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Hello everyone, I'm using New Quizzes in Canvas to conduct assessments and I need to download a report that shows each student's responses in detail, ideally as an Excel or CSV file. I've tried accessing the “Moderate” and “Reports” sections, but I c...

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Can the formula question type handle negative numbers for multiplying and dividing questions? I have been trying to put in simple multiplication questions and can't seem to get negative numbers to work.I have done (`x`)(`y`) and then set x to be 1 to...

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I am trying to import content from the iCEV platform in the form of a Common Cartridge. Everything shows up in my modules and looks fine until I try to open something. I get the error message,  "Couldn't find valid settings for this link." Any sugges...

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When using SpeedGrader, if you add a comment from the Comment Library, then move your cursor to the grade box and type in a number for the grade, the number will appear at the top of the comment box instead of the grade box.This did not happen until ...

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Hello team So I have come across a specific field while I am creating a quiz (New Quizzes). That is the "submission type" field which is not edible. Please see the attached screenshot. Does anyone know its functionality and if it can be edible how we...

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How can students see my comments on ungraded surveys? Thank you. 

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I accidentally deleted the wrong version of a quiz. I deleted the quiz that the students had already taken. Can I recover their grades or work? It was a quiz and an assignment. I have tried the undelete trick. It does not bring back my students' resu...

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I would like the instructor to create a classic quiz whereby we are being tested general knowledge, often focusing on historical, cultural and educational topics. Format should be online quizzes

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I created a matching question for a quiz and made the question worth 8 points (there are eight vocabulary words in the question).  I added it to a test bank.  I then created a second, similar quiz using the test bank but now the item in the bank says...

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I have a teacher who sees the following attached image on one student's submission and not on all the others.  Has anyone ever evaluated this question before?  Does anyone know why this happens?  Why does it have a box around it?  Why does it grey ou...

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Students are posting their original response to a discussion assignment, then they delete it which allows them to see their classmates' responses.  After reading the other students' responses, they write their own. This completely defeats the purpose...

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This just started a few hours ago.  When I try to assign something (discussion, assignment, etc), the assign box is greyed out.  I have logged out and in.  Nothing seems to be working. 

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I was reading about the Canvas Late Submission Policy.  https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-apply-a-Late-Submission-policy-in-the-Gradebook/ta-p/965  How does it work with external tools such as SIMnet when it syncs its score...

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Good morning,In the last week I have had two students submit assignments that they shouldn't have been able to since the assignments were closed.In one case, the assignment isn't set to open till next week, but one student has already posted their wo...

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Hi  I have discovered that the download button has been removed from Canvas, when you are adding PowerPoint slides to a Canvas modules, using iframes from OneDrive. It is no probem when you are attaching other Office365 files (Word, Excel, pub etc). ...

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So - I am grading discussions and I realized that it's a bit frustrating.   Like most instructors, I ask students to respond to a post.  HOWEVER, I sometimes ask students to (politely) DISagree with a post.  Even when I ask them to agree, I ask them ...

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I wish that there was a way to hop from one submission to another for a single student. Then the next feature that I would request is to have submissions of two students appear side by side. Sometimes I want to compare their work. In fact, having a t...

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Can I program the Return button in a course to redirect to the Modules list?

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I have about 4 teachers who use Canvas Quizzes regularly. When students go to take a quiz from this teacher, they are having issues submitting their finished quiz. They get the spinning wheel of death. Often, the quiz will be submitted later, but mos...

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We have Canvas Studio for video submissions to assignments. What is the difference between that and "media recording" submissions? Are they the same? Does Media Recordings still have limitations compared to Studio? There is no choice for submitting j...

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Students who are dropped from a course in our SIS (PowerSchool) are still appearing in the course on Canvas as "Inactive."  I've tried removing them from the course directly in Canvas, but they reappear after the roster sync.  Is there a way to not h...

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Hello, All!  We have an instructor at our institution that has made updates to the master course, but when the master course was copied over for her 8-week session, the changes did not copy over.  One example - The instructor updated the unit 1 quiz ...

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I have created a staff skills survey using the Canvas Quiz tool. I them made my own custom grading scheme to assign a 'Tier' to a particular score from the quiz. The tier shows up fine in the gradebook. But when I come to export the gradebook it rev...

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Hey! Can we delete selected unpublishes canvas accounts?

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We have multiple teachers getting the Service is currently unavailable message in the SpeedGrader doc viewer. I have checked the Canvas status here https://status.instructure.com/ There are no known errors showing but there is an previous incident fr...

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Is it just me, or is it ridiculous to not be able to just UNPUBLISH a quiz in Canvas? Like others, I have created quizzes that are automatically published (another annoying "feature") and students are hopping on and taking quizzes before we have cove...

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This new quarter I suddenly have an issue with the CommonLit external tool. The other external tools work great, but whenever I try to use CommonLit, I get the sad face paper icon. I have used this option plenty of times, so I am not sure why it isn'...

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My course is published as of today. I'm trying to see my students. I see no People tab? Help. Thanks

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Hi everyone,  I hope someone can confirm my understanding here. I am setting up a new quiz where I want student's answers to be automatically submitted once the due date is reached. I have read this article: How do I make a quiz available before or a...

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Hey, Canvas Community!   Happy Monday! We're in the process of implementing Simple Syllabus, and I'm wondering if anyone is willing to share the training assets they made for their faculty re: Simple Syllabus and Canvas. Anyone have a deck or a prese...

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