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When teachers are giving feedback in Speedgrader, html code is being inserted.  Has anyone else noticed?

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I would like to upload PDF scanned copies of students' final exam as an assignment or quiz, so I can grade them on Canvas and have the PDF for record keeping purposes. Then, I want to hide the submission so students can see their grade but not the ac...

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When looking at grades in a class and choosing to sort grades with the grade book "view options", no grades are being sorted after choosing an option.  Grades are only being listed in alphabetical order of the title of the assignment.  I am attemptin...

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As we move towards standards based grading, we need Outcomes to be added to assignments without a rubric or without making a quiz. This is vital for ease-of-use for all teachers, especially those that don't use quizzes and rubrics, for example, our m...

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I used to be able to put my students in alphabetical order on the Learning Mastery Gradebook. I can on traditional but not LM. The individual columns can still be sorted by score but not the names...any ideas. Canvas is not answering when I send them...

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Hello, We're about to undergo the transition from BB9 to Canvas, and I have a query about how a useful mechanism we (Learning Technologists) employ to distribute course content from one to many with live updating, can be replicated.I have looked at t...

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Hello, I am a student and I am really struggling with the amount of time I have to spend reading text on a screen. I have spent the past few years reducing my screen time, and now that I have started school I am struggling with the massive intake of ...

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I'd like to be able to show students a rubric for their papers at the start of the semester. However, the rubric appears at the bottom of the paper assignment page, and that page is not visible until its release date, which is later in the semester. ...

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On my school districts network I can't log in to the university of Cincinnati canvas page. I keep getting an error message that says please verify username or password and try again. I am for sure using the correct name and password. I have even rese...

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I upgraded to the new macOS Sequoia Version 15, and now none of my course content loads. I tried clearing web data, ensuring website tracking and hide IP address were unchecked, but nothing worked. My Safari version is 18, which Canvas said it's supp...

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I am my school's Canvas admin.  I allowed my teachers this year to use the cross listing as a feature in order to save them time.  However, when I run the grade export at the account level, the CSV grade export which is generated from Canvas is showi...

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New Canvas School Here - k-12 secondary.   We have three divisions, lower, middle and upper.  I want to find a way to show teachers what other major assessments are being planned for any given day, so we can avoid overtaxing students unnecessarily.  ...

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Is it possible to include students' email in the csv file output from the gradebook?  Is there any way to output a CSV file that includes students' names, SIS IDs, Login IDs, and emails? Thank you very much."

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Is there a way to print my quizzes and feedback so i can have a record of them and go over my mistakes and find out what page they are on?

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Hello, I think it would be helpful for there to be a "Mark As Read" button on the Canvas Notifications email when there is a discussion post. I usually read all of the posts there and then later see in Canvas that I have multiple unread posts only to...

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I am unable to pair my student. Have reported multiple times vide complaint numbers:11177189110596771069910210691942 Would appreciate if someone at Canvas can look into my account and fix it. Thanks!

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I teach a course that is co-taught by 5 teachers with 130 students total. We have divided our students into sections, so they remain in the larger class but also have a section assigned to them. I would love to see ONLY my section of students on my g...

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Hi. About a couple of weeks ago, along with some patching that went on in Canvas, the ability to include carriage returns in the Assignment Comment library - seems to no longer exist. Specifically, when I create this as a comment, and save it in the ...

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Hello,  I have assignments with requirements in one module.  When I move them to another module, the requirements disappear.   I can't find any settings that allow me to keep the requirements.  Am I missing something?   Thanks, Dave

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I created a rubric at one school where I work, and I would like to use that rubric at another school where I also work. Is there a way to copy a rubric so that I can use it at another school? I understand how to copy rubrics among courses at a single...

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I have badges in Attendance that I need to delete. When I click on "Manage badges," none of the badges that are there. How do I delete them?

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Is there a way to mark "all entries" as "Read" in threaded discussions? For graded discussions, I use the "Speed Grader" interface (with a rubric). After I grade all the entries, I need to go back to the Discussions and "read" the entries so Canvas m...

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I tried on three browsers: Chrome, Safari and Firefox; disabled ad blocks and tried again, enabled University Cisco VPN and retried but to no avail. Every time I try reloading,  it says:Service is currently unavailable. Try again later.No idea why th...

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How can I quickly see (as an admin) which outcomes are sub-account and which are course-level? Sometimes instructors incorrectly copy courses from previous terms and end up creating course-level outcomes by mistake.

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Situation: We sync our grades from Canvas to FACTS/RenWeb. For various reasons, we have to put holds on student accounts. Traditionally, what we've been able to do with FACTS, is withhold their grades from them until they fix the hold on their accoun...

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When I click on "Published Courses" I see there is subtext for the course titles that I would like to change but am not sure how. (Example in screenshot - I'd like to remove "CHAZ".) Thank you!

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Can the location input in Calendar Events allow hyperlinks? As of now, adding a zoom / google meet link does not allow a student to click on the link to easily open the meeting. Instead students need to copy the link, open a new tab, paste, and Enter...

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I'm enrolling a large number number of staff for employee training that they will be doing on Canvas, and I was told to use the 'notify' column in the enrollment.csv file if I'd like to notify the users they've been enrolled. There doesn't seem to be...

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