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Hey! One of our faculty is trying to use the Read Aloud feature (Microsoft's Immersive Reader) and has found that it can't seem to read the minus sign! For example, "B-" is read as just "B," but "B+" is read correctly as "B plus."And yes, we have tri...

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I have imported some New Quizzes from a live course into a sandbox to add some quiz questions to the quizzes. However, every time I try to add a quiz question to the sandbox quizzes I get the error: New Quiz "Failed to create quiz entry" What do I ne...

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Greetings all,I've been using Canvas and the Rich Content Editor for years now and have been wondering about something for all that time that I hope one of y'all might be able to help with.I work in a Nursing school where many of our clinical courses...

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Hi, I have a quiz with a due date set to 3/22/23 at 10 am and the same for the available until date. The quiz time limit is 2 hours. I was under the impression that the student quiz would be automatically submitted at the available until date. Howeve...

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When my students try to access an assignment through the assignments tab they cannot load my external tool in the assignment. But if they access an assignment through the modules tab, it works just fine. Could I get some clarification on how to fix t...

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Seriously. I'm even here trying to contact help and it takes me a thousand clicks to get to post something on a bulletin board, not even chat with someone who can actually help. You're interface is NOT intuitive, nor helpful. I'm looking at grades. A...

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In Authentication settings, what is the meaning of Federated attributes "admin_role" representing in canvas?

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What is Canvas? Is it like Omegle?

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Watch the video to see what I am talking about! I used Word for example but it is the same with powerpoint but just using Powerpoint. (Sorry that the video is so slow)

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As this is a technical issue, I am beginning with some background (for those who might stumble upon this). The actual question is in bold below.For years, Canvas has allowed, first by invoking MathJax manually by adding the requisite <math> </math> t...

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I am an instructor and created student groups to allow them to work on group projects.I can access the Collaborations created in the main course menu, but when I go to a Group Homepage and try to open Collaborations from the group homepage, I get the...

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Hi, I am new for canvas so now we are working on setup the grading scheme for the sub account and we want all the course on this sub account can only choose the grading scheme that we set from back end. Teacher are not not allow to use their own grad...

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I am trying to remove this lock icon from my module pages. 

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THIS ONE CANVAS INFLEXIBILITY WASTES SO MUCH OF MY TIMEWhy can't Canvas have functionality to add/subtract points globally on a quiz after students have submitted? Or, better yet, auto change the scores on a quiz after modifying a quiz?For example, y...

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I am trying to log into canvas and it lets me but nothing is showing everything is loading, and I then log into a different device and canvas is working just fine.

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Does anyone know of a way to include a financial calculator (like excel spreadsheet) to a quiz using Proctorio with the browser locked? The standard answer would be to embed a file for them to download BUT this is a closed note exam. As soon as you d...

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I'm using the ID from a teacher trial account to make the endpoint POST (/api/v1/accounts/:account_id/courses)  and when I attempt to create a new course, everything looks to work but I'm not seeing the course being created. Anyone know if the API PO...

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In synchronous classes I share my iPad screen with students and then, when I upload these handwritten notes on canvas, as pdf files, they have 5% accessibility score. I would appreciate any suggestions about improving the accessibility score.Thank yo...

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Greetings All:Is anyone using Pearson Platinum Education Group software integrated with Canvas (MyLab Mastering)? Regards, Stephen

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BHHi. I am an instructor.I wrote a quiz and published it. However, my students students (and myself on student view) cannot see it. On student view, I see it by grades, but when i click on it, it's blank.  I don't know how to make it available to stu...

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Your browser checking tool says that my browser is Firefox 109My Firefox identifies itself as Firefox 111.I am not incorrect in interpreting the information that your checking tool provides.I am not incorrect in interpreting my Firefox browser status...

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I can see in the assignment page all students have been assigned two peer reviews, half the students can see theirs, and half cannot. The students tried using a different browser, refreshing the page, and the students they are assigned to review did ...

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I am new for canvas and I want to enable the analytics feature to show who has completed the growing with canvas course in our sandbox sub account. However, I don't see this icon show up from my course, how can I enable it?   https://community.canvas...

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For about a month upload of any file above I would say 500k to Files or as an attachment to comments on an assignment is taking very long (more than 5-10 minutes) and often fails completely. I have broadband internet connection and download/upload vi...

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I am an online student and would like to connect to other people in my subject personally is there a chat feature? can I find others' emails from a tab somewhere? I have looked in the inbox on canvas and it only does an email to the WHOLE class or th...

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It would be great if there were a feature that could remove the "Missing" label from assignments when the grading period ends. I have to manually remove missing tags from last term's assignments so that they no longer show up in my students' "To-do" ...

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I haven't come across this issue before, but it is giving me fits. I've got two items in one module, an assignment and a quiz. For both of these, there are different due dates for two sets of students in the class. The module, assignment, and the qui...

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Greetings. The Canvas Unicheck Student Guide does not answer my question.I would not only like to view my professor's feedback in the Canvas UniCheck student portal. Because of my disability, I need to include and print out the feedback my professor ...

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I have reviewed information about editing rubrics, if I understand correctly I cannot edit a rubric in use. Is there a way, once I have edited a rubric and it becomes a new version,  to then apply it to other assignments using that rubric all at once...

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