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I am currently teaching a class that is not set to conclude until the middle of June. When I visit the New Analytics page, I see this: When I hover over the 'course status' oval, the title text says "Course concluded: in 1 month". Frankly I just don...

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As a former co-teacher, and now TA, the permissions I have are changing without any logical explanation. The course instructor has made no changes, and overnight I was no longer able to continue building a final test.  I no longer have the ability to...

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It often happens that when one adds a text comment to a student submission, one is not permitted to edit it or even select it; the comment instead becomes an integral part of the document itself. This is an annoying persistent bug in Canvas that appa...

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Hi! I would like to track course created by a number of teachers without having to access each one of them. Is there analytics are for it please? Any tips?

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We have encountered an issue that raises concerns about student privacy and course integrity. When students receive the status "concluded" in a course, they are still able to access access the course in a read-only mode. This is a good feature since ...

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I have completed the student attempt and am now trying to grade it. However, I am encountering an issue in the gradebook where I receive the message: "There was a problem updating the submission."Could you please assist me in resolving this issue?I f...

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I am trialling marking assessments within Canvas and this requires me to annotate a task sheet as well. I have asked students to upload a task sheet in addition to their assessment but it is making them all appear to have high similarity. Is there a ...

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I created a quiz with five essay questions. Regardless of which question is #4, that question will not show the text field.I have tried everything: different browsers, different computers (all Macs), cleared cache and cookies, and ensured the questio...

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This is more less about an issue I had with cengage when i was starting an assignment.  I could not see the entire screen and was bout to go nuts.  That's when I contacted support and screenshared with support.  It was as simple as right clicking to ...

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Is anyone utilizing Outcomes for Institutional Assessment with non-instructors (aka: Assessors) evaluating student artifacts?  If so, we would love to talk to you about your process!  Relatively new to Canvas and working on getting this set up at our...

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Help!My quizzes show up everywhere but on the home page. They are in the gradebook too. But I need to get them onto the home page.

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It would be helpful to add a feature to the moderate screen that shows each student's quiz progress in real time. Specifically, I’d like to see how many questions they’ve completed out of the total number in the quiz.

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When I embed an image into a Canvas page, I would like to add a caption (not just alt text), sometimes with an attribution and/or link to the image's source. Is that possible?

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Does anyone have experience with creating courses that students can test out of assignments in a module after completing passing a test?After our students complete a module pre-test, we would like for our students to test out of assignments that they...

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Hello all,In a bit of a pickle, I have a student saying that they submitted an assignment right before the due date and saw the “confetti” pop up. However, on my end it showed that there was nothing submitted, so naturally I assigned a zero for missi...

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Hello!  For those of you who use some kind of templates (or maybe you don't use templates at all) to give your instructors a sort-of “starting point”, do you make a custom home/welcome page and set that as your “Front Page”, or do you set your Module...

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I am building medical education courses which have multiple modules in one course which focus on a specific content area (3-5 content areas per course). I need to have each content module require 73% pass for the module, in addition to the total grad...

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Hi everyone, Recently, we’ve been exploring early indicators that may reflect student success, and we found that students’ on-time assignment submission rate is a good signal. This aligns with our intuition, as students who submit assignments late or...

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When a discussion has the checkpoints option enabled the discussion no longer appears in the bulk date editor. This makes it more difficult to update all the dates for items in a course and makes it more likely a date will be missed. Practice quizzes...

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Am struggling understanding mixed constructions in simple language, i have read it over and over but still its not sticking in my head.

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I have 30+ past courses that are listed by semester in my canvas list of all courses.  I would like to be able to create folders to organize these past courses into so I do not have an extremely long list of past courses.

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Is there a way to hide discussion board responses until a certain date? One of the courses at my institution has a challenge. Each student is to make a post to the discussion board of their presentation. They are then required to watch the videos of ...

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How do I find my Pathway email address?

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Is it possible to see "page comments" that students give one another when peer reviewing ePortfolios? I assumed that as the instructor of record, I would be able to view these comments as I do in the individual peer reviews of files, but I do not see...

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Hello! I am an instructor, and my organization is building a number of courses in Canvas in preparation for a public launch later this month. These are adult continuing education courses that are free to the public and have a national audience, so we...

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I have a quiz that I gave last year that I'd like to use (again) tomorrow morning. I'm working to make it accessible using the Secure Exam Browser but the option doesn't present itself. My questions are: 1) Is it possible that I have to create this q...

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I'm a math teacher, and I'm trying to create a number line in Canvas for a quiz for my students to teach about inequalities. I don't see any way I can make a number line. I'm trying to figure out how to do that, or if Canvas allows you to do that. Ca...

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I was trying to take a Smart Proctor exam and it would not load. I got an agent on the line to assist and when I tried to go back to desktop to use my cutting tool to screen shot the issue. It would not let me and I lost Smart Proctor. Next thing I k...

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