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I am a staff member at a college and an instructor in my department wants to show letter grades as well as percentages in the Total column of the gradebook. Is there a way this can be done?

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Student Group option not listed under Filters but SpeedGrader will not open until Student Group is selected

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When I set an assignment in a mastery path I put in a due date. When students are assigned that assignment it creates an new assigned to without that due date. So I have to remember to go back in after the first student is assigned and reset the due ...

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Just to ask is it possible for students to upload on a weekly basis their vocational maths and English as well as direct study homework on Canvas assignments?Only as the students explained when they clicked resubmit so can add their week one and two ...

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I have added an LTI app to the Canvas system and am using it in the course menu.However, when I disable the LTI app menu in the course settings under "Navigation," the menu completely disappears, making it inaccessible even to instructors and adminis...

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I am an administrator. We need some faculty doing work for the program to be able to see student work from courses but not see their grades. Is there any way to give someone access to all submissions but not grades or feedback? I am not sure if this ...

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Hello! I am taking a course through Canvas and have been trying to log in to my Canvas student account. I have tried all of the solutions on the guide for logging in. I have also tried to request a change for my password three times and have gotten n...

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Hello!  I am a Canvas administrator at our college, and we currently format our course names similar to the following example: FALL 2024 COLOR AND LIGHT STUDIES (DFN-139-A) Since the semester name/year appears other places in Canvas, we want to remov...

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I need to make an admin account that see all content for all courses, but I don't want them to have access to certain apps like Ally Configuration page and TurnitIn Configuration. How can I disable those apps for all admins except the true Adminstrat...

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Courses offered are PD courses and typically run for 7 days at a time. Usually, courses start at NOON on a Thursday and end at NOON on the following Thursday. We then have the main settings for the start date to match, but the end date is for the Mon...

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Hello, There is currently a student within our district who cannot access a specific course as it is shown as unpublished. After verifying with the instructor and other students in the class, we confirmed that only the student in question sees the co...

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I am a student using Canvas with my professors and rely on it to check on my activities.For some reason, recently in my calendar in my computer, the pop-up feature for checking activities broke. Instead of popping up on the side in a bubble, it drops...

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I would love to open the quiz bank and search for any question that references a specific concept--the Greek idea of phthonos, for example, or any reference to "deconstruction" in any quiz question.  If this is possible, I have not found out how to d...

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I had a teacher complete annotation on a group of papers and now the annotations are gone.  Students have not resubmitted.  Both teachers added comments that are still available within the assignment, but all annotations are GONE! - am I missing some...

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I need help understanding how the Canvas grade book decides which grade to include for a classic quiz with multiple attempts and a late penalty associated with it. I have a classic quiz with 2 attempts, which is supposed to take the highest score. I ...

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I am trying to add a PlayPosit assignment to my Canvas class. It allows me to set the bulb, fill out all the things, but when I click SAVE, I just get the white foggy screen of doom. If I reload, I lose all of it. Any ideas??

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Is there a way to reassign an assignment to just one student? I have a student whose computer died, and his assignment got submitted without any answers.

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Can we mass delete Canvas "messages" rather than one by one?I have tried the CTRL+A but that does not work for me.  I can only get it to somewhat work if I click a few messages and then hold shift to get the ones not marked for deletion.  Very time c...

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Students and Parents find the symbol for overdue work confusing. (In the Modules View) Shouldn't it go away once a grade is awarded regardless if it is overdue? Am I missing something? 

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I give students a grade of zero if they fail to complete a canvas assignment. But, I don't receive any notice when they finally submit their work. I need to know when they have submitted work so I can grade it. Previously the new assignment would sho...

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The first assignment is an individual one and the second is in a group of 4. I set up groups for the second assignment before the first assignment's due date, and the group setting applied to the first assignment submission! As the result only the fi...

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How do I send a video assessment of video comments to a student regarding their work?

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Students must be in our Testing Center to take their exam because the IP addresses are filtered for that location. After the exam closed, I adjusted the exam setting so students would be shown their answers and see which questions they got incorrect....

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I am a parent of two students and a teacher at several educational institutions, all of which use Canvas. Canvas is excellent for managing my administrative tasks across these different roles. However, I sometimes struggle to determine which institut...

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Is there a way to set up groups of students in each class, who will receive the same assignment? For example, I have students with IEPs, who have modified assignments. I would like to be able to select a particular group of students in one specific c...

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My students were working on a graphic organizer, and I am attempting to print their work so they can use it for assessment. I am trying to print their graphic organizer to show their annotated notes.

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Does anyone know how to either hide old courses or change list of courses in the View Grades tab to just show current first?  I have been using Canvas for 6 years and have not had this issue until this current school year.  I was observing two studen...

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I had recently heard that Canvas has some AI integrations and features. I was wondering what these were. Thank You

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I changed my last name with my university,  but they said they cannot make changes to my Canvas account. They told me to contact Canvas.  Who can I contact/ or how do I make changes in order to take care of this issue?

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Is there some reason why there has to be a scrolling viewing screen within the screen? It makes reading the lessons so annoying to only have a quarter of the screen to navigate with a scrolling within the webpage (and, no, I'm not looking for "just c...

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