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I have a question about how best to set up our enrolment. Right now we are only showing tutorial video pages and we'd like to automate the enrolment (so we don't have to add each person manually). At the same time we don't want to have "self enrolmen...

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Hello,My institution invited me to Canvas and I setup my account successfully but I was not asked about any username during registration process and my account is now setup.There are clear guidelines from the institution that my username must be a nu...

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I, the cursor seem not to work on the reply section of the question so how do I bring it into the work using the annotation sign?

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Hello, I canvas the teacher had marked my assignment and when try to review feedback it doesn't work. It is blank.please give me advice orzo a check up of my canvas.kind regards, ELi 

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Hi all, I've been creating some interactivities in Storyline and exporting them into Canvas.I would like to add an essay/free form text box into the interactivity (it is a question type in Storyline) and have it show up in Canvas. I am able to see th...

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What I was curious about is whether you can tie the assignments that are auto assigned by Canvas to Learning Outcomes. These are basically like custom standards that can be tied to individual assignments and test questions that you create in Canvas. ...

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I know that Canvas can export a single gradebook, but if I want to export multiple gradebooks simultaneously, how can I? I'm contemplating this in the context of archiving gradebooks for multiple courses. Thanks.

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I go to her class in Canvas to access notes, files, etc, but when I try to access anything in her class on Canvas, the system asks me to sign in and authorize myself. I authorize and use my school email as well as giving Canvas access to my drive. Wh...

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Our Canvas LMS instance is currently syncing with Power School for user provisioning, does this integration also disable users in Canvas LMS when they are disabled from Power Schools?

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I dropped a course and added a new one. I want to know how long it’s gonna take for the new course to reflect on my canvas.

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Is there an existing API call that will allow for me to select all courses in a given Term and change their Participation to "Term" if they are set as "Course"?In the past, we allowed instructors to choose their own participation settings. We now hav...

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Hello,I am really struggling to navigate my way around CANVAS and feel quite lost. Please can I have someone to advise. It says that my tutor is Elizabeth Smith, but I am not sure how to contact her.RegardsLisa Williams

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My students can't see the additional comments I've made on some quiz answers. There are four different groups of students using the quiz. I can see there's an option for 'show students quiz results' but will this be to all students or can you select ...

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Hi collective. Is it possible for students to adjust their notifications so that they are alerted immediately  that there is a new assignment? It appears that students get a weekly email detailing new assignments, but i want immediately or, at the ve...

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We have several teachers who are leaving our district. One of our teachers has made item banks and shared edit access with other teachers. What will happen to these item banks after the original teacher leaves? Will the teachers with edit access stil...

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I am working with a user who runs into an issue with her Canvas messages. The message will send at a certain time, but the recipient will not get that message until hours afterward, even though the timestamp on both messages shows that the message wa...

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We create assignments in Canvas and have added Turnitin integration for plagiarism checks. When a student adds a submission via OneDrive LTI integration a similarity report is not created in the SpeedGrader. If they upload the file directly then a re...

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We are keen to use Course or Section start and end dates both  To better release the materials to students on different schedulesTo give us a little more granularity where we are looking at analytics/data If we use Course or Section start dates, what...

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Hello everyone,After a very successful virtual edition last year, we would like to invite you to our first in-person conference in Amsterdam, inspirED Europe 2023, taking place on June 8th.This year, we're excited to welcome David Nicol and Suzanne M...

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How can I see my list of Summer classes 

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Hello We changed 2 of our sub-accounts to use Elementary for our Primary students and prior to the change, teachers could apply nicknames to their courses (eg their Sandbox). Since we have applied Elementary, I can not find a way that teachers can re...

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We have just moved to Canvas and realized students are able to change the default email for Canvas.  Our experience with changing emails in Blackboard is this would cause a disconnect with certain LTI's.  Preferably, we would like all users to keep o...

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Our college currently has every course and term from the beginning of time in our system.  When searching for courses in the admin view, courses from "day 1" appear and we need to either have the exact name of the course, search through a ton of "ter...

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I know that there are some older posts about this and that there is the override trick of deleting the grade, inputting EX, and then deleting that to override the graded portion of a module. Is there a way to completely bypass a module for a student ...

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I am a parent and also teach using Canvas. The parent app holds very little value, and the only thing I can really do on it is check my children's grades. But even then, they are mixed together, not filtered by individual student. It's impossible to ...

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I am missing a lot of assignments from a long absence and I would like to know if there is a way to see all of my missing assignments from every class so I don't have to check them one by one I'm not wondering if there is anything that telling your m...

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I have read some of the other questions related to sharing rubrics, but they all seem to be for sharing a rubric between two of the same teachers courses. I am trying to figure out how to share a rubric with another teacher. I tried attaching it to a...

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