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Students are asking which Section they are in, but nowhere on my homepage is that information found. We do not use the People tab and prefer to use the Participants Profile tab by Peerconnect. Thus I wanted to know if a student's section could be a t...

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I was not at work to what is the testing date for the students

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Any updates on whether we will be able to align outcomes to questions within an item bank?  I've seen previous posts regarding this inquiry, but nothing recently.  Thanks!

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I'm wondering if a district admin can see district-wide student completion results in a blueprint course? Or results by school? There will be around 125 courses, and we simply need to track student completion (by unit if possible). So, for example x ...

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Is there a way to change the notification preferences for all students from the default using the API?We would like to reduce the notification frequencies without having to make all the students do it. It doesn't seem like there is a way to do it via...

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Our LMS can integrate with REST APIs from the big LMSs, but Canvas is currently giving us grief.  We go through the steps that worked when we were developing the Canvas library for our system, but, now, we do not get the option to authorize the app. ...

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Hi,  So I have comments disabled on announcements, but students can still reply to the email notification and posts (often sensitive information) for all to see. Is there any way to shut this off completely?  (Also, I wish the announcement emails wer...

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Office 365 is not responding to Canvas. That is my error message when creating an assignment. I created it in Word and want to assign it in Canvas. Just started acting up this past week.  I have made the assignment in Google and Edge browsers but nei...

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We need a way to automatically reduce students' final grades for unexcused absences.  The roll call tool doesn't allow for grade deductions and is based on a percentage vs straight deduction point/s.  We tried a workaround that adjusted the final gra...

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Is there a way to make the student watch at least 60% of the video - then completion will be enabled? 

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Are announcements available to a specific group or every group? is there any way to send announcements to individual groups within a course?

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We have a district of students that are not able to submit assignments using the Google Assignments LTI integration as of Monday.It keeps saying that their domain does not allow files to be shared outside the domain. We have cross-referenced the doma...

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I'm a training manager, and we use Canvas for employee training. I am looking for a report that shows me the names of my course participants, with columns for each activity in a course (modules or quizzes) and the date on which each participant compl...

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Quiz : editing a possible answer in Multiple choice as well as Multiple answer- when clicking on the pencil to edit it takes me to the top of the quiz not giving me the option to edit. This does not happen all the time but it is happening often enoug...

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Is there a way to assign training videos to staff and track them? Is there a certificate showing proof the module was completed? Is there a list of recommended videos for first time canvas users? As a first time admin, is there a video that will teac...

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Does anyone know when and if  New Quizzes will be getting a "question group" functionality as used in Old Quizzes for the circumstance below ? Specific use case:  In old quizzes, you can separate a test/quiz into different sections. A professor would...

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When creating a quiz in new quizzes, how do I create question groups that draw randomized number of questions from pool?

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In reviewing reports generated in the New Analytics Online Attendance, coming across the issue that there are numerous duplicates of the same student. In fact some students have more than 10 occurrences, same info and cannot explain why? I have attac...

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For this feature to work in Canvas, must the teacher and students use the same google network?  For example, our teachers use our vendor's google drive and the students we teach use their school district google drive.  Do the sharing, copying, etc. f...

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I recently imported some additional content to my course. My grade book stopped working correctly as soon as I did, and I lost all my final grade calculations. I have since deleted that content and my grade book still have assignments that were delet...

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is there any way to sort grades by submitted or not? I want to go in and just grade a few early submissions and want to do a column sort by submitted or not. The pre-programmed sorts won't sort by submitted or not.

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As a student that suffers from perfectionism, I wanted to ask if there is any possibility to change and/or remove old nicknames from past enrollment courses. I found out that I can change the colors of old courses on the calendar tab, but nicknames w...

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I use models as a means of instruction for various tasks for my students. I would like the gradebook to automatically mark the assignment I created as complete when the student checks the box Mark as done. Is there a way to make this happen? The stud...

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Good afternoon,   We are seeing an increase of students having issues Authenticating with Google to access assignments/drive/docs ect. We have tried going into Canvas and removing Google Drive, go into their Google account and remove Canvas, cleared ...

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There seems to be an old thread about this, but the issue is still persistent. I have some PDFs that I post on Canvas that are quite long (lecture notes that are in an almost textbook-like format, a "book" of homework problems I have written, and lab...

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Somehow the sidebar with topics like modules, discussions, media, grades, ect. disappeared.  It makes it very difficult to navigate while in each class.  Does anyone know what happened and how to fix it.  I went through all the settings and did not s...

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When I attach a file (e.g., a PDF file) to my "assignment comments" in SpeedGrader, it seems that my students can see these files but I cannot see them (e.g., if I want to check if I have attached the correct file or if I want to see the comments tha...

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Hi, the recommended article for delete a course does not work; there is no "delete" option under Settings. Thank you, S Shepard

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Is grade display on course icons on the dashboard not availalbe through the Web interface? If it is available that way, how does one turn it on?  Thanks!

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Moving a single question is easy, as shown here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-move-or-copy-a-question-from-one-item-bank-to-another/ta-p/584 But what about mutlple questions? This process is tedious as I'm trying move ...

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