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Is there somewhere to download the discrimination index? If not, why not?

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HI, I'd like to know the number of aggregate participations for a given week (ours runs Wed-Tues) for each of our 35 students. Does anyone know if this report creation is possible? Thanks, Vanessa

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I have been copying my rubrics in Canvas by using the import content feature in Settings. It worked great at first, but now I've run into some problems. I work at an IB school, so my criteria for any given assignment is always a variation of the same...

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Video showing in canvas - windows laptopNo video showing - canvas, iPadI am supporting a student with visual impairments that is using an iPad while we are a windows laptop district.  She is reporting that all embedded videos in her courses show up o...

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In my Skyward account, the comments on individual assignments are also syncing with the grade book in Skyward. The Canvas Guides specifically state that comments do not sync, so this was surprising when a teacher told me that their comments were sync...

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There are two problems with the new Google Drive LTI 1.3 tool. My colleagues and I use the file upload setting for submissions. If students use the old Google Drive tab, the Google Doc is converted to a Word or PowerPoint file, the students can no lo...

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Hi. I'm a TA and have been tasked with a project and I'm finding the posted information insufficient. We want to have an ungraded survey, the point of which is to ensure our freshmen have read the readings before class but without adding to our gradi...

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Can anyone tell me how/why even after I have "validated" broken links, reloaded those files into the course files, uploaded them again to the Module where I wanted them, checked to see that all are published, and re-validated them, they still show up...

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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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For the past several months (it seems), I have noticed changes to font sizes in text added to text boxes, so that part of the page will be noted as 20 pixels, other parts a 12 pt, etc.  The differences in size may be slight, but sometimes are very ob...

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I have used SpeedGrader to grade a quiz. However, each student's grade is still 0 for the assignment in the gradebook.  This discrepancy is easily seen in attached screenshot. How do I ensure that the students' grades are accurately reflected in the ...

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I recently posted about a glitch in the Canvas Calendar (it lists quizzes by their end date versus their start date causing confusion and students missing their quiz in such confusion). My post was immediately merged with a post on the exact same iss...

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Is there a way to delete a student submission so that turn in settings for that assignment can be reset? 

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I have scheduled my recordings in a panopto enabled classroom using the canvas scheduling tool; I would now like to use the panopto LTI to link directly to each of the scheduled recordings in the relevant canvas module. But, while I can see the sche...

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Hello, I have read about a teacher adding grading options like "Revise" or "Wrong Assignment" labels to the Complete/Incomplete dropdown. How can I go about that?   If it's not possible to add that there, how can I add it another way?   Thanks!

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Hello,   I commonly and prefer to use the Incomplete/Complete dropdown grading box. But would like the Incomplete to equal 50% of the total points and not 0. Can I do that? Thank you,  

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In the Canvas documentation (found here: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Infinite-Campus-and-Canvas/Instructor-FAQ-Canvas-and-Infinite-Campus/ta-p/424525), it states "Differentiated assignments are not supported in an Infinite Campus sync from Can...

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I have a policy where students can revise and re-submit for an updated grade. The issue I have is that I have set up a late submission policy with grade deduction. My policy is to deduct points for the initial late submission but allow resubmissions ...

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I have a student trying to submit work via TurnItIn on a Chromebook. when she goes to click the launch external tool button it either appears blank or says cannot launch tool.  She has managed to upload her assignment via her phone otherwise but it w...

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In order to give students a quick look at what their midterm letter grade is, I created an "Assignment" with worth 0 points called "Midterm Letter Grade" and "Final Letter Grade". However, when the letter grade shows up to students, it's in parenthes...

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Hi-- I'm an Instructor, and I've started using the comment library. I think its a great addition--thank you! It does make grading go much faster, which means a lot when I'm grading 75-100 papers at a time. However, I notice that my library carries ac...

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I am currently using the free teacher version of Canvas for a Geometry class.  We have had issues with internet connect at our school, but since it is finally working in my classroom, I have been having problems getting all students logged into Canva...

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I've added classes to Canvas but they never show up.  Is Canvas having issues?  How does one find out if the Canvas system is down or not working correctly? Thank you, Antonio

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Hi Everyone, We are looking to have a flat average in the Outcomes in the Learning Mastery of one of our classes. Essentially this would give us two gradebooks in a course. The calculation methods listed in the outcomes options is not suited to what ...

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Hello, A teacher created an assignment, simple submission type >  online > text entry. > due date tonight at 11:50 pm. When the student goes to the assignment in the module (which is unlocked and published) they can open the assignment, view the deta...

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Good day everyone. When creating a Discussion Board assignment has anyone figured out a way to assign a due date for an INITIAL post and a separate due date for REPLIES?   EXAMPLE: INITIAL POST: must be posted by Thursday at 2359 ESTREPLY: must be po...

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When I choose reports on an assessment I've just given, it consistently says "no reports yet'. I can't get all the information it says that should be available. What am I doing wrong?

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I cannt see anything but the Corq App ads after I logged in Canvas, the website is like this. What should I do? 

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Using Infinite Campus grade passback, we have one particular student whose grades won't sync. Each night, the sync gives this error: "missing "student_source_id" attribute" Has anyone ever experienced this error? The student has a correct SIS_ID that...

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