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HiI'm missing compulsory courses on Canvas- BEd in Foundation Phase: Teaching Practice 1, Grade R teaching, Beginning Knowledge and Arts Education1: Visual. Please assist.

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I'm having trouble embedding photos in my reply where the image saved looks fine and when I embed it, the image is just a gray block.  Is there a file size limitation or something similar that is causing this? 

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I'm having trouble with a Canvas Quiz setting, in the Moderate Tab there is an option to Add Time for a quiz - however when I add the time to a particular student Ex: + 5, 10, 20, minutes or an hour Students still receive a Times Up! Message and cann...

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Let me preface this by saying I'm new to Canvas -- like only a few days in, so please forgive this potentially dumb question, but is there a way to designate multiple assignments as "passing grade is required to pass the entire course"? More specific...

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Hi,I am our Canvas Admin in my school. We use New Quizzes (NQ) in some of our course masters. The NQ are set up to draw questions from the Item Bank(s) and we have LockDown Browser & Monitor (LBM) enabled.When we import the master content into a new ...

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Could someone please clarify the difference (or confirm there is none) between the following.1)  In course settings there is an "Import Course Content" 2) On the homepage there is an "Import Existing Content"When I follow both paths they appear to do...

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How do I block student view of the left sidebar options (people, modules, etc. etc.)

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When i tried to access my exam, after pressed begin, the screen show that:Error: Course (UNKNOW), Exam (NOT ATTEMPTED)- Unable to connect to Respondus server (AWS) for the course or exam settings.- Unable to obtain exam title to determine webcam requ...

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How do I delete a course in Open Source?  

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I would like you to add a "Turned In" option in the gradebook like the "Exempt", and "Missing" options. If I haven't graded all the assignments yet, I want parents to know that it's been turned in but not graded yet.  I do not want to "hide" the assi...

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I love the feature "Message the Students Who" but it doesn't exist on calculated grades (like final grade). I'd really like to let students know how they are doing throughout the semester but there is no easy way (that I could find). Any suggestions?

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Dear Canvas staff, I received an email from you on how to join a training session. I followed all the steps. However, when I click on join, I keep seeing the box that says "wait for the host to add you the session" but I am not added. I have a sessio...

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I’ve been dropped into a situation where classes from 2 different teachers have been combined and made into my classes — 5 sections of high school English.  At present I’m going between 2 different tiles/teachers and it’s simply not working.  Differe...

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When an Announcement targets a specific section (e.g. a tutorial), do all teaching staff associated with the unit of study 9Canvas course) receive the announcement notification?

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My Exam 2 has 60 questions worth 2 points each.  The best possible score is 120. The gradebook handles this fine for the individual exams.  However, when calculating the average of the three exams, Canvas normalizes the grade to 100 by dividing by 12...

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It would be really nice to have dark mode for canvas. Or at least some kind of darker color because at my school we are using canvas a lot and i tent to get many headaches because of the harsh white lighting along with the lights in the school buildi...

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I would like to be able to have students submit their annotated work, allow me to check it and give feedback, and then allow the students to continue working on the same assignment without losing their work.  At this point, it appears that once a stu...

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Is there a way to enter an event that spans more than one day (overnight university tours) without having to duplicate and change times, etc.? Is there a way to enter an event with a DATE range, as well as a time range?

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We found an article explaining how to input a certificate at the end of a course, but when we try to follow the instructions the same options do not display and we can't figure out how to go to the admin page where you can add the certificate. Please...

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Does Canvas notify users when their account is created?

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Theres a red number next to my grades section in my classes. I've viewed my grades but it won't disappear.

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My scheduled lecture was deleted how can i revert back?

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Hi I was wondering if it's possible to remove this menu on the right-hand side of course home pages (see image attached). We don't need it as we're not using this as an actual course, but rather as a 'community' of modules that students can dip in an...

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Hi, am new to the community. please help. I have Attached 4  screenshots. The first 2 from ePub and the last two are from my course module and relevant pages. Can you please let me know how to resolve this issue?

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I am on a desktop computer and have tried using Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Firefox. All the videos in all my courses are now showing this message: "Unauthorized" This video cannot be played on this domainPlease see attached photo. I find it u...

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Greetings everyone!I have several quizzes where I have grouped questions according to a learning outcome and I the group is named that learning outcome. For example, let’s say I have 20 questions, 5 LOs and 4 questions per LO. So I create 5 groups an...

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Hello everyone,I'm currently having trouble getting the "contentEditable" attribute to work properly in the HTML viewer/editor in Canvas. Specifically, I'm trying to create a table with one column for logical fallacies and another column for definiti...

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Hi Canvas Community, We are currently looking into purchasing a SIS Converison with the Canvas team to make our SIS - BlackBaud(BBK12) talk to Canvas & allow features like grade passback. We did talk to the Canvas team & they did not have much clarit...

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