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What happened to the PREVIEW ability in a discussion text box if you accidentally leave the page before posting or publishing the response? We used to go back to the same empty text box, and we were allowed.to decide whether we want to keep the previ...

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So I went to unpublish last quarter's course and got this message:     So...this means that all of my prior courses will all remain published after each quarter ends? Why would I want that? I mean, of course there are student submissions, that's the...

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In one of my courses, when trying to calculate different What-If scores, all assignments always automatically calculate their scores as 100%. For example, when trying to calculate 50/100, the What-If calculation shows 100/100. This is not the case in...

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I'm trying to add another teacher to my canvas page so they can get into my pages and to my Clever pages, but I can't find the way my IT said to do this

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How do I get discussion questions to show in the grade book so students can see their grades for them there?

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My students can not access the quiz in the module or under the assignment section. The quiz is listed but it is grayed out but just lightly. I have checked all of my inputs and they seem to be right.

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Has Canvas developed a way to pull a report of all in the markbook in a class section, for example, or the whole course, to see their turn-it-in percentages and the AI match? 

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We are trying to pilot Khanmigo at one of our schools.  There were handful of teachers who were unable to use the tool because they could not login using the "login with Google option."  It just occurred randomly for a few teachers while others were ...

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com.follett.fss.vithar.core.ValidationException: `10 is not a valid value for java.math.BigDecimal My grades are not transferring to Aspen, from Canvas, and I keep getting this error message. My other classes are transferring just fine and it's the e...

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My last class ended Monday and I never saw my final grade. I cannot access anything to email my instructor nor look up past classes - not even my course from last semester (I received an email with the course completion certificate). What can I do?

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Hello,I am instructor,Since February I am having this message in all of my courses when I try to link the final evidence to eLumen,              LTI authentication failed.Invalid Signature.  I tried to change the browser, to log in as incognite, I  t...

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We are trying to setup our first blueprint course using mastery paths. When it is synced to an associated course, the conditional content pages in the mastery paths are no longer in the mastery paths in the associated course, even though they are syn...

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I have created several New Quizzes in which I have aligned each quiz question to a single course learning outcome. Is there a way for me to automatically create a question bank that contains all quiz questions aligned to a single course outcome? Or, ...

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Is it possible for Canvas to send an automatic notice to students who exceed an instructor-determined absence threshold? For example, imagine that a student has missed 4 classes. Is there a way to tell Canvas to email all students with 4 or more abse...

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Hi all,I am a Instructional Designer trying to find a solution/ work-around to build the following activity type:- a question that allows short or long responses (a few sentences to a paragraph)- ungraded (no instructor will be manually releasing fee...

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I'm asking on behalf of an instructor who teaches for a college besides ours. She likes to divide up her course roster into sections using the 'Add Section'  feature. But she doesn't have the kebab icon listed in the People tab to edit the added sect...

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It would be wonderful that the missing flag in grade book could have the option to disappear once the until deadline has passed since students cannot complete this work anymore and will now be getting a zero for that assignment. Right now you have to...

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A teacher marked a students piece of worked and made some annotation comments within the document. The student saw them that evening and went to make changes to the document the next day.However when the student went back into the assignment all the ...

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Hi thereI am a teacher and I have been using the video recording function to provide feedback to my students. I disable the camera and only audio is recorded. Perfect! Now, i am teaching a unit with group assignments and I need to provide the same fe...

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I was wondering if any one else has seen this in new Quizzes? On the left I have one score (133/150) but the actual grade on the right is different (100/150). i have checked the points and the 133 is what it adds up to.

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My students made video recordings for Essay type questions on New Quizzes using the RCE (insert, media, record media).  When I go to Speedgrader, I get an unauthorized access denied error and am unable to view the videos for any of the students in or...

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I would like for Canvas to randomly assign students a number when hiding student names option is selected. After several trials, it seems that Canvas is programmed to assign these numbers alphabetically. For the primary teacher, this poses a non-rand...

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As anyone done a questionnaire within Canvas to define a students VARK Learning Style? Very similar to this, but the results can be given within Canvas.https://vark-learn.com/the-vark-questionnaire/ It would be fantastic if I could get add this withi...

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Hello there!Our school will transition from our current LMS to Canvas this summer, before thoroughly implementing it with all our students in the fall. In our current LMS, in order to post assignments, reminders, or any content on the Student's Learn...

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Hi,I assigned a final and distributed a maximum of 100 points. On the syllabus, the final is said to weigh 30 points out of 100. Unfortunately I forgot to adjust this on the final itself, and now the final outweighs all the other assignments combined...

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I have graded an assignment, made it visible to students in speedgrader, and posted it.   When I review the grades, some grades are hidden by an icon that looks like a piece of paper.   If I hover over it, it will show the entered grade.  How can I b...

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Hi,I am an instructor. The Totals column is missing from the gradebook. Is there a setting that needs to be changed? It's not that in the Settings, the "Hide totals in student grades summary" (which applies to students anyway) is checked.Thanks,Asif

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Is there a way to set a default grade with a default comment? It is really takes a lot of time to have to individually copy and paste the SAME comment into each student's assignment using speedgrader such as "Good job on this assignment!" Can we get ...

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I set up groups for students to join but they are locked. Why is that? Desiree

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