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I am wondering about best design practice for an instructor to place multiple images with text below each image on a page. Here is a demo Canvas resources page that does just that:  https://resources.instructure.com/courses/11/pages/course-home-page ...

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Greetings, I want to give students a self-assessment that includes questions with Likert scale answers.  The assessment measures their mindset, attitude, and behavior as a pre-test and will be used to assess changes in their mindset after completing ...

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I submitted a media recording for an assignment.  I recorded it through Canvas and the assignment now says "Media is currently being converted, please try again in a little bit." whenever I try to watch it, and my teacher is having the same issue.  I...

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Colleagues, Do you include the wording (or wording to the effect) "Use the Previous or the Next buttons to navigate through module materials." when designing Canvas content? (Noting that there is a Next and Previous button on every page.) Is it neces...

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I read the instructions in the Instructor Guide.  It seems the description explaining the Send option is missing.  Thus my question.  I imported the announcements from a previous Canvas course.  So... if I select the Send option will the students in ...

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According to the information icon on the people groups tab, instructors can set an end date for self-signup. however i see no such option... (for some reason i cannot embed images here directly so i attached it instead)

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I am working on my Canvas course and I want to force my students to view a page before they take their quiz. How do I do that in Canvas?

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As a student when put in groups, Canvas does not seem to send notifications to group members of posts or announcements made by students even if subscribed. 

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I've checked "learning_outcome_link_created" check box and then added an already created outcome into a course via "Find" button, however I don't get any "learning_outcome_link_created" event fired - am I looking at the wrong event? Is there any even...

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One of my teachers posted 2 new embedded assignments due 11:59, I open them only for both to continuously stay on the loading screen…loading…and loading never opening. All my other assignments open perfectly fine, and I even tried opening it on multi...

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When the Checkpoint feature is released (1/18/2025), will it automatically appear in current discussions, or will I need to create new discussions in order to have this feature available?  Our classes begin before the release date, and I am trying to...

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  I'm having a an issue with imports.  I want to add students as students, to be able to sort them later. According to the current SIS Import Format Document, declared_user_type is certainly a heading.  It's in there.  It is useful, but it doesn't w...

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What is the maximum number of people visible on the screen on BIGBLUEBUTTON conference session?We have 50 students for a course. How will they see the Faculty & all the students? We have video mode mandatory for all students. Please advice. 

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Each semester I import announcements from a previous course into my new one.  The U for unknown or unidentified is in place of my profile picture.  I created the announcement in my previous class and I'm importing it to a new class. Is there a way fo...

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Hi everyone. I'm an Instructional Designer at a university, and I'm working with a professor to create an online Latin course. She wants her students to be exposed to new Latin words on a daily basis, and would like the course homepage to display a n...

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I know that there is a way that as a teacher and as an admin, I can check an individual student's last login date and time as well as method.  Is there a way that I can run an export for a report as an admin with data showing which students have not ...

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Is there a way for a student in a course with multiple instructors to send an email to them without having to add each individual instructor in the "To" field (e.g. shared inbox) so all of the instructors can monitor the inbox?

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We have been using the Canvas Google Drive LTI since we got Canvas 3 years ago without any issues. Then a week ago, I started getting reports that students could not access Google Docs which were posted by their teacher in assignments and modules on ...

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I am doing some research and trying to see if there are any viewable logs for admins that may indicate that an instructor has changed a student's quiz answer submissions as the student was taking the quiz in Canvas. Would this be possible?

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As an instructor, I would like to download all student submissions for an assignment in the Gradebook?However, I do not have this option that is stated in the directions posted on our tutorials.How can I enable it? 

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When I go to compose and email through canvas all of my classes from previous semesters show up which makes it confusing and creates extra steps to figure out the exact course to email. Is there a way for just the current semester to pop up in course...

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Hi, I wanted to change the submission date for one student to allow for resubmission. Before doing this, I noted that I have 21 submissions that were submitted before due date that were not yet graded. When I changed the due date for the one student,...

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HOW TO CHANGE / EDIT NAMES OF CANVAS FILE FOLDERS

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Is there a way to include a question on Classic Quizzes where students can input their birthday?   Right now I just have an essay question so they can type it out, but I was hoping for one with less room for error.

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I am attempting to transfer from maryville to another university and want to transfer credits but they are asking for course info on those classes (eg course description and course syllabus) to identify whether maryville’s course content on those cla...

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I am having trouble finding the new faculty training (6 week onboarding onboarding course.) Can you please tell me how to get there?   Maura McGuinness Denver College of Nursing email: maura.mcguinness@denvercollegeofnursing.edu

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Hi, Codetantra is a coding and proctoring tool. Can it support integration with Canvas LMS?

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HiPlease will there be an instance when am gonna need the DMACC Canvas URL for my online courses? Please for your information I already have access to Canvas through the DMACC student portal and I already have my student account. thanks

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Any ideas how to resolve this Unexpected Error - 925587657 - when I try editing the title for a quiz item?  I am unable to edit the title. The item is from an imported quiz - and the error DOES NOT always occur.  Within the same bank, I can sometimes...

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