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Hi, I am trying to embed an article link and make it preview so that other students can view it while replying. This is on Canvas discussion reply. If someone can help me please. thank you!

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Our teachers began having an issue with students not being able to access Google Cloud assignments or not being able to submit assignments when we returned to class, January 7th. We have cleared cache, reauthorized Google, confirmed only the student'...

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When using the Import Existing Content feature and "Copy a Canvas Course", the choice to select from a dropdown list of other enrolled courses is no longer an option. It was there 2 days ago when I helped a teacher, and the Canvas documentation shows...

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Are we able to import our Outlook Calenders into the Canvas Calendar? Or is it just from Canvas to our other Calendars we can do? Thanks 

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I have looked and could not find anything regarding this.I am looking to see or audit who created or provided admin access to certain users.I have looked at different reports, notificiations, and enrollments but havent found which other admin provide...

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It would be really useful is Item Banks allowed subfolders. We have traditionally used ExamSoft and it has this feature. For a course's bank questions can be saved under folders, e.g. Final, Midterm, etc. Also for the test alignments, the test questi...

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I have a teacher who wants to download the student's responses and sheet from a downloaded PDF from a Student Annotation assignment through Canvas. We have opened the document using Adobe Reader and checked to ensure we are printing the document and ...

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Hi,The forum speedgrader update is extremely slow and clunky. It seems to work like a video slot machine with each student going back to the top and then scrolling down to the most recent post/reply. Then, to see other replies or posts, clicking the ...

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Hi I have created a blueprint course, and made a check mark in "make the course a blue print course" in the settings. Afterwards a have associated two courses to the blueprint course. In my settings I have added two courses. These courses are syncron...

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My professor wants all submissions to be Times New Roman, 12pt font, and double-spaced. I type my answers out on a word doc and copy and paste it into the "Text Entry" section of the answer box for assignments.The problem is that when I paste my answ...

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"Importing the same course content more than once will overwrite any existing content in the course."So for example, this semester (spring 2025), I'm copying modules over from the same class last semester (fall 2024). If I choose to copy them a secon...

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We have the free version of Canvas, we changed the submission date by 30 days after the class originally closed. Now all of the submissions are gone in canvas. What went wrong and is there a way to get that information bCK IN Canvas?

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So when ever i want to post a photo for an assignment it always shows up an error message saying ¨file extences quota¨ and i do not know  how to fix it and i haven't been able to fix it at all so i don't know how to fix it. Does anybody know how too?

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Hi, I'm in charge of the lab portion of an intro level class this semester. I'm also completely new to using canvas as an instructor, beyond just grading in the past. Here's my problem: each week for lab, the students have to complete 3 separate assi...

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hi all, my colleagues and I have created a canvas course for our students and the course keeps getting archived. we want it to remain active. is there a way to prevent archiving? thanks!

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We are a school that uses colleague and upload users from colleague to Canvas. We have this one student with a name that does not match anything we have in our system. We checked their name, nickname and chosen and none of those matches the student's...

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Hello, I actually just had an idea for the grades in Canvas. I was testing some "What-If" scores and wished there was a button or feature that allowed me to auto fill all the assignments with a perfect score so that I could then more easily go throug...

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My campus has a program where students get to choose an "enrichment" period where they choose in which teacher's classroom they want to be.  Not all students, however, are allowed to participate.  Some advanced classes use this time for extra practic...

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I would be grateful to hear from community members regarding how fast/slow they find using BB Ally in Canvas - and what they would consider to be acceptable processing times.For example, I have just copied a course (comprising approx 50 pages, 50 ima...

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This week I have noticed a change in the settings for viewing discussion submissions in SpeedGrader. Previously, you could see a student's posts in list form without any other stuff clogging up the page. Now, it shows the entire discussion board, inc...

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Is there a way to make the Canvas Gradebook show the grades for each attempt on the assignment? Right now, I have to click on the assignment and then go to Moderate. It would be really helpful to have this feature, especially when I am grading multip...

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I have over 150 links that were returned as broken links via the link validator.  I'd like to export the listing into a spreadsheet so that I can track what was fixed.Is there an option in exporting the list rather than me copying/paste in a spreadsh...

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with us being allowed to skip a problem, that allows us to be graded for the work we have already done. without it we waste a lot of time. doing the other work and not able to process any further. we also get uncompleted work. that's not really right...

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I would like student access reports for all of our graduates. Is there a way to get an individual student's views and participations for every course they enrolled in on one report?  Would you need to have an admin role or could an instructor pull th...

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Is it legal to embed on my canvas course videos found on youtube?    

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How do I set the assignment Submission Type to default to No Submission instead of Online?

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can I hide a student in a list of a course? I need the student can't appear in the list the students that they have califications, ths student only will see the content but he won't be abel to have grades

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Hello, We have Gradescope linked to assignments in our Canvas course. When students upload their submission in the required pdf format through Gradescope, some textboxes do not show the text answers. When the pdf is downloaded and the textbox is sele...

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Why do students not have access to the Class Resources in the Quick Access Links?

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