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I am trying to book an appointment for N95 fit testing, which my instructors say can be done through the "Find Appointment" button on the Canvas calendar tab. I have booked appointments this way before, however this time as I am trying to book an app...

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Does anyone know of any third-party Canvas apps that can extend the type and scope of question types (and response types) for new or classic quizzes?

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I am trying to find a way to make individualized, recurring calendar invites for students that cannot be viewed by other students. As a speech-language pathologist providing individualized instruction, I cannot set one calendar for all of my students...

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My mom cannot access the observer tab/button thing when she clicks on Account. She would like to access this in order to pair an account with myself and my sister, who are students. For this reason, I tried setting up a new account for her, and autom...

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My outcomes in canvas for Ohio Science Standards are still from 2011 even though they have been updated since. I have asked my technology department and they have said they have contacted canvas. 

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I've read the instructor guide on Quiz Setting Options (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/What-options-can-I-set-in-a-quiz/ta-p/683), but I'd like to do something that perhaps is not an option (yet!). It would be helpful if there wa...

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I am a tech coach and a teacher came to me with an issue I have never seen. When she is looking at a Module, she is seeing these boxes instead of the green publishing circles. It was working one day and then changed on her. No one else, that I know o...

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Our institution just switched from Blackboard to Canvas. I rely heavily upon SCORM in one of my online classes, and everything worked well in Blackboard. One major issue with using SCORM in Canvas, however, is that Canvas only keeps the most recent g...

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I have imported staff as students to a training course using the SIS Import CSV I used the fields: course_id, user_id, role and status The staff are added to the course but their role name is Student observing: nobody instead of just Student Is there...

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The redirect tool is not showing up when you filter by name in the search bar.  When I go and manually add it tells me that it has already been added, but it doesn't show up when searching for it. I need to use the redirect tool to add a google doc i...

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I'm putting a new Canvas course together.  Because of the idiotic non-inclusion of sub-folders in Canvas Modules, I have an enormous number of modules set up in my course.  Because my slide narrations are sometimes spoken quickly, I decided to offer ...

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The process for one page is: open the pageclick "Edit"scroll downfind "Add to student to-do" box and click itenter dateclick "Save" I need to do this for some 100 pages! Is there a simpler way than going through all those steps for each page? Also, I...

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In the Canvas Gradebook, there was an option in the Grade column for an assignment to send a Canvas message to students who were missing the assignment.  Where did this go?  This is frustrating as a teacher who wishes to send communication quickly to...

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We will be creating questions banks, each with about 300-400 questions. The total number of questions across all assigned readings will be in the thousands. It will be almost impossible to manually add titles, alighn outcomes, and add tags to each qu...

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Hello Dear Reader!I'm struggling to get my code block to save and display properly when utilizing the embedding function in a Page; it quite literally only saves and runs the first 27 lines of code.Any suggestions or fixes?Code:"""<!DOCTYPE html><htm...

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Good morning all!I am trying to receive course material from another instructor at my school (common assessments), but I receiving an "Access Denied" message when I try to access the material.We checked the steps on her end to ensure the sending proc...

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I am a lab coordinator for a large chemistry lab course with 14 sections (and 9-10 instructors). These sections meet on five different days of the week and require different open, due and closing dates depending on their meeting day. In the past I wa...

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  In my course, I use prerequisites to help keep students completing the work in the correct order. The orientation process in-particular.  I have them do the following: Welcome module (view) -> Syllabus Module (view) -> Orientations... The trouble i...

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I have 4 sections of a class cross-listed with a new "empty" Canvas shell (this allows me to give the cross-listed mega-class of 4 sections a unique title). In this course, I have 1 group set and had Canvas auto-assign students to groups of 5-6 (stud...

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Does anyone have an effective way to incorporate layered curriculum into Canvas?Short summary: layered curriculum allows students to choose which assignments they want to do to achieve mastery. C-level are base knowledge (75 points), B-level are more...

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I would like to put a link to the Canvas calendar on a page, within a module, for students and parents to quickly access. Is there a way to do this?

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I teach many different subjects, half of which are anatomy courses designed from an introductory non-majors course on up to a graduate-level course.  Many of the questions I use require identification, so I have built hundreds of question banks (usua...

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How do I avoid viruses?How do I ignore these spam alerts in the picture?Please look at the top right of the picture. 

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When I am copying content from one course to another, and use the select content feature, why is the content in the parent course (the course I am copying from) not alphabetized. I spend a lot of time hunting for the content. Seems like this should b...

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If I posted an assignment to an unpublished course, would students receive an email notification?

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Hi I was wondering if it's possible to remove the menu on the right-hand side of dashboard for students/ admin as we want (see image1 attached ). Also, can you please tell me can we remove only a section of the menu (see image 2 attached)Does anyone ...

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I have created the quiz and assignment and published it but it doesn't show up under modules?  Some of them do and some don't but the only way they can view it in student view is under assignment or quiz, but I want it to show up under the modules so...

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 I just finished doing a practice quiz but after submitting it the module froze on the assessment result screen which is preventing me from moving onto the next module. I've tried leaving the page, restarting my PC, clearing my cache and re-signing i...

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Hi, I am working with a faculty member who is trying to solve a specific issue for his course. He wants to have the Automatically apply deduction to late submissions option enabled.  He wants to have deadlines for assignments be due at 11:59 PM but s...

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 As the image attached says, the Proctorio extension may soon no longer be supported because of this Google change but does it mean it will be disabled?  We still use Proctorio on all our exams and we use Chrome by default so do I either switch brows...

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