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When I click on "All Courses", I can see my new courses for the winter term. Two say they are published. When I click on them, nothing happens, and I cannot open them. Please help!

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Instructor, basing this semester's Canvas site on last semester's site.  I've got quite a few discussions from a previous semester that I want to delete. Is there ANY kind of keyboard shortcut or way of deleting more than one discussion at a time? Cl...

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WHEN WILL THE SPECIAL EXAMS TAKE PLACE AND HOW WILL WE BE INFORMED ABOUT IT

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I want to upload an image on the homepage of my course and hyperlink it to a resource home page ( which has its own URL.  How do I do that?

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Do you find Canvas easy to use?  

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Hello everybody. I'm wondering how can my students save their work in the text entry feature when they need to come back to it another day? It's not auto saving for them and it's really an inconvenience to have them copy and save their work on a word...

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I teach a course where students need to complete 3 separate requirements to pass. They must:1. Attend an event (1 event, complete/incomplete)2. Complete all assignments (several assignments, complete/incomplete)3. Attend a certain number of class ses...

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I completed and paid my registration, but my registered course for Winter 2024 does not show up in my Canvas account. How do I access it?

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My canvas inbox messages are auto forwarding to my outlook email box. How do I discontinue this to keep the two inboxes separate? Thank you

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Happy new year! I'm an instructional designer currently helping faculty get their hybrid course ready for spring, and they are planning on using Microsoft Teams to hold their remote, synchronous meetings.   Now, we were able to use Microsoft Sync and...

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How do I add a background to the class on the dashboard page on Canvas?

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I frequently receive emails from career services, recruiters and graduate schools that include attachments. How can I forward them through Canvas?

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The videos for the canvas instruction modules will not load and state, "Sorry because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here"I need help.  Thank you

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Posting this for a faculty member...Does anyone know how to implement proper scoring in a Canvas quiz?  Unlike a multiple-choice test item where examinees are forced to choose exactly one of the options as the supposedly correct answer, in a proper s...

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How can collaborations be graded, say for group projects? Will it show up in the grade book or speedgrader?

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When utilizing HTML for tasks such as crafting an announcement, I typically replicate the HTML code and paste it into a separate Canvas classroom announcement. However, I have encountered an issue where the graphics fail to display in the new course ...

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I am going to Costa Rica next week and would like to continue to access my courses and answer my students' questions. I am a college instructor using Canvas LMS. Please answer me yes or no if I will be able to access Canvas in Costa Rica, from Canvas...

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Hello, Problem: We use the integration function which auto-populates the courses and registered students. We prefer to allow students to access the courses for each semester at least 1 week prior to classes beginning. This means every semester we man...

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Hi! i'm starting a canvas classroom. i'm trying to figure out if i can keep tabs on how long a student send on each individual page. For clarification, I have 10 modules and the modules usually have around 5-7 units in each. I want to be able to keep...

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Hi, I am experimenting with the new feature "Restrict Student View of Quantitative Data" in our beta instance. I enabled it at the root account level (in beta). I have 2 questions: 1. a tooltip on the setting says: "When selected, this setting will l...

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Why does the Home Section and Modules Section have the same content in them?Should I leave all the content in the Module section and delete the other content from the Home section?This seems to be redundant.Thanks for your help or suggestions.

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I am pretty sure i already know the answer to my question but i am going to post this anyway just because I am new here and i am learning all of this...... Ive always been told the more you do something the better you get at it so, that is what i am ...

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see above I liked Canvas when it was a small alternative to the previous software (which I have thankfully forgotten) but now it is sending me nonsense crap and it needs to stop.  I don't want to know what a LMS is.  

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I am backing up a course that I teach at my institution in my free Canvas account. I downloaded the course content as a .imscc file. When I upload the course package into the my free Canvas account all of the design elements are lost. All I see is th...

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Whenever I copy a course over or do a blueprint sync into a new course, a blank assignments group is always shown at the top of the assignments page. It doesn't matter whether the source course has a group called Assignments or not. It seems to alway...

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I have seen many wonderfully coded pages in other courses which look extremely professional.  Does anyone have access to an HTML guide for how to use the rich content editer?

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What does the number "participations_level" indicate in the API endpoint "/api/v1/courses/:course_id/analytics/student_summaries"? I can't find any (easy) explanation by looking at data from my students, nor from the documentation (Analytics - Canvas...

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Is anyone aware of a 3rd-party tool that can mass-clone courses in Canvas? We currently use Blueprints with our ever-growing catalog that runs 8 terms a year. Our current process requires me to manually create the associated courses every term and it...

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After "unpublishing" courses in my dashboard, the courses show as "published" again the next time I log into Canvas. How is it that they publishing without my permission?

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Hello there, Is it possible for a student to submit a zipped file for an assignment?  Will the submission type 'file uploads' accommodate this?  Will the file be able to go through Turnitin?  Would the lecturer have to download and unzip the file to ...

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