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Is it possible to toggle to the next assignment for one student without having to open and wait for the gradebook to load again? 

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We have run into issues with our calendar when working with participants in multiple time zones. We would like to hide the calendar icons with CSS. Has anyone been able to do it? Thanks.

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All images in all of my courses are not displaying for me. They just show the file name where the picture should be-see attached screenshot. However, other teachers in the course as well as students are able to see the pictures just fine.Only picture...

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I am about to start marking student assignments that have been submitted. Is there a way that this assignment can be closed or blocked so that students cannot see their feedback during the marking process and once all tasks have been marked the resul...

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All -  I cannot get embedded videos to play - I click on the "Play" button, and I get no reaction at all.  No error message, nothing.  No change to the screen at all.  Environment: ThinkPad L15 AMD Ryzen 16GB Windows 11 Pro 64-bit, Chrome (both fully...

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I have many courses that students have completed. I set an end date for each course. There is no "conclude course" button on the right side of the settings page. How do I conclude these courses?   

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Hello, I have been able to make Canvas API calls through the browser with no issues, yet when I try to make an API call using an access token through the CanvasAPI python tool, I get an invalid access token error. I am not an account admin but I can ...

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Hello. I am wondering if it is possible to use an image URL for the navbar and login page logo. When I upload the images in the theme editor, they don't appear in Canvas. I am using a self hosted instance.

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Students are seeing a label that says MISSING in grades function, even though work was turned in on time and has received a grade. How can I remove that MISSING label?

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I have a ton of courses with groups.  There was an issue with a student enrollment import, which set most student's status to "deleted".  Another import was run that reset the statuses to "active".  Almost all students who had been assigned to a grou...

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I have completed the Growing with Canvas course. Wondering how do I create a new course?

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Hi All,I am hoping that someone here can once again give me some help. I am in the process of creating a student resource course and have been asked to add buttons on the pages that can be linked to other pages. The bosses like the looks of buttons r...

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How do I submit a text reply in the training module?  Third attempt for Home Page Explorations, 2.9 will only let me save drafts.

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I have an instructor who tried the redesigned discussions feature this past semester. She found it to be worse than the "classic" discussions feature for her use for two reasons:She wants students to read replies to other students' posts, but is conc...

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We are forced to use Canvas at our school. Canvas has an inbox through which students can contact us. I d not like this as it adds another inbox I must check. I can forward the messages to my inbox but replyinf to those often gets an error message at...

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Can I view the questions on the test that most students missed or the percentage of students got right or wrong? 

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What instructions can I give my students for how to look for and listen to audio clip feedback I leave on discussions and assignments?

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I am an instructor in an online, asynchronous course.  Suppose I give students two chances to take a quiz and allot 15 minutes to take the quiz.  Is it possible to change the amount of time allotted on the second attempt?

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If you set-up a prerequisite and then get a new student to your classroom, can a prerequisites or requirements for an individual student?  I love this feature, but we do get new students added to the class throughout the year.  Their grades are trans...

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I love canvas and want to create a course separate from my institution. Am I able to do a private course or must it be affiliated with an existing school?

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I've been following up a request about course progress tracking and as there isn't a native feature for this in Canvas I wanted to see if there was any applications out there that provide this feature as a plug in instead?M thought would be that ever...

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Video recording won’t work for me. When I click “start recording” the countdown begins but then after “1” it just closes out of the recording screen instead of recording me. 

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Is it possible to provided answer feedback on quizzes on questions-types such as: True/FalseCategorizationOrderingEssayI have learned how to provide feedback on Multiple Choice, but I was wondering about the other question types.   Thanks in advance!...

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Hi there, I have had a few instances when duplicating a calendar event (say for a course topic which runs from Monday to Friday, where the start and finish times are excelarated by one hour.  For example* Monday 9am to 4pm is duplicated for extra fou...

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I add an app in Edu Center with our web site url,install it in Canvas/Course/assignment/submission select list . It will be loaded in iframe when we preview this assignment. But it can't work well. The iframe is blank, there is nothing. And it log 40...

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What is the font used in Canvas for Elementary? It is very primary friendly!   

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I am working with developers to develop a custom report we can pull from Canvas that shows us the final grader or all graders required to grade submitted work. We are using a CRON job to go through the data.Below are a couple of questions from my dev...

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There does not appear to be a way to export and import content into item banks through the GUI or an API.  Is there an API (or one coming soon) for Item Bank import/export?  We also reviewed the full Course Export in IMSCC format and could not find t...

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I'd like to embed a Google Trend line graph into a Canvas page, so that it automatically updates. I tried pasting the code that Google provides into the html editor, but when I save it there is nothing on the page. The code is below. <script type="te...

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We have overhauled our rubrics for 2022 and standardized everything at 100 points. I've labeled them all a 2022 Essay etc. (Don't get me started on generic rubrics. You have to compromise sometimes.)My entire list of all rubrics known to man is in th...

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