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I am trying to access study materials, but get this message:We're sorry, but something went wrong.If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.Can anybody advise on a solution?Thanks

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Hey Community.I was wondering if there is an option with new quizzes on canvas where you can add multiple hots spot to one question.For example, I include an extract from a novel and want my students to identify wrong spelling, verbs, full stops etc.

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Hi there. How do I move a student from one group set to another? Thanks, Kim

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I have three groups of Microecon courses and each chapter I allow 3 attempts at a quiz with the same 20 questions.  I have found students passing the answers by cell phone to the other sections (these are dual credit students, 11th graders in high sc...

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For Fill in the Blank questions (New Quiz) with multiple correct answers...I am a teacher and I have built a new quiz. I wanted a fill in the blank answer choice, but I do not need them to be in a specific order. Does the program require that the ord...

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Is there a way to cross off or get rid of assignments on the calendar that I have completed? I go by the order of assignments on my calendar and like to see them crossed off when I do them, but some never get crossed off after finishing and submittin...

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Could someone please help with this conundrum? I want members of the same group to peer review each other's work. Each member of the group should be able to see the assignment submissions of the other members of the same group and choose who they wou...

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Just now I was testing pulling a Savvas online quiz into Canvas with the external tool and Savvas integration. Both times, it pulled a doc quiz instead of the online quiz. I verified that the online one was listed second in Realize but it's still pul...

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Hello Community! I am curious for institutions that employ course builders or otherwise have different people that build courses than the actual instructors that will teach them, how do you handle building courses that have LTIs and other integration...

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Hello fellow Canvas users!Last week, instructors contacted me because they started receiving an error when switching between discussion groups. Here's a screenshot demonstrating an example. Let's say I wish to change from 4204/5204 Group 1 to 4204/52...

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I just discovered the log of student activity attached to quizzes that lets me see them typing their essay answers. With it, I discovered a student who pasted an answer from Quizlet, then retyped it with with a few changes. I would like to search for...

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I have migrated a fairly big course and would like to know how many pages it contains. Apart from counting 1 by 1, is there a setting which tells you how many pages your course has? I can see how many files, how many students, etcAlso, is there a lim...

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We had announced one year out that Canvas was coming, but are getting push-back. I'm wondering if any schools could share how they may have rolled out a limited implementation of Canvas. We could limit to specific grade levels, but I think that would...

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Hi everyone, John here, Canvas admin at a school in Sydney, Australia.We use Blueprint courses.I know students can turn off email announcements, but leaving that aside (because the students I have used as a test group, email notifications are enabled...

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Greetings,I need a way to edit the text on one of the "Statuses" in the grade book. We can edit the color, but not the text. I need one to say "Extension." Is there a way to do this with external code, or is this something Canvas can enable? Seems li...

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Is it possible to add a user then select which courses they can have access to? I’m working on a concept to use Canvas for casual relief lessons and want to know if a casual / relief teacher can be added and the courses they would need for the day/we...

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A student mentioned to me that my assignments are not automatically showing up in her to-do list.  Have I missed a setting or something that I should have checked in order to ensure that my assignments show up for everyone in their to-do list?

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I am unable to view my grades tab. 

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Here’s how to change the size of text, images, and apps in Windows. To change your display in Windows, select Start > Settings > Accessibility > Text size. To make only the text on your screen larger, adjust the slider next to Text size.Ezzee Fonts

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This is my first semester using Canvas as an instructional platform. So far, I've been able to work through any problems, however, in reviewing my Grades ( as the instructor)  I notice that my attendance/participation total for each student has not c...

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Did you know that your online tests are not secure and can be easily printed from your browser (although not within Canvas)? Simply open a quiz in Canvas and use the print function in your browser. According to a Canvas Product Manager, " printing qu...

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Canva widgets are not working on Android phones and especially on Samsung phones including my s21. I believe this is a bug... You can place a widget on your home screen. The bug I am having is to do with the to-do widge it does not show upcoming assi...

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I am a middle school teacher.  I would like to have the table function mirror what I am used to using in word processing applications.  I want to be able to change the four sides of a cell within a table to have different widths of border and differe...

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after i select edit setting button, the my name still can not be changed. How can I fix it? 

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One of my students has problems submitting files (pdfs).  The files take a long time, and then don't show up as having been submitted (per student).  She tries emailing directly to me as a .pdf but they come in very long and narrow.  I have to zoom i...

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Why is canvas not allowing me to upload any images I already changed it to so many formats and it still doesn’t allow me to upload it keeps saying upload fail 

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I'm sure that this is something that I did, but I'm not sure how to fix it.  My grade book is no longer viewable to me as an instructor.  When I click on "Grades," it goes to the page that used to show the grade book.  I can briefly see the grade boo...

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How do I sign in to The Canvas Black Board when its showing Sign in Error?

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He importado mis exámenes de la Plataforma Blackboard (QTI o ZIP) a Canvas; pero no me carga el examen a evaluaciones ni a tareas y tampoco aparece el Banco de Preguntas. ¿Qué puedo hacer? TRANSLATED FROM GOOGLE TRANSLATE Subject: When importing exam...

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Hello, my name is America. and I am new to canvas in fact this is the first time that I attend college. And I am so lost. I have a presentation coming up in March that I need to start working on, but I don't know. my way around on how to start off my...

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