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For some reason adding a lock to Canvas Module does not show up at the end of the module. Apparently, there is a problem with being able to lock the modules on Canvas for a later date. Any ideas why?

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How do you find SIS # for a student? 

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I have left one message to one of my students, but I could not find it from canvas system. I wonder where I can find the message history between me and students? Thanks. 

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Dear All,What I am going to discuss is driving me insane (my psychiatrist told me to tell Canvas "Thank you.") because the behavior of Canvas in this situation completely flies in the face of rational logical behavior.Here is the situation. I have as...

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How can I view a past assignment I submitted and that was graded for a class I had to withdrawl from due to health issues?  Im now retaking the course and can not access and assignment I already completed.

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I have access to one of my two kids report cards. I see how i can ask the missing child to create a pairing code but how do i add my other child with out them knowing I have access?

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I see some related content on here about discussion forum being inadequate, but I don't see anyone trying out the phpBB which is an open source forum platform/software. It seems like all we need to do is make a module, create a page and then host the...

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i am new to canvas and online learning. the course work for my class is in pdf form. our quizzes are open "book". How do i use canvas to search for my key words in order to answer the questions? thanks

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I am unable to login into canvas on my desktop but am able to on my laptop, phone, and iPad. I have downloaded my different browsers, cleared my cache and even restored my computer. None of these have allowed me to fix the problem. When running windo...

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Hello,How can I view the work my child has submitted? I can see the assignment and its instructions, then the grade for the assignment, but not the work or final assignment as turned in by my child. This is really limiting my ability to understand wh...

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I am a canvas admin and need to know if there is a way to have two separate attendance roll calls in one course.For context: I have faculty that have cross-listed two or three sections of a course into one. One of the sections meets twice a week (the...

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We have students from different regions. Currently, the default Time zone of our accounts is UTC, It is causing a lot of confusion among participants.  1. I Would like to check the possibility of setting the time zone for participants while user crea...

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When creating a Google LTI assignment --When you limit the number of assignment attempts, are submission attempts actually limited when using a third party application like Google LTI or is it just for Canvas assignments? 

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My +people button is inactive and I have no idea why.  Any suggestions?  I need to share the content with another teacher but it won't let me add them to it

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Have there been any attempts to modify the "Headings" in the Gradebook so that those of us with many assignments may keep the assignment name visible while making the overall width of the Column narrow?    Also, if I manually shrink the column width,...

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Site Admin here. Trying to generate a full course log of all activity by any/all users. When I access admin tools > logging and enter the course id the records listed are incredibly incomplete. In fact they only list activity for two of the six users...

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Is there a limit on how many external tools can be added?  It seems I can continue to add them, but not all of them are showing in the drop-down list when I go to add it to module...

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Is it possible to remove the release notes from the Global Menu under help? I do not see the option under edit the help menu.Thank you!Robin Bartoletti

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Hello Canvas community -Has anyone used Monday (project management software) to manage course design and build processes? I'd like to know how it works for that type of work and any tips/tricks you can share. Thanks in advance! 

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When I log into Canvas on my home (but not office) computer, I am always placed in a course from a previous semester. It has been suggested that I may have a bookmark somewhere that is causing that. Is that plausible? Is there anyway to find and dele...

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I am doing post requests with the Canvas API  to generate quiz summary reports. When I went to check the progress URLs to see if all the quizzes loaded, I couldn't access any of them. I received a 401-error saying the resource didn't exist. Do these ...

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Hi community - I am new to Canvas. I have a list of projects. The students have split into groups of 5 and I would like to allow each group to pick a project from the list. I would like the project list to change once a group has selected their proje...

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HiI wondered how fellow educators/admins/designers would feel about incorporating a tool such as ChatGPT directly into Canvas, to reduce admin time and speed up process of things?A good example could be quizzes - a GPT bot could potentially respond t...

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Hello, When the instructor (me) and students click the Learning Modules icon at the bottom of a course homepage, it then says:Whoops... Looks like nothing is here.So an error page.  However, when students and instructor click the 'Modules' botton on ...

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Hello professor,I purchased the book on the Palomar bookstore website. I got this code: HSCOAE-SNAPK-BERNE-STUBS-MIMIR-LUTES. This code worked for me couple days ago and I saw the content of this course, but now when I pull up MyLab and Mastering sec...

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Please put a feature to print materials / files / images from instructors (in the modules) without having to download the files firstThanks 

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Hi-The second semester is starting. How do I transfer my first semester course to my second semester course? I imported existing content, then I copied a canvas course over. The transfer has been completed but I'm not seeing in my second semester cou...

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I am struggling to submit my assignments in canvas. I completed three on Jan. 24 which are marked as missing. I made a recording today for another submission but am unable to figure out how to upload it to submit it. Thank you. 

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There is no way to reorganize Outcome Orders in the Learning Mastery Gradebook. I have several faculty who are using the Learning Mastery Gradebook, but the outcomes are not organized in any way. You can't do it alphabetically or manually reorganize ...

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