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Just wondering if I have too grandiose dreams... Is it possible to create a "mashup" Front page where we have text (like a regular Page in Canvas) at the top, and the listing of the modules below it..? See example below. Canvas offers us much more op...

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One of our schools uses an external system for exams where students are anonymous to faculty members. They enter their grade for the exam and never see the student's name or ID. We would like the students to be able to take exams with anonymous gradi...

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My courses are divided into quarters. I want my gradebooks to only show assignment groups from the current quarter, Q4. Even using the grading period filter, I am still seeing a bunch of groups from earlier quarters. None of their assignments are in ...

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Lately, every time I try to access the Canvas Community, I want to pull my hair out!  While already logged into Canvas, I click on the Help option to Search the Guides.  I try to post a question and it tells me that I'm not logged in.  I follow the p...

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Hello. I opened a Canvas account yesterday for an ESOL course that I will be teaching for our adult education program. However, my homepage looks different than my future co-worker's. Now I see that I opened it with 'K-12' as the organization type, i...

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How do I add a bar similar to the one in the picture? Is this a new feature?    

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Our learning community faculty are assigned to grade groups of student assignments (10 students in a group). Is there any way for Canvas to notify individual faculty that a student in their group has submitted their assignment for grading?

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Is there a way to enter an arc symbol over letters in new quizzes? I have tried entering the workaround in both the question body and answer choices. I have tried to put it in MathQuill as well, but I am not having much luck. The workaround I have be...

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I have posted items in Pages, which are published. All of my students tell me that they get an error message that they do not have permission, how do I fix this

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I am confusing for introduction date and time, please advise There are 2 period of time on Web annoncement : Mar28 12:00pm-1:00pm or 07:00pm-08:00pm or I can select only one period or I need to attend for both period.

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Hi Canvas Support Team, I am an IT Technician with Crimson Education trying to help our staff ready for accreditation season. Our IT team received a request to bulk export all assignments submitted by 4 specific students with SpeedGrader annotations ...

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Perhaps I am misunderstanding the Discussion purpose as a new user... As instructor, I posted a question in my course under discussions. Several students posted replies, but they can only see my initial entry, not that of the other students. Is this ...

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After multiple attempts to enroll a certain student, I continually receive the below ERROR CODE and I am not allowed to enroll the student:     The following users could not be created. EMAIL OF STUDENT: The email address provided conflicts with an e...

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Hello, When I log into my free teacher account at https://canvas.instructure.com/login/canvas, I am directed to my institution's account. The goal is to edit my course pages in the free teacher account. Once I like the revisions, then export these ch...

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I created a course as an individual and I don't have a school name. I was able to enable the link for open enrollment but this only allows the students to access the course via the web. They cannot access it on the app because I do not have a school....

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Hello All,I intend to save my designed poster containing text hyperlinks as a png or jpg file (and not save as PDF), such that through these image files I'm able to access the hyperlinks attached to the text. Kindly guide me on the same.Thank you!

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When we upload our PDF slides for BigBlueButton sessions, the slides will sometimes "glitch" and look different from the PDF version we have. In particular, random photos will rotate 90-degrees, the bullets will change to a different type of bullet, ...

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Is there a course role in Canvas that would allow people to post in discussions but not submit graded assignments? Out of the box, it doesn't seem like such a role exists. People are either Observers (which have view-only access to the course, and th...

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Hi Wondering if there is any account level report that shows all the unmarked assignments inside the subjects? I am thinking of something like 'Students with no submissions' report. For example it could be called 'students with  unmarked assignments'...

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Hi there, All my enrolled units have spamming pop-up requests to complete feedback surveys every time a new page loads. It is distracting and becoming a nuisance and deterring me from visiting canvas. I just want access to my unit modules and not hav...

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Hello.  I have coursework due and unfortunately, I am unable to login. I have submitted multiple time for the forgot password without ever receiving a reset password email. I have been checking spam and retrying for days without a win. I am enrolled ...

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Hi community,   I hope you and your loved ones are well and healthy. Is it possible to configure the "roll attendance" tool to show specific days? Typical sessions meet on either Mon/Wed/Fri or Tues/Thurs. I would like to have the option to configure...

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Hi I have not been added to the buddy group.What can I do?

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So Canvas "updated" the gradebook to this new filter system, and I really hate it. It doesn't work half the time, and when they're not loading it displays the grades for the entire year for all my students. Just want to know if I can "undo" this upda...

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I am using Speedgrader in Canvas (especially with Turnitin for essay submissions), and I would like to be able to exclude the 0 grades for students who did not submit the assignment from the calculation of the assignment average that is posted at the...

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When I logged in this morning, my courses were combined sections in Canvas. Now I have all students under one Canvas class. When I click on sections, they are still listed by sections (how it is in Powerschool). When I sync grades to PowerTeacherPro,...

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Hi!  I am currently reading two courses on two different institutions. Both use Canvas.  Is there a way for me to have all my courses in the samt Canvas? (like now I have to log in differently and it would be much better to be able to see all my cour...

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What is Assignment Override?   When do an user need this feature?    Please help me understand the concept.    Thank you. Raymond  

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Is there a way to convert a quiz into PDF format and then print it so that I can have a hard copy?

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I believe this question was asked  a couple of years ago, but a final solution was never provided. One of our professors uses the comments section of Speed Grader when her students submit online papers. Multiple times and in no particular pattern she...

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