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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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Hi all, Doing some spring cleaning of the Canvas instance I manage. I want to create an Archive sub-account and then move the existing sub-accounts we no longer use into it, is this possible? I feel like if this isn't a feature it should be considere...

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How can I delete a submitted assignment from canvas 

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A student did indeed take an exam because a grade shows up in gradebook history. But the grade does not show up in the student's grades, not does it show up on gradebook.  I cannot manually enter the grade that is in gradebook history.  The window is...

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When I log into Canvas on my Macbook, my dashboard screen just glitches and does not display my active courses like it does on my chromebook. It will display the course under my courses tab but will not let me upload or show links to upload my assign...

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I would like to customize my front page based on student data. In particular, I would like to have a table of modules, with the color of each cell indicating whether a student has completed the module or not. In the course, the student's final grades...

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it wont let me enable the new feature "new quizzes"

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I've searched through the Canvas guides as well as this Canvas Question forum, but I cannot find anything on a maximum number of sections a Canvas course can have. Does anybody know if there is a max # of sections allowed in a course? If so, what is ...

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Hi everyone, We are a smaller college and we are deciding on how to archive our courses. I have read in the community about concluding courses, creating Archive Sub-Accounts, and also inactivating users. I just have a few questions about how other co...

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For many assignments - I use the same instructions through multiple classes and courses.  IE it may be instructions on how to do the assignment and have links to what to do if they need more resources.   In the instructions - I link to the 3rd party ...

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I was wondering if there was a way to leverage either New Analytics or Canvas Data to find out which instructors are utilizing the grade book within their canvas course.

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  I already have used the RollCall tool to take attendance for two class session. I already have the the RollCall entry under the Attendance "Assignment Group" RollCall Column displays in my gradebook.   Still, column is blank, no grade is displayed?...

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I need help in suspending users from Canvas for clean-up purposes. How do I bulk delete users that are no longer being used? Thank you

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I am studying Canvas cloud assignment and this question just occurs to me.When student click submit in could assignment, is there a file copy to Canvas? What if the student make change on their Google drive file after they submit? Will the submission...

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My students are submitting MP3 and AAC/MP4 audio files for their final assignment, but when I download their submissions through SpeedGrader, I'm getting lower bitrate than what they had originally uploaded. Plus, the files all appear to be transcode...

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I am trying to take an interactive quiz with an attached video for a course I am enrolled in. The video will not load. I have tried multiple browsers and multiple PC's.

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I have imported questions to a course with QTI option, I can see the question in the questions banks when I navigate to the course quizzes section (see screenshot). However, I don't know how to make them available as a course quiz. Any help would be ...

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Hello,I've seen some posts about this that are one to several years old at this point so I figured I would broach the topic again in hopes this is a feature that gets added. I would really like the ability to release grades to students on a specific ...

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Here is a video explaining why I ask Canvas LMS to prioritize improving comments in the grade book.https://youtu.be/nIqTFz0Qong

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