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I am a math teacher and there is only one "question" in most of my assignments and quizzes - which is the "question" where students submit PDFs of their solutions in one file. Sometimes, the PDF shows up in SpeedGrader and I can annotate it right the...

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I have found an EXSISTING number of Hidden courses? there's an existing course 666 and course 404 and 505 what are these courses I don't have access but what are they and who are they for. If you have any info please let me know

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Is it possible to reuse a customized grading scheme in another course?  I recently created a modified version of our account grading scheme in one course and hoped to simply select the modified scheme in a second course.  However, the modified scheme...

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Hello.We have Edpuzzle integrated with Canvas district wide. Teachers did not integrate themselves. Some students are getting an error stating, “oops configuration issue, please contact admin.” We have cleared the cache and browsing history of studen...

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Peace everyone. This semester I started group discussions. I didn't want there to be a 40 or 50-post thread that was impossible for students to read through, and decided instead to have students (28 per class) assigned to three or four groups to make...

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I am a student, not an instructor. In MyCourses on Canvas, I created a group on the People page. I want to add students to the Group. How do I do so?

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My instructor posted an assignment 1 day before it was due when my school requires it to be posted 2 days before it was due. Some of the students didn't see it because the day before we assumed that there was no homework and I was one of them. We con...

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At this point in time, I realize that Canvas will automatically fill in late/missing for me if I have a submission that is Canvas based. However, if there is an external tool assignment or something that I am manually entering (on paper or other site...

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We have a number of faculty on our campus who use Excel in tandem with Canvas to manage various aspects of their courses. Our old LMS, Brightspace, had a one-click option to export a list of students and their email addresses. Canvas doesn't seem to ...

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I had the modules for all my courses for this week, and I was trying to copy an empty one to continue preparing next week's, I have the empty one in different course, but it replaced all the of these week's modules in all my courses with the empty on...

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I was so excited that Canvas finally created a way to edit all assignment dates on a single page, including the ability to batch edit... and then spring 2021 happened, and I discovered that the batch edit function is useless if you need to move dates...

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I am editing a survey I created as a single question quiz with many Multiple Answers. I copied it from last quarter's course, and would like to add answers to it and reorder them (it's a survey to find out when I should hold office hours, so the opti...

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I recently copied the wrong canvas course into a new "blank" one, so I would like to reset the course content and start over. I looked up how to do this on canvas and found this guide. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-rese...

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I've copied my course over from a previous semester and was easily able to batch update assignment due dates. But, I cannot figure out how to batch update the release dates of my announcements. Am I stuck updating the release date of each announcemen...

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Dear Reader,I am putting this out for consideration and hopefully effecting change. Could a new option be made in Canvas quizzes, in keeping with the naming scheme, Multiple Numerical Answers? This option would be similar to the present "Numerical An...

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I'm trying to delete a file in an archived course.  No Delete icon appears in the toolbar and clicking on Options doesn't help nor does holding down Control.  I'm the course's Teacher.

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At some point in time this last semester, by Canvas was turned to a dark theme. It is not the computer because it shows the same on multiple devices, so it was somewhere in the programming. The app still shows a light theme, so I am at a total loss.

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Hello there, my school is used to using Mastery Connecting so we can get immediate feedback on our standards. We give grades but we are also standards-based. We would love to only use Canvas, however, this has been a very confusing process. Our distr...

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Hi, While using an access token belonging to a student profile I tried out the submit assignment API. POST /api/v1/courses/{courseId}/assignments/{assignmentId}/submissions The response for the API is  {     "status": "unauthorized",     "errors": ...

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How can I view the old Analytics instead of the New Analytics?  The New Analytics doesn't give me all the same student information I'm searching for at a quick glance and requires much more clicking around. I just want to continue using the older vie...

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As a language teacher, I rely on students being able to record media directly into the Rich Content Editor on discussion boards and quizzes. Is this feature still supported in the new RCE?

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I am consistently having this issue.  I will assign a quiz and the image associated with the question will not appear when the students are taking the quiz.  Instead a white box will show up. I have had to print the test repeatedly.Some background in...

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I teach a large enrolment course and my role on Canvas is Instructor. I would like to be able to create sections within the course and add students to the sections easily. As of now, the only way I can do this is by going to people, clicking on each ...

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Does it just go by a percentage?  Right now, I have some assignments that are worth slightly different total points.  And dropping the lowest assignment by percentage will not necessarily be the assignment that a student would choose to optimize thei...

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I gave an exam in my class and it had 4 short answer questions at the end. Usually when I grade these and press update, the gradebook updates as well, however, with this one, I can see the updated score in Speed Grader, but the gradebook does not upd...

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After speaking with Canvas help, they said what I was asking was NOT available and to come here and make a suggestion. I did that, and then my post was immediately archived without allowing me to further comment. There is no option to create a rubric...

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Hi, We are moving to another LMS next year and i have been asked to find away to bulk archive all of Canvas especially student submissions as we are required to keep data for min of 3 years. Is this possible without asking individuals to download the...

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Please allow full editing capabilities from the Module so that teachers do not have to continue to return to the Assignments page.  Our assignments are much more organized in the Module, and it would be more efficient if I could schedule my assignmen...

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Hello all! My name is Erinne Kennedy and I am a faculty member at the Kansas City University College of Dental Medicine. We will be using a portfolio as a global assessment tool for our dental students. We are planning to use a portfolio software tha...

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In the New Quizzes tool I am not seeing a way to set a Fill-In-the-Blank question to be case-insensitive. I see that as an option if  I use the 'Close Enough' option based on the Levenshtein Distance but it does not allow me to set the Levenshtein to...

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