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Hello,I am a non-matriculating student taking a graduate level course (term2 fall).  According to the syllabus, there will be many discussions in this course. How will I know when a comment has been posted? Do I need to do something in settings to ma...

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Hi everyone,I'm a Canvas admin. I recently learned of the Scheduler appointment group feature. I have checked with my institution's CSM and verified that the feature is enabled in our instance. I would love to be able to tell our instructors that the...

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I am a co-teacher on a lot of classes that I am not actually apart of. How do I leave the class so that these classes do not show up on my dashboard anymore?

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I am an instructional designer creating a course that many instructors will be using. We have built a confidence level assessment for each student to take pre and post. Are students able to review and download their own survey results?My goal is for ...

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I just noticed that New Analytics can be enabled in the course nav. I don't know when this happened, but I missed it so I searched for some more information. I don't find a really comprehensive guide except how instructors will use it. I have some qu...

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How do I create a link for my class? Ada  

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Hi.  I am on my third year of using canvas and I love it but there are some things I still don't know how to do.  When I grade my students, I like to pull them up from people and then transfer a load of grades at one time to take to our grade book wh...

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Hi allSmall issue here.I am trying to print a previously used Quiz.No problem printing / saving to pdf the full quiz with answers.However when i attempt to print the blank quiz only the first question appears.all help welcome! 

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Hello,I would like to know if the assignments I have assigned can be accessed by a teacher teammate now so I can ensure the students are able to access and interact with any writing portions (the assignment is a google form/quiz) later.

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 I accidentally transferred a student out of a tracker, and when I go to add her back in it won't let me because it says her Student ID is already in use.  I can't figure out how to add her back.  Please advise.

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Inserting images uploaded from my computer in a message shows up as a link in the message and not the actual image . Clicking on the link downloads it back on to my computer. How can I resolve this?

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Our teachers have discovered what appears to be an error in the weighted average for outcome calculations. We were expecting the "most recent" outcome to be selected according to the assignment due date but it appears to be ordering each students' ou...

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Bom Dia. Estou precisando de um auxilio. Tive que excluir uma lista de alunos de um curso determinado. Iniciou a exclusão seria via planilha, mas como não deu certo, o que foi feito manualmente. Após o ajuste de registro de alunos, mais alunos foram ...

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Ho creato dei gruppi, dal gruppo ho generato la pagina e assegnato come front page, ma non la visualizzo come home page. Come mai?

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 a student who enrolled in the wrong course, took the quiz, then finished it. After realizing he was in the wrong course, he unenrolled from the wrong course and enrolled in the right course afterwards. Is there a way for the teacher to get that unen...

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After the Canvas update that added the external link icon, links that have the strong HTML tag do not display as bold. Here is the HTML code.<p><strong>Visit the <a href="https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Guides/ct-p/canvas_guides" target="_b...

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I built a new quiz but there is no option to save it.When I go back to modules & open up the quiz, there is nothingwhen I go back to quizzes & click on it there, all the questions are still there

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Hi there, With the recent page publication update, we have noticed that if you schedule the page for a date that has already passed, the page does not get published automatically. The page just stays at "Will publish on [date]". It works well if the ...

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Hi, I have some students who had their quiz auto-submitted (stating that their time limit is up) before the actual time limit was up. Had anybody face similar issues before? 

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Is there a way that I, as the instructor, can turn of student notifications for annotations on an assignment? I know I can disable seeing their annotation notifications--I want to disable the notifications they get when I annotate their assignments. ...

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I'm writing a Python script that runs a series of reports daily. So far, the script successfully runs the report, waits for it to finish, then stores the link to the file in a variable called fileURL. When I run the following request:response = reque...

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I'd like to see an option when creating an assignment, that we can mark/select the assignment is Extra Credit. With that designation, the assignment is worth extra credit points, but those points are not added to the total number of points of the cou...

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Assignment Groups that have no assignments in them do not appear. If I create a group named "Test Group" and do not immediately create an assignment in it, it will disappear. If I try to create it again, the newly created group AND any other previous...

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I'm asking for a faculty member. Can she add a person (she has permission) to her course after it has concluded? She wants another faculty member to be able to access her course as a learning tool. Thank you, Heather  

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Hi! I've tried to find an answer for this in other guides but I am completely at a loss. I'm having a situation with a teacher who is actively trying to make me fail my class. As this quarter was coming to a close, I noticed he was still not grading ...

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Hi!I want to use Ungraded Surveys to collect pre- and post-course information from users. The pre-course survey would be essentially a demographic survey, and the post-course survey is a feedback vehicle.I was wondering if there is a way to view the ...

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We have different colleges that use different different grading schemes. I'm wondering if: Since we have multiple grading schemes created at the admin level... can we AUTOMATICALLY load these schemes into specific courses in certain colleges (like al...

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As the title states, I wish to create calendar events without cluttering students To Do lists. Not all events I feel need to be added as a To Do item as they are simply a reminder and no action is associated with them. An example would be a holiday b...

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Hi Canvas community As a professor (instructor), is it possible to create new Canvas courses to facilitate informal teaching and discussion with my six PhD students?  I do not want the material to be part of any formal module, such as "ENVS444" (a mo...

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Hello,  Is there any Online training available about how to use Canvas Emails?   

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