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1. When teachers move an assignment to other courses, they only choose one course at a time. Is it possible to change this to allow multiple courses?  2. When the assignment is moved it is placed under the import for each class it is transferred to. ...

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My college just switched from Blackboard to Canvas. The attendance tool in Blackboard was one of the only things that I have found far superior to Canvas. Canvas does not have the option to mark absences as excused. I can add a badge to absences that...

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Teh Collaborations tab in my course is disabled. How can I enable it?

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How can you save the progress on an annotated document. Students are losing their work if it is a 2 day assignment.  In the past, I have used Kami which automatically saves.  My district has blocked student access to Kami.   The annotator with Canvas...

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Hi everyone, Normally, our students receive the standard login page to create an account when accepting a course invitation for the first time, where they can choose a password and set their time zone. However, some students receive an error message ...

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Hello!We've been working on a public Canvas page to advertise information for a school organization. Aside from those with teacher/TA permissions, the only way to see the course is with a direct link. I was wondering if there would be a way to allow ...

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How do I find assignments for students that transfer to another class?

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i want all the assignment submissions to be included in a different subject (because it was an integrated subject set and the assignments are worth marks in both PE and Science).THis is so that I dont have to re-enter th e 180 marks from the PE assig...

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I am trying to create a CSV, Word, or txt file to batch import numerical quiz questions. I found CSV and Word templates for multiple choice, that will then go through a QTI. But I have not found a similar template for numerical answers.

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Hello!I've tried every which way to print or then download and print my class syllabus on both Chrome and Microsoft Edge. It keeps pulling up only the one page that I'm on rather than the entire document. I've tried right-clicking to print as well as...

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Not able to use Microsoft OneDrive integration tools very recently. Staff now get this message:   We've checked the cookie settings and nothing wrong with them. Problems seem to have arisen with the recent update of the Edge browser. Strangely, the ...

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Is it possible to remove multiple students from a course at once? I do not need to retain their history and would like to remove all students so I can reuse my existing course for a new term. 

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I am a TA at the University of Maryland. I had something to share with the students in the Chat. I noticed that I had typos only after posting my message. I tried to edit or delete it and none of those options were available. I had to contact my prof...

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Hi, I am currently taking a Psychology class and we are doing statistics which we use JASP and Excel for. When I download either the Excel files given to us by the instructor or the JASP files to submit, I open them to see if they saved properly and ...

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I began using Canvas last year and am importing the course that I created to use again this year. When I created assignments last year I did so through the assignments tab and the +Assignments feature. Now we are being tasked with using the Canvas ca...

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What do you do about users with Canvas admin rights who want to take a course? Obviously, with admin rights they can't take the course as a regular student would, and they can see things they shouldn't see as a student. I understand that the typical ...

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Hello! I simply wanted to comment that the "Announcements" section is a little flaky sometimes and takes two to three times to get it to stop showing the "unread" blue marker. As a possible improvement to Canvas at some point, I would suggest impleme...

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If an announcement is already published but then the instructor deletes it, do the students still see it on their end? Thanks.

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I assigned a quiz to multiple classes. I reassigned it to some students  for a later date. I have their scores but lost the scores for the classes. How can I recover them?   Thank you.

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Does anyone know if basic individual quiz reports exist for students. If I hide the correct answers from students during a quiz (other students later in the day will have to take this quiz), and I want them later to be able to access a report that sh...

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Is anyone familiar with how Google Assignment LTI designates the Co-Instructor in a course? I'm reaching out here first since Google can be a black hole. I have a teacher who has created a Google Assignment. When we look at the assignment document> M...

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Hello, I am taking a quiz for a class with no time limit (before screenshot). When I started the quiz, there was a countdown timer in the right-hand section. Does this countdown have another meaning? Why would the elapsed time be counting down (after...

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One of my students discovered that the "Reply To" option is not available for Discussions in my course. Students are not able to reply to each others' posts. How do I enable this functionality?

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My school uses Canvas and Panopto. The latter of which allows us to record our classes. Once posted, the class video may be accessed by students who click the Panopto link. That part works fine, both on the app and on the desktop.However, what I like...

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Our institution is using Pearson Access (MyLab LTI 1.1)  we can set a coordinator course with the Pearson platform to push material to other courses on that platform which then sync to Canvas courses. We also want to use a Canvas blueprint to push ot...

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Hi!I have created a course under Teaching and Learning sub account, but I am unable to enrol users as student.Any feedback is appreciated.Thank you.

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I accidentally signed up for my on ramps college course using my moms name. all the other information such as email etc is correct. how do I switch the profile name to my name, not seeing a place to adjust this. 

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During the recent Canvas upgrade this summer, there appears to be some type of glitch that randomly adjusted my discussion settings.  Specifically, on about 2/3 of my discussions in each class- it has them listed as "Disallow threaded replies."  In t...

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Hi! For my course we often ask questions that can be a little complicated for the simple helper functions available. Recently we had students convert numbers into binary and the function we wrote for that was hundreds of charcters long for a simple 8...

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