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Hello Canvas Universe, I'm looking for a way that I can easily check who has submitted the full number of posts required for a discussion activity. For example, an initial post and reply to someone else (2 posts total) is required. I would love to be...

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If I give students with accommodations additional time on a Canvas exam in the quiz section (let's say the exam is 90 minutes, 1-2:30pm, and I'm giving students with accommodations until 3:15pm to complete it), but I set the due date/time at the time...

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Could anyone please advise how you can change the font colour of bullet points numbering when used within a cell in a table as below?  As currently, I do not appear to change their colour to match the text font colour (example below).  Many thanks.

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Is there an API to update sub-account theme colors and logo?

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Hi Wondering if there is anyway to stop students downloading files. So, when I upload a document into a page and set it to preview inline, it shows that little download arrow, I want to be able to remove that so they cant download the file. Any clues...

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I would like to suggest that the Inbox feature can be disabled at instructor's discretion. Having a second source of communication doubles our effort to catch up with students' communication. I already know that Canvas thinks it is crucial to keep it...

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Moving a single question is easy, as shown here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-move-or-copy-a-question-from-one-item-bank-to-another/ta-p/584 But what about mutlple questions? This process is tedious as I'm trying move ...

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Is there a glitch with having "correct answer comments" and "wrong answer comments" sometimes not showing up after students have completed a classic quiz in Canvas? The quiz settings allow students to view their quiz responses and also the correct an...

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Hello, we have a student who was in a course and did some work. They were then unenrolled and a few days later re-enrolled into the course. Their work does not appear. Is there a way to retrieve this work? We enroll and unenroll via SIS sync if that ...

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I don't have an option to post grades.  As you can see in the image below, the grades are all hidden.  How can I post grades?

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Is there any way I can be prompted on keeping or replacing files when they're attached to pages I'm importing? I reuse a lot of assets between my various courses, but I also update my pages regularly. Sometimes when I update a page in Course A, I'll ...

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Good afternoon.   My child's school uses canvas.  I am signed up for notifications.   BUT  Whenever a grade is posted I get 1 email for "your assignment has been graded" and the link to login and the same minute another notification for "your assignm...

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If I am editing a page's body field (HTML editor) and I add an empty div. For example: <div class="write-in-me-later"></div> Upon save this div is excised from the page, reopening the editor will find it missing.  Is there any way to prevent this rem...

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Hello, Like many of you, we have been using Zoom integrated with Canvas for quite sometime.  Our step up is pretty stable with minimal issues.  Zoom reporting through the LTI provides a method for instructors to see who attended the class session whe...

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Greetings everyone!Our campus is migrating to Canvas for the upcoming semester and I'm working on some of the different ways to layout a course.  My question is specific to modules and pages.I have seen course modules that become extremely cluttered ...

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Hi.  I'd like to put a link from my homepage to one of my Assignment Groups (under "Assignments"), without linking to any other assignments.  I'd even be happy to link to the Assignments page as I, the instructor see it (with the assignment groups se...

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Where do I find current contests? How do I create a contest?

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When viewing a course calendar as a Teacher, is it possible to distinguish from the Calendar View between which assignments are published and which are not?  I know that each assignment can be opened and it is apparent, and the same is true in the As...

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Hi there- I'm developing an LTI 1.3 Tool, and am looking to test with Canvas. I've had a surprising amount of trouble try to get Canvas running through the Quick Start and other Docker/Vagrant/VM-based deployment methods… wondering if anyone has a re...

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I want to give one assignment that has limited (1) attempts for most of my students, but not all.  I had a student submit the wrong file and I want that one student to have another attempt so that she can turn in the right file.  An admin deleted her...

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1-     The design that I found the most difficult to grasp, and understand is the experimental design. It was stated that initially, the conditions or variables were set, but who is the one that gets to set and determine what qualifies as THE conditi...

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Suppose I have several assignments in particular group.  For each assignment, I've sets dates and times for Due At, Available From, and Available Until.  Before publishing these, I want to review all the dates and times to verify they are correct.   ...

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Hello, I can't view the scenarios on my ipad or my iphone, nor can I view them by entering from my browser. (Safari) I have updated my operating system  

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I want to produce a list of sort video to illustrate mathematics concepts as supplementary course material. I think that using bite-sized video, probably several minutes video, can engage students and let them easier to understand.  I know Canvas has...

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Every time I click on the "Start Assignment" for any assignment, it doesn't do anything. It happened for one where we need to send a file and it also happened when we needed to reply.

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Trying to create our own SBG gradebook and would love to call all of the outcome objects in a course at the same time. It looks as if I can only call one at a time if I want the full amount of information about that object. Thought I could make the o...

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Dear Instructor, WOCNEC Experiential Pathway Program - Wound 2.0 I have completed all my assignments. Today last day of my course but i was unable to  access to complete wound exam 1 and Wound exam 2 shows course expired. I sent message to technical ...

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My late policy is that any assignment that is late takes a 10% penalty. It does not matter if it's 1 minute late or 2 weeks late, the penalty is always 10%. If a student submits an assignment graded as a 100%, but it's late, it's given a 90% final sc...

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Just upgraded to macOS Monterey and found that I am no longer able to navigate or use the mouse in the file upload dialogue box. This is frustrating because I am stuck in a random folder and unable to select out of it to the desktop where the file I ...

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We have a startup module in the beginning of all our courses. It is a pre-requisite for the rest of the modules. For a student taking multiple courses, having to do the startup module multiple times is a waste of time and unnecessary. What is the bes...

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