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Is there a way to include symbols and formulas for multiple dropdown type questions in quizzes? I know there is an edit option for multiple choice type, but I am doing hypothesis testing steps question and need to include symbols and formulas into mu...

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I would like to be able to see more assignments and more students on one page. Unfortunately, the names of students are so big that I can only see 20 students at once. It's a rare class that has only 20 students. Similarly, I can only see 6 assignmen...

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Hi Canvas Staff,I am a graduate assistant at the University of Oklahoma working with the finance department to generate quizzes for various courses. In this capacity, I am acting as a TA in the canvas courses. I would like to incorporate what are con...

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Hello,Has Canvas changed how dropped score show in student Grades. The dropped scores are gray text that is difficult to distinguish from non-dropped scores. Before didn't Canvas use an icon to indicate dropped scores.

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Hi everybody,Could you tell me please, how to integrate authorize.net payment into Canvas LMS?Thank you  

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Peace! Come one, come all. I am fielding all the best practices/suggestions/insights you all have experienced or seen regarding how to get college students from just saying the same ol' bland things on discussion boards.Rubric suggestions, instructio...

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Al ingresar a la app canvas student de siglo 21, luego de logearme en el celular o la tablet, todo parece funcionar perfectamente, pero solo dentro del contenido del Módulo 1 de cada materia, al querer ir a los otros módulos siempre queda en el modul...

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I want to be able to change the quiz question point value without having to click into each individual question and change then hit update question. Is it possible to make the quiz question point value editable on the Questions page by just clicking ...

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Hi, community! I've scoured the posts for an answer, however, it seems like most people are asking how to remove the external link icon. I want to add it.Our practice is to have any link that takes you outside Canvas open in a new tab. And for WCAG c...

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Hey thereI'd like to run an API call to list courses where the course ID (raw: id) is greater than a certain value. The closest I've got is:/v1/accounts/81/courses?search_by=course&search_term=1521, or/v1/courses/sis_course_id:CLRS90013_2019_AUGHowev...

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Hello all. Our dev instance of canvas has become well poluted over time and we need to clean it up. I'd like to be able to go into people and export a list of students and instructors so they can be reviewed for removal. Does anybody know how I might...

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Hi There,Is there a way that a readable Word or Pdf copy of a course schedule ( which is posted in Canvas), can be created for students, so that they are able to have a "paper copy"?Thanks so much,Lynn Murphy, Bellin College; Green Bay, WI

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We have one section in our course, but one of the students is taking the course as a graduate-level course while the others are taking the course as a senior-level course for undergraduate work. The graduate student is not showing up in the grade boo...

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I know that I can download my students' grades as a csv, but can they download their own? Every semester about this time, I get flooded with emails from students wanting me to calculate their grades for them and tell them if they "can still get an A....

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When I try to open uploaded documents, PowerPoints or other files in Canvas, it won't open. The page is just blank, so I have to download every document to my computer to be able to see it. 

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Hello! I am an instructional/tech coach and am trying to help a teacher that is having trouble with her Canvas pages. She has a page within a course that has links to PDF documents. She has copied that page into another course and now some of her lin...

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Since last week our PDF assignments with 'Input Fields' for our students changed. The fonts fields are fixed to Arial Italic Blue, so as a teacher you can easily see what are answers, and what is theory.Also the input fields are suddenly in front of ...

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In Teams assignments, the teacher can go in on behalf of the student and submit work. Is it possible to do this in CANVAS? It is too often that students forget to hit submit or email the work to the teacher, and my school would like the ability to go...

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I still don't understand this about exporting the Canvas Gradebook: assignments that are graded but hidden from students are not included in the Final Points (read only) column. That is despite what I read here which implies, at least to me, that the...

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When I submit assignments using my iPhone it indicates that it is submitting but it is never received/ delivered? Some get submitted but other show that it is in the process of submitting but never receive a confirmation

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In my course I've implemented a late day policy that Canvas does not support (adding 5 freebie late days that students can use up to 2 of per assignment before a 25% late day policy kicks in). I'm calculating this late day policy outside of Canvas. I...

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Does anyone know how to create an announcement for only new users in Canvas? We want to create an informational announcement for any user that logs into Canvas for the first time.  

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Dear Sir/ Ma'am, I am a student of NSU (North South University) and I'm recently having problems accessing the slides of all of my courses. It works fine on my phone but it's inaccessible from my mac. If you would kindly look into it. Thank you. 

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If you're a Canvas Admin at a Higher Ed institution, and you have numerous integrations using LTI's and API's (to both internal and external systems), I'm curious to hear what department you fall under; Academics or IT?I'm not talking about those who...

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It is stated that "once students submit to a group assignment, group settings cannot be changed."  Does this also affect adding or deleting students from the group?  What if a new student enrolls in the course, needs to be added to the group, and nee...

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Good day is all the quizzes compulsory

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Hi, I would like to make some specific files available by section.  I cannot see how to do this - they are not assignments, they are more like readings.   One idea I had was to put in a discussion or announcement for that section only but it feels a ...

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Where do I go to change the email address for the canvas notifications? 

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I have two questions:1. as a free account in instructure canvas site, can I have capabically to create icon in the Rich Editor content tool? if not, does I need to purchase it?2.As an instructional design at my university, I am not admin, how can I h...

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I'm a helper for a class and my teacher just got canvas and a new mail to login with. The mail works perfect in other tabs but when she logs into canvas teacher it automaticaly logs out, not being able to even log in once so she can put me as a helpe...

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