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Issue: subtitle file not uploading for video files within a page   The videos have been uploaded to a Canvas course and organized on a page. When clicking on "Video Options" the panel comes up and allows a subtitle language and file to be chosen. Aft...

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When an assignment has a rubric to use for grading enabled, is there a way to have that rubric automatically open when you view assignments in speedgrader?  If I've enabled a rubric to use for grading, then I want it available for grading on each ass...

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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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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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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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I know it is possible to edit availability and due dates for multiple assignments at once, but I can't find a place to achieve the same for modules. I have students complete a module ahead of each class, and in subsequent semesters I would like to be...

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There seems to be ongoing issues when using Canvas through the Safari browser.  I don't know if there is such a thing as a record of the things that won't work, will work with a workaround or will only work using another browser.  Loads of people use...

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Can announcements, or any due dates, be sent to students by way of text messaging?  I have students asking for that feature. 

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I originally set a late policy of 5% per day with a floor at 50%.  I decided that I wanted to remove that policy.  When I go to change it, I do get the warning message: Changing the late policy will affect previously graded submissions. After uncheck...

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There are a lot of questions in the Forum about standards based grading in Canvas.  My question is:  Is there anyone that has come up with a creative way to use the traditional gradebook and the mastery gradebook together to assess and track standard...

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Hi everyone, Is there a way to download all student responses for an assignment in New Quizzes? We use student work and responses for our annual assessment review. This year, a lot of our assignments, quizzes, and exams have been built using New Quiz...

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The guide "Taking a New Quiz" states students can save their progress on an untimed "new quiz" by clicking "return" then later "resume" and finish it later, however my students did just that in front of me and when they clicked resume it had not save...

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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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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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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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My students submitted an essay on the google doc external tool. When I click into the assignment there is not a "download submissions" button.  It is not there in the grade book either.  I noticed it is there for the assignments that they upload a pi...

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How do i add users to a section? I created a course, but i teach this course to different groups (group 101, group 102 etc), i want add the users to their own groups but i could not find any add users menu in the sections area. When I enroll people t...

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Dear community, I am new to Canvas and its API.  As many others here, I would like to be able to disable and enable my users temporarily. AFAIK there is no direct API call for this so my idea is the following: - Search user by its SIS ID (which is id...

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I am required to report student attendance weekly in hours and minutes. Is there a way to determine how much time a student actively engaged in Canvas on a specified day or week? It appears Canvas tracks in the same way a student who logs in but does...

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Is there a way to engineer it so that a student cannot submit an assignment before another one is completed WITHOUT making them complete assignments in sequential order and WITHOUT hiding subsequent modules from them? I want my students to have to su...

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(I'm using Canvas in laptop) I don't know how to report a bug but I think I found a bug in file submission. I accidentally click the submit assignment button without attaching the file first, so canvas notified me that it can't pass an empty submissi...

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Lately the updates made to Canvas haven't been great. If I am regrading an assignment I want to see all previous comments - I don't want to have to click on the previous version to see older comments. Having each item in To Do open in a new tab is bi...

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We are noticing a behavior that, when adding enrollments to a course that is not synced with our Student Information System (say, a faculty development or cohort-specific internship class), we are unable to use the participant email address. Only the...

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Is there any way you can update the teacher notifications to allow reposts for discussion boards to come in on our dashboards? When a student goes back in and edits (either an original post or a reply) after I have already graded it I am not notified...

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I'd like to create sections with a quiz with instructions for each section (maybe a multiple choice section, followed by a T/F, etc.). How can I do this? I'd like each section to have its own set of instructions, and to be able to randomize item orde...

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Some of our students (not all) are having an issue when trying to access Office365 using the in course link.  When they click on the link, they are getting the login button and are being routed to our organizational sign in page.  However, after ente...

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