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I NEED ASSISTANCE IN CONTACTING THE REGISTRAR'S OFFICE TRINITY LAW SCHOOL IN THAT I HAD AN UNFORESEEN ILLNESS ONSET AND WAS LATE IN TURNING IN AN ASSIGNMENT.Outlined in the [Spring 2025 MLS 541 8915 Torts Class Syllabus Last Updated March 4, 2025]. I...

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The assignments deployed in the gradebook from Connect are not organized according to their respective groups. How can I rearrange them according to their respective groups?  

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Where will I find the response to the IT ticket that I have submitted through the report a problem tab? Will it come through as a notification or will it come to my inbox? Or something else? 

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Hello! About 4 weeks ago, I turned off the setting that automatically gives students a grade of "0" on assignments that they have not yet submitted and are not yet due, but Canvas is still automatically applying the "0" grade to some students. The re...

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Hi, Can I as a Canvas admin see whether a given Person's login account is based on Canvas native authentication, versus MS Entra, Google, or some other SSO/SAML source/IDP?  Just browsing around in the Persons page I am not seeing anything obvious......

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After the assignments have been submitted and the Download Submissions button is selected, the zip file that is downloaded marks the Last Modified date of all the files as the GMT time the Zip file was created rather than the time the submissions wer...

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when i create a multiple answer question for 6 points with 3 correct answers and 3 incorrect answers- will the the points be awarded 2 for each correct answer?

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when i create a multiple answer question for 6 points with 3 correct answers and 3 incorrect answers- will the the points be awarded 2 for each correct answer?

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We have set up a Mastery Path for students. The pre-test is marked as required to submit, but if they score 90%, they may move on the the next module. The modules are each setup so that the module before is a prerequisite. The path we created is set ...

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I'd like to be able to review student discussion work for possible AI use. However, most student discussion posts are too short to be reviewed accurately. Is there a way in Canvas to see all of a student's posts from a course on one page, so that it ...

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I'm old & new at this technology. How do I logg into an upcoming success coach meeting?

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I am an administrator, and we are converting from another testing platform to Canvas.  We have been using Canvas for course work for several years now.  The platform we use DOES NOT have a way to export our questions.  We are therefore planning to co...

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Assignments are showing up green in the gradebook, but they are the original submission, not a resubmission. Does anyone have a solution for this?

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Hi, My reading of the SSO integration guides for Microsoft is that they assume integration with Microsoft education/business/organization accounts.  Has anyone successfully set up Canvas SSO with Microsoft Consumer/MSA accounts, allowing users to "br...

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An instructor would like to grant a student additional time to finish a quiz, but the quiz has already closed and the results submitted to the Gradebook. We can grant the student an additional attempt via "Moderate this Quiz" and assign them another ...

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I'm an art teacher and my students submit photos of their artwork for their assignments. In the last couple of weeks, when I view their image, it is so large that I can only see about 20% of it, and I can't zoom out. I can move the image around to se...

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I've seen that using Canvas Commons as a template enables one to make a change in Commons and push it to a live course. Is it possible to do this any other way besides using Commons? 

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First level list element jump tags remain after saving, and work. Jump tags on second level list elements are deleted after saving. What gives?     <ul style="list-style-type: circle;"> <li> <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #000000;">...

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I made my classes as Dev classes first.  Looked great with all kinds of screen shots.  When I copied it into my live course, everything looked fine to me.  But no student could see any images because they were linking back to my dev course and the st...

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When creating Outcomes, there's a description field and a "friendly" description field that is supposed to display for students.  I am creating an outcome at the sub-account level, and have entered different text into the friendly description field: ...

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I've clicked on the New Message alert button in Chat, but when students send a message in Chat, I haven't been notified.  Where should I see an alert?

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I’m looking for—an archiving solution that allows us to remove old courses from Canvas while keeping backups of everything, including files. So far, I haven’t found a solution outside of K16. Have you come across any reliable process or vendor for th...

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When wrapping HTML page code in comment tags <!-- Some lines of HTML page code here --> and saving, the commented-out code disappears for good. This is bad, what can one do?

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I had an teacher to accidently remove a student from a course.  If I add that student back into the course, will their submitted work remain in tact?

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This is a fun particular one We're working on layout templates for Pages, Discussions, and Assignments that feature a bespoke home button. In effect, the button is simply a link back to the course home, built with the destination link found via the ...

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I am hopefully going to explain this as clearly as possible. My course is grade with percentages, not points. For example my Exams are worth 60% of the grade and I have 4 of them, thus they are each worth 15%. My exams do not have the same amount of ...

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We are identifying courses that do not have an associated blueprint or that, even with a blueprint, have pending synchronization. To resolve these issues before users raise complaints, I would like to know if there is a way to perform this check in b...

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I would like to know if it is possible to condition the completion of an assessment based on the scores obtained by the student in previous evaluations.For example, imagine we have three tasks: an Activity worth 40 points, a Test worth 60 points, and...

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When I complete a reply to a discussion post it duplicates itself.  This forces me to delete and reenter my response to correct the issue.

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Hi Community! Does anyone know if there is any sort of feature or LTI that would show me a dashboard of live data from the platform? I'm after some sort of screen showing graphics of how many active users we have on courses/course completion/assignme...

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