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I'm an admin at a grad school, and we are seeking a way to administer the "take breaks during a test" accommodation. A workaround suggested by another user was to just extend the overall time. However, in this case the student has up to 24 hours to t...

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Is there any way to resize the time intervals on the Weekly Calendar so that I can see the entire course without it being cut off? 

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When students log on to my course, they see various options on the left side. Syllabus, Modules, Pages etc. I don't want most of those. Instead I want to create a whole new option or at least be able to rename the sections. So instead of people havin...

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We have Lucid showing in all of our course nav without us adding it. Is there any way to set a default that any new features are hidden in the course menu until we want to expose it? The same thing happened when installing Badgr, and we had to edit e...

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Can you make it so that I can color code  (as an end user) different items in a Module to differentiate content from assignments? I've read the other suggestions for using emoji's to distinguish different types of content, but I want to be able to hi...

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Hi,   I have students grade each other's notebooks and have used Google Forms to collect their scores. I like using Google Forms because it creates an Excel spreadsheet, making it easy to transfer grades. How can I do the same thing in Canvas? Could ...

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When importing a quiz from an older course, how do I update the quiz from the old format to the new format? I'm still seeing it the old way and want to see the Build selection so that I can print the quiz and the key.

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Something happened and I wound up exiting out and cannot get back in to check the other few boxes so that this is marked complete.Would anyone know how I can reset this and start over? thank you

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Is there a system-level or course-level way to disable student assignment comments in Canvas? To my knowledge and testing, faculty are not notified of these comments. Please let me know if there is a way to immediately notify faculty when a student p...

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I just want to delete unused shells that are in my dashboard that have never been published. Does anyone know how? 

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 (in the hundreds) for changes to the course (even unpublished modules). How do I turn this off?

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I am not sure if this is possible, but I teach Spanish and in my class I have regular students that do not speak Spanish and some native speakers. In order for native speakers not to get bored, I give them a different assignment each week. I have cre...

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For admins:We allow our TAs to grade assignments, but we want to use the Gradebook Notes field to list accommodations, but we don't want the TAs to see the accommodations. Is there a way to restrict TAs from seeing the Gradebook Notes field but still...

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Currently several of our instructors have been encountering an issue when the 'Late Grading' policy button is toggled on. The system is automatically issuing deducted scores for unsubmitted assignments with a future due date. Is there anyone else exp...

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I would like to set up a Sub Admin account for an external administrator who wants to access all the areas of a cohort we are hosting within our organisations Canvas platform. They want to manage their own analytics and course admin for a section of ...

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Hi, I have been successfully embedding Padlets in Canvas pages for my students to use for the past 5 years. After have just re-made Padlet form last year, with the same settings and embedded it in Canvas it shows up with the error message:"This padle...

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Hello all,I usually send out an announcement at the start of each week for my students. It details the agenda and assignments and keeps them on track. However, I also have a page in each module that does this. If I use the "assign to" feature, will t...

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I am an Admin. We had created a staff observer role for our PLC Chairs, and we recently discovered that this role no longer has the ability to View as Student on the Instructor Pages. I am attaching their current permissions. Can anyone assist with w...

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Hello! For some reason, I am not able to see the separate sections of my course in the People tab. I am able to see all of my students and the sections they are assigned to in one whole group, but the section tab does not appear in the People tab. 

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As a Canvas Admin: What's the most efficient way to conclude old courses lacking term dates?  What's the most efficient way to remove/delete former students from the instance?

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Recently, Storyline SCORM 2004 (4th) edition files uploaded to Canvas as graded assignments are no longer registering submissions. Meaning, a student can get all the way through the Storyline assignment and will have passed both benchmarks needed to ...

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I was working on a quiz and it was quite long. The next question button and the submit quiz button look very similar. They are also right next to each other. The quiz didn't prompt me to say that I finished all the questions and accidentally clicked ...

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Hello - I see others have had this issue. I have tried the solutions offer to no avail e.g. looked in spam for the email, checked user settings for my Canvas account. What else can be done?Thanks!Leslie

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There has been a way (for the past several years) that when using Speedgrader you could just hit "enter" and move to the next student so you didn't have to use the "j" shortcut or click the arrow button and now that isn't working. I have looked throu...

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How do I access archived courses as a teacher? 

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I don't know if anyone else has bee frustrated with the new "Assign Access" hyperlink. When assigning access to individual students or separate classes it used to be at the bottom of the page and you could just add there.  Now you have to click on th...

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I'm testing out the new LockDown Browser feature and noticed that it changes the name of a quiz to "'quiz name'- Requires Respondus LockDown Browser". I would rather not have my quiz be synced with such a title.  I went to fix the title but had an er...

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Our course content (like modules, assignments, and quizzes) is pre-loaded from an external tool, and the course settings are set by our course admins.Teachers only need to grade and collaborate with students, so we’ve turned off all options for them ...

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Can I integrate a Webpage created in Canva into a Canvas page and include links that lead the user to assignments, modules, in the course?

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Last spring Speed Grader started refusing to display text files that didn't have a .txt extension, such as C, Python, and Java program source code. At the time, Canvas "fixed" the issue and restored the ability to see and annotate such files. Here's ...

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