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We use course cross-listing a fair amount in our school district and once in a while as a Canvas admin I get into this predicament: A mistake is made and one of our other admins cross-lists a Canvas course into a different parent course than desired,...

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Is it possible to recover recordings from the concluded conferences section after the 7 day period?  I have several videos that were recorded and I need to access them.  The instructor was not aware of the 7 day period and thought students could acce...

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How do I log into the Canvas Student App on my chrome book

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I'm using an LTI External Tool for assignments that was installed by admin.

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I'm no tech expert, but the export/import directions DO NOT MATCH what I'm seeing and, thereby, the export/import quiz function...doesn't function. Specifically, the files are NOT EXPORTING AS A ZIP FILE, and therefore cannot be imported. Would be ni...

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dear sir i am trying to integrate with MC Graw Hill , i need our consumer ID, secure ID and URL  how can i get it ? 

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Hello, We are using respondus as out lockdown browser and students are able to exit and renter the the quiz in Canvas, possibly checking the internet for answers. Is there a way to check for the time respondus records the exit time, is there a way to...

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Quick question: Is it possible to upload Excel files with macros enabled?

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We are a K-12 school and have parents enrolled as observers.  They have access to announcements which is generally fine, but we would like to be able to restrict access to specific announcements to students only to reduce the number that are not dire...

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I could see the password this morning, but unfortunately it disappeared this afternoon.

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I'm Kaho from Japan, and freshmen. My major is International business law in Japan, but here, my major is management.  In Japan, I worked as a clerk at a Chinese restaurant. I like to see clothes, accessaries, cosmetic products, perfumes, etc. I like...

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I'm in this teacher's class on canvas but I'm not actually in the class how do I get out of the canvas class?

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How do I create a Question and Answer style document where students may post unique responses?

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What is a graded discussion forum? How does it start? What am I required to do?

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Student here. Is there any way I can view my assignment documents uploaded to the dropbox before I submit them? I used to always do this in Blackboard and it made me feel better being able to double-check that I had uploaded the correct document by b...

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This has been a problem for years and to my knowledge has never been addressed.  At times I upload an updated version of an existing word doc, same name, same extension, and canvas creates a duplicate vice asking to overwrite it. I do it thru the fil...

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One student was logged out before she could finish a quiz.  How can I allow her to retake it?  

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When I upload documents (word, pdf, screenshots, etc.) to my Canvas shell, students are unable to access/download them because they get an error response that says the folder (uploaded media) is locked.  How do I fix this?  

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Hello happy to be here as an auditory learner, this orientation has helped me to know the best learning style for me. and how to improve my studying.

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I use Canvas assignments to collect student homework uploads, then post a pdf answer key following the due date.  There's usually a few students who turn in the assignment late.  Is there any way to make a file's availability dependent on whether a s...

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I imported my course from last year into a new course for the current year.  I realized when using Speedgrader that the test answer was different than what I thought I'd made it.  When I went back to look at the quiz, it showed this:  In speedgrader...

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I am trying to conduct peer evaluations thru canvas quizzes. This means making a quiz for each presenter and assigning it to every student but themselves (self-evals are a different quiz). Is there a simple way to take the one quiz I've made and turn...

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My students are completing an Edpuzzle that is linked to Canvas through the integration.  They have watched the full video and answered the questions but it is not letting them submit.  It still tells them to complete the assignment they have to watc...

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I would like to be able to create a private discussion board space for the teachers that are part of my Canvas course.  Currently, I only can see how to make a private group for discussion by using people classified as Students, rather than Teachers....

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I can't remove line items in the module. The"remove" status pop-up is missing when trying to remove a line item from the module. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Is there a way we disable a type of notification at the institutional level?   We use a different SIS for our official grade book.  We would like to turn off Canvas grade notifications for parent observers to reduce confusion.  

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Surely I'm not the only person who has had that problem: when you're writing a quiz question in Canvas but forget to click the "Save" button for that particular question, the question disappears without a trace when you "Save" or "Save and Publish" t...

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Buenas tardes, quería saber si canvas tiene alguna forma de revisar la "bitácora de usuario" de los usuarios con rol administrador por asignatura?

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Before retiring, I exported my Canvas courses as .imscc files to my Dropbox on Jan 14, 2022. Now, I created a new Free-for-Teacher account for my tutoring, and want to import the prior courses. So, I created a new course and attempted to import a cou...

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Hello, I have to read Frankenstein, by Mary Kelly.  There is the Wordsworth classic Illustrated 1992 or the 1997 one with a illustration on of a waterfall, I think.  Does it matter which one I read please? 

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