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Hello! Many of our instructors here use the Google Assignments 1.3 LTI to have students submit work. Teachers do really like the Google Assignments grading interface, but we're having an issue with students being able to actually see the rubrics for ...

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Hello everybody, we have this issue in our CANVAS, our time zone is Asuncion (-3:00 / -3:00), but it seens there is an error, you configure a quizz with a date and CANVAS save it with one hour +, for example, the time you put is april 4, the canvas c...

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Hello Canvas Community, Whenever I try to upload a video file, it displays this error: When I click Retry, it just displays it again. Can this error be resolved? It's a total hassle. Again, it only appears for video files. This course is the only on...

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I would like to include text notes on pages that the students won't see. These would primarily be reminders to me of how I would like to improve the page, e.g., "Record a video and insert it here," or "Expand this section when I have more time," or "...

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For example:Outcome_PLO_1: the statement was originally set as yadda yadda yadda until Spring2025 Term, but then is later revised to be blah blah blah as of the incoming Fall2025 Term.Outcome_PLO_2: the mastery score is changed from 2 to 3.Outcome_PL...

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I have Latin quizzes posted in Assignments. The students can download , fill in the answers and then upload. But I have 35 Units of quizzes and I would like to store the answers with the quiz WITHOUT THE STUDENTS BEING ABLE TO SEE THE ANSWERS. 

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I have a new-style quiz in a course that contains several multiple-choice questions. When I submit the quiz while in Student View, the results of the quiz are displayed (e.g., the score, time, correct/incorrect answers, etc). However, there isn't a N...

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I am local admin for my unit, and therefore manage quite a few courses and their blueprints.  I often see this message " “Text No Question has moved to a Stimulus; please add a question so it can display within the quiz” after I complete importing co...

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In the past, posted announcements have always shown the date and time that they posted. But this past academic year, I keep running into problems with announcements showing no date at all. That makes it difficult to find them (they don't sort by date...

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When designing a course, I would like to prevent students from accessing certain assignments until prerequisite tasks are completed. Specifically, I would like the "Peer Evaluation" assignment to remain locked until the "Final Project" has been submi...

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Hello Community, I have been looking for a GraphQL API to fetch all my students assignment marks posted date in single API and I want to add filter to fetch only the assignments posted marks with from and to date. Example: I want to fetch all assignm...

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I want to create online courses And become Live English Instructor And create an online classroom Please Tell me the steps to achieve my goals 

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Hello, We need to be able to view the TOTAL next to the Student Name in the Gradebook. Yes, I can manually move that column to that location, but as soon as I sort the assignments by date or other, it puts the total back to the extreme right. Has any...

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How do I add a recurring Zoom Meeting to my Canvas class? All I see is IT Zoom, which is just help for faculty.

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Good afternoon, I worked with a faculty member today who had an interesting ask related to New Quizzes and regrading a question from a quiz.Their team had noticed that one of the questions they used had another potential answer from their answer choi...

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When students do not complete an h5p assignment on time the item remains ungraded rather than receiving a 0 grade in the gradebook.  Students who do complete the assignment do have their scores appear in the gradebook. It does identify late submissio...

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Is there a way to required students to spend a certain amount of time on a classic or new quiz?  Example:  students must spend a minimum of 15 minutes on a quiz or it will not allow a student to submit the quiz.  Can we request this as a feature requ...

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Hi Canvas Community,I’m looking for a way to lock student browser windows during tests and quizzes in Canvas — similar to how Google Forms can restrict users to one tab and prevent switching.Is there a built-in way to do this in Canvas or through a s...

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I have quite a few students that are not able to submit a picture of their work this week. This has happened a few times over just this year (it's not happened in previous years), but this week there are at least 8 students that cannot upload a pictu...

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I'm working on new quizzes which have a stimulus (where you can introduce a situation) and add questions to that stimulus. I was wondering if there was a way to copy the entire stimulus and its accompanying questions. This would be super helpful.

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 I spent 30 minutes banging my head against a wall trying to figure out why I couldn't import grades for an assignment. I would download the gradebook, enter the grades for the assignment and upload it, only to get the message, "there were no changes...

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When using the API to List Assignments (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/assignments.html#method.assignments_api.index), the bucket parameter can take several different values, including upcoming and future.  What is the difference between upco...

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Could not attend the Instructure Update today because of multiple failed Zoom attempts and a expired link error. Is there a way to view the Zoom meeting recording?

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As an instructor, I need to read the student's paper and look at the rubric at the same time in Speedgrader. I can increase and decrease the zoom on the paper, but I cannot do so with the rubric so that I can see the whole scale and not just the top ...

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I'm having trouble accessing individual student dashboards. When I click "View Student," it defaults to my Test Student, even when I’ve selected a specific student from the People tab.I’m trying to troubleshoot an issue where students report that the...

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We're working through a small pilot with Canvas right now, and one recurring request among faculty is to be able to adjust the wording of standard Canvas dialogs (e.g. dialing back the "does not count towards final grade" messaging of ungraded assign...

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I recently was made aware of a warning message in the “preview” window in Canvas courses when students select some files. The warning message seems to be occuring for files greater than 25 megabytes (MB). Wanted to share what I’m seeing, should you o...

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Due to new security policy I have been tasked with finding all users that has a API token, and if possible find out what their token is so that we can mapped who is making the call. Is there an API, report or admin view I can use to find these inform...

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THE COURSE INFORMATION IS NO LONGER VISIBLE ON THE MODULE PAGES IN MY COURSE.

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At our institution we use number codes to identify courses, and the same course can have a code beginning with the same number over several semesters. The trailing digits vary by section, semester, and year, however.Recently I had an issue when addin...

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