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Hello, How do I download a video that was recorded on canvas? My son did a really neat video book report that I'd like to share with family but can't seem to figure out how to get it off Canvas.Please advise. Thank you,Kendra

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If you are the application owner check the logs for more information. This is an error message I got when trying to open an assignment I had linked to my google drive

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How do I stop a Module from continuing to the next Module? e.g. i have broken my course into 12 discreet lessons corresponding to 12 weeks -- when a student completes one lesson, i would like them to return to the home page and not move to the next m...

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Our K-12 school is looking for a good way to prevent students and parents from downloading proprietary videos and recordings of online classes. So far, we have been recording them through a variety of means and uploading them straight to Canvas, but ...

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Students submitted assignments by linking their Google Doc, and their documents were shown as gdoc, which I could not open. Could you please let me know how to open files with extension of gdoc?

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Link a url to an announcement

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I created a new canvas course, but all the announcements from the previous course transfer as well. How do I do a mass delete of all these announcements without having to individually delete each one? thanks in advance

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Hello Canvas community,I am a music teacher using this system for the first time. The conferences are generally successful with my students except for one important feature: When I share my screen with my students and we look at music software and mu...

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I've written a simple script to add a series of quizzes to the end of each module in a department.There's some other stuff happening around this to figure out the title, answers, and some other pieces, but the code at the bottom shows my API requests...

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Hello Canvas Support!My question:As a teacher, how do I pin a reply to a discussion thread?  I want all students to read it, so don't want it to go to the bottom of the thread. Thank you. 

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Can the instructor edit or delete recurring events in the Calendar? I think it is a very important feature to efficiently use calendar.

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Can someone enlighten me as to the purpose of the "Question Title" in a typical question (of any type — essay, multiple choice, etc.) in New Quizzes? Nothing comes up in searching this site. What is this used for? I don't see it appearing in the stud...

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I’m running into a Canvas issue where a new rubric I’m creating (complete/incomplete, with points removed) reverts criteria to alphabetical order when I post it. I’m not running into the same issue with rubrics that were created and imported from las...

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I provided students with an "extra credit" opportunity.  The extra credit was comprised of a case study with multiple choice 25 questions regarding the case.  I created a separate assignment group identified as Extra Credit.  Everything worked well e...

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I want to be able to change an assignment status to pending (or something like that) meaning the student has asked a question, I have answered and I am waiting for their response. This way I know who I need to follow up with and who I have already.

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After completing a quiz with question banks, I noticed an error in one of the answers . . . actually a student did.  When I go back to the question bank and change the answer, it does not regrade the quiz.  How can I make this happen.  PS I have 250 ...

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Starting to implement Canvas.  I manually created an Account Role for other non-technology district-level staff.  How do I add people to that new manually created Account Role?  Thanks, Rich

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Is it possible to set up reoccurring tasks or events in the calendar that will appear on the todo list

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I have imported a quiz and have read that these questions would appear in 'unfiled questions'.  But when I click on 'Find questions' only 1 question bank is shown, and this is the one I have created.

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I'd like to set up quizzes so that students see one question at a time but are able to skip and return to a question they can't immediately answer.  Right now if they press "Next" they're moved to the next question and can not return whether they ans...

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As a faculty, when I click reply (like on student post), the system spawns the text editor box (YEAH).  However, the cursor is NOT positioned in the upper left to start immediately typing.  This forces the author to click reply, allow the spawn, then...

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Can I get notified by email when someone posts to a  particular discussion, e.g. course-related Q&A Discussion?

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Can you change the YouTube search box so I can paste a URL for a video into it and it will find the video it links to? I'm sick of my videos looking wonky because search will find some videos, but then when I search for other ones- even if I use the ...

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I use a lot of announcements and copy them from course to course. Is there a way to adjust the 'delay posting' dates for all the announcements in one place (without having to go in and edit each announcement individually)?Thanks - couldn't find this ...

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Are there answer keys so I can grade more quickly?

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Hello, can I change the order of my quizzes on the Quizzes page? I am able to do that on the Assignments page, but I can't figure it out on the Quizzes page.

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I've figured out how to embed a Power Point into a Canvas page, but when I come back the next day, I get this message: Any ideas on how to fix this? I want to make sure my students can view the ppt. with hyperlinks that work. The hyperlinks don't wor...

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Is it possible to download completed quiz responses not just the results? I am looking to store the evidence for future audit purposes.

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In Canvas - under Quizzes I have two QuizzesQuiz 1     ---  10 questionsQuiz 2     ---  15 questionsHow do I merge these two quizzes in one quiz , rename it Quiz 3 with 25 questions

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Migrating old quiz banks to the new quiz engine:I have about 100 different question types, each with 5 versions. These are ones I've made myself--they are not from a publisher's question bank. That makes for 100 question banks--one question type per ...

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