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For some reason, I can't input my quiz grades in the "quiz" column and have no idea why. I have reloaded grades, tried numerous times, but the numbers do not show up.

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At my school we are being trained on Canvas.  The instructor mentioned that we might want to opt out of the Inbox and have student communications sent to college email.  I looked up on the Net how to do this, and found that you go to Account, then Se...

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For my canvas name it is my under my mothers name, due to the fact that I am using her email for it. It will not let me change my Canvas name to my name.

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Long story short I got injured.  My grading period ended last Friday 4/4.  We had until 4/11 to enter grades. We are on spring break and I have 3 assignments and random missing work to enter scores.  How can I do this?  Grades are not finalized til T...

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I am wondering if anyone knows if Canvas has a time limit attached to their student user accounts, and if so, how long might they be. I want to know how long after I graduate my data would still be available if I wanted to access it still.

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Can you set access to an assignment or module to be based off the start of the course instead of specific due dates? So instead of a date-based due date, it would be a delta days-based due date with an assignment due 10 days from course start, etc. I...

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Editor - Similar to Word, is there a "format painter" tool in Canvas?

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Our students submit an assignment each week, receiving a grade each week; but all in the same category.  Currently, we use separate dropboxes/columns for each week, which becomes "messy" on the grade book. Is there a way to create a single assignment...

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There is no way to get around the locked down videos that are hosted on Kaltura but need you to authenticate with Canvas to watch them. So, if we are trapped in the Instructure UI the least they could do is improve the embeds. Terrible. Either tiny, ...

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Hi all! I work in the Office of Assessment and Evaluation at my institution and we have just started utilizing the Canvas outcomes function. I would like to keep track of how many faculty have linked outcomes in their courses to assignments. Since th...

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Can you make a way to scramble test questions in the tests that we make? We can scramble answers but not questions. This would make mutiple versions of the test which would be really helpful and produce mastery .

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Hi, I have did a workshop with a lecturer that would like to set not only a whole module, but specific module items a date and time to be published at. I'm having trouble finding the right solution to this, or if it is even possible. I am aware that ...

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I am trying to prompt the students to engage more with the content and be able to examine their own learning. One idea is to spread a series of tasks, activities, and ungraded assignments, and only after completing those does the student have access ...

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Hi there,I'm currently using the open source version of Canvas LMS and was wondering if there are any plans to bring features like New Quizzes or other SaaS-exclusive functionalities to the open source version in the future.Additionally, is there an ...

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I am using New Analytics Online Attendance.  Our weeks run from Monday to Sunday.  The default in online attendance is Sunday to Monday  - the Sunday of the previous week the way we look at weeks.  Is there a way to change the default Sunday to Satur...

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Hello, I'm experiencing an issue when trying to display an HTML file in a Canvas Module. I uploaded a .zip file to the Files section and selected the main HTML file as the content for a module item. However, when I try to open it from the Module, the...

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As we near the end of the year our schedule gets super weird. I might see my 2nd period once in a week for 84 minutes, and see my 3rd period 3x/week for 84 minutes. I decided to take some inspiration from the "flipped classroom" and let each student ...

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I would like to propose a new feature in Canvas.    I have occasionally forgotten to all submissions for an assignment that I have created.  It would be nice to be able to see the submission status indicated in the "assignments" view of all assignmen...

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I have created essay questions in my new quizzes several times for exams.  When I am grading their answers, we are able to type in a comment box underneath what they have answered correctly or incorrectly.  And then to justify the number of points I ...

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Whenever I try to open my canvas home page or any class it only show black boxes and squares when I log in on Edge or Fire Fox it works fine but only on Chrome it wont load.

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linked google doc assignments have disappeared from pre-created modules. Starting with this week's module, doc's that I've linked before (and used before) have suddenly disappeared. BUT, it still shows that I've linked it, it just doesn't show to me ...

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I've looked through every category of quiz but can't see one which will allow me to upload a short audio file then have the students type in the English translation as a response.  I'm a languages teacher. Any ideas?Thanks in advance

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If the instructors have four assignments leading to the final project, but have unpublished one of them, does canvas calculate the final project grade from the published assignments or does it factor in unpublished assignments (that obviously will no...

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Hello there.I am specifically asking for Canvas, and NOT Catalog. I am wondering if there is a way to block certain email domains or IP addresses.For example: If I provide a direct enroll link to a course, can we specify it doesn't account @aol.com? ...

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Good morning Canvas Community,I am an ID working with several faculty members from our biology department. They are collaboratively working on a shared course. In it, they have been copying item banks that are being used in New Quizzes, but they have...

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When we have cross-listed courses, is it possible to have separate Discussions per section in a single graded Discussion assignment? I know you can control who is assigned, but if you need all sections assigned they can all view and participate in th...

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We have run into an issue where newly enrolled students have not been receiving the email from Instructure to confirm their email address. They do get the email when we manually re-send it but that is not a sustainable workflow to do for every new st...

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I absolutely love that we can cut and past images into submission comments now. The only problem that I have is that I want it to automatically maintain the original dimensions of the image instead of it make it smaller. Instead, I have to manually c...

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David Chan 531Z In dealing with one of our M&E term contractors who is repeatedly not taking in follow-up matters assigned to him whether by managing agent or the client. I had tried to use Principle of persuasion – Authority.Using our managing agent...

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Hi Canvas Community,   Question. We have a teacher who has built a 100-line Python app in Streamlit and he would like to find a way to host it somewhere for his students to use, ideally via Canvas. Do you have any experience on this which you can sha...

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