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I am enroll in 4 courses but able to see only 2 in canvas, How I can see other courses since semester start as well as assignments. 

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Hello all, So the Attendance in Canvas already has FOUR permanent buttons - Present, Absent, Tardy, and Unmarked.  I was wondering if the Canvas Tech Support team could add one more button in the Attendance that could be permanent without having me a...

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Hello, We are spinning up a new instance of Canvas as an Azure VM. We are trying to get email working with it and see two options:Spin up basic Sendmail server and use it (easier, but I think might result in more blocked mail)Route mail through our o...

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I have the latest version of Google Chrome, my PC meets the minimum requirements, and all my other courses are on my Dashboard. I chose the minimum amount of electives required when enrolling (i.e. three), and the first fee has already been paid for....

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i cant seem to access my zoom classes on yet I can see that there was a class on that day

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Hi. I am currently taking three classes this semester. When I go to the calendar, none of my classes are colored so I do not know what assignment is due when. I tried assigning a class to pink, green, and red but none of them worked. Is there a way t...

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Greetings:I have several classes going and have run into an anomaly.  I have a number of PDF files downloaded into the course.  Sometimes when I post links to these files they open in a window on the same page as the link, and at the top (right side)...

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I am enrolled in the course BAD 1, section 6944 and I do not have access to my course on Canvas. I have no way to contact my professor regarding this issue. I would like to know how I can complete my assignments.

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I have had some issues with syncing grades to IC. I sync and the grades move for some students and classes but not all of them. It's not any one class that has issues or one assignment, some students in the same class sync just fine and others won't ...

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Hello,I need to go back and change some student grades in the first quarter, which is a closed grading period now that we have begun the second quarter. Currently, all the options I need are greyed out. Is there a setting I can change to allow editin...

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Trying to upload a video to my discussion. I have done this before but when I click on video it counts down and shows it being recorded then lost. I am not sure if my Canvas is full and I need to delete media? If so, how? Why does my media disappear ...

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Is there a way to weight answers to multiple choice answers (as in BrightSpace - D2L)?To keep grade book calculations simple, I typically reward 100% correct answer and 50% for a wrong answer (which gives credit for at least attempting the quiz quest...

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Hello,It seems that my canvas is stating that my chrome is not up to date. I have checked on settings if chrome has an update but it does not. What can I do from here?Please advise at your earliest convenience. Thank you.  Michal Parsser

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I have the latest updated Chrome but Canvas still won't load. I have checked for updates, and deleted cookies, but nothing. It loads on my main PC at home which is much older than my chrome book. Anything I can do to fix issue?

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I am unable to get lockdown browser to work. I have updated google and it is still not working. I am getting a warning that browser is out of date. Need help!

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Hello,I created a genetics test using new quizzes and uploaded my .png files to each question.  I then added the questions to the question bank and added outcomes.  I then shared my test using the [send to] function in canvas.  The images are not sho...

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I created a instructor dashboard as a practice before I use it for a class. I want to share this with sone one who is a user of Canvas so he can provide me some feedback.

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Hello How can a Tutor,me, become an observer to a student? I have looked, but could not find the answer.I want to see their assignments, grades for each class. Thank you Helen Rehwalt, Edmonds School District, Edmonds, WA

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I have 3 students all taking the same course but in different sections. How can I place these 3 students in a group in Canvas so that they may work together on a project for the class? 

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Hi, is there a way to make the class roster hidden so that the students CANNOT see who else is in the course?  I have an Academic Probation Canvas page, but it is not an actual course, so I do not want the other students in the class to see who else ...

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There are several posts on this, but no one ever seems to answer, and the posts are from about 5 years ago. Are xAPI files supported on canvas? If they are how would I go about importing an xAPI file? 

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I'm a teacher. Are we able to see what students have a parent observer linked to them, or a list of parent observer names?

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As a world language teacher, I need students to be able to type sentences and SEE their entire sentence at one time. The Fill in the Blank question blank is too short. It should expand with the size of the student's answer, so that the student can se...

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This is a new problem we have been experiencing in the last 6 months.  Students will send messages to instructors from classes which already concluded.  Usually, asking about their grades.  When an instructor goes to reply, they find they are unable ...

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Good morning. We create official course shells for our courses via API. These shells have their Participation setting set to "Course" by default. We are running into an issue where our instructors are copying course content from an another shell whos...

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I've read about the latest updates with BigBlueButton and Sections and Calendars but can't quite do what I need to. I want to create a new conference in my course, just for a section of students, and then be able to put the event in the calendars of ...

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Suppose I have  many sets of questions and answer choices for multiple choice questions or matching questions that are all in text format. For instance q1. what is blah?a. blah is meh, b. blah is blah, c. blah is wut. d. blah is kek. q2. match the fo...

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I taught a class in Canvas a few years ago, exported everything I could, now I'm teaching a similar online class at a different institution and I want to import my quiz files. But my quiz files are all .xml files and I can't figure out how to import ...

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when I acces Canvas Iam notified that my browser is not compatible con Canvas

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