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We have students and staff who are added manually into Canvas courses with either their email or SIS ID.Is there a way of obtaining distinguishable data for users who have been added into their course by either ID or Username, even if they haven't ac...

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I am a new instructor to the Canvas LMS. I love the new quiz format, and the build on feature seems awesome to allow students multiple attempts and not have to redo the same questions they get right. That being said, I do wish that if a student were ...

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Can anyone help me find/enable Google Apps? I am using the Free Version but really need to be able to link to my Google Drive for Slides and Docs.

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Question is the same as the title.Is there a discord server for Canvas that can be joined? I am a student looking for a community that specializes in Canvas.

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Hi everyone, I'm looking for basic documentation for the Ally Course Accessibility Report. I have some basic questions that I'm trying to find answers for, but I can't find anything other than local school documentation from various colleges and univ...

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I am trying to obtain the answers of a user in a New Quiz, but I cannot find how. Is there a way or it is impossible through the API?

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In Speedgrader, the comments now allow teachers to use the RCE tools; however, they can now only see comments made by teachers and students for the current submission.  It used to be the comments made for all submissions still showed up on the new su...

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Hello!  I am about to launch a self-paced course that people can take at any time (no start or end dates).  It is also ungraded.  I do have modules that are set as prerequisites and parts of the modules are set as requirements.  If I need to update/s...

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Hello team   So I am familiar with the reset content button. On the official Canvas guide it states that "Course details and enrollments will remain intact within your course. "My question is which course details will remain intact? Is there a define...

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I want to require students to complete an assignment before proceeding to a group meeting. Currently students are skipping the assignment until after meeting with their group which makes them unprepared for the group meeting. One solution we came up ...

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We are getting ready to do a CSV upload of users, courses, and enrollments. We have are authenticating through SAML. We have the user file set for no notification so that we can send out an email with clear instructions for use.Will users still recei...

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Is it a possibility to give a moderator certain restrictions such as the moderator ONLY being able to see certain students and modules? We have a course where we need our moderator to check ONLY 2 modules of 3 specific students within the course.   C...

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As the house substitute for a high school that uses Canvas, I am given modules to teach to the students everyday.  The problem is that I spend a lot of time searching for answer keys and the teachers edition.It would be great if you could install lin...

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How much lag time is there between making a change to Canvas, and having that change register in the link validator?

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In 2022 it became possible to message observers matched to students from the Gradebook.  We use this feature to message academic observers (advisors) or students.  However, there is no way to automatically include the names and/or emails of the relev...

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I am trying to fix this: Links to other courses in this resource may not be accessible by the students in this course: 254541?wrap=1  I have several pages (Pages) with the same error number and comment but when I go in either in Teacher View or Stude...

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In the New Quizzes, there is a way to attach a question to a stimulus.  Is there a way to randomize the questions, but ensure that the questions that are attached to that stimulus come as a set rather than an individual question? For example, if a ma...

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The Canvas Studio button is usually supposed to be on my side UI, but it's not there. Is it only available for certain users? And what is Canvas Studio?  

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Hello, Wanted to see if anyone else has encountered this weird issue. An instructor at our institution had an assignment due on Dec 14 at 11:59 PM and saw the next day that multiple students were marked as late in Grades and manually gave them 0s. Th...

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How do I attach a video in the Studio to an assignment?

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Can anyone tell me wher to turn on the student  self-assessment capability for Enhance Rubrics? It would be nice have videos of such very visual changes.

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Please make it easier to suggest improvements to Canvas.  My understanding based on past experience is that the helpdesk personnel are not supposed to pass on suggestions, and instead instructors are supposed to come to this Canvas community and ente...

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How to change a font in Pages, Discussion, etc.

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Can we make the "View Feedback" button bigger from the students' end? It is so small, my students don't see it or know it's there, especially my online students who are not in the classroom with me to get direct instruction on how to do this.

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Is it possible for 2 courses in the same sub account to have 2 different themes? I cannot seem to find the answer... I have 3 courses in a sub account. Themes are enabled for sub accounts. I have a teacher that wants to change the theme of her course...

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This is the first time experiencing this, and I'm wondering if anyone else in the community has seen it happen. My team has very specific requirements for exams, so the process by which we administer them in Canvas is unusual. Students have to handwr...

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I have a parent who is unable to scroll through the assignments in the Canvas Parent app.  He has tried restarting the phone, uninstalling/reinstalling the app, and clearing the cache for the app.  Is there anything else he can do to troubleshoot the...

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How can you change a student's grade after the final submission? 

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set feedback in content library has disappeared, anytime lecturer goes to add feedback the content library of saved ones disappears and anytime lecturer uses set feedback it wipes out the previous comment. 

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