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 How do I embed a Module in a custom page I have created? I do not wish to embed the whole Modules page, I only wish to embed One specific Module. Any feedback greatly appreciated. 

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 How do I add a custom link to the Navigation Area?A link that would point to a Module or a page I have created.Thanks!  

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We have a program where students are enrolled in multiple classes at a time. They are frequently confused about their overall progress as when they click on "View Grades" from their dashboard it shows totals only based on assignments that are submitt...

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I am trying to download the student_analysis report for a quiz and I use this api:base_url}}/api/v1/courses/XXX/quizzes/XXX/reports?quiz_report[report_type]=student_analysis&include=[file], But instead I only receive a download url for item_analysis ...

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I set up a survey question because students have to come to campus one day for testing, and they can choose which day/time.  I checked them numerous times before posting, but never checked the student view.  Students are seeing days/times from last y...

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I read on: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-add-users-to-a-course/ta-p/1119Learning how to add teachers and users, and came across adding the Course Setup Checklist. How does one enable this Course Setup Checklist? 

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Hi, I am an old instructor but new to Canvas. I use a lot of what Canvas calls "multiple drop down" items in my quizzes. Often there are 5-6 options for the answers. Do I have to type all 5-6 options for each [ ]? For example, If I have five statemen...

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I have a teacher who uses module prerequisites and requires a certain score on a quiz. Most students completed the module in the previous grading period, but new students have joined the course this quarter. Although they have completed the prerequis...

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I noticed over the last 8 years people have asked for a way to save their Announcements for later times or unpublish them. I have certain Announcements, mainly to parents, that I only send out once a year. Since I am not sure what day the following y...

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I recently found out that file preview does not work on Safari, mine is currently in version 15.3. This has never happened before, I tried with Chrome and it's still working. Is there anything I can do to fix this, I am used to Safari and do not want...

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Hi, I am trying to find the Customer Success Manager for my school. How can I do that? My school wants to start the Canvas and Blackbaud Integration

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I'm new on Canvas and just started a free teacher account. How to I select elementary for canvas? I want the elementary format.

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I download essays from Canvas to Word, and grade them using Dragon Naturally Speaking so that I leave very detailed comments.  When I attach the graded essay so students can see the comments, I am not sure they are getting them.  What to do?

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Canvas there has to be a better way to hide items from the gradebook. Items were imported to my course, or not used second semester and going to the assignment-edit-Display as not graded-SaveIs tedious for all of those assignments. Couldn't there be ...

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I have been using Canvas for a few years, and I have been successful with sharing quizzes from one course to another in the past.  (Ex:  I am the Quiz Bowl sponsor, and I have daily quizzes of trivia questions, and I have been able to reuse them for ...

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I've been trying to make this work, but always have an error notice saying something went wrong ... Have anybody else experienced this, and found a way out?Beate

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How do I un-authorize the integration of Google Drive with Canvas?

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The BackgroundThe simplest way we've found of knowing if a course is complete is having a quiz at the end of a course. This way we can easily view grades to see who has done the final quiz and therefore completed. We thought this quiz could double up...

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How do I import into canvas a test bank that was created in work

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Hi,I've been setting a lot of my quizzes as complete/incomplete tasks. I can mark them and comment but for some reason it doesn't allow me to select complete/incomplete (see photo). When my students go in to view their marks they can see a big 'x'. I...

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All the  recommended readings etc have gone from my student canvas account, how do I get them back, this happened about 10 days ago. I logged in using chrome and still didn't appear. All I've got is a list of the study days in Northland, Auckland and...

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I am not able to login even after clicking forget password no email received to reset my password..please help

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Hi All does anyone know how best to get placement for cert 111 in individual support? even though I have studied disability I am constantly told by disability work places that I would have to be employed by an aged care facility to cover all the requ...

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Hey! One of our faculty is trying to use the Read Aloud feature (Microsoft's Immersive Reader) and has found that it can't seem to read the minus sign! For example, "B-" is read as just "B," but "B+" is read correctly as "B plus."And yes, we have tri...

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I have imported some New Quizzes from a live course into a sandbox to add some quiz questions to the quizzes. However, every time I try to add a quiz question to the sandbox quizzes I get the error: New Quiz "Failed to create quiz entry" What do I ne...

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Greetings all,I've been using Canvas and the Rich Content Editor for years now and have been wondering about something for all that time that I hope one of y'all might be able to help with.I work in a Nursing school where many of our clinical courses...

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Hi, I have a quiz with a due date set to 3/22/23 at 10 am and the same for the available until date. The quiz time limit is 2 hours. I was under the impression that the student quiz would be automatically submitted at the available until date. Howeve...

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When my students try to access an assignment through the assignments tab they cannot load my external tool in the assignment. But if they access an assignment through the modules tab, it works just fine. Could I get some clarification on how to fix t...

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Seriously. I'm even here trying to contact help and it takes me a thousand clicks to get to post something on a bulletin board, not even chat with someone who can actually help. You're interface is NOT intuitive, nor helpful. I'm looking at grades. A...

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In Authentication settings, what is the meaning of Federated attributes "admin_role" representing in canvas?

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