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I do not understand why students MUST get all matches correct in canvas matching questions. This seems to be incredibly limiting and goes against all best practices in student assessment and grading. Surely there is a way for Canvas to create a match...

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I have a student who has been using our school email (google account) to log in all year, but we do not use the log in with google button due to not knowing how to change the displayed name for grading (until now I figured that out).   Now the studen...

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I teach a course where I have the students do a two part exam which I then combine into one score and then I drop the lowest exam grade of 3 exams. Thus my question is can this be done somewhat automatically in Canvas? Structure: Exam 1 (Part 1) * 60...

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I'm working with an instructor who has two course sections, L1 and L2. A student was moved from L1 to L2 due to scheduling conflicts. The Attendance Report has retained his L1 attendance and his L2 attendance. However, the Attendance score reports on...

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Who is the best contact person to ask question about Folio?

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Several students, couple different classes submitted work, can show me the proof on their phones, but the submissions don't show up in my interface. Why?

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I would like to omit a graded exam from the final grade total. I wished to change the point total for the original exam, but I used the classic quiz function. By using the classic quiz function, it's my understanding that I can't change the total poi...

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I have been trying to export a quiz so I can import it into a question bank. I am using the old format quizzes. However, when I export the quiz, the file is just a folder of several other folders of .xml files with no QTI files, so I cannot import th...

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I have instructors using New Quizzes and several of them are trying to design a quiz where students have the option to answer four or five out of ten available questions. How do they adjust the point values either in the Build section or during the e...

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Hi There Is it possible to make the List Enrollments (https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/enrollments.html#method.enrollments_api.index) API call without receiving "user" data in the response body?   Here is an example request: https://qwickly.ins...

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We are using the Canvas-delivered APIs to integrate course and enrollment information from our SIS to Canvas. Note that I'm referring to the APIs that are direct, one-off calls to update data in Canvas, and not the API call you can use to transfer cs...

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I'm trying to export my gradebook, and while all of the individual assignment grades export fine, the 'total' column (which is the students' course grade, and is the weighted total of the various assignments) does not export.  The column title appear...

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Is there any way to email the professor of a past enrollment? I have some questions about my final and how it was graded yet the professor closed the course. Having not provided an email this is the only way I can contact them. I need to choose the c...

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Hello! I am a high school English teacher trying to give my final exam in Canvas using lockdown browser. I used New Quizzes to create the exam. When I go to my lockdown browser settings to require it be used to take the final, it simply loads forever...

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Greetings fellow Humans, Just want to say I have tried searching old posts and have found a few helpful ones that I saved for specific issues or things, but I am trying to find a true beginners guide. I have used a few LMS as a student but before cov...

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I am teaching 3 different courses using Canvas this semester. Two of them are fine, but the syllabus on one stopped loading last week when Amazon's servers went down and Canvas wasn't working. I have restarted the computer, but it didn't seem to help...

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Hi Instructure team,  How vulnerable are Canvas and associated Instructure platforms to the LOG4J vulnerability? Is any assessment underway?Without diving in too deep, I figured I'd ask the question since I don't see anything posted here yet. Thank y...

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I have been using canvas for years at my university and I have never had this issue.  For all my Canvas quizzes, I put a time limit.  A student emailed me about a final they were taking saying that instead of getting a countdown timer, they got a mes...

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Hi, I've noticed on our Canvas that any hyperlinks typed in in the Rich Content Editor are practically indistinguishable from the normal colour font. Once Published our standard theme is applied, but it is when editing/producing content it's very dif...

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Encountered this bug when importing a Classic Quiz into New Quizzes. The error says the precison needs to be the same in the min and the max. In the screenshot it clearly is.  I have 2 requests here: 1. Allow New Quizzes to be shared between instruct...

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The matching portion does not seem to award partial credit for answers. How do I fix this?

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Hi there   I am trying to enrol a student into their second course in Canvas but keep coming up against a big fat no. This student is already enrolled and working through their first course. The system does not allow me to enrol her in another course...

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Suppose I have a formula question in which there is one variable; for example, a variable "p" representing a probability. Is there any way to have the question text (not just the answer) include an expression that is dynamically computed from this va...

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I am an instructor teaching an asynchronous online course. I'm experiencing the glitch in Chrome (and other browsers) where, if you attempt to edit a quiz answer in HTML - the 'Toggle Editing answer text in HTML' button - (necessary for superscript a...

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I used emojis/icons to give students a visual reference as they look through a module. For example, the title for a reading assignment ends with , and an instructional page ends with . About a month ago, the icons all changed to black and white on ...

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I have a quiz, for which I would like to copy the questions into a specific bank.  The problem is that there are multiple identical questions in the "Unfiled Questions" bank, most of which throw up broken picture links.  How do I determine the specif...

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I am recently experiencing difficulty with duplicating quizzes.  I have copied a quiz, imported it fresh from my master shell, exported and imported but every time I do it it changes the name of the quizzes before it or deletes quizzes.  Am so frustr...

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I am all of a sudden getting this image and unregistered grades in Canvas. The assignments I grade show as 'new' with an orange dot next to the student's name in the drop-down, and they don't register on the grade sheet.  I must have pushed a button ...

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Students can annotate peer submission with review text inside the DocViewer tool.  Is it possible to retrieve those annotation text data with Canvas data feed or via REST API calls? The submission_comment_fact table does not contain the review texts ...

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