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I need the consumer key and the shared secret so I can use the lockdown browser.Please help. 

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I no longer see the option to "find a rubric" when creating a rubric.  I would like to use a rubric that I already created from another course. 

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I'm trying to import my courses from last year and they don't show in the drop down menu of choices of courses to import.

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I was just updating a single assignment item in a course in Canvas.  I selected “Save” and Canvas did nothing.  Then I saw there were no dates at the bottom of that screen?  I selected “Manage Due Dates and Assign To” and discovered that there should...

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Hello, When setting up a Quiz there are three adjustable dates: ' Due At,'  'Available From' and 'Available Until' I understand that the 'Available Until'  date will allow students to take the quiz until this date. Question:  Can students still see t...

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I was supposed to copy in my actual Chemistry I course a file sent from my academic coordination, but instead I copied my Chemistry II course from the last semester which does not matches with the one I had to copy. How can I undo or eliminate or can...

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I see posts from teachers from up to two years ago (2022) asking Canvas if and when they plan on developing a feature to allow teachers to view student assignments in real-time. Microsoft and Google have this feature embedded in their platforms, and ...

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Hello-With AP courses going all electronic starting next year, my school is starting to require students to take assessments using the Respondus lockdown browser on their iPads. Is there a way for students to annotate documents for multiple-choice qu...

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When adding new assignments, is there any other way to move them in the instructor gradebook other than dragging them one by one through all of the other assignments in the gradebook to get them where you want. I would assume that if I put them in th...

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I have formatting requirements for assignment submission, but Canvas will sometimes distort the font and spacing when rendering the submission in the Gradebook.  This makes it impossible to check the formatting without downloading the document.  I al...

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When I run the Link Validator I often get result messages I don't understand: E.g, it will say:       download?wrap=1  or      Non-existent content referenced in this resource:  gc9122a6cadcd158cbff96b2017ee3ba5 or          download?download_frd=1 I ...

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I am a student and new to Canvas; I have added a secondary email for notifications, but I cannot enable SMS notifications. I have gone to account > settings > ways to contact > other contacts > + contact method, but the only options available are "em...

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Is there a way to globally set accommodation settings for one student for a whole Canvas course? For example, I have a student who is to receive 1.5x the normal time limit on all quizzes and tests. The course has weekly quizzes. That is a timely task...

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Good afternoon,  I am working with a faculty member on trying to create an assignment that she said was easily doable in Bbl when we had that as our LMS last year. This group project involves groups of 3 students (she has 32 students total) producing...

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I often use the external tool option in my assignments, so students have their own document, chart, slide etc..to type on.  However, I have 13 students who are unable to use the external tool feature.  When they click on the blue letters to access th...

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Why is speed grader all messed up?  My classes are in reverse alphabetical order.  It drives me crazy.  I need my canvas grade book and speed grader to be set up the correct way.  

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I have a teacher who has assignments with greyed columns. When you click to add in grades , you can't put in anything. If we click the arrow and go to speedgraded, I can enter a grade. I checked the due dates and the module is published.

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I have a teacher whose course is published, but the parents cannot see the content in the canvas parent app. Any suggestions? 

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To all So I'm a newly minted admin.....still learning.  There's a person here who knows more than I but apparently not enough.  She "Moved" all the courses to this new school year and that part looks good.  The issue is none of the student accounts a...

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Hey all-Looking for some help for myself and other teachers in my building. When creating assignments in Canvas last year, the boxes to enter dates, calendars, etc. were just at the bottom of the edit assignment page. This year, we now have to click ...

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Hello @chriscas Please help in resolving the issue of email not being sent to users after uploading through CSV in canvas. Any solution would be greatly appreciated. Also I have attached  the screenshot for  your reference.Thank you in advance.

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Hi,I hope you can provide a solution to this problem.I am adding new questions to a new Question Bank (classic) but it only saves a single question!It retains the last question I have saved to the Question Bank.It is extremely frustrating to lose tim...

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As a student new to Canva, where do I find course due dates for assignments and course start dates?

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Is there a way to disable the "Record an audio or video comment" option in Compose Message?     We have already checked 'Disable uploads to Canvas Media from the enhanced rich content editor'. Thanks,BJ

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There used to be an option in Canvas to add a rubric from another course. It would allow you to scroll through a list of rubrics and select one. Is that option gone now? Is the only option now to import existing content from another course? 

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Previously in speedgrader I was able to have students resubmit assignments and quizzes.  That option has dissapeared.  Any suggestions on how to have the students resubmit.

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I have various sections for one course. I want to combine all these sections when taking attendance instead of selecting each section for attendance. How can I do this?

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I am in my teacher dashboard and there is no to-do list showing up on the side. I've tried to search settings and I can't see any option to "turn it on" per say. I've tried different sizing of my browser to see if it's just hidden because the window ...

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My Canvas dashboard was recently reformatted to only be 2 classes across instead of 3. I tried to clear my cache, refresh Canvas, etc. 

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