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When an individual gets enrolled into a course as an observer, is the default position on announcements switched to on?

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RE: Peer Reviews, Can you please include in Peer Reviews  a button/link to delete a specific peer review from being included in automatic assignments. Similar to emails generated and we can move or delete them. Thank you. 

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How are users notified when Commons content they brought into their Canvas course has been updated? is there anything other than the Updates tab in Commons?

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We have an issue with a former student who, when searched by name in google shows a result that is a file in our Canvas instance. When you click the result it downloads a file with sensitive information (from original course). The file had been delet...

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Hello!I am student unable to use the Canvas record video tool - the created video never actually loads or submits - the wait-while-this-submits-circle keeps on spinning; the instructors cannot access my (attempted) submission. Is this a known problem...

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I am a Canvas Site Admin and have been a site admin for other organizations. In those organizations I can reset a students password for them. On my new one I no longer have that option. What do I need to do to make it so I can reset my students passw...

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How do I make my orginal post for my discussion board?

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Recently I had my freshmen join groups for a project that they are working on. However, today I had them do an independent assignment using the Student Annotation feature in Online assignments.Now when I go to grade them, I only see 4 of my 50 studen...

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Hello! How can I make my announcements so the students can view them? For some reason, they have been disabled  Thank you!

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I would like to create a "put in order" question in a quiz. I don't see that as an option in the drop down menu.  Is there a way to do this?

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How do I create completion requirements for an assignment - meaning that a student can only access a specific assignments after he completes a different one? 

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We are attempting to disable the Eduappcenter ("Apps"). We followed a posting from this Community about turning off LTI installation for certain roles. Namely, Teachers. But it still appears no matter what is disabled in Roles and Permissions. What a...

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Why aren't I able to save my Kaltura recordings? Whenever I stop recording instead of showing a popup window to save it, I get shown an error message saying "Failed to save recording". Is there a reason why? I originally thought it was an storage iss...

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Where? After submit there's no other option. Thank you. 

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If I force the subscription of the account calendars, shoudn't the events appear on the right under the Up Coming frame? If not, then why not?! 

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Hi,Is there a way to export the data from a grading rubric by student into an excel spreadsheet (like you can do with grades)? We love using rubrics within Canvas but if I need the data for accreditation reporting I need to be able to access it in on...

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Canvas LMS Observer accounts cannot view the quiz submissions of their students, even once graded.Attached is a screenshot of me in the parent's account view showing the error. 

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Our gradebook is divided by quarters, how do I go back to an earlier quarter? Last year we had a drop down bar that is not on my gradebook this year, can I add it?

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Since there is no specific feature mentioned in Canvas LMS that allows for configuring an "ADD" option or providing multiple assignment options within a single assignment in Canvas. I would like this feature or configuration to be add. I would give i...

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I do not want my grades weighted, but it will not allow any other option.  When I go into the assignment category to show I do not want it weighted, there is no way to delete it.  I have never had this happen before.  I tried reimporting the course (...

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Is there a report I can run at the district level that shows observers and what students they are observing?  I want to be able to look at a student and see who all is observing that student. 

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Hi all,I am an instructor for an in-person class of 200 undergraduate students.  I am trying to create multiple versions of a Canvas quiz to give to my students, and I noticed that this is very difficult to do with the current features on Canvas.  I ...

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Good Morning! I work as a Canvas Administrator. If someone has the time, it would be greatly appreciated if you would review the page that is linked below - and let me know if this is indeed the best way to import materials for question banks in New ...

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A few of our earners have reported that the emails containing the verification code for setting up a new account are extremely slow to appear in their inboxes, sometimes so slow that they go beyond the availability time of the code. We suggested they...

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Hello! I am an instructor and I created a group assignment on canvas, but for some reason canvas is recognising the assignment as an individual assignment.So, when I try to use SpeedGrader, it's showing me that a number of students have missing assig...

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Hello! We are currently using Canvas as a student activities platform at our institution. We have multiple courses with student groups (so students can be a part of more than one group), and students join the groups they are interested in through the...

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Is it possible to create an outcome for students to use to assess themselves and be tracked in the learning mastery grade book? 

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What is the best way to check if a user is authorized to create a conversation via the Canvas API for a specific recipient user?  I am seeing odd behavior using this API endpoint:  https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/conversations.html#method.conv...

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Hi all! So a little bit of background about the way our system works: Our courses are populated into Canvas by our SIS, but they are all dumped into our main account. Before the beginning of each semester, I manually run a CSV upload to separate thos...

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Instructor wants students to see the test questions that they got wrong directly after they take their test and are sitting in the room.  If quiz is opened it does not close after the test time completed, students are able to see the test for several...

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