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I would like to see that the quizzes have the added feature of a suggested time limit, with the timer, yet allow students to go over the time instead of immediately closing.  For an asynchronous course, this would be beneficial for instructors to: Al...

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Our University has many very large courses that use Scantron sheets for testing, including student comments. In Moodle, we were able to upload these into a comments field in the grade book. It appears from older discussions that workarounds exist. Ca...

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I have a student who started test and was kicked out immediately. There is no record of her attempt in "Moderate" section however, I can see her attempt in Proctorio gradebook. The poor student is waiting. How can I reopen it in moderate tab when the...

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This article says that I should be able to sort gradebook by first name, but it only sorts by last name. I followed the instructions, but all it did was swap first and last name, but the sort still used the last name. How can I sort by first name?Tha...

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I exported the course content, but when I try to import it into another course, after selecting the file and clicking the import button, it says 'pre-processing' in the 'Current Jobs' section. After 1 hour, it gives a 'timed out' error. I deleted the...

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Hi, We are just starting using HMH IntoMath (Grades 6-8).  We are struggling to get assignments to sync.We got the "Are You Ready?" to sync but only have had a little success to get the "On Your Own" to sync.  One teacher did, one didn't but posted t...

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Hello, I'm looking for a single field in the Gradebook that can be used to send an API call to a third party system (Salesforce I think) to trigger the student's course completion certificate.  My problem is, most of our courses have multiple assignm...

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I am an instructor and I have used both Google Docs Cloud assignment and Google Assignments (LTI 1.3) and have this same problem with both types of external tools and I am frustrated and so are my students. Here is the problem: I create a Google Doc ...

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Is it possible to compare statistics on exam questions in different semesters? For example, after making a curriculum change, can performance on the same question be tracked over time (in different semesters)?

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I need help getting my Brisk extension to work in speed grader to leave student feedback.  Canvas supports Brisk in speed grader, however mine will not work.  Any suggestions??

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When teachers are giving feedback in Speedgrader, html code is being inserted.  Has anyone else noticed?

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I would like to upload PDF scanned copies of students' final exam as an assignment or quiz, so I can grade them on Canvas and have the PDF for record keeping purposes. Then, I want to hide the submission so students can see their grade but not the ac...

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When looking at grades in a class and choosing to sort grades with the grade book "view options", no grades are being sorted after choosing an option.  Grades are only being listed in alphabetical order of the title of the assignment.  I am attemptin...

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As we move towards standards based grading, we need Outcomes to be added to assignments without a rubric or without making a quiz. This is vital for ease-of-use for all teachers, especially those that don't use quizzes and rubrics, for example, our m...

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I used to be able to put my students in alphabetical order on the Learning Mastery Gradebook. I can on traditional but not LM. The individual columns can still be sorted by score but not the names...any ideas. Canvas is not answering when I send them...

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Hello, We're about to undergo the transition from BB9 to Canvas, and I have a query about how a useful mechanism we (Learning Technologists) employ to distribute course content from one to many with live updating, can be replicated.I have looked at t...

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Hello, I am a student and I am really struggling with the amount of time I have to spend reading text on a screen. I have spent the past few years reducing my screen time, and now that I have started school I am struggling with the massive intake of ...

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I'd like to be able to show students a rubric for their papers at the start of the semester. However, the rubric appears at the bottom of the paper assignment page, and that page is not visible until its release date, which is later in the semester. ...

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On my school districts network I can't log in to the university of Cincinnati canvas page. I keep getting an error message that says please verify username or password and try again. I am for sure using the correct name and password. I have even rese...

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I upgraded to the new macOS Sequoia Version 15, and now none of my course content loads. I tried clearing web data, ensuring website tracking and hide IP address were unchecked, but nothing worked. My Safari version is 18, which Canvas said it's supp...

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I am my school's Canvas admin.  I allowed my teachers this year to use the cross listing as a feature in order to save them time.  However, when I run the grade export at the account level, the CSV grade export which is generated from Canvas is showi...

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New Canvas School Here - k-12 secondary.   We have three divisions, lower, middle and upper.  I want to find a way to show teachers what other major assessments are being planned for any given day, so we can avoid overtaxing students unnecessarily.  ...

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Is it possible to include students' email in the csv file output from the gradebook?  Is there any way to output a CSV file that includes students' names, SIS IDs, Login IDs, and emails? Thank you very much."

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Is there a way to print my quizzes and feedback so i can have a record of them and go over my mistakes and find out what page they are on?

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Hello, I think it would be helpful for there to be a "Mark As Read" button on the Canvas Notifications email when there is a discussion post. I usually read all of the posts there and then later see in Canvas that I have multiple unread posts only to...

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I am unable to pair my student. Have reported multiple times vide complaint numbers:11177189110596771069910210691942 Would appreciate if someone at Canvas can look into my account and fix it. Thanks!

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I teach a course that is co-taught by 5 teachers with 130 students total. We have divided our students into sections, so they remain in the larger class but also have a section assigned to them. I would love to see ONLY my section of students on my g...

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Hi. About a couple of weeks ago, along with some patching that went on in Canvas, the ability to include carriage returns in the Assignment Comment library - seems to no longer exist. Specifically, when I create this as a comment, and save it in the ...

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