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I have this interesting question. Do your grades go down when you do not complete assignments?   

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I oversee a Canvas course that has a lot of different instructors. But they are each only in charge of one or two assignments. Is there a way that they can get notifications for only the assignments they need to assess and not all of the course notif...

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We are using Canvas LMS for our district's virtual academy. Many teachers use the prerequisites as part of their modules to ensure that students are completing all of the parts of the class.  However, sometimes they get students part way through the ...

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Hi everyone,I’m looking to conduct a poll on Canvas LMS to gather opinions or feedback from my students. Could someone guide me on the best way to create a poll within Canvas? Is there a built-in feature for this, or would I need to use an external t...

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hey, My ParentVUE account user name is CAOBING0106, i tired add my daughter under the same account,but, i don't know how to do.

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A student sent me an email through the Canvas Inbox.  In this message, she claims she is has a password problem and cannot get into the Canvas course, has reached out to IT, and needs a few days to complete her work because she cannot access the assi...

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Hey Educators,I want to make Flash Cards and put them in Canvas. Here are the features I am searching:Images- I want to add my own imagesTracking results- I would like to see how students didNo adsGood interface when embeddedFlash cards with pictures...

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Does anyone have any idea WHY I can't send any messages TO MY STUDENTS through CANVAS (yesterday and today) AT THE BEGINNING OF FINALS WEEK?????

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Canvas needs to add the following functionality to the gradebook: 1. An icon to apply to assignment grades that indicate an assignment is submitted and grades are pending (this is extremely important for assignments that are submitted on paper or thr...

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Hi - I am working on checking courses created by peers for accessibility. When I hover over images, no alt text appears. I have checked this in courses I know alt text exists and cannot find a way to access the alt text without a screen reader extens...

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I got a 502 error message. Is anyone experiencing this?  

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I have been a Canvas user since 2013 and always found the "to do" list of things to grade helpful.  Now Canvas fails to remove items that have been graded. Sometimes Canvas is interpreting first time submissions as resubmissions, meaning that to reso...

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Would like to keep the student overall grade in first column and then newest to oldest assignments from right to left in my gradebook.  But it keeps resetting back to default settings?

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Since Google Docs added the "document tabs" feature, Google Docs uploaded by students through the Google Docs LTI have extra pages created for each tab when viewed in speedgrader. The extra pages are blank except for "TAB 1" at the top.This is incred...

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I want to create an 8 question quiz and only have questions count off 3 points a piece. When I set the question points for 3 points it count off more that that. I want them to be able to miss one question and make a 97. Right now if they miss one, it...

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Just wondering, is your mascot a panda? I've seen tutorials with a panda for it often.      

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I was wondering if  it is possible for students to "like" or react to teacher announcements, and not just to the replies.

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I'm just curious if others have had intermittent issues with sending inbox messages to multiple people at one time. We have randomly had teachers send emails to active courses to multiple students, and they get an error message. When checking the stu...

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Hello Canvas Community, Can we report inappropriate courses? Similar to reporting users or their profile pictures, is it possible for courses, too? I'm just asking. 

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I am experimenting with combining both semester's sections into a single, year-long Canvas course. Our SIS names the sections according to the period rather than the semester, so the name of the sections, regardless of semester, is the same for both ...

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I have final exams for my current course coming up soon. For their final exam the students will take it in Canvas with their technology Apple classroom locked to accessing only Canvas. I do not want them to be able to look through the modules, assign...

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I have three students in a cross-listed set of courses, who are currently enrolled; however, they keep becoming inactive.  Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening and how to resolve the issue?

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I need to view a report by section/class. I have several classes taking the same quiz and I would love to be able to view a report on each class individually. Is this possible with new quizzes? If not please add this function.

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What is the limit of courses in the calendar? Can I display more than 12? Some students with extra curriculars can't see all of their courses.

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Within Canvas assignments, I would like the option to create questions where credit is awarded for completion only (and not correctness).  Students should not be able to view that these questions are graded for completion only.   For example, I would...

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I was really excited about the recent release where importing course content with a group assignment would result in the group sets being brought over. I maintain a number of master courses that include group assignments and I was hopeful this would ...

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Howdy, Looking for any help on how I might be able to achieve this. As the subject suggests I would really like to increase the height of the Enrolments panel on user's profile page. We have one course for each unit of competency, and when a student ...

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I understand from this "How do I use the icons and colors in the Gradebook?" page that Blue represents: "Late submission".But my gradebook has 2 different shades of blue, with the light blue submission not being late (whereas the dark blue submission...

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Hi,We are wanting to restrict who at our college can create Microsoft 365 Groups. We realize that limiting who can create a group, affects all services that rely on groups for access, including Outlook, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, etc. We currently ...

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