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When creating a Quiz that checksLet Students See Their Quiz Responses (Incorrect Questions Will Be Marked in Student Feedback)Only Once After Each AttemptLet Students See The Correct AnswersCanvas needs to also automatically check the "Grade Posting ...

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Would it be possible to alter the file type the canvas app generates when it scans? Currently, it takes scans and uploads the files as a Jpeg and not a PDF. The jpegs are attached as individual files and are very very difficult to grade. Many of the ...

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Hello!I was wondering, is there a way to change how far into the future the "To Do" bar shows? As of now, it only shows this week, and I was hoping it could show longer periods of time, mostly to help me with planning how long I have to get projects ...

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Hi there Canvas Community!When building assessments is there a way to break out assessment scoring and grades by two custom dimensions such as topic and skill/problem solving method?Thank you! 

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My institution is migrating from Moodle to Canvas in the near future. I am currently working to design a "choose your own adventure" course. All students will complete 5 required modules. Then, there will be 10 optional modules, and students will cho...

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MathJax provides accessibility support for students with disabilities by enabling the rendering of math equations into a more accessible format and is compatible with various assistive technologies. Canvas is currently using MathJax version 2.7.7, wh...

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I am teaching graduate level medicine.  I want to create cases wherein your first response to a patient alters your next interaction with the patient in terms of patient disease status as well as changing the available treatment options. e.g.: Patien...

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In Canvas, It just appers my firt last name, and I cannot put my second last name

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How to do I make a video in Canvas and post it so my students can see it? I am mainly using a chromebook, but am open to other types of devices if this isn't compatible. 

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I have apparently missed a step somewhere along the way but how and where do I submit my sons school work, like his workbook pages?

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Hello, Is there a way to turn off the Originality Reports (Check Plaigarism) option for anyone using Google Assignments LTI 1.3? If so, where can that be done? Canvas Admin side or Google Side?

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On my canvas, I still to this day have a class that i took in 8th grade and I’m in 11th. It just has always been there on my dashboard and it won’t go away and I don’t know how to fix it. Can someone help please:)

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I am wanting to create a Canvas course for a club I am sponsoring at my school, but many of the students in the club are not in my classes. Because of this, I don't have easy access to their ID numbers, making it difficult to add them to my Canvas co...

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When building a NEW Quiz in Canvas, jpeg images in a stimulus won't transfer from a Sandbox to a Course.  I also can't share a Quiz with images from my course to a colleague's course WITH the images.  Every time, the images won't transfer in the quiz...

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I've been using free-for-teacher Canvas and the Collaborations function for years now, and my students and I are experiencing a strange problem. Even though we all have saved our Google Drive credentials to Settings, Canvas keeps asking us to re-auth...

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Hello! I am a TEACHER (subadmin) and would like to Export a CSV file for the Outcomes in a manually-created course. I have created unique Outcomes at the course level and would like to export them so that I can import them into my other courses. I do...

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Just wondering what kind (if any) of monitoring is used for the private messages done through the courses? Like when we message a classmate by finding their name under classroom>students. Or when we creat grouped chats? Didnt find anything about priv...

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Hello, I have 2 students however only receive notifications on one of them. How do I get notified for my second child/student? 

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We import the PIDM field from Banner to Canvas as the SISID field.  We would like to also import the student_id field so a cross-reference can be made for faculty wanting to use anonymous grading and pull additional reports.  Has anyone pulled the st...

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I have three courses that are currently merged into one. They all take the same quizzes and tests. The problem I'm running into is I need data for each individual class.  I can see the data (percent correct) for each question, but that is based on al...

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I keep getting constant canvas notifications to my personal email from my old highschool canvas account. I am unable to go and change my notification settings or remove that email as that canvas account is now locked and I no longer have access. Was ...

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I am running into massive, time-consuming issues with the influx of students who require extended quiz time accommodations. The "Moderate" function in which I have to manually extend quiz times for individual students for each individual quiz is cumb...

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Hi everyone,I hope the new semester is going well for you so far!If you’re looking for practical, evidence-based strategies to maintain student engagement and nurture a growth mindset, I’d like to invite you to our next webinar, “Developing Lifelong ...

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Is there a way to require students to complete the same module multiple times (Within the same day), without having to physically duplicate the module and publish/unpublish manually?

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My canvas seems to have enlarged icons and no solution I've found on community forums has worked. I've tried troubleshooting this with a teacher who's very handy with canvas, and she doesn't know how to troubleshoot this either. Tried clearing cache,...

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When some of our students and teachers are logging in to Canvas they are receiving the message "you have recently logged in multiple times too quickly. Please wait a few seconds and try again."   This is happening on the first time logging in. Any id...

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Hello!I created my profile on Canvas but students are unable to view it. When they click on my name in the announcement they receive access denied.Regards,Masih

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Dear people,In the menu's for editing user rights/permissions and course rights/permissions you can see a padlock.It's not clear to me what that function does. Could anyone explain it to me?Thank you.  

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Hello Canvas, My instructor requested me to her via Canvas but I can't locate the email. Where is the instructor's canvas email found kindly?

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