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I am an instructor. Is there a setting so that students and instructor can be notified when someone asks a question on a discussion board? The goal is this: To set up one place for questions that the instructor can respond to universally instead of i...

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So I have an assignment category called "Ungraded Assignments." These are assignments that are not meant for a grade. I am not grading them and never will. I have to create them as an assignment, not a page, because I want students to annotate on a P...

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Please help.  I am getting an error 403.  Edge and Fire Fox work fine.  What is wrong with Chrome?

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Hello,I know how to email the student an invite but I do not know how to add the student to the course before I send the invite. How do I add new students to a course for the first time? Thank you.

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Does enabling the chat feature on canvas allow students to initiate their own private chat conversations amongst themselves that cannot be seen by the teacher? I am an instructor and don't have a way of checking myself to get an answer to this questi...

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Hello, I am a High School Academic Resource teacher. I created a parent account last year so that I could follow the students in my class and keep tabs on their Canvas. I stopped observing all students at the end of last year but kept my parent accou...

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Hello,Canvas will not let me in says I have the wrong password. I have tried multiple times and it will not send me a email to change the password keeps logging me out. I need help to resolve this.thank you 

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hi, we are still relatively new to Canvas, we are wondering what the best way is to delete students who have left the college? (we have a few thousand students to delete) - Im guessing bulk SIS import deletion, would anyone have a template for that o...

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My gradebook has been completely broken since the first day of school and I need some urgent help. What do I mean by completely broken? I mean when I click on grade book for any of my courses I get a spinning wheel but nothing ever loads. No matter h...

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I am confused on how to use this program.   example... I clicked on the icon to ask a question, it took me back to May 20, 2022 to a previous class.In going from week to week in D3351 Church History, I am not convinced I am on the right track.   Hone...

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Every time I open Canvas it wont work  It just shows a blank screen >:C tired of this man 

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I know there is a feature to restrict course participation to within the section's start and end dates. It would be nice if there were also a feature to delay the actual course invite until the section dates (or maybe even a customizable date range, ...

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Where can I find my student ID badge? I need to print it. Thank you. 

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Lately, I've been having problems grading in Speedgrader (which has been less than speedy). Files won't loadFiles take more than 10 seconds to loadI get a "Bad Gateway" errorI get a "service not available" errorI get a large black dot.These are relat...

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As a user, when I try to deploy deep links using either Module Index Menu Model or Assignment Index Menu placements, I'm getting redirected back to the canvas login screen.We are performing form post to the deep_link_return_url, we are attaching JWT ...

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I am having readability issues on my large monitors with how canvas limits the total screen real-estate. On my 1080p monitor, my pdf content doesn't utilize about 20% of my screen. And this effect is greatly exaggerated on my schools 4k monitors. I s...

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Why are students not visible in the Roll Call Attendance? When I click on Attendance, there is no way to take attendance. The students' names are not viewable, and the text only reads, "0 Days Total."

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Hello.  I have a parent account in Canvas in order to observe my two children.  For some reason I am getting emails regarding my older child's grade on the same few assignments multiple times a day, to the tune of hundreds of emails each day.  My chi...

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I am curious if Canvas is working on any built-in features for preserving quiz/exam security for NEW Quizzes.  Is there any way to be able to disable the print feature? or also to make sure that students are not navigating away from the quiz screen? ...

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I've got a vocabulary quiz (a New Quiz) for the Hebrew Alphabet. Since typing in Hebrew is hard, I'm using an "Item/Word Bank" with each of the Hebrew letters in order to Fill-in-the-Blank. So far so good.BUT, the alphabet in the Item Bank keeps gett...

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Hello, I am missing a couple of tabs on canvas when I open one of my course. Tabs such as the grades, assignments, discussions, and syllabus. I only have the home, outcomes, library and brainfuse available. Please get back to me regarding this unusua...

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I continue to receive submit failed, try again whenever I try to upload a file into my start assignment canvas.What am I doing incorrectly? 

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I clicked on "Begin Course" and there is no information or guide to the course, how do I begin the course if there is no subject matter? Do I contact IT? Can someone guide me to a contact information center for help. 

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Inside a course discussion board, there is a field to "search entries or author", but the result is not locked, when your search has many entries the page refreshes back to the full discussion.I believe a solution would be to lock the page in search ...

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Anytime i log into my CANVAS account it will tell me that my password is incorrect, please what is my CANVAS password¿

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Every time I login to my account and navigate to the Calendar section, ALL of my calendars become "activated" - I'm not sure what the right word would be.  On the far right side, where different calendars can be toggled on and off, ALL of the calenda...

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canvas says I don't have space to upload an image to my discussion board.

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how students can enter images in discussions ?

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How do you view grades from an old course in the flex option canvas website? I have a paper that I never got the chance to review the comments and it was from the last subscription period, however, now the dashboard does not include that class becaus...

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