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Hi! I have a problem with the roll call for two students. What these two have in common is that they both have a user account that has been merged. It may appear that it is only the attendance for one of the merged accounts that are displayed, and th...

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I recently dropped two classes and added one to my schedule when will this correction be updated on my canvas? 

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I am having trouble changing the point value on a quiz that was already created by my district. Does anyone know if I am able to do it?  I have tried changing it by edit the question and clicking on the points. Once I change the point value it doesn'...

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I used to be able to Control+Click multiple students receiving the same Inbox message. That feature seems to have disappeared in my university's new version of Canvas. Even after I Control+Click the first student, I need to select each subsequent stu...

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My first goal is to ask this question clearly. If I haven't, any help on that front would be appreciated.I'm an instructor/designer. I teach a computer literacy course that for enrollment purposes combines two similar computer literacy courses. They ...

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Please see the screenshot attached. I've created a graded survey, with the intention of students being marked as complete for submitting it, not based on their answer choices.I do have some multiple choice questions where I'd like to mark the correct...

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I've tried recording an audio submission over ten times now. I record, name the media, click save media, and nothing happens. I've tried logging out and logging back in, restarting chrome, and clearing cache. I also tried uploading an audio recording...

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Can I embed a pdf file? If yes, how please?

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I have a PDF fillable worksheet from my digital textbook that students complete in my Canvas course.  Is there a way that it can be automatically graded like a Canvas quiz?

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I want to order discussions according to when they are due during the semester, not by how often they are responded to. How do I set a specific order?

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I would like to offer 12 discussions and have students complete 8.I would like to do this without using the "drop" rule as I only want students to do 8 (ie., I don't want to drop lowest scores, I want fewer scores.)Is this possible?I was starting to ...

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Good Morning,I have a online class for the Fall. The Professor emailed a list of dates and times for the class.We are to upload to our calendar. I do not know how to do thisThanks in advance

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If I renamed or deleted the Roll Call Attendance tool and it is no longer accurate, how can I fix that?

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Hello--I want to export a rubric used for a previous course into a new course.So far I've not been able to find ways to do this.Any advice is welcome. Thank you.

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I think my students are using passwords that are not acceptable and therefore it will not allow them to log back into the system.   Are there any restrictions so I can tell students what symbols, letters, numbers to avoid?  Can you send a list, examp...

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I have students who want to go back and look at a submitted assignment that has been graded.  They are telling me it is coming back with the late color code and when I look at Speed Grader, their grade is fine but there are points off in the penalty ...

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Hello, is there any way to see a quiz grade as a letter (A, B, C, etc...)? Right now, I can see them as points and percentage, but our school has 3 grading schemes so seeing them as letters can be helpful too. Right now if I click on the 3 dots of a ...

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As we implement standards-based grading, we are trying to move AWAY from providing students with scores on assignments and focus more on feedback.Is there any way to HIDE grades but SHOW teacher feedback and comments?

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I am facing difficulty in providing students with the correct answers for essay questions that are included as part of our weekly class quizzes and assignments. I want to have the correct answers presented to the students after they complete the subm...

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Why can students not submit a Google document from Google drive anymore? Can this be fixed?

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We want to add a tick box statement to the assignment submission window where students will declare that the work they are submitting is their own prior to the work being submitted. Is anyone aware if this is possible or perhaps can suggest an altern...

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Is there a way for an instructor to batch-update accommodations on a quiz? If I have a group of students who need time and a half on all exams, I have to make those revisions one student at a time for each exam. I wanted to make sure that I wasn't mi...

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yesterday i recorded a 25 minute audio file and submitted it, but it only sent 47 seconds and the audio file did not save. i'm really confused.

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Hello,  On the Canvas Dashboard when you select to View Grades (under the To Do List) as an instructor, you can see the classes you are a student in as well as those you teach. But is there a way for these to be organized better and we are just missi...

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When you have a class notebook for cross listed classes, do you have class notebooks for each class or one class notebook with all students in it?

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I am trying to take a quiz that contains two questions. The first question is visible, but the second is not. How can I fix this?

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Hello! I'm a student who currently has an instructor who is having trouble accessing my assignment. She says that I submitted through my school's network, which she can't access. The problem is, I don't know what she means by "school platform," so I ...

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How can I add or revise one of the "permanent" tabs on left (Home, Announcements, Syllabus, People Grades, etc.) ? We have an ebook that requires a link to access, and the current Macmillan Learning tab does not connect the students with that (they h...

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We have created a lot of quizzes for our course and all of the question types are "Essay question". We have left the box blank that says "Let students see the correct answers" because we are wanting them to look up the correct answers and resubmit th...

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Hello-Doesn't appear that my first post went through. I have one student (out of 10) who is being asked to enter a join code when she tries to get into the class. I'm not sure if she followed the normal route to get into the class (e.g. accept the em...

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