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One of my students was un-enrolled from school for a month and then returned. I deleted her from the course when she moved. Upon her return, I added her back to the course. She has not received the invitation, despite my resending it multiple times. ...

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What is the motivation for Canvas' hostile take-over of what should beinstructors' choices? Man should decide over machine, not the other way around.Canvas does not respect that rule. It should be an instructor'schoice to use a calendar or not, to us...

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Up until now (this semester) I've been having issues with the layout of the lectures, I assumed it was all the way across the board, which I probably shouldn't have, I'm just not good at asking for help.The lectures load differently for me than they ...

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Failure to follow explicit instructions notwithstanding, I don't understand how they are even able to do this, as I requested text entry on this assignment and did not tick the file upload box at all. Is this a bug or a feature? It's making my life a...

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I am hoping to have students submit entire equations as part of an answer but have not come across an automatically graded question type that allows this. Any advice would be appreciated!

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Hi, How to modify 'Set mastery for any score at or above' after an Outcome was Aligned to a Questions Bank? Thanks

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I keep trying to upload an assignment but every time I do I get this message that it fails I’ve tried every way but it just doesn’t work what should I do? 

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It use to be that  when I would write comments to students in an assignment  using Speedgrader and they would resubmit their assignment, I could still see my comments.  Now, if they resubmit, I have to go back to their original submission to see my c...

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Hello! I have a problem with my Canvas Student app on my IOS device. I just got a new phone and downloaded the app but every time I try to open the app it freezes (meaning it only shows me the screen where the Canvas logo is loading on a white screen...

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My grade book shows the exclamation points indicating that imported assignments are not calculated in the grade.  However, I have checked (through editing) all of my assignments and none are imported.  I have also gone into "Assignments" directly and...

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Why I can't log in to my Canvas account?  

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Hello everyone, According to this User's Guide, the category names in Blackbaud MUST match the ones in Canvas. But when you go to assignments, Canvas lets you pick the category to sync with.  DOes it really have to be the same name and if so, what do...

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For some reason, it is not allowing students to view the PDF to annotate. They click on the annotation tool and it gives them an error. How do I fix this?

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Under my ADMIN ACCOUNT, I do not have the SIS IMPORT sidebar link.  Can you please add this feature.     Thanks

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I made a matching portion of a quiz and it score the whole matching section as 10 points.  I wanted 1 pt per question, but if a students missed 1, they missed them all.  What gives?

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We need to export a Canvas course for use on the D2L platform. The D2L platform only accepts .zip files, how do we convert the .imscc standard Canvas cartridge export format to .zip? Any help is much appreciated!

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I know how to set a default grade for an assignment and assign everyone the same grade. However, is there a way to use the default grade function only for the students who actually submitted the assignment? Currently, if I use the default grading, th...

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I imported an old Canvas course into a current one. In creating a new assignment, I opened one of the old imported assignments in edit mode, copied the content, and pasted the content into the new assignment. My Canvas tabs promptly froze. I could no...

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When I do the password change by canvas settings, the new password only lasts 10 minutes, after that time it goes back to the old password. For security, I need you to keep the new password. Any advice?

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As a Canvas Admin, I am exploring and testing out the Canvas for Elementary to determine if it would meet our needs. I have a student who has missing work which is prominently displayed on Course/Subject card. Student View   When the Observer of the ...

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I had to reset my password so many times on onramps. I was unfortunately not able to finish my learning strategies 2 is there anyway that I can have a deadline or can it be a re-opened for me so I can finish it I would really appreciate it thank you ...

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I have exported my grade sheet to a csv.  Upon opening, I noted that a value that was exported is incorrect in the csv (for a single specific student on a single assignment).  I went back to the Canvas grades section, viewed the assignment and valida...

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Hello,   How do I enable Turnitin for assignments on Canvas?

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I created a multiple choice question and it is behaving as a fill in the blank question. In student view and preview mode, the question displays a text box for me to submit. In edit mode, it displays possible with a correct answer designated.  I subm...

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My To-Do List is not chronological. How do I make that happen? And if that is not a supported option, why not?

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My students have completed an array of assignments already but no matter what I put in, grades for each student show as 0% total in the total grade column. Why is this? When I navigate to my assignments portion of Canvas, some of the "assignment type...

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I try to use/watch Learning Mastery.The quiz assignment consists of three different topics (topic1, etc.), each of them is some multiple choice questions.My aim is to see the partial results of topic1 (etc.) per course, per students.Here is what I tr...

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Using Speed Grader with Discussion - In the past, I have been able to see each student's individual responses for a Discussion in Speed Grader. However, now Speed grader only shows a blank pane for a student. I can find their posts in the full discus...

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Hello, I am creating new Outcomes in Canvas and they continue to disappear after creation. This is to be used in the scholar's rubric for an assessment. Please see the attached video. https://youtu.be/OVlRHapVToU

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When I click in the score box (Grade out of 100) in speed grader, a dropdown list of values appears (10, 60, 100, etc.)  Until yesterday, the six values I used repeatedly populated.  This morning I updated my computer, and the values disappeared.  B...

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