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I am trying to create a course with a pathway that students can only advance if they meet the mastery criteria of the previous assignments. I see that there are mastery paths that can direct students to the next assignment based on their scores. I wa...

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  Hello,  Today, some of our courses lost the ability to view the grading scheme before faculty submit grades to the SIS. When clicking on the final grade, it now shows as "No info." Because of this, faculty are unable to submit grades, and the grade...

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When I open Panopto, it seems to add folders with the same name. I have to open each one to figure out which one has the videos. Does anyone else have this happen. It's confusing and time consuming. Thanks

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I imported an activity into New Quizzes that originally had Mastery Paths configured. However, after importing it into another course, the Mastery Paths did not function correctly.After troubleshooting, I discovered that the original developer create...

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I need a list of how long each student takes to complete a quiz. Students start at different times, so submission times (which are easily downloaded) are not sufficient.My class is large, so opening each student's quiz log, typing the start time into...

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Suddenly my students cannot see published quizzes and assessments. They are showing as published on my side, but they can only access it through their gradebooks. Sometimes the quiz doesn't even show up in the right menu of "Things to Do." I have che...

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Hello:I have a chat widget thats sourced via iframe. (This is manage-hosted Canvas). I want a behavior similar to the Panda widget icon thats part of this community page.I included the iframe at the bottom of my page content like this: <div><iframe i...

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I created the roll call attendance assignment, weighted it by creating a group for it, but the grades are not showing up in my gradebook. I take attendance every class period. The submission is set to external link, I have the available dates set to ...

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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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I include several videos into my course content.  I was requiring viewing but I have found that sometimes my students view them but they don't show up as having viewed them in the analytics.  Are any of yoou having this problem?  How can I address it...

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I've just been using SpeedGrader for the first time in a new quiz. It is great that there now are buttons for updating grades and moving to the next and previous student right with each question when grading per question. However, the question feedba...

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A student submitted a post to a discussion board, and Canvas tagged it as "late".But Canvas reported the submission time as equal to the due date. Thus it appears that the submission was made on time and should not be marked late.A screenshot is foun...

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I'm having issues aligning outcomes to individual quiz questions. It appears correct when building the "New Quiz" and I have gone through all the correct processes so that under each question there is an aligned outcome, however when a student takes ...

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Hey everyone!I’m looking for a free tool (built-in or third-party) to create a simple teacher evaluation survey. I’ve checked a few options, but most require payment. Since the survey isn’t too complex, I feel like this should be a basic feature some...

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How do students know if they submitted multiple submissions.  My students slides and a brochure in one assignment.  They can only "see" one of their submission.

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I have ten pictures and I would like the students to match them with the correct term.How do I do that in a quiz format?

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Does anyone know if there is a work around for when you've accidently just "lost" the rubric that took ages to develop??! Rubrics & assignments don't seem to have the page history function so I can't revert to the previous version of the page 﫣...It...

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I have a quiz with a manual grade posting policy. I wait until all TAs have finished and then post the grades. However, I just received a request for feedback on a grade that has not yet been posted. The student showed me that Canvas says that the gr...

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Hi, All.  I am a student that uses canvas for all of my classes including my HS and dual enrolled college classes.   When something is graded in canvas, I have recently seen a delay of 4+ hours to notify me.  I am used to the 1 hour delay between som...

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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 using the "Save comment for reuse" feature in a rubric, can more than one saved comment be selected to add to a single criterion when grading? I found the guide but it doesn't specify.  https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-...

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I teach high school chemistry.  The inability of Canvas, in the past, to correctly write chemical formulae using subscripts to indicate numbers of atoms in a molecular formula or superscripts to indicate charges of ions breeds confusion.  Beginning s...

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Hi there,I have taken over a large course and some of the staff are taking mutiple classes. How do I assign them multiple classes for their relevant sections without giving them access to the entire sections that exist? Any help would be appreciated ...

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Scores from DeltaMath assignments were, but are no longer, syncing to Canvas. Example: DeltaMath has 100% for a student assignment, but Canvas has 50%, even though the DeltaMath assignment has a late date allowing 100% of the score to be achieved wit...

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I have uploaded pictures into my Canvas course, but I wanted to resize them so they are not huge every time that I insert them into any page using the Rich Content Editor. Is there any way to resize them by changing the image properties for the file?...

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I teach face-to-face classes and enter exam grades in the Canvas gradebook, where I can view the mean. Does Canvas also provide the standard deviation of graded assignments under New Analytics or anywhere else?

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A teacher needs to separate their Canvas course into two sections—one for the first block and the other for the second block.  The assignments are all identical.  How can I do this and still have the assignments move with the students and remain accu...

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I am an instructor and I have used Canvas for many years (and Blackboard and Moodle for years before that). After reading a number of posts and discussions I finally decided to add student peer reviews into a class this semester. Having done so, I ra...

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Same issue as found here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/Removing-Nicknames-From-Old-Courses/m-p/513033That issue was erroneously marked "solved." The "solution" is to change the dates of the course...but if the term is ende...

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