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Can emojis be used in Assignment names that will be synced with Synergy SIS?

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A year or two ago I changed my name but then the feature was removed. Can my name somehow be reset back to ANGEL RIOS? 

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The survey I am creating is a poll of the students' answers for each question. This is not a graded assignment, but will facilitate discussion. How do I view the results of an ungraded survey?

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I have a teacher getting an error message when trying to use Grade Passback. See attachment. 

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I have cross sectioned two classes.  One is syncing with powerschool and the other isn't syncing with powerschool.  All assignments and point values are the same.  

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When downloading assignments in bulk, the zip file contains files which are named with the student name.Can the filename be configured to include the student id field?Thanks

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My settings don't show an option for cross listing courses with two different course numbers. i need to  combine a grad and an ugrad section into one for content sharing. all the other answers tell me to cross list.  is there any other option?

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I've successfully had my students synce their Canvas calendar with their Google Calendar, however, only events are syncing NOT assignments, is that an error on my end or are Canvas Assignments not able to sync? 

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How do I duplicate a module?

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Good afternoon all,Let's say our Canvas has a page at:https://univ.instructure.com/courses/1200/pages/helloworldWithin it is an html element to which I have given the id "Research&ManInfo"S0, if I wish to point to this element within the url, I const...

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I teach high school Algebra 1. I randomize the quiz questions so each student gets them in a different order, but we always have a constructed response on paper. Our workaround for this using the gradebook is to make an essay question where they ackn...

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When creating a Mastery Path and using a Classic Quiz as the trigger item, an instructor can immediately see the breakdown of which student fell into which Mastery Path (picture). In a New Quiz, this breakdown does not exist, so instructors would hav...

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Anyone can advise me on how to create a push a separate sandbox course to all teachers accounts on Canvas?

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Is there a feature to filter out early submissions and give extra points to early submissions? I understand the gradebook and be exported, modified and uploaded back but this is extremely error prone. Thanks in advance for your feedback

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I am an admin for the first time for a high school that has a handful of beginning users of Canvas. I have had a tricky FERPA question brought up by a Canvas teacher user: a teacher is beginning the school year with students in a discipline alternati...

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How do I disable Canvas Calendar?

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I am a new Canvas admin who has never worked with adding developer keys. I have had a teacher reach out asking for "access to the LTI.3 google drive."I understand this is something that I can enable, but do not know how. Can anyone advise how to manu...

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the export course content button is gone in the previous courses, is there way that I can export them?  How do I view course content offline as an ePub fi... - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)How do I export a Canvas course? - Instructure Commun...

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Hello, I am a teacher and a parent. I paired with one of my own children. I thought it was for only the 21-22 school year. I am now getting unwanted emails.  When I look in his account or mine, I can not find where I am paired. What can I do to be un...

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I have a rule set for an assignment group to drop the lowest score.However, a few of my students cheated on a few of the quizzes, so I gave them a zero for those particular assignments. Problem is, Canvas drops the Zero that I want them to keep.Anyon...

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I'm in the process of setting up my Canvas site for the fall and everytime I click on Home to set up my welcome page - it automatically is going to the Syllabus page. Help!

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The interactive videos on canvas only have the options to decrease playback speed (0.25x and 0.5x). I've tried to work around it using the Video Speed Controller extension on Chrome, but it does not affect it. Is there any other way to increase video...

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I am curious if there is a maximum length that an audio comment can be within the speedgrader? Haven't been able to find an answer in the admin guides.

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Students are starting the year with a 0 “F” in every course. We have our teachers using assignment categories which are currently empty because assignments are unpublished and unassigned until the teacher chooses to do so. There is a setting to hide ...

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The campus moved some of my courses from Blackboard to Canvas (a helpful thing).  But I do not want to "publish" the whole course, but just parts of it.  Isn this possible, or do I just start over with a new course listing?

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I would like to import to Canvas tests created by Pearson Test Generator, but I do not know how to do this.Can someone help me, please?

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I have been off for a semester and noticed that my Canvas screen looks different than the tutorials. I do not see the "Group" option on my sidebar. Is there something I need to do to get this option or does that only appear when a professor enables i...

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I typically set modules to make students view every item in sequential order and turn in all assignments (or get a grade).My question is if i force them to go through sequentially or not. I think this must make it easier to navigate the module if you...

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I like using the External Tool feature for the type of assignment submission so that the Canvas assignment and Google Docs immediately integrate and make the "submit" button available for students.  However, I don't see that there is an option to uti...

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I have accessed the Power Points from Sage for my text, including the test bank.  It doesn't seem to be set up for me to copy a question into my quizzes which include my own questions. Does anyone know how I can do that?

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