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Good morning! I have been asked to add campus events on the Blueprint/template course before it is pushed out for the next semester, so that the events will already be on all spring course calendars. I played with it in test but was unsuccessful.  Is...

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Hello. We need to require that students complete a course, let's call it Course A, before students take any other course, let's call them B and C. Its easy enough to require a module within a course as required, but we need to go further and require ...

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After manually concluded enrollment for a student the course disappeared from their Dashboard.Based on what I've reviewed in the help docs when cource enrollment is concluded the student should still be able to engage with the course in read-only mod...

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Hi there, I am fairly new to canvas from the teaching side, and I am trying to find the possibilities to create an event on Canvas that is subscription-based. Meaning, the event has a limited size, and we're exploring options on how to let students r...

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Hello,  Is there a way to hide or disable the grade box for Inactive students in the 'Submit Grade' in Canvas? We use ILP  -  Canvas, and Ellucian  (Colleague)  to pass the grades from Canvas to SIS.  We are a new  Canvas client, and the Inactive sta...

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I have given a quiz. The grades were mostly horrible. I am offering a make-up quiz with the understanding that I will take the highest of the two scores. (the original quiz score OR the score from the make-up quiz) How do I keep selected grades on th...

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Hi, I would like to change the image that we currently have on our Canvas login page, for breakthru College. Can you please tell me how I can do this?  See attached. Thank you, Isabelle

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Our college is new to Canvas and has discovered an issue that we are in a time crunch to solve. We have a capstone course that consists mainly of quizzes/tests that have to be passed in order for students to graduate. Our school has always allowed st...

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I saw PCC have this program and I am very interested. There is a total of 12 units. Does anyone know what's the estimated total cost and how long it takes to finish all 12 units? Thanks! I have been practicing yoga for more than 2 years as my hobby. ...

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I am having trouble removing the title of the "Term" that is shown on top of the side navigation area. When I go into Settings, it is not an editable area.  Please help!!

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I have created several badges for my courses and I would like to include them in a report.  The attendance report doesn't include badges and the Canvas help file states that they are included in a "course report."  Where do I access course reports an...

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In Roll Call, can the students see the badges that the teachers uses? What is the purpose of the badges? They do not show up on the attendance report? 

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is there a way to update or replace a rubric - lets say there's a typo in in - but students have been assessed against it - how can i update or replace the rubric? cheers

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Teachers in my building have different ways of organizing Canvas and I often cover Study Hall after school and help students with missing work.  When a student opens their grade report and has a missing assignment you can select the assignment and it...

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I graded an assignment and a few students did a revise & resubmit. When they submitted their revision, it showed up as an ungraded icon in the grade book again. I graded the revisions, but the ungraded icon is still there. When I click on the icon, i...

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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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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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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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A student submitted an assignment in two parts - one as a file upload, and the other as a text box entry. I can see the file upload submission, but I cannot view the text box entry. How can I view this text box entry?

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I have search through the help topics and none of them are helping.  I've read the instructions for fudging points to change a quiz grade for a student, but even though it looks like I can do this in Speed Grader, when I hit "update score" it will no...

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Hi: I am a teacher and I am providing comments to my students on an assessment using media comments. I prefer to just provide an audio recording instead of a video recording. Is there a way to create a default setting that goes directly to audio inst...

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Canvas Student app V. 6.13.2 Apple iOS version:  15.1 Device:  Apple iPhone 11 The overall grade appears for each course.  However, individual assignments grades are not displaying.  I see -/5 or -/10 for the grade.  On the Canvas Parent App and on a...

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I use New Quizzes to design quizzes for my course. I like the ability to add questions to Item Banks at the end of the semester and choose questions from the Bank.    I have noticed that I can view/edit Item Bank created by other faculty members. How...

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Hi! We read about Course templates and we would like to use this option but it remains unclickable even if we removed all enrollments and we went into the settings of the course as an Admin. We checked the permissions to ensure this was not the probl...

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In the old quiz feature, I was able to change the total points value for a single question to .5 instead of 1. I do not see this option in the new quizzes. Every time I try to change the points value to a decimal, it is defaulting to a whole number (...

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I often want students to complete assignments that I can use as formative checks or as step one of a larger project. They are submitting something, so I can't choose "not graded" when setting up the assignment since this gets rid of the submission op...

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I want to take a homework assignment, quiz, or other content from a course I taught in previous semester, copy it into my current semester course, modify it, and then publish it when I'm ready. However, anytime I copy something that had been publishe...

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I can see this question has been asked a lot in the community but it seems many of the replies contain links to documents that seem, to me at least, rather opaque. In almost every article on the subject it states "Canvas does not support file uploads...

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Hello! An instructor I work with would like to REassign a discussion using the REassign button in Canvas discussion however, the button doesn't seem to appear. I checked in other instances and course spaces I'm in and it doesn't appear when availabil...

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