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I am having problems and need help. Josephine Ezeanya

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I’m investigating the expanded use of Canvas here at my university.  This question deals with the ability for an instructor to add a student to a class on the fly.Situation explained.  The university operates both didactic classroom courses and clini...

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I think I already know the answer to this question but I thought I would double-check. Per the Canvas guides, in order to award students full credit for a question in New Quizzes, you have to go into Speedgrader, then go into an individual student's ...

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I am an instructor with a 'learning to learn' student learning objective.  I want to use the New Analytics student activity reports to show students their opportunity to learn more effectively by engaging in key content (pages) earlier (right after a...

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I've received an extension on medical grounds but feel as though one extra day would make a huge difference for editing and submitting as the time I was granted extra was also spent catching up on work outside of uni. Will I receive an immediate fail...

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Hello,I requested access to a Ventures Basic shell course on Canvas. I was promptly given access to Ventures Basic Units 1-5, as well as all of Ventures Levels 1-4 and Transitions, but I am missing Units 6-10 of Ventures Basic. I am working on Unit 9...

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Hi there,New canvas admin here and I'm trying make sure I fully understand the Term end dates and what happens when those dates are reached.  I know that typically the course becomes concluded and goes into a read-only state on the Term End date.Our ...

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I am an instructor and looking at the instructor view in Canvas Gradebook, What is the meaning of the red dot icon in the upper left corner of the grade book columns? It appeared for the first time yesterday in some Discussion Board columns.Thank you

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As someone who has provided substantial support to novice Canvas users at my institution, in this forum, and on Facebook, I can attest that one of major design flaws of Canvas is hiding very important Announcement, Discussion, and Grading settings in...

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Hiya,There's a tool we've been working on that gives each student a file space inside a Canvas course where they can place files. The files are accessible to the student and any instructors or teaching assistants on the course. This allows students t...

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When you have multiple assignment groups that are unweighted ("Weight final grade based on assignment groups" is toggled off), how does that functionally work with the total grade? I'm guessing it's one of two options:1. The assignment groups are jus...

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Cengage I can’t load the new chapter I need it’s only going up to unit 15 I need to go beyond that now

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Greetings. It is a school requirement that students upload their essays into Canvas-UniCheck for a Similarity Report. Question: How can students delete, extract, remove, and retrieve their typed and speech written essays and papers from/out of the Ca...

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Can the questions in a question bank be filtered by question type? I'm looking at a question bank that was imported from Blackboard, and I can't see a way to do this. In fact I can't find a way to determine what an item's question type is without sim...

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Hi Community,I have a question for you regarding the best practices used in managing Canvas Sub-accounts in a way to best integrate SIS systems.We use Jenzabar Sonis as our main SIS system. We would like to integrate it with Canvas to automatically c...

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Will additional features provide the ability to verify faculty engagement with students to meet regular and substantive interaction requirements established by the updated Fed rule? Specifically, it would be really useful to be able to show that facu...

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I am reposting this issue because my initial post has been closed and marked solved.This issue has not been solved and remains a big problem. --------------------------------------------------------------------There has been a change in how "unread" ...

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If a video link in posted in Canvas, is it possible to track which students watch the video?

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I created a course that I am blueprinting. One of the courses that are synced to that course needs to be modified slightly for virtual use. Basically, I have a master course that I am syncing to a seated version and a virtual version. I need to be ab...

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We've been using New Analytics every week for the past 2 years without issue, now we are receiving an error message stating "Sorry, this course is too large to be loaded"

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I'm creating audio and visual conference material using BBB and I want to use them as listening (audio) and watching (visual) assets on my Canvas pages.Is it possible to download or link the conference material to use on a Canvas page?Thanks 

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Hello all,By default, the "adjust events and due dates" box is not checked when importing content in Canvas at our school. As an admin, is there a way to globally switch this on? It is messing with our integrated analytics. I dug through the settings...

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Is there a way to make a global change to the role an individual has within all Canvas courses? We have an individual who gets assigned the role of TA when courses are set-up from our SIS. I need that person to be assigned to a different role. I'm wo...

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Is there a way to setup the Redirect tool so a link it shows up as an option to add via the navigation tab in settings versus it being added to the course nav by default?We want to have a link available for faculty to add to their navs at a point in ...

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Once my course has started, and my course home page is published, can I change it in the middle of the course?  For example, maybe i want to start with the basic home page, but after the first few weeks, I want to change the home page to be one of th...

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I have a teacher who cannot get the assignments in Google Drive to load. I have watched her go through the steps and she is doing this correctly. Using assignments, external tool and the correct Google Drive integration. However when students go to a...

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I have used Canvas with Skyward for several years, but I cannot figure out why a few assignments are not syncing to Skyward.  I also tried searching guides....How does one fix a problem with the 22753 code? 

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I notice that in https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/submissions.html#method.submissions_api.update, there is only one field "submission[posted_grade]" that can be used to grade a submission. However, it will make grade posted, while I do want to ...

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