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My professor wants all submissions to be Times New Roman, 12pt font, and double-spaced. I type my answers out on a word doc and copy and paste it into the "Text Entry" section of the answer box for assignments.The problem is that when I paste my answ...

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Formerly, teachers were able to use the K-State conversion tool to convert CSV files to QTI packages in order to more easily import questions into Quizzes, but that seems to have changed. Short of purchasing a subscription to GetMarked, is there a wa...

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I would be grateful to hear from community members regarding how fast/slow they find using BB Ally in Canvas - and what they would consider to be acceptable processing times.For example, I have just copied a course (comprising approx 50 pages, 50 ima...

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I would like student access reports for all of our graduates. Is there a way to get an individual student's views and participations for every course they enrolled in on one report?  Would you need to have an admin role or could an instructor pull th...

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Hello, We have Gradescope linked to assignments in our Canvas course. When students upload their submission in the required pdf format through Gradescope, some textboxes do not show the text answers. When the pdf is downloaded and the textbox is sele...

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Instructors who have been using Canvas for a long time who haven't necessarily been responsible for optimizing files. Uploaded files such as images and other instructional content that should have been part of a course files storage area seem to stic...

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Estoy intentando subir mis tareas, pero el mensaje "Error al cargar borrador de la entrega" aparece en todas mis clases. ¿Qué debo hacer?

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So previously Speed Grader showed only the relevant student's posts.  It showed their original post and their replies to other students.  That way, I was able to grade the student's posts (with speed). But now, it just shows the whole forum centered ...

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We have a highly evolved approach to our Capstone Projects and Dissertations which have one convenor/leader and up to 50 supervisors. Whilst the Capstone leader is responsible for maintaining the content, individual students are assigned to individua...

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I've been on a 30 minute seek and find to try to find a way to give feedback on the discussion redesign. In short - it's TERRIBLE!Grading discussion questions is now a laborious process extending my grading time due to all the extra clicking to find ...

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I am trying to unenroll myself from the courses I no longer need to be in. However, I cannot unenroll myself! Neither the teacher nor the ID/Designer role allows me to remove myself from a course. I have to contact the administrator for each course I...

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We turned on the feature to allow checkpoints yesterday. We have faculty who you use group discussions to keep their clinical groups together for grading. When you go in to click "Assign graded checkpoints" the group set goes away. When I save and go...

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Hello community!  I am running into a very bizarre bug with just a single student. All other students in the course are just fine! I see the issue, myself, when I masquerade as the student. Context: The student is navigating to a chapter workbook in ...

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I have just noticed that in Discussions, the "previous" and "next" buttons are shifted to the right. In "View as Student", they are completely covered up with the notification banner. Is this just for me or a general bug? Screenshots attached.

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One student gave me a request through Disabilities to have her test time extended by an extra half. How do I set aside that requirement for only this one? I don't see the option when I select "Assign to."Thank you.Marcia Gilbert gilberm@phsc.edu

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It is showing my old "to do" lists not my current courses that are shown in the card view but I want them in the list view, please guide me into what I need to do..

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I wrote a course in a different LMS, and now want to import it into Canvas to combine with my new course.  I can get it to import into a page, but can not edit the text once it is there via the rich text editor.  Is there a way to edit that I am not ...

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I looked back and saw that there are 2 separate posts on this topic from 2023 and it appears that the issue still has not been resolved. An import today, with adjusted due dates, resulted in an email going out to 350+ students notifying them that an ...

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I have test banks from the textbook that publisher I'd like to import as question banks. I downloaded the files for Canvas. These appear to be zip files for each chapter, which contains 2 html/xml files, all zipped into one big file.Where can I impor...

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My Institution has apprentices and when their results are sent to them, their boss also needs a copy to be sent for his records. Is there anyway I can add another email to the apprentices enrollment? Thanks Lynz

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I need 1 student in my course to resubmit his file. I don't want the other students to be able to submit multiple files because this creates chaos for me as an instructor. How can I do this.    Sometimes I want to be able to reassign the assignment t...

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We have group assignments, how about group quizzes? Problem: Students meet together to take a quiz as a group activity. Currently, one student (or more) will be the "sacrificial lamb" and will take the quiz and learn which answers are incorrect. Some...

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We are a law enforcement institution. We need to be able to display all course categories to our learners, with the ability for them to open a category and see the courses available within it. Is this possible? We are moving from another LMS that doe...

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I have just received another last-minute class due to registration at our campus. I will need to roll in my course content (I know how to do that). However, can I first delete the other teacher's content, since they are so different? The book remains...

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Hello Community, We have recently completed our migration from Blackboard Learn to Canvas. As part of this process, we need to archive our previous courses from Blackboard, including crucial student data such as enrollments, submissions, grades, and ...

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I would like to put some thumbnail images on a page that can be clicked on and expanded. I tried to use code in a lightbox effect post by Chris Hofer, but some global css kept it from working correctly. Do you have a suggestion on how I could make th...

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Has anyone experienced an issue with the Canva integration in Canvas where it appears in the menu but displays an error message when clicked? Any suggestions or solutions to resolve this?

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Good afternoon Community,  Is there a way for copy and paste to be disabled for students Thank you 

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Hello,I've recently joined a program in eLearning and IT, and I've noticed that our current setup in Canvas integrates with Microsoft SharePoint. This integration creates individual SharePoint sites for each course every year. Over time, this results...

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I teach Classical Greek online. Can I change to the Greek alphabet in quiz questions?

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