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When I'm trying to add an assignment to different courses with different due dates, under the "assign to" section, none of my courses are listed as options. Only "everyone" and one other course is listed. Does anyone know how to fix this? I need to a...

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For decaying average, the description states that the average assessment item scores with a greater weight for the most recent assessment item. How does Canvas define the "most recent assessment" item? Is it by the due date or by the most recent scor...

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Student had a 0 for an assignment, turned it in and I changed the grade in Canvas, when I synced with SIS, it didn't change the grade.  What should I do?

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Some of my childs canvas courses were not showing up. According to their school, I was told to remove them and add them back.  I removed all my students and went to re-add them and now i Have no option to add students at all to my canvas observer acc...

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I have created groups of assignments (case studies, exams, quizzes, etc...) in my courses to give them relative weight on the final grade. The problem is that for each group, Canvas is only taking the highest grade among the individual assignments wi...

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I keep getting an error message about my header row being invalid when importing a CSV file. I tried changing it to the sample from this article and it's still not working. Any ideas? 

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Colleagues, We had a person in a common 'course' site (department site) with 169 users post something to the group that was out of line. It went to everyone in the course site. We're trying to figure out who the sender is, but the message states: Fro...

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I am set up as an observer for my son.  Last year I received all the notifcations I had set up.  This year I'm not receving any.  I double checked my notification settings, my email, and that even at each class level I had notifications enabled.  The...

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My assignments are all loading- except for one. The dialogue will not load, and all it says is "Reply". What should I do?

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I’m not able to join my group, what should I do? Thanks! 

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How do we sync ALEKS to Canvas?

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Hi hope everyone is doing well We have a trainer marked a student's assessment on September 20. But October 10, the same assessment appeared again on this trainer's dashboard for marking.Is there anyway to prevent marked assessment appearing again i...

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I need help adding my second child into Canvas so that I can receive daily update from his teachers. Kind regards, Ms. Fortune313-790-5772cbuttrom@yahoo.com 

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Additionally, is there a way to make the second part only accessible after the first part has been completed?

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How can my students get notification if someone posted in their group discussion thread? Many of my students have said they don't get notifications if someone posts in their group discussion thread. 

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For my Close Reading lessons, I prefer to have my students annotate using the Canvas annotation tools on a PDF and also upload a Google Doc in the same assignment. The Google Doc is meant to be completed at the same time as the PDF annotations. Howev...

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I cannot find the Teacher App on the Seminary site (left column) I used last year.  You could click on it, it would take you to daily calendar with Students' names, and you could show attendance by click "present" or "absent."  I still cannot figure ...

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When my Canvas scores are exported into RenWeb, the assignments that should not count are being changed to an M for missing.  These "M" scores count as zeros and therefore lowers the average.  Is there a way to amke it some other letter?

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I somehow shrank all the writing in my Canvas! I was entering grades and I don't know what I pushed, but now everything is super small! Does anyone know how to get back to normal font size? Thank you!

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Good Afternoon, I am trying to enroll in some courses and everytime I hit the enroll button and error message shows. Help, please.The two courses I have tried are:  TCR101 - Preparing for the Profession  and TCR 201 - Qualities of Effective Teachers....

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This is the error our teachers are getting. Canvas is not responding to requests for help.

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Hi - I'm an English Professor at Berkeley College.  I was wondering if there are any plans to incorporate captioning and screen-sharing capabilities in Canvas' Record Media feature. Doing so would increase accessibility because captions would be avai...

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I cannot take a survey because it won't open.  I have clicked on it a number of times but is just keeps looping back to "Take the Survey".  What do I do?

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How do I have students submit a weekly assignment for class without it being visible to all students?

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Hello,Could somebody please inform: How do I release all module marks but keep a single students mark hidden?

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Hi all,I would like to create a .qti file outside Canvas and import this file. I know how to do this, but I also want to already assign this quiz to a section using the .xml file of the quiz. It is unclear to me which xml tag is used for this. I trie...

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I like that we can allow students the opportunity to resubmit an assignment from the first assignment, which means handling the gradebook works much better.  However, the fact that we can't set a date for this is pretty silly. Students miss this date...

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Hi, When I create a table, the cells look normal size. But when I hit save, all the cells that are empty shrink down to almost nothing. See image attached. It is very annoying, how do I stop this happening? I can't even get the cursor in there to fix...

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Is there a way to get rid of or hide the info at the top of the gradebook screen? This wastes over 30% of the viewable space. 

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Why do parents only see 2 missing assignments when on my end there are many more showing missing? This has happened with 2 different parents. 

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