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Have the Canvas software developers even tried using their own annotating tools? I've spent minutes trying to highlight a passage that the student submitted so I can make a comment -- to no avail.

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Does Canvas offer any navigation tools for students to use during exams? For example, highlight portions of question text and multiple choice answers? Or flagging questions to answer later.   

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My teacher posts many assignments with the embedded Google Docs feature and while that normally works for me, yesterday I was trying to get into the assignments that were due that day and two loading circles were on my screen where the google doc wou...

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When creating new courses for the next term, our institution usually copy+pastes due dates for each assignment from an excel sheet that tracks the new dates.  I've recently learned that Canvas has a setting that should simplify this. However, when fo...

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There's nothing (obvious) to click to launch a New Quiz from the student view of Grades.    How is a student to know to click the bread crumb at the top to actually open the quiz? Feels this UI should be cleaned up.  When students are playing catch-u...

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As the title says, I am unable to create a new multiple choice question bank with equation editor responses. It only allows answers in the text box, which is insufficient. Has something changed in this regard? I did this many times last few years, bu...

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Hello,I am a Canvas Admin for our Institution and recently one of our departments got invited into a program that uses a third party LTI.  I have added LTIs in the past, however this time I am perplexed.  The vendor is asking for me to provide the "V...

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In a recent update to New Quizzes, the "shared with" information for each bank has disappeared. Now, the only way to know if a bank is shared at all seems to be to have to open the bank sharing dialog box and check. Is there a way to be more efficien...

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There seems to be an old thread about this, but the issue is still persistent. I have some PDFs that I post on Canvas that are quite long (lecture notes that are in an almost textbook-like format, a "book" of homework problems I have written, and lab...

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Hi I am considering the use of blueprint courses at our school. I would like a master course which someone like the Head of Department has access to and organises content/settings etc. Eg. Year 12 Economics ....and then have all the classes associate...

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How do I restrict students from downloading Zoom recordings?    

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Somehow the sidebar with topics like modules, discussions, media, grades, ect. disappeared.  It makes it very difficult to navigate while in each class.  Does anyone know what happened and how to fix it.  I went through all the settings and did not s...

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I had a user contact me regarding a course shell they were added to as a T.A. and their inability to view certain student's submitted work for grading.  I took a look and noticed that the students that they couldn't view were from the cross-listed se...

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I copy a quiz from semester 1 course to semester 2 course. It states quiz in unpublished module. I make a copy of the same quiz within semester 2 course, make sure it is published.  Now students can see it and take it.  Why do I need this second copy...

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I want to setup a locker signup system. One where students can signup for a particular locker, then once they do, it's removed from the list. Is that something that could be done with Canvas? Microsoft forms has limited functionality, and won't be ab...

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How do I post an introduction in my course forum

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Hi all, Looking for some community help! I am a teacher who helps out when teachers have technical issues. I have a teacher who is having issues on the "Edit Assignment" page.  Dates are added, but do not appear on the teacher's viewable page. (I can...

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Double badges and empty colums in the report  

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I have withdrawn this unit 2022-HS 10002-Engineering Materials (Semester 1). However, it is still showing that as my semester 1 course in canvas. why is it happening? Please help.

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I can see several different names on my course (see pictures). The list says one name, but when I enter the course settings, I see two other names. How do I change the name in the first picture (Alströmer 21/22)?  

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My Discussions are not pinned, but they are not sorting by most recent activity.  Earlier, closed discussions are staying at the top of the list of discussion, while the current active discussion remains buried at sixth on the list.  Last semester th...

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I taught MATH 171 last summer but have a couple of students with an incomplete. I am trying to allow the students to retake the quizzes and exams, but Canvas is not allowing me to make any changes to the course (presumably because the course is over)...

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  Hello, How to change to view on Announcements? Remove the cross out eye.   Thank you, Canvas user/teacher

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I was trying to find a list of the supported file types. I found https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/What-types-of-files-can-be-previewed-in-Canvas/ta-p/607 however, I wasn't sure if this list was accurate for inline / overlap preview...

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Excuse me, I am registered a while ago on the electronic platform with my Facebook account, and today when I log in this message appears to me: (Sorry, this feature is currently unavailable: an error occurred while processing this request.) What is...

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I have assignment groups set up. There are multiple assignments in a group. If the assignments in that group are worth different point values, are they weighted differently inside that group? Second question: I added an assignment to a group and the ...

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I have two accounts Is there away to connect both accounts In to one ?

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Ahoy all, I feel like I've done something wrong or it's counterintuitive. Issue: Posting announcements is sending to my external email but not to my internal Canvas Inbox. I thought the internal notice was a default. My searches for help are coming u...

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I have re-graded a question in "new quizzes", and I would like to leave feedback to this question for all students (not just one at a time). Is there a way to do this for students who have already submitted the quiz?

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