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I would like to upload a powerpoint presentation to Canvas free for teacher for my students to view it as a slideshow on the LMS but not be able to download it. Can someone please help me with this? 

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The new "whole post" only view for Discussions is unwieldy. Especially for large classes. All other LMSs have the option to collapse the Discussion to view just the Subject Lines or just the First Line of the posts so students and the instructor can ...

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I am the administrator for a course run on the 'free for teachers' version. A user changed jobs and no longer has the email address used in our course.  She is about to graduate from the course and needs access to the resources and materials to compl...

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The video won't play saying I must first accept the cookie policy. How and where do I do that?

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One of our courses was using self sign-up for student groups and opened them during the class period hoping that all students could sign-up while together in class. Unfortunately, the groups staggered their opening slowly and it took over 30 minutes ...

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I have a question regarding Speedgrader and Turnitin. Last semester, I had the ability to resubmit student assignments to Turnitin, and now as I am looking at Speedgrader, I don't see that as an option now. Did that go away on purpose?

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I am a student of AWS Restart program Jan-Mar 2024; After the course completion, the course content ddisappeared; I wanted to go though the course content again, but accidently I declined that new invitation also after logged in to Canvas; Is there a...

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Hi So we make use of the Kung Fu Canvas course to help onboarding new staff.  But during a check of the course I have discovered that one of the embedded videos is no longer available. I was on Vimeo, but it's not any more. The video is from the Gree...

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I have hundreds of emails with discussion threads each quarter.  I noticed that Canvas is placing new emails received in "Archive" when I place the original email (root email in the thread) in "Archive."  As such, Canvas does not notify me a new emai...

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Are auto close captions a feature of the new screen recording option in SpeedGrader? What about when you create a video from a page?

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It is not letting me access Mt San Antonios college canvas account for the summer course I am enrolled in. The error keeps popping up that I do not have a canvas account with them. How would I solce this

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Hello, everyone! I'm having trouble finding a feature that prevents teachers from changing their Front Page selection on their Blueprint courses. We'd like to maintain a consistent student/parent user experience for each course's Home Page when they...

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we've been testing plagiarism review options, and I am going to reach out to support, but, I feel like maybe I'm just missing something simple maybe one of you know.  In adding/removing some plagiarism checkers to the plagiarism framework on the admi...

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We are in the process of transitioning to Canvas from Moodle and we're hoping someone has an elegant solution to an issue tied to required student training. Our issue: At our institution, Students enrolled in their first online course are required to...

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Is there a quick way to assign outcomes to selected questions in an Item Bank? I have an Item Bank currently with no outcomes associated to any questions, and would like to split the questions between two different outcomes. It is very tedious to cli...

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Hi all,I’ve been trying to create an import by converting a CSV file to a QTI file so that it creates a classic quiz and so far I’ve managed to have a quiz created with these types of questions:-Multiple choice (MC)-Multiple answers (MR)-True/False (...

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HiI find the new discussion redesign to be very frustrating.  I would like to have the old discussion set-up back.  How do I make that happen?  The redesign is wasting my time.  I've stuck with it through two weeks assuming that I'd learn to love it ...

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Hi all!   I would like to know if a report on moderators and the final marker can be exported from canvas to a .csv or an excel sheet. Is this an option that is available in canvas atm? If yes, can someone give me directions as to how to get one down...

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Good day,Echo360 option is now showing in the student view navigation bar, even though it has been dragged to be visible in the navigation bar. I as an instructor see it in my options.  Could it be because the term hasn't started yet?Kind regards,Bes...

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Our Canvas Users in RMIT University recently experienced lagging while turning to html view of a page. This has slowed down their tasks significantly. May I know if there is any issue with this function ?

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I'm confused here. One of my students can see the admin/teacher's webpage and all its features. Note that in the past, he's been an observer of another training course. How do I reset his web view as a student?

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I have a free account with Canvas. I am not connected with any school and have no admin. Is there a way to set semesters in my classes for grading?

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Hello, I'm an instructor and am trying to download a quiz in one of the following formats: .DOC, .DOCX, .XML, .DAT. I have tried to place the quiz in a module by itself and download it from commons, but I can only get it to download in a zip file for...

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Hi, This is a question for Canvas admins, particularly those in higher ed. Is anyone using the Content Security Policy? What issues have you encountered if so? If not, why not? We have started using it and I have run into a few pain points, one sever...

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Hi there,Wondering if it's possible for admin to track pathways progress of faculty from the training portal? We'd like to have a way to see which faculty members have taken which courses if possible. 

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My students submit written work via the Google Classroom add on (ie as a Google Doc using Google Classroom’s plugin) and I am unable to grade papers on my iPad. The error is that it could not launch. Not sure why. Anyone got a solution? 

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Due to integration with another LMS software, I have split my students into different sub-accounts. I would like these multiple sub-accounts to complete the same course. But when I go to allocate a sub-account within the course's settings/course deta...

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Apparently it is not possible to grade a quiz by question (as opposed to by student) and upgrade marks for all students every now and then. Instead, upgrading can only be done after marking all questions for each student. I much prefer marking by que...

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A student has had someone else's work uploaded to an assignment incorrectly and we are unable to delete it from it. How can this be deleted? Or how do we get admin access to be able to? Our user roles are teacher.

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