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I've built a bunch of content as webpages and webapps and gotten it all hosted. It all meets the highest standards for accessibility. It uses responsive design, adjusting to display well on any screen, with thoughtful layouts for both portrait and la...

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Scenario: I want to make self-sign up groups that have different names - so 80 groups in total, divided into 3 lots of groupwork -Tutorial 1, groupwork -Tutorial 2, groupwork -Tutorial 3. This helps to identify for students which groups in their tuto...

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Have a Canvas site running from 2018 and we are missing a page that was mostly likely deleted in cleanup. When I go to the restore/undelete queue it only shows deleted material from 2018-2022. Is there a time period, or a refresh that I need to do to...

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Hey everyone, Just wanted to give you a heads-up that Canvas has been a bit strange lately. It seems like not all the BBB conference recordings are showing up properly (check out the screenshots and the message from Canvas). I'm wondering if anyone e...

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An instructor has an exam with 75 minutes (1 hr 15 min) set as a time limit. She has 3 students who have 1.5 multiplier accommodations for quizzes/exams. She has set the accommodations at the course level. She has set up the exam so it opens at a spe...

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I love using the hotspot feature in Canvas Quiz, however for exams that have many questions I set them up as 1 question at a time but allow backtracking. However I have noticed recently that whenever a student of mine wishes to backtrack to review th...

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Hi there, my Learning Design team is aiming to improve our accessibility practices and I've been using Canvas Ally tool to check the contrast between emphasis boxes and link text in our organisation's CSS. Ally has been flagging a lot of instances of...

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I migrated a Classic Quiz with Mastery Paths to New Quizzes and then imported it into another course. However, after the import, the Mastery Paths did not function correctly.After troubleshooting, I found that the original developer had created the q...

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In this documentation article, it says, "Some external app LTI tools such as Google Drive and Office 365 do not retain tool configurations in exported courses." What are the "tool configurations" that it refers to? Does it refer to the configurations...

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Hi!I would like to be able to embed short, non-instructional, decorative video clips on some pages. We are using clips from Adobe instead of static images as decoration. However, when uploaded to Kaltura and then embedded, a user has to click play. I...

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Hi I have several rooms imported from SIS with different users, they all have a unique SIS ID. Is it possible to put the same template on all of them at once? The template is manually created. Since the rooms af different users I do not think that I ...

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I have a course that often needs to export their rubrics for review. Since there isn't a built-in feature to export rubrics as a document or CSV, I came up with a workaround. I just wanted to know if there were plans to add an export feature in the f...

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When copying multiple questions from one item bank to another new or existing item bank, I have to copy each question individually or else duplicate the entire item bank and delete unwanted questions individually.  Can you create a group copy feature...

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I know this is a minor problem, but why are the posting times different? I didn't post these at 11 AM or 9:35 AM. This could be a case of the time zones, or correct me if I'm wrong.

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What is the best solution for grading student assignment submissions in a large enrolment course where each teaching assistant is assigned to a subset of student essays? Thank you for your help!

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I keep getting a notification that says launch error when I try to open Mobius from a Canvas assignment posting. How to fix? It says "We apologize for the inconvenience, but an error occurred while launching the tool. Please try launching the tool ag...

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Hello - We are processing whether or not to enable the Content Security Policy in our Canvas instance. Is there any process that can tell us whether or not there are current Javascript tools running in our canvas instance?  Thanks Neil  

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We have create 2 question banks in New Quizzes and now cannot find them in the question banks.

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I read that CANVAS decided not to allow this to be an option. It would be great if this feature was live. I needed to make changes to a quiz, but I have no way make changes for the students who took the quiz early. 

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Several accrediting bodies require lesson plans at audits, but the content often has changed. Is there a way to have a Lesson Plan built off current canvas shells, as an exported file that captures various aspects of the course?

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Random question, what if an instructor deletes or stops using their account? What would happen to their courses and accounts? Is it like the Inactive Google Account manager?  

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Has anyone experienced unauthorized access to their Canvas account through external email phishing or hacking attempts? What steps were taken to resolve the issue, and what recommendations do you have for preventing future security breaches?

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I am an instructor teaching an on-demand, self-paced course using the Free Canvas platform. Is there a way to automate certificates of completion when participants finish all portions of the course or will I need to issue the certificates manually?Am...

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I need to be able to join a group without having to see other users or people's names, is that possible?In my current LMS canvas for a student to join a group they see ALL the users names in the course, is there a way to let him join a group but with...

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I am curious if an AI adaptable Library from Canvas will be coming soon? A recent GPT Prompt: Please provide me with a prompt for Chat GPT that would provide a Canvas Course for a 10th grade Law Education class that can be manipulated to match the go...

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Hi everyone, I’ve noticed that when I replace a file in Canvas (using the “Replace” option when uploading a file with the same name), sometimes the file’s attachment ID remains the same and sometimes it changes to a new ID, especially for the file cr...

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A wish-list item, if you will: As not every institution's model follows the norm (mine is asynchronous with rolling enrollment), it would be nice to enable/configure lazy loading down to individual assets on a content page in a module. I experience b...

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Our Canvas / ITS group will no longer be providing support for SCORM packages. We currently use 27 courses provided as SCORM packages from a third party. Has anyone run into this issue? Have you worked out a different way to get your content from the...

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CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME RESET MY LOGIN FOR THIS STUPID CANVAS ACCOUNT IM ABOUT TO GET MAD BRO THEY NEED TO FIX THEY STUFF BECAUSE WHY CANT I RESET MY PASSWORD AND NOT SENDING ME AN EMAIL TO DO SO 

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hi, how can I enable anonymous instructor comments on speedgrader?I do not see the 'Anonymous Instructor Annotations' as stated on this guide https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-enable-anonymous-instructor-annotations-in-stud...

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