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I would like to import Exam View tests into New Quizzes / Quiz Banks.  I can find how to do it into classic quizzes, but my district has classic quizzes turned off.   Can anyone help?   I have imported a few times. I can see the files in my Files, bu...

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Wondering if this is just in our instance of Canvas. When creating a rubric and you have a range of marks to allocate, you put the highest mark in first and then to lowest mark. EG. if you want the range of 5 to 10 marks, the system puts it like 10 t...

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None of the current visual diagrams on how to create a fill-in-the blank question are relevant to the current layout and I keep getting the error message "You must have a blank". I have tried various ways to indicate where the blanks are and to no av...

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I am excited to see support for the Discussions/Announcements Redesign came to the iOS versions of Canvas Student and Canvas Teacher yesterday. That said, I want to suggest a couple of changes to its mobile implementation. The iOS system setting for ...

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good morning, I am having issues with my login into my canvas account, after putting my credentials and password it takes me into a muti-factor authentication page. I do not know where to get that code or how to access my OCPS account. thank you 

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I am using the Zoom Meetings option on Canvas to manage my office hours. There are two distinct problems I am running into:1) Some students sign up for a time and are sent an email with the wrong time zone. We are in Central Time and they receive an ...

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Can somebody teach me how to retrieve student's password. Thanks in advance.

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Hi everyone,I'm interested in joining the Canvas (crowdsourced) translation project at Transifex [1].My main objective is to add a new language to the translation, Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian Language).Several months ago, I requested the Language, w...

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i got and received a message saying i needed to finish my registration and that it sent a message to my email but i had gotten nothing? and i saw another post of someone else's and it said to check spam or junk mail still nothing can someone please h...

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I teach math. I want my students to take assessments in order, and I want them to achieve a minimum score on what I call "Skills Tests" (online, self-grading computational assessments). They then also take a "Challenge Set" of questions that are more...

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I prefer students not use Paper View as it is not as efficient to add a comment to, unlike other File Uploads.  How can I prevent the use of Paper View?  Thanks, (Instructor)  

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Everyone answers questions more thoroughly if the whole question is kept right by where answers are added, plus it is easier to grade because you can quickly comment/refer back to the question if needed.  Currently students copy/paste the assignment ...

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For the one college I teach at the assignment comment section is there in speed grader on the right side lower half like usual. However for some reason at the other college I teach at the assignment comment section is there but it has no space to put...

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why don't i have all my classes on my canvas page

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Is there a way that students can post announcements or email their peers as an ensemble in Canvas?

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I leave comments on student grades when they come in to make corrections or retake an assessment. It would be nice to have some sort of icon on the grade box that lets me know if I've commented. On another LMS I've used in the past, there would be a ...

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I am unsure if this is more of a GitHub or a Canvas question, but here goes.  I recently sent an admin request to integrate GitHub into Canvas, but I was denied due to the following reason:"Checked with our Information Security Officer and it has bee...

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Hi all,   I need to add accommodations for a student who just received approval. I'm trying to use the moderate feature to add time for when they take it, but that option appears to be missing.   None of the other similar posts have answered this que...

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I keep getting constant canvas notifications to my personal email from my old highschool canvas account. I am unable to go and change my notification settings or remove that email as that canvas account is now locked and I no longer have access.  I h...

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I have emailed twice and gotten nowhere.  I have no help button.  My IT cannot answer my questions.  How do I contact someone in person at Canvas?? I am an instructor.  I am having issues with my Canvas quizzes and exams.  Correct questions are marke...

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Hello!I am an observer for my son in an online academy.  I use my personal email for that.I am a teacher in a different section of that academy. I use a school email for that.I am a student who uses Canvas. I use my personal email for that.The proble...

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So, I had a teacher in my building who was new to using new quizzes. She had graded the quiz and the score was not updating in the speedgrader or the gradebook. However, at the top of the quiz, the score was updated. Thoughts? Solutions? 

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Hi there, I know that we can turn on Module progress tracking that tracks Complete, In Progress, Locked, and Unlocked (reference here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-use-modules-to-view-the-progress-of-students-in-a/ta-p...

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Where do I get the link for files, and how do I get that link to students?My goal is to allow only students who have submitted homework to see the solutions file.

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We use a couple of courses to deliver training material to those that can not attend in person trainings. We are required to keep records of these trainings for a number of years. Under the “People” menu, I can only see the Last Activity of that indi...

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So a user when going into Canvas and clicking the test I'm redirected to lockdown browser as it normally does. This time however it shows an error that Respondus is Unable to open the exam. In order to open new quizzes you must use a standard browser...

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Is there any way to get a COMPLETE student download history from Canvas, not just last view or download, e.g., I am giving a timed exam that starts with the first download of a file - I need to know first download, not last.

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My administrator is using the Mcgraw Hill Connect external tool to give out assignments. The grade almost instantly got updated on Canvas with all my previous assignments this year, but my most recent one is still marked missing after finishing the m...

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Is it possible to restore a deleted teacher?

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Hello,I am asking as both an administrator and an instructor.In order to apply for a grant in Japan, it is necessary to have a screen on Canvas that shows the enrollment status of each participant. Is it possible to set up such a screen? I would like...

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