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Hi  The video in my class Football and Society page 11-4 won't play and the students can't watch it. Anything you can do will be gratefully received. Thanks.   Dr Joe Mills  

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I copied a quiz from a previous course into my current one. On the new quiz, I deleted a couple questions so now the quiz is worth 56 points instead of 64. The quiz itself reflects the new point total of 56. However, the gradebook still thinks the qu...

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Hi all,   A while back we had to an exam, whereby the teachers used to student activity logs to indicate if you commited fraud. Although I haven't used canvas during the exam, had no browser window open and had my phone put away, the log still shows ...

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Has anyone else run into this sitution? I see the immersion reader button enabled on pages but when clicked the accessibily tools do not display. Thanks for the help! Jenn

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I had a student not follow directions and post on a discussion board where the groups have not been formed. I have deleted his post but need the page reset so I can create the groups for the next discussion. HELP!!!

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The "Students can only participate in the course between these dates" option is missing. Any ideas how to get it back? I understand "Restrict students from viewing course before course start date" is greyed out by admin settings, but not why the othe...

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Each term I have teachers reporting the same common issue happening in their Canvas Gradebook. We use course templates already built with course content, assignment categories, and gradebook. The Assignments have a point value already assigned and on...

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My students are submitting assignments online whether it's a screenshot showing they finished in another program or a pdf of a worksheet.  I would like each student to then be able to see an answer key so they can check their own work.  How do  I do ...

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Howdy! We have a user who ended up with two login ID's that we merged together in Canvas, but the classes they were enrolled into with their original ID don't appear in their dashboard when they login with the new one. Is there a way to fix that?

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In Blackboard it is easy to arranged one's gradebook categories by moving them around. In Canvas the manual move is awkward and difficult.  But if one of the sorting options was by assignment type, this would be helpful.  In any case, adding that sor...

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No matter the size or location I get an error message that says "Error: Unable to transmit file to the storage service. The service may be down or you may need to re-login to Canvas." I checked the site that shows if anything is down and all is good ...

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Hi. I have a course that based on the videos. I would like to get translations next to the videos via transifex. Is this possible to execute in Canvas? Thanks for your help. BR, Kati Marin

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Have anyone heared if and when the feature webcam submission will be possible whilst the Assignmnet enhancemnet ist enabled in a course?

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Not sure where to post this, but here are a few recommended upgrades to reassign feature: The reassign button only shows up on certain types of assignments. Media uploads do not show it but google links do - even when both are used in the same assign...

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Hello, I have been using Canvas for a few years now and this year I'm seeing some strange Speedgrader behavior for quizzes.  In past years I would see that a quiz had been completed and was ready for me to mark questions that need to be marked manual...

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Is it possible to download the list of people in the Groups I have created? I have four groups and I would like to have them as an excel or word table.

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I currently have a course with many assignments linked to Google documents using the soon to be deprecated Google App for creating Google Drive Cloud Assignments. A few questions: 1) Do I need to redo all my assignments with the new Google Assignment...

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What is the down side to turning on this feature now  in the admin  - we are new to canvas and so far no students have used it.... Thanks, David

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We are designing a global microschool to begin Fall 2021. It will be project-based, competency using attached outcomes for feedback, multi-teacher (5), multi-content (30 ish credit bearing courses), and multi-grade (9-12). We know that we will need t...

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Hello! Please, help. I'd like to know if Canvas exports the assessments results using the specification QTI - Results Report. I searched the Canvas documentation and the forums and couldn't find any mention of that possibility.

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After talking to several teachers in my building about their process for grading work by students with modifications or accommodations, I saw a need for Canvas to help with this process.  Right now, I list student modifications/accommodations on a sp...

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I have students working on an assignment that they submitted via document upload, and I provided comments. They then submitted a revised version of their paper (in the same assignment), and now they can no longer see my annotations from the first sub...

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How do I advance 1, 5, 10 or 20 seconds while viewing a video?  I know I can speed the video up, I'd please like to know how to jump a few seconds ahead, or behind.

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Hi Folks,  We're getting this request quite a bit, obviously this year more than ever here in the UK where we'd normally have exam rooms, invigilators etc.  What we're finding is that staff want to digitise their paper exam papers, but in order to re...

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Hi All, I wonder whether anyone tried to use the Canvas API to iterate through all the courses on Canvas and create CSVs per faculty/per course and export students' mark in a CSV for each course? I can get to the faculty to see the list of courses on...

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We use canvas quizzes for exams with question and choice order randomization. We want to export the student data for analysis, but most of the answer choices are embedded latex or images. Thus when we view the student report, the entry in the csv is ...

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Don't receive confirmation text message when trying to sign up for notifications. I am a student, but I don't get the text message and I have retried sending it multiple times. I also tried using another person's phone number and they didn't get the ...

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Has anyone experienced a problem sharing Item Banks with other teachers in New Quizzes?  I seem to be unable to do so.  When I click on +share, and type in a name, I just get the spinning wheel of death.

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I have been trying to enroll in the course called Ohio Standards for Educator Preparation which is supposed to be fully independent, but it keeps saying their was an error processing my enrollment. What should I do? No one else in my class has proble...

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This is in reference to querying Canvas data with SQL. Where/what field and table contains if a module is published to student view? When one views a course as student, one can see published modules. I need a count of this. The following query gives ...

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