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I have added FlipGrid to my Canvas class. All my students except one can access our FlipGrid from Canvas. Why can that one student not access it? I gave her the join code and it says she has to join via Canvas.

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Currently a student trying to access my courses syllabus, every time I click the link, the message, "The folder 'unfiled,' which includes this file, has been locked." pops up. Emailed the professor, however, they've said nothing is locked. It doesn't...

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I am using canvas on a chrome book and none of the documents or power points the professor has uploaded for us to use to help with our assignments are loading. I have used canvas on a normal PC and and apple I Pad and the documents have always loaded...

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I have submitted my group assginment 2 & 3 on behalf of my group and canvas have shown the date and time of the submission (different days but for the same course). I was able to get access to the turnitin similarity report on the submission day and ...

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Hi All, I am hoping someone can help, we are trying to streamline our Assessment Competency record that we currently complete using a no submission assignment. Ideally, we would like the overarching complete to not trigger unless the rubric is comple...

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I have quizzes throughout the year. Some types of quizzes happen more often (Type A) and other quizzes happen less often but are more important (Type B). I want them in the same assignment category because I don't know how many of each I am going to ...

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We have a course with two sections in the same shell. One section was created in error and not meant to be used. However, as we were processing students through self-enrollment in Catalog, I added a bunch manually into the wrong section. We are now a...

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I recently took a collage math course with OnRamps and I am trying to get my transcript how do I do that? 

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An assignment is created in canvas and given a title, a description, a due date, and then saved to the course (Before screenshot). Then when editing to use the external tool function inside submission type to link the assignment to a specific labarch...

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I submitted an excel file into an assignment, but when I try to download the file again, it is downloading as an annotated PDF. How can I download the file I submitted as an excel/CSV file? I'm on a different computer now so I don't have access to th...

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Can someone tell me how to use italics, bolding, underlining or create a live URL in Canvas email?

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Did the latest version of canvas remove the ability to sort my grade book? I can no longer sort by module which has been a crucial timesaver in my workflow for years? Was this put somewhere else or is that feature just gone now?

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I was trying to register for a class with no prerequisites as a high school student and it says I am ineligible however I have already submitted my dual enrollment approval from my high school and meet all the other requirements.  Is there somewhere ...

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I am the admin of Canvas at my institution and I have parents wanting to sign on as an observer. I have gone through all of the tutorials about how to generate pairing codes, but when my students go to do that, the "generate pairing code" option is n...

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As an instructor, is there any way to view student' quiz answers when "student results view" is restricted?The students can't see what they got wrong, but I would like to see what questions my students got wrong.Thank you.Allison

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Hello! I put a lot of effort into making my Canvas course, connecting items within various modules, etc...   As a result, at the beginning of the school year, I import the entire course from the previous year, thus preserving all that.    The issue  ...

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Assignment point totals. Is there a way for Canvas to automatically total points for assignments? This feature would be helpful since in some courses there are many graded activities with points. Right now, we use a calculator to add up point totals ...

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I am a student and am having difficulty keeping track of emails. I would prefer the emails to be unthreaded, so each email is in sequence instead of grouped by recipient.Is there a way to do this?Thank you.

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I mistakenly deleted the first three weeks of my term where I would upload lesson resources etc...How do I reinstate these so that they link back up to my Master course and also the quick links where students can access course materials by clicking o...

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How do u request a VOE 

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My canvas classes are together. I teach 2 5th grade classes and they are seemed to grouped together on 1 canvas page. How did I make them separate canvas groups or classes?  

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Is there a way for me to upload a handout version of my PowerPoints to Canvas as a "read-only" file?  In other words, is there a way for my students to view the handout on Canvas, but not be able to copy or download it?

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When viewing results from a student survey, I can view the overall statistics, but finding individual results is more challenging. When I click "view student quiz results" I see a list of who has and hasn't taken the survey. I can then click a studen...

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Hello Canvas community,Setting up Canvas for this year,  I noticed that "grade sync" is missing in my navigation bar.  I can still see it when going to the navigation tab in settings, but for whatever reason, it's not viewable.  If I enable it, it wi...

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Our tech department is working on google integration and SSO. Where can I find my organization ID?Thank you, 

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I know how to access this feature from my grades on my laptop but I can't access the feature to submit on behalf of a student on my iPad. I am giving my students paper assignments and asking them to use the scan tool to upload their work digitally to...

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When looking at student names in Attendance, their last name appears formatted as bold. We have individuals whose last name consists of two words. When their name appears in Attendance, only the last of those two words is bolded. For instance: Consid...

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Hello, I'm trying to create an appointment slot reservation system so that students can reserve a space. I see Create appointment slots in the Canvas calendarHowever, I want this "booking" to be available for the entire semester. Using the system abo...

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