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I am an instructor and am wanting to edit the access of modules to allow different groups of students to view specific modules. I am aware that I can create groups for different assignments, but not modules.   

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I posted a DISCUSSION topic for my students.The "green lights" were on - on my end, however, my students could not see/access the Discussion.I'm not sure what went wrong.

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Will Canvas automatically introduce weekly discussions as assignments in the Fall 2023 course calendar, or do I have to add them again to the Calander?  I ask, because I am setting up assignments in the practice shell that I hope to migrate over for ...

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Hi, I co-teach a couple of university classes. We split up the grading and so my "to do" list on my dashboard is constantly flooded. I am wondering, if I "ignore" the notification on my Dashboard (i.e., click the 'X'), will that also remove it from m...

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Hi, Students took exam and it automatically calculated the grade; however, when I go into the grade book, the grade is not visible and can only see it once I click the box. The screenshot is attached.

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I was just wondering if you can add a media button so I am able to submit my mp4 video?

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I am a student enrolled in the ATA Prerequisites Course. I am currently working on the Module 5 Methods Problem in Vocareum. I am stuck on Step 2. The instructions are as flowsDefine a method named printResult (below the comment for this step). It sh...

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It's a great idea to have a bank of common comments, something I have long used ClipAngel for, but it appears that you can only enter one comment from the library and when you do it makes everything else you have written disappear forever.I learned t...

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Hello, As the heading say, my Notifications for @ Mentions are Not Working.I checked the guide for solutions. Also, I confirmed my notification settings are marked (ticked to receive a daily summary) and they are--in both my global as well as course ...

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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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