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I have a teacher who "turned on" the Late Policy for missing assignments and it doesn't seem to be behaving the way we would expect.  Our division policy is that the lowest score a student can get is a 50.  So he had it set for 50%.   The issue - it ...

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I have a course with rolling enrollment that students sign up for to use machine shop tools. All students have to periodically complete a safety quiz. All students are currently in a single section and remain enrolled in the course for as long as the...

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Is direct linking HTML pages via Iframe being Blocked in Canvas now? We've had reports this is now showing errors when attempted, however it was working previously.Browser console (Firefox) is showing the following:"Blocked script execution in '<URL>...

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I'd like to be able to mark student assignments as "Submitted" or "Extended" in some circumstances, similar to the "Missing" or "Late" tags. Is there a way to do this?Use model: As a teacher, I want students to clearly see what assignments are missin...

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Do we have the option of reviewing Students' Announcements that they submit in the group Before Publishing Them to the group home page?

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Is there a way to mark a student who has left early from class?  I see that a student can be marked late, but not that they were present at the start of class and left. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z7g1KZngo6V5WkIa93MbfWlWPWvqovkY/view?usp=drive_...

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I have completed 2 classes on the canvas platform however the classes still appear on my dashboard. 

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Is there a way make it so when you hit unpublish all it also unpublished the pdfs? It takes so long to unpublish each individual pdf.

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Canvas currently does not support disabling announcements without deleting them. If I don't want to send an announcement but I want to still keep it so I can copy it over to the next semester, there doesn't appear to be a good way to do it. As a work...

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I recently had an exam which is untimed, since it is untimed I have been taking it with breaks here and there. But , I am not sure if I have pressed the submit button. My question is will these untimed quizzes auto submit by due or submit has to be p...

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Hello. I am a current Canvas user as a PT instructor at a university that uses Canvas. I have two current courses through that institution in Canvas. I will soon lose access as I am not contracted to teach in the Spring or Summer semesters, but I wil...

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I am an instructor and have dropped the lowest two assignments within a category. I am getting emails from students asking if this has been implemented. How can the students tell which of their assignments have been dropped?

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Hi -  An instructor using classic quizzes has more than one student who took a quiz and received a score that is either in conflict with the score in Speedgrader, or is a total that cannot be achieved with amount of each quiz question. Examples: Stud...

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How do I locate a student's ID, since "People" is no longer an option?

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If I assign a test in Canvas, do the students have the ability to open other websites or is there a setting I can use to lockdown the browser?  

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I am a dyslexia teacher. I enrolled in the Dyslexia Foundations Module 1 course but I used the wrong email address (personal instead of district). How do I unenroll from the course? It does not show in my TEA Learn account. 

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Is it possible to send messages to all people in a course using the "Inbox" / "Message" function that can include hyperlinks or formatted text? If NOT, could that functionality be added? 

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Hi all, Any time I import a previous Canvas course, I have to manually unpublish every single assignment - this is very tedious and time consuming. It would be nice if there was a single button to click to unpublish everything - or, alternatively,  i...

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I have a quiz which starts with a couple of multiple choice opinion questions, which are worth 0 points (e.g., How motivated are you to complete this course?) The problem is that Canvas makes me select a "right" answer, but there isn't one. Students ...

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Can you make the pop-up messages smaller, so they don't cover up actions on the page? For example, when archiving a messages from the Canvas Inbox, a pop-up message appears (""Messages archived!"). Great! Love it! But the message covers up the "archi...

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Can students create Teams meetings using the Teams Meetings tool within Canvas?

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My students responded to 15 different Discussion Posts that I created this semester.  My plan was to view each student's entries collectively to grade them--i.e. I'd view all 15 of the responses that "John Smith" wrote over the semester.  Is it possi...

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Hello Canvas Community, What if your Canvas account gets hacked? Is there any way to get it back? 

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I was taking my 2-hr final exam on canvas & with lockdown browser & had 2 questions & 16 minutes left when I attempted to scroll upwards & the screen went blank & froze. It has now passed the deadline for the exam, & when I look at the course from my...

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students using Macs are submitting assignments using Pages.  Their assignments appeared completed before.Recently submitted assignments with the .pages extension are appearing blank now.

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Can I, as a teacher, upload a student's assignment to CANVAS on their behalf? In other words, if a student sends me an assignment via email, can I upload their work to CANVAS? Or that something only a student can do?

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I set the grades to be hidden for one of my assignments and graded it using the speed grader with a rubric, I typed my comments and grade in rubric. However, I received emails from students questioning their grades. It seems that they are still able ...

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When in Gradebook, I click on a student's name, and the side panel opens with their grade, how missing tasks, and how many late tasks.Could Canvas develop a link that shows a hyperlinked list of the missing tasks?This would be useful for teachers to ...

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