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I tried on three browsers: Chrome, Safari and Firefox; disabled ad blocks and tried again, enabled University Cisco VPN and retried but to no avail. Every time I try reloading,  it says:Service is currently unavailable. Try again later.No idea why th...

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How can I quickly see (as an admin) which outcomes are sub-account and which are course-level? Sometimes instructors incorrectly copy courses from previous terms and end up creating course-level outcomes by mistake.

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Situation: We sync our grades from Canvas to FACTS/RenWeb. For various reasons, we have to put holds on student accounts. Traditionally, what we've been able to do with FACTS, is withhold their grades from them until they fix the hold on their accoun...

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When I click on "Published Courses" I see there is subtext for the course titles that I would like to change but am not sure how. (Example in screenshot - I'd like to remove "CHAZ".) Thank you!

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Can the location input in Calendar Events allow hyperlinks? As of now, adding a zoom / google meet link does not allow a student to click on the link to easily open the meeting. Instead students need to copy the link, open a new tab, paste, and Enter...

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I'm enrolling a large number number of staff for employee training that they will be doing on Canvas, and I was told to use the 'notify' column in the enrollment.csv file if I'd like to notify the users they've been enrolled. There doesn't seem to be...

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Hi There I am testing a new course that has fake students in there and i have divided them into 4 sections. Our trainers need to observe our apprentices, on-the-job and then submit their PDF observations into each students file. I saw through the com...

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Hey, I am in a drawing class, and we are meant to submit images in jpeg for our assignment, and for two assignments now it has been failing when I try to submit, how do I fix it or what is too big or small that I can't submit it. 

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I am a new adjunct professor so I am still learning how to use Canvas.  I want to send a message to the students in my class along with two attachments.  Can I do this through Canvas?  If so, how do I do it?  If not, I can send a group email to the s...

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Hello. For years, I've done an assignment that asks students to annotate a document in Microsoft Word using Word comments (e.g., Insert -> Comment). The comments appear in balloons to the right of the text.  Until recently, those comments appeared on...

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I love the Pass back feature offered that enables us to pass grades from Canvas to our sis Aspen. However, it would be most helpful if there was a filter in Canvas Grades that showed ONLY assignments that were "passed back" to Aspen. That way we coul...

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Over the last few years students have told me about the fact that they can view the 6 summary statistics (Mean, Median, Upper Quartile, Lower Quartile, Max, and Min) for their assignments. I know that on the teacher end I can find the min, max, and a...

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Why is the comment section in Speed grader getting worse? When grading I add all my comments on the side. I also save these comments. This year all my comments have no structure, they lost all spaces and paragraphs. Please fix this issue. The comment...

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If anyone would like to team up together for this weeks project as a group just reply or like and we can figure out a way to communicate as a group. 

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Please left justify the gradebook columns....there is a lot of wasted space, and I have a lot of columns! Dragging the column to be narrower, keeps this wasted blank space in EVERY column.  It appears it is reserved for displaying the eyeball icon.  ...

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When emailing teachers about my child, is there a way to copy someone (her mother) who is in Canvas as well? Thanks, Kenneth

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I have so many students leaving their quizzes and opening a new tab and then coming back with the answers that all session logs are just filled with the red x for leaving. Can the quiz shut down and require a new access code if the student leaves the...

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Why, all of a sudden, do we have a big comment box in Canvas? I liked the box that expanded as needed.

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There are common problems with the non-synchronization of the voice and the presentation slide materials.

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Hello, I am a Canvas LMS Admin for my institution. Below is a feature request I would like to introduce. Feature Request:We request a new feature in Canvas that allows instructors and administrators to globally download all page views in a course. Th...

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I have cross linked multiple sections of classes that meet at different times to make my life easier. I have created online quizzes and would like to use the same one for each section, but I would like for them to only be able to open it via password...

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I an a teacher of Biology and imported a Canvas Quiz (in new format) that was shared by a colleague into my course.  Sadly, it defaulted to an old-format style quiz.  Problem #1 - I've lost features (accommodations/moderating) that I need.Problem #2 ...

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Absent and Incomplete grade status requestAs a teacher, it is useful to have different types of tags regarding assignments and grades. Would it be possible to create an Absent and Incomplete option for entering grades. This way, students can look at ...

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I have a student with three equally weighted assignment grades: 0%, 0%, 0% and 70% and their current average for the semester is 93.89%. What is going wrong?

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I just went into student view and noticed some issues with the usability of the to-do list. Announcements appear in the to-do list. This isn't necessarily a problem, but:  The list is in chronological order, so old announcements are at the top--there...

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I'm trying to duplicate a very simple assignment. When I click on the 3 dots to the right, I get the dialogue box for a second but then it disappears. If I keep my trackpad engaged until I can click Duplicate, nothing happens. I have tried zooming to...

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Grades needs to have the option to sort assignments by date such as due date or available date on the teacher site. Currently as a teacher I am not able to sort my grades on the teacher site by the due date. I have no need to sort them by name or cat...

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Not being able to download quiz responses to grade makes assigning essays and  paragraphs on Canvas essentially worthless for me,  Why is this issue not fixed? This is not difficult and there should be a way.

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Since I Synced my courses, as advised by my district, the ability to have notebooks through Onenote has vanished.  Help

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Hello there, A lecturer has asked this question: When multiple markers are involved in grading, could you please advise me on how to generate distributions of the average, minimum, and maximum marks for each marker using the SpeedGrader? This will he...

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