionally or by mistake, the rotation ch...

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I use rubrics to evaluate assignments. First, I 'hide' the grades in the rubric and only give feedback. When I need to calculate my final grade, I change the rubric and amend it to 'show grades'.Canvas seems to have had an update recently. The view h...

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I often draft announcements in advance. Most of the time, this works fine, and the date I set is the date students see as the posting date. However, I have found that if I edit the draft, then this no longer works. Example: I drafted an announcement ...

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My class has 4 Units, and each unit has 4 quizzes (Classic Quizzes) available to students - they just pick one of the four to submit for a grade (I drop the three lowest scores). Many students open each quiz to see which one they want to do. That mea...

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I created and assignment and assigned peer reviews to the assignment. The peer reviewers will be using a rubric and comments for peer review. When creating that rubric, I elected to hide the scores for the criteria to not bias the peer reviewers. Is ...

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We've noticed in student access reports that some students have 85, or 112 or some other large number as page views for ALL graded discussions at the same time.  We're talking 25 discussions with a view in the same minute, and same number of views (e...

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