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Has anyone experienced this scenario and come up with a workaround? A student who was given extra time on a quiz is booted out of the quiz due to a network/ wifi issue. Before they can log back in (there may be a lag between the boot and the resoluti...

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The To-Do list has been both a blessing and a curse. Some students benefit from it while others do not.  What I noticed for the first time this year is that when a student clicks on the activity in the To-Do list, it brings them to a submission page....

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I am unable to respond to emails that are coming through canvas to my Gmail account- I get an "undelivered message" response.  Can anyone help me change the settings so that I can respond to the email directly through the Gmail account, rather than t...

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I have not been getting notifications when new assignments are created in my Canvas classes. I have the notifications for Course Content set on "Notify Immediately" at both the course and account levels. There is not a problem with my email address a...

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i have posted the student grades in the gradebook. now how do i return the graded quiz to the students?

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Is it possible to have a code that would allow me to indicate to powerschool (during the sync) that the student did not hand in an assignment.  Powerschool requires me to put an code that a student hasn't turned in an assignment, it assumes I didn't ...

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Hi, I'm trying to utilize Canvas Data Services and stream Live Events to my AWS SQS queue. I followed these guides:https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Admin-Guide/How-do-I-create-an-SQS-queue-in-Amazon-Web-Services-to-receive/ta-p/170https://community...

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Hello.  When students download annotated Assignments from SpeedGrader, the only file option they currently have is as a PDF.  They can then do the open-a-PDF-as-a-Word-doc workaround to be able to directly work on their annotated Assignments.  The wo...

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I have a group different course sections within my course. If a course section isn't assigned to an assignment that is in the prerequisite or requirement, can they still move on? I am trying to create a specific course section which those who are in ...

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I'm an instructor.I would like a sign() helper function.  It returns +1 if number is positive, -1 if number is negative and 0 if number is 0.The formula x/abs(x) works pretty good, except if x = 0.

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Feedback Fruits tools are available in the free version of Canvas but integrate with LTI 1.1 rather than 1.3. This limits certain functionalities such as group membership retrieval and grading by groups.Can the Feedback Fruits tools in the free versi...

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I am overwhelmed at how complicated Canvas is. Every step seems to take three pages of instruction to learn how to use.

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Last week I uploaded my assignment because the upload option displayed as I read the rubric.  This week's assignment is due tomorrow, the 19th, and an upload option doesn't appear anywhere, including when viewing the rubric.  I emailed my work to the...

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My question is about weighted marks within an assignment group.It seems that Canvas will only allow the total group assignment to be weighted if the 2 assignments are given marks which add up to 100 ( e.g. Assignment A = 70 and Assignment B= 30 marks...

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I'd like to set-up a Canvas training for my school. Can you help me find out who my Customer Success Manager is?  I am an Admin for my high school. Thank you

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we are trying to build some on-line orientation modules in Canvas for our new students.  Our goal is to have it be a bit interactive (videos, quizzes, etc.) and not just static readings. has anyone had success with this and can share a tutorial or th...

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I tried to add a cell number in other contacts but can not do it.

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I have two assignments for my students this week and both are published but locked.  How might I get them unlocked?

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We are wanting to have a course oritentation for students on canvas - and are wondering if there is a limit to how many students we can have for a single course. I couldn't find a limit anywhere, but we would have thousands of students in a single co...

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I'm working on a project. And I'm trying send a image of the sketch I did to another student in case I forget to grab the paper before I leave for school tomorrow.

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The new grade passback with PowerSchool is giving us major issues with errors, and we can't seem to resolve any of them at the site level. We have turned in multiple cases and contacted our Priority Services team, but we are stagnant in finding resol...

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Hello Canvas community,I am building an LTI app to embed iFrames.I believe I configured my app correctly <cartridge_basiclti_link xmlns="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imslticc_v1p0" xmlns:blti="http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsbasiclti_v1p0" xmln...

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How do I access this course from my home computer?

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Hello,I do love the comment library, it has saved me a lot of time.However, my library is full, and won't let me add more comments. Is their a space limit? Is it possible to extend it?

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Is there a canvas API call specifically for enrolling/inviting a student to a course? I want to create a orientation course for all new students on canvas for our campus but want to automate it somehow for inviting students to courses - i've explored...

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We recently moved from rostering with Clever to ClassLink. One big problem is when students have unenrolled and are no longer in the roster data they get removed from their Canvas courses and no longer have grades available. Is there a setting for th...

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Hello, I am making a table on the home page in a Canvas shell.  I have inserted some pictures so to get them to line up properly, I inserted a table.  I don't want a border and was able to successfully delete the outside border, but there are still v...

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Is it possible to set a grading scheme for individual students or groups of students within a class who might need different grading standards than other students?If not, could this feature be added?

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We have been running into an issue where moving a user to a different section within the same course makes it so they cannot progress to the next modules in the Mastery Path. When I go in to the assignments the user should be able to access, their na...

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