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I have an multiple choice exam (old quiz). I set it up to give the average of two attempts. There was a technical snafu that required an extra attempt be added (all done and managed, quiz is closed). Now I want to change it to give the highest score....

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Does anyone know how to resolve this? On Microsoft Edge version 129.0.2792.52 (Official build) (64-bit) we are having real problems not being able to access the dropdown menu in Modules. When you click on the traffic lights/vertical kebob the drop-do...

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I have been developing webapps to make my course content more interactive, engaging, instructive, accessible, and responsively formatted for mobile users. I have found that it is entirely possible to save markup, media, and scripts to a file structur...

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I set up a rubric for my students to peer review 3 submissions.  I want the students to view the results from the rubric, but I cannot figure out how to enable that feature.  How do students see the rubric results from the peer reviews?

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How do I forward an email stream to a department head, since the department head is not listed as part of the class? 

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Hello! I have a teacher who was invited to 2 separate Canvas classes (two different schools) as a co-teacher. She was able to create an account for one just fine and can see the class. When we logout and follow the link to the second class/school, sh...

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I have a student retaking one of my courses. They submitted all the assignments last year, and when I re-enrolled them, they are all still in the system. Is there a way to clear those out? I tried removing him from the course and readding, but they a...

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What would cause Canvas to assign a zero to an assignment that is not yet due.  We have checked that the due dates are correct for the assignment.  And it doesn't happen to every student in the class, just a few. I'm not sure what else to check.  TIA...

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HI Team, Blueprint objects can be lock / unlocked - great. Why are there no such features in the account template? It would be SO EASY to maintain course consistency that as new courses are being populated by the SIS that if certain pages / modules c...

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I like writing on the student's documents that are submitted, but every time I have to change the setting back to my preferred grading setting and this is a big inconvenience. Any idea on how to save my preferences for grading so I do not have to do ...

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The student answers to numerical questions, either by formula question or numerical question, doesn´t accept scientific format such as m*10^n or mEn. I have seen some answers in the past in the community but at the moment (September 2024) still the p...

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Recently we had a professor report to us that the expander button to make the text box larger as well as the full screen button were no longer present when in the SpeedGrader. While the text box appears to be slightly larger now to accommodate this i...

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When I copy an assignment from one section to another it automatically assigns it to the imported assignments category. Is there a way to fix this so I do not have to reclassify it every time?

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I want to set all grades for a particular assignment to missing and be a zero. However, I do not want to be the case for all assignments in the grade book. I know there is a setting for making that the case in the whole grade book but I do not want t...

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MI code works when setting default grades but EX does not. Can this be added?

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I'm looking for insight and tips for how to manage discussion boards for a 140 student class I'm teaching. The class has 6 sections and to facilitate student comfort and allow the similar questions to be asked in by the same student (but in different...

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I hope I'm not asking something that is answered elsewhere already, as I wasn't even sure how to frame the question to get the answer I was looking for. Is there something that would prevent one student's assignment submission from not downloading wi...

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Hello, Is there a way to get a grade report of every faculty member each week to see that grades are being entered by each teacher? Thank you, Haley 

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My student's scores from EdPuzzle are whole numbers in Canvas but when sent to Synergy (Edupoint) they come in as a decimal number.  EdPuzzle technically shows a percentage in their gradebook.  I don't know if the difference in scores are a Canvas is...

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Last year the process of selecting an individual course in the gradebook got way more cumbersome (I'm sure you all know this), requiring using the dropdown menu. This is such a time waster, given that I do this multiple times per day. Last year my wo...

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This is maddening!  The visual clutter under the "People" tab is so annoying!  They don't show up under the "Grades" tab!  "People" should work the same way.

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I am trying to take an exam in Canvas, but when I click on the Begin button to start the exam, nothing happens. I have done everything from clear cache and cookies, use a different browser, update my browser to the latest version, update Proctorio to...

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I am an instructor in an accelerated high school. We just started using Canvas this year. I have experience with Canvas from a previous job, but I'm encountering a situation I can't seem to solve.What we usually do at my school is this: students are ...

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When I first started takimg classes with my professor we always had access to the assignments tab and it was actually life saving. just recently when the semester started she tryed to add the tab back to all her classes and recieved a nasty email fro...

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I am looking for a way to download all of my students' submissions at once for an assignment. I looked at help topics and the download all submissions is not there on the drop downs.

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I have two last names and I used the incorrect one when I signed up for Canvas. How can I change it?

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I am an instructor. A student uploaded a document to the wrong assignment page for a module later in the course. They also submitted it to the correct assignment page. I keep seeing it in my "To Do" list for grading, so I want to delete it. How can I...

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In my rush to check the attendance, it was placed on a different date. Is there a way for me to just get the attendance that I logged and transfer it to the correct date? Since there are total of 153 students in the roll call

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Is there a way to change the color of an assignment in the gradebook to indicate that it is no longer available?  Ideally, a student could look at the gradebook and see assignments that aren't available (a red header), assignments that will close soo...

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Has anyone else worked with the Vista Higher Learning (VHL) integration, and noticed that after an assignment has been set up and the gradebook has been synced, when students start completing the assignment it generates a second assignment "shell". T...

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