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I'm a student and I let someone log onto canvas on my laptop, and when I try to log out it keeps automatically logging back into her account and I don't know how to stop it from doing that 

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Hi, I am supposed to download a course for my work training but the link they gave does not work. Is there a way I can individually search for the course and add it to my canvas myself?

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We are not currently licensed for BigBlueButton but it is showing up on our course navigation menu.  We have hidden it but I want to remove it entirely so the instructor does not see it either.  How do I do this?

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When I create my homepage, I have external link to important google docs. I'll type "Princeton Page Guide", highlight it, click insert, click link, click external link, paste link. Text turns blue, save. The only thing that shows up on homepage is bl...

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How do I split an assignment between two assignment categories? For example I have an assignment that will be graded on Problem Solving which is one assignment category and Writing.Is there any way to do that within a single assignment or do I have t...

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My school (high school) has been using Canvas for close to 10 years now.  This is my fifth year working at the school.  To the best of my knowledge, I have never deleted a student user as we want to retain the data i.e. grades, etc.  I am curious as ...

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I want to give a NEW quiz (not classic) that divides integers with 10 random questions every time. If I used a formula question with random numbers from -144 to 144 in the numerator and -12 to 12 in the denominator, most combinations would come out a...

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How exactly does Canvas calculate its discrimination index? I read this article and tried to reproduce the values myself, as the item analysis report does not include the discrimination index. The linked article describes the discrimination calculati...

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      When looking at the individual student exams in the gradebook we determined that the value of each matching question was somehow altered. When we looked at the generic exam (in instructor view), the exam question values are as they should be. B...

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I'm very new to Canvas and I'm still trying to figure things out. I'm logged in as an Admin into my own Canvas environment; I wanted to create a few teacher accounts to use but I cannot figure out how to do that... I see that there's a "People" area ...

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How do I see the class average as a student?

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Please clarify to those who use Classic Quizzes and build their quiz in such a way that the quiz starts and ends during the class period-- for example, a quiz that is set up for all but DASS students to start on Oct. 15 at 3 p.m. (Available from) and...

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I am a percentage grader, but I have vocabulary assignments where I assign students terms to define. I want to award points for correct definitions. For example, if the assignment has 8 terms. I want enter 8. 8/8 is 100%. When I try to do this it is ...

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I will be losing access to my current email account on 10/31. Is there a way to change my account email?

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In Canvas SpeedGrader isn't showing bar graphs/histograms in uploaded Excel documents in the preview window. However, line charts show up fine in the preview window. I'm uncertain if this is a new issue or existing concern.    Any assistance would be...

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Does the New Quiz format allow for a bonus point question on an exam without jumping through hoops?  I'd like the ability to place a harder question at the end of my exams that will not count against the student if they get it wrong, but will add bon...

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       I submitted my response to my class discussion post and now it's marked missing and my post is nowhere to be found. When I submitted it I even made sure it went through as normal. 

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I am a college mathematics professor and in my courses, I offer students the opportunity to retake quizzes to improve their understanding and grades. The final grade for each problem is the maximum score obtained between the original attempt and the ...

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I have pages with '-2' or '-3' etc... in the URL even when no other page exists with that same name.We do not have the option to remove the '-2' as it is appearing only URL and not the page name in CanvasAs a company they dont want '-2' in the URL. C...

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Hi. We would like to see students email addresses in messages they send from within Canvas. We have checked the setting Show the email address of sender for user interaction Notifications.  This doesn't appear to change much. I had hoped that the sen...

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I notice that when I access or provide feedback on a student paper in Turnitin feedback studio, Canvas is changing the submitted date/time on the paper to the time I accessed it, and flags the paper as late. Is this something I can fix?

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It seems that there is no feature that allows teachers to assign a standard version of an assignment to "all students except" those student who will get a modified version of the assignment. I believe that it would help student who receive modified v...

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Whenever i try taking an exam using lockdown browser it takes me through the authentication steps correctly and then loads back to canvas where the begin exam button should be but it instead says "lockdown browser is required" with a link to the down...

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Whenever I try to post a comment with a Google Drive file, it always takes forever to process it. What's wrong it it?

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Feature request:Clicking the "mark as done" button on an assignment page should also mark the relevant task "done" on the student's calendar.AND/ORThere should be a "mark as done" option on the calendar item itself to cross items off the student's ca...

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As you recall, in regular quizzes you can set a time limit, as well as Available From / Until dates. Is there a way to put a time limit on a video quiz? I haven't found any such option so far, am I missing something? I tried embedding a video quiz in...

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How do I send a email to a teacher that I don't have a class with?

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