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How do I block a classmate from reaching me through canvas?

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I'm aware of the need to view information about student quiz submissions via reports, analytics, using the Canvas API, and so forth... I'm looking for practical ways instructors can archive the actual student quiz submission view they see in Canvas S...

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    Hi,    When I open my calendar from my calendar none of my course assignments are in it along with the due dates? Do I have to manually add each assignment by course, due date and details?   Is there a video that can teach me this? 

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Good day I want to upload my csv, but I cannot find my SIS Import

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Hi, Thank you for clicking on my question.I'm teaching teaching students by attaching various files to the canvas.Could you tell me how long the file that I and my students uploaded to canvas is stored?

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Greetings: I have a student trying to register for a class.  He can get into the class and access most menu items, but when he tries to enter MyLab / Mastering, he gets the following at the top of the screen:Complete registration by clicking the “fin...

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In a previous curriculum management system or discussion application, I could pose a question anonymously to the students, and trigger some discussion.  In Canvas I cannot, and the only 2 discussion posts are mine.  When students think I am a student...

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One instructor uses New Quizzes to build many of his assignments. The percent score given in the New Quiz is not the same as the percent score in the SpeedGrader.  This seems to be happening for almost all of his assignments.  It makes grading in Can...

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I have Special Ed and On-Level students in the same class and wanted to make sure the Special Ed students had extended time on the assignments.  I read on one of the forums that if I go into the class Settings>Sections and create 2 groups, A and B  (...

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I have a final exam in 20 minutes and I cannot access the course in Dashboard. It's telling me the course is not published. Who is responsible for publishing the course?? Can I access it another way? Ugh....

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I created group sets to allow differentiated assignments with differing deadlines for each group after noticing that there is a calendar for each group. I was very disappointed to see that the group calendars are not functional!Does anyone know how t...

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Hello,I have created the course 'Goal Setting' and would like to share with my students. They do not currently have a canvas account. How can I share the content with them?Is there a way to share the content without registering?Thank you!

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I have been using canvas for my classes for over a year and just starting now it is giving me trouble. When i am on my canvas dashboard, what usually would have my classes listed and where i can go to my assignments, everything is just blinking and f...

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Im putting the finishing touches on a canvas course for next quarter.  I would like to show a film.  If I buy the film to be streamed, how do I make that available to students in my canvas course?

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I am attempting to have my sub-account admins add some users to a course via email address instead of SIS ID. Their attempt errors out because Canvas can't find a match for that user. When I (as a site admin) do this, I get a little check box beside ...

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I am a longtime Lockdown Browser user and Canvas user, never any problems (interpret this as "I think I know what I'm doing).  Right now, when I try to put any quiz made using Canvas's "New Quiz" format into Lockdown Browser, I just get the "please w...

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We have used the redirect tool in the past to add a library link to the navigation menu in every course. We did it at the root level since every course needed the same link.Now we need to add a link to a specific list of courses on our instance and I...

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A student emailed  me a paper instead of submitting to Canvas as required. Therefore, it has not been scanned by Turnitin. Is there a way to access Turnitin directly? 

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How can I permanently log out of canvas? My friend's account is stuck on my laptop

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I changed the embedded 750px to 100% for width and it displays on my editing page as image 286 attached below.   However, students see it displayed as image 285, attached below.I had used the "plug" icon in your editing to upload the Class Schedule f...

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Hello all,I am messing around with free Canvas to help streamline some things at work. However, I created a section, with myself as the only one enrolled, where I am the teacher that I no longer need. I cannot just delete the section since I am curre...

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Two questions:1. Why is it necessary to change a course start/end date in Settings twice? I have to click Settings, change these dates, then click on Section at the top of Settings and then click "Edit Section" to do the same date modification.2. Whe...

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Hi all,We have been using Proctorio for some time and a few folks have come to think that if the Proctorio session expires, then the students also get locked out in Canvas quiz.  For us it is not necessary to have the Proctorio session cover the last...

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We are considering standardizing some of the job titles for members of our Learning Systems team. Right now, we have a Project Managers, Application Programmer Analysts, and Academic Consultants. Yet, all three positions are really the systems admi...

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When you ask Canvas to drop the lowest score from an assignment/quiz in an assignment group, if there are two or more lowest scores (i.e. there are 6 quizzes, and on 2 quizzes, the student scored 0 points), which is dropped? The one that was complete...

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Hi everyone,My team is currently experiencing problems with the rubrics. We noticed that some people are suddenly losing rubrics from their courses. We've been trying to find the issue, but so far we've had no luck.We thought that maybe a colleague h...

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Hello all,I'm trying to update a page body, using "https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/pages.html#method.wiki_pages_api.update_front_page".It works, but if the body contains an ampersand (&) it will ignore the block with that sign and any blocks a...

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Hi all,Is there a way to change the format of the module section to something less boring? It looks like an endless to-do list. Is there a toggle function we can at least be more creative ?

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Good morning,Have we found a way to use Grammarly while marking modelling? I am looking at the different comments but I have not seen a response. 

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Dear AWS team, Every student from AUSYD 11 - AUSYD 12 batch are able to see the activities score percentage except *Student's name* even completing all required tasks. So request you to please resolve this issues.

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