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I am an instruction and I would like to add multiple deadlines to the same group discussion board for my students. Is there a way to do this in Canvas LMS?I'm facilitating book clubs in one of my courses and it would be helpful for students to post w...

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I know that Canvas/Instructure recently began mathjax support (thank you thank you thank you sooooo much). I also know that the \degree is fairly new to mathjax. I noticed that canvas does not support the \degree command and instead we have to expone...

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Hello,I will be retiring in a few years. I would like to save all of the hard work I have put into my Canvas shells, so that I can possibly offer private classes in the future. I see that there is a free version of Canvas for teachers. How would I go...

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Hi Everyone. I’m trying to add an Incomplete for a student and when I go to the Course, then go to Settings, then Section, there is no “Add Section” box that pops up.  Can anyone help me so I can create an “Incomplete” class section for this student?...

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Hi .When I'm on my Samsung phone in canvas in Assisgnments.I have no Button to push to START ASSIGNMENT? making it difficult to submit my work.If i am on my laptop the START ASSIGNMENT buton is there and I CAN do my work.So my issue is I have files t...

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I've uploaded a tutorial video for software that has text elements which are difficult or impossible to read at the default lowest video quality. How do I set the video to play back at highest quality by default / on page load so that text is legible...

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On Quizzes, there is an option for students to see or not to see incorrect answers to their quizzes. It allows all students to see their answers (if I click the box).  However,  I want to determine which students are able to see their answers.    Aft...

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@All I have transferred to a smaller district with fewer staff resources and want to check with the Canvas Admin Community on possible solutions.We are currently Crosslisting manually, even in a smaller district this is daunting. I see multiple Javas...

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I am supposed to start semester 2 and end it by August 12th. However, the course says it starts at the 13th. Is there a way I can start the course early? I have to skip algebra 2.

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I'm completely new to Canvas (as an Instructor) and have been setting up a calendar for a course. It charts activities for each and every day of the course.Logged in today and the calendar events have moved times and days without user input.I need to...

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Why did the assignment and quiz due dates change locations? Extra clicks? "Manage Assign?" It doesn't make very much sense.

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Fly-out page for Assign To is unneeded and unwieldy, it's just an extra step to do the same thing Fly-out page for rubrics in Speedgrader is unneeded and reduced functionality so much that faculty just stopped using them until the rollback So many re...

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I am trying to build an ungraded survey to score complete/incomplete. I was unable to use Classic Quizzes because I was not able to see the results in Speed Grader. I would like to use Microsoft Forms to embed a form in an assignment and have the res...

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We have several courses that our learners can complete for repeat credit, so long as there are at least 12 months between completion. Is there any way to set parameters in Canvas to prohibit learners to self-enroll in a course for repeat credit befor...

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We offer 2 different multi-course series and are interested in utilizing self-enrollment. However, in each of these situations, courses must be taken in a certain order throughout the series. Is there a way to set up a "prerequisite" course before a ...

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It would be greatly appreciated if we could turn off notifications when someone posts on a discussion board. I do not want to get notified anytime someone posts for an assignment.

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I recently found some typos in a quiz bank I built years ago. I want to go into the original quiz bank and fix those so that I don't have to do it separately every time I use those questions in future quizzes. So, how do I edit questions in a quiz ba...

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I created a student annotation assignment. I want to download the students' work on this assignment. I have looked for the download option in the gradebook and in the assignment and it does not exists. Is this something that cannot be done in this ty...

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I am importing quizzes via qti files created using a quiz template for excel spreadsheets. They are saved as csv and converted to qti using the Kansas State Classic to QTI 2.0 converter recommended by Instructure. Works great, import is smooth except...

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Greetings Everyone: I am trying to create a critical thinking exercise for EMS students.  What I would like to do is present a scenario and then a series of questions.  Each correct answer would allow them to progress to the next question, but incorr...

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Can we modify Canvas default Welcome Tour? We are trying to add custom links and videos to the Default welcome tour.

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Hi Instructure Product Team and Engineering Team,I want to provide feedback on the new tray for Assign Access in Assignments.An instructor said that she couldn't save her assignment when clicking on the Save button. The reason why she couldn't save i...

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I copied a couple of assignments and discussions from other courses (they had similar format to this course).  They had due dates from 2022, which I then removed. I then copied the format for the entirety of the course.  Canvas is still showing that ...

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I would like to receive a notification when a student does not submit an assignment past the due date and time. Is there a feature for this already? I'm struggling to find it. I can only see when students submit things on time and late, but no notifi...

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I was wondering if anyone knew of an easier way as an admin to add people to past courses. For example, our spring term ended a month ago and the course end dates reflect the same. I have a new faculty member who needed access to one of those past co...

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Would love to hear from campuses using Google Assignments LTI 1.3 within Canvas that run two Google Tenants (employees and students) Does the Google Assignments LTI 1.3 feature within Canvas work with multi-tenants? Issue: When an instructor creates ...

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I'm a contract lecturer and found the Course Roster (I think that's what it was called) useful for identifying students and some info about which Masters course they were doing.  The only tab now is the "People" one, which is far less useful 

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Hello, I have created a quiz at the end of my Articulate Rise360 course and uploaded the SCORM file to Canvas as a graded assignment. I can see that a percent score is recorded in the gradebook, but is there any way to see data for the individual que...

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Like many others here, I am frustrated at the lack of TurnItIn integration for Discussion boards posts. I am wondering if anyone has tried to create an assignment that requires peer review as an alternative?From what I can tell, it would fail to prom...

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