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I have students complete short open-book quizzes each week.  They either earn full points (2 points) or no points as part of a homework grade.  To earn full points, they must get a certain number correct (e.g., 75%) and complete the quiz by the deadl...

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I am trying to complete the integration process for Accredible, but it requires Administrator privileges.  I am only assigned a teacher role, and my account was created by invitation.  Also, I am using the free version of Canvas.  Are there limitatio...

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I am an instructor who has assigned multiple written assignments to be uploaded to Canvas.  Several weeks ago, emojis appeared below the spaces where Assignment Comments may be entered.  I really dislike seeing the **bleep** smiley face in my comment...

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How long should it take between submitting an assignment to Turn It In and receiving the feedback.  I submitted something nearly 24 hours ago and it still isn't back yet.On the video guide the feedback was available straight away but it did make of p...

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I have witnessed my students completing assignments using the Student Annotations feature. However, when I open the assignment in SpeedGrader, the annotations have disappeared. Is there something specific we need to do for the highlighting and pencil...

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Could Canvas please add and display in the text box for Discussions a word count feature?  Many faculty require a word count for discussion questions. 

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I'd like to know how to access student submitted files such as videos.  The only way I know to get to them right now is downloading each file one at a time for each student in Speedgrader which is far from speedy; particularly since I can't play the ...

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I recently had a lot of students submit their video edits (compressed to H.264 for streaming) to a Canvas assignment; limiting the uploaded format to mov,.mp4, and .m4v.How do I play these directly in Canvas as a streaming file rather than it being d...

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We recently moved to OneRoster API because of our integration of ClassLink. This is the only change that has occurred from the 2 years prior with our data passback from PowerSchool to Canvas.Overall, the API has allowed for a more simple GPB. However...

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The files (five simple pdf files) are viewable from the professor view, but not by student or through my student view. I first uploaded the files to a folder. Then I added the files to a module. The module is published, the files are published (both ...

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Hello all, I'm currently dealing with a Canvas design issue that involves the tab feature. I want to add a video to the tab, then I want to add video reflection text to the right of the video. I'm having trouble in the HTML code. The page won't allow...

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Hi friends!Canvas Admin here!My Institution recently adopted a new Student Information System (Anthology Student) which unfortunately doesn't play perfectly with Roll Call Attendance within Canvas.  Hoping to get some community insights into other po...

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I have used Canvas for at least 10 years.  Can someone please turn off the teacher tour? It is annoying.

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I apologize if this is posted somewhere; however, I could not find the answer to this question. Is there a way to only be notified if students complete the course - or if they complete a specific module within the course? As a TA, I would like to be ...

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We are new to syncing between Canvas and PowerSchool. We have reached the end of our first term, as we have courses that end at the end of the 1st marking period.  Like many schools, while our marking period ends one day (in this case, 11/3/22), our ...

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We're currently looking at using LTI and integrating with the platform but running into some issues. As far as we can tell, the configuration is correct, but we're getting an internal server error on the Canvas side after the redirect. We've looked a...

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I am told that Canvas is very intuitive and if you easily navigated Bb that this new system will be easy to grasp.My initial impression is that I will spend much time in the "Course Home Page" icon. This is where we post our weekly announcements, mak...

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The "pair with observer" button doesn't exist in my account in the place the support video it said it would.  Where is it?

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Hey there. I am looking for some advice/help. My goal is to take the drawing I make and get those printed on a canvas. Sell the canvas for others to paint in. Like the canvas painting kits you see at stores. I am not sure where to start. I have a lap...

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We have a few outcomes set up with the Proficiency Calculation setup as Decaying Average (50%). Ideally, as I understand it, this would make the last score worth 50% of the rating and the remaining scores averaged to create the other 50%. Now in prac...

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When is it useful to use canvas instead of a div's structure? For example, I was looking at Ancestry trees and at first I tought they might have use canvas, but, in reality, it's just a bunch of divs with dynamic transforms and position. Except for g...

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When designing a course, as an instructor, we are hoping to lock an assignment until an earlier one is completed.  For example, The students need to fill out a confidentiality form before they are able to submit the other assignments. I've found that...

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I wanted to title this "Global Announcements," but apparently that is already the name of a feature for Admins. I'm wondering if there is a way for high school teachers to send an Announcement to all class periods instead of having to post an Announc...

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How to retrieve deleted email 

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When I download quizzes from Canvas in QTI format they are missing figures.  Is there a particular way they need to be included in Canvas to be exportable?

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hi, how am i supposed to sign up for a course in the Canvas app? 

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HiI have an instructor that has created an assignment group called Knowledge check, that has a 60% weight assigned to it. But when assignments are submitted the percentage for the individual students is showing as more than 100%. Any suggestions?   

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Some assignment submissions are getting a black exclamation mark error in Unicheck instead of a plagiarism score. When we click on the exclamation mark, it says "Cloud storage file download failed"They suggested that we try disabling Unicheck for the...

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Hello, I have my daily grade broken down to 20 points a day and I can comment and type in about each day, but it does sync to Power school weekly.  Recently I am noticing the daily grades be really low and even if I pretend to give a student full gra...

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why will my canvas not load fully It will only show the calendar it will not show anything else?

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