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Hi, I'm an administrator of my institute and we are trying to figure out how to view only the total amount of each graded group.     Here are all the grades...              What we need is only the total percentage of each assignment group. That is i...

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Does anyone know how I can access my notifications on the canvas website? I can see them on the canvas student app but I can't find them when I access canvas through the web. PLEASE HELP!! 

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I created a graded quiz. Then, I mistakenly classified it as an ungraded survey. As a result, it disappeared from the list if quizzes and the gradebook. Is it possible to bring it back? Thanks.

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Hello wonderful community. I have just stumbled upon something very weird.... Teachers in a course could not edit unless I disassociated it from the Blueprint. Blueprint and associated course located in the same sub-account.Teachers have with Teacher...

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Good morning:I have been able to successfully import quizzes before; however, when I tried to import another quiz, I can see that it imported to Canvas, but I cannot see it in the "Find" listing when I am creating the Quiz. I tried refresh and to clo...

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Is there a way to release all grades after grading all of the assignments, as opposed to releasing each grade when moving on to the next student?

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Hi! I am new to the use of Canvas and right now I am grading my assignments and I have some of the outside-the-period grading, I have the assignment list. I have an assignment inside a Module but still it is not included in the rest of the grading.  ...

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Why can't the student annotation assignment work like speedgrader, where we can go in and out and add comments, highlighting etc...?  From what I understand, the student annotation assignment does not allow editing if the students wants to add someth...

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Hello, I have Canvas assign an auto 5% late penalty per day that an assignment is late. Love this feature. However, when students are absent, which in high school they have excused absences all the time, they need to have their late penalty removed. ...

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Is there a way for administration to receive notifications on faculty Canvas usage? E.g. if a teacher has not logged into Canvas for X number of days, or hasn't graded any assignments in X amount of time, is there an option to trigger a notification?...

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Hello!I have a group assignment and want students to upload files separately but whenever they do that, it removes what is already posted. For example, one student adds some aspect of the project that they were responsible for but when another studen...

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It has been awhile but I stumbled upon a great graphic (or think it was a graphic) showing the difference between blueprint courses and template courses.  I cannot find it.

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The Canvas Attendance feature, while useful, is a little clunky. As it currently stands, for a teacher to look at the report they have to request it, wait for it to be emailed to them, download it, and then apply filters to make sense of the .csv fil...

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Can the list of quizzes I have created in my course be rearranged?  I want the quizzes listed or grouped by topic.  Thanks!

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Can you filter Speed Grader to only show the questions that each student got incorrect? 

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  I noticed there's a setting named "Common Cartridge HTML File to Page Conversion". But I don't understand what's the meaning. I have tried to import a HTML file or import a zip file which contains a HTML file. However, both of them were failed. I j...

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I have many External URL files in my Modules that are worksheets with corrections, etc., that were uploaded into my Drive, then linked in Modules.  My students and I cannot view these files.  We can view Docs that are linked in the same way from my D...

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I currently help with a course where all students have to hand in case questions each week. There are multiple different segments in Canvas, and I have created a group set which allows for self-sign up within each group set, provided that students in...

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Is it possible the developers could:1) Give teachers the ability to have assignments show on the calendar on the date they are assigned as opposed to the date they are due?  This would enable teachers to show a consistent title on their whiteboard in...

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When students try to log in to take a quiz, the lockdown browser often freezes up, doesn't work, or says, "You need to download lockdown browser,". Students are using Chromebooks.  Sometimes after multiple attempts, and exiting the browsers, they are...

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Hello,My student is complaining that she can't see her full course grade because it appears "locked." I have made it visible on my end. What do I do? Thanks!

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I want to hide grades for tests until I am done grading all of them. I had manually enter grades selected for the exam but this doesn't seem to have stopped grades from being posted after I was done grading each exam. How do I go about hiding the gra...

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I am confused as to how I would mark a fill in the blank answer as correct, so that it shows up as the correct answer in the student view. I teach a class that has a wide variety of possible answers for fill in the blanks, so it is not feasible to en...

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Has anyone ever seen an issue get addressed as a result of using a form like this? Every time I have an issue with the Canvas interface, I find a years-old post that clearly identifies the problem and proposes a simple solution, that by all appearanc...

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Hi everyone, my school is encountering an issue with students who are trying to access Storyline 360 content that is iFramed into Canvas. Students are seeing an error message that says "Content is Unavailable". We've encountered a similar issue with ...

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Is there an OER resource for an Intro to Computer Science course that includes a Canvas LMS course cartridge? 

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I need to reset a post test, so I can take it again to complete my course. How do I do that or who do I contact?

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So something new, it seems, that I can only see comments on the CURRENT submission.  That is so not helpful. I need to see all my prior comments - without adding more steps to my already overburdened day.  If someone else wants to change how THEY see...

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I want to break my students into groups to do group work, and then have other groups critique their work?  What is the best way to do this?

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