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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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I cant figure out how to turn on auto save for text entry assignments. Is there even a way?

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I have a Categorization item on a quiz. There are two categories and ten items to drag into the correct categories.A student who took the quiz correctly categorized nine of the ten items. One item was categorized incorrectly.When Canvas graded the qu...

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I have a module with multiple external links. I want to link to them from a page. I can only seem to link to the entire module. How can I link to a external link in a module?I need the links to stay in the module because they are sequentially in orde...

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How can I take attendance more than once for the same date? I have two lessons on the same day and I cannot take the attendance individually.

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Hello,I give a daily participation grade to each student, so I want to be able to use the attendance feature to assign grades other than "on time" and "late" and "absent." Is there a way to do this?Thanks

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Hi everyone,We've encountered an issue while attempting to import a course in the .imscc version 1.1 file format, which was originally exported from Canvas, into a different platform. Does anyone have any solutions or experience with similar scenario...

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I am a Canvas site administrator.  The Welcome to Canvas 101 course which I believe was from California State University, Channel Islands, and licenced by Creative Commons, was a popular course for instructors ay my college and also included a functi...

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Hello!  I did a search first, and although there were similar questions and topics, they didn't address or resolve the questions I had.  I am currently enrolled in a class where where there are weekly homework assignments due, and once submitted peer...

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How do I access past papers from end of semester exams. It was easy in Luminus but I cannot seem to do in Canvas.

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Hello,Recently I have started using peer reviews in assignments. I use the option of automatically and anonymously assign one peer review per student.I now wonder: what is the penalty / incentive for students to complete the peer review? I have been ...

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Calendar doesn't work. Refresh the internet, but nothing happened, no courses, no plans, no homework.

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I have tried unsuccessfully over the years to show students how the various external tools work. The trouble is that how the external tool responds when I am in the student view seems to vary (see below). Is there anyway to have a dummy account so th...

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I completed an essay quiz and after I submitted it, I accidentally clicked resume.I assumed this would be no big deal, as the instructor noted that this quiz could be saved and resumed.All of my progress was seemingly deleted, without any trace. Does...

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Hi I was just wondering if my teachers or other students see my reminders that I make when I add a course because I’d rather them be private, but I need to attach the course so I know what class it is for.

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