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I have two last names and I used the incorrect one when I signed up for Canvas. How can I change it?

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I am an instructor. A student uploaded a document to the wrong assignment page for a module later in the course. They also submitted it to the correct assignment page. I keep seeing it in my "To Do" list for grading, so I want to delete it. How can I...

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In my rush to check the attendance, it was placed on a different date. Is there a way for me to just get the attendance that I logged and transfer it to the correct date? Since there are total of 153 students in the roll call

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Is there a way to change the color of an assignment in the gradebook to indicate that it is no longer available?  Ideally, a student could look at the gradebook and see assignments that aren't available (a red header), assignments that will close soo...

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Has anyone else worked with the Vista Higher Learning (VHL) integration, and noticed that after an assignment has been set up and the gradebook has been synced, when students start completing the assignment it generates a second assignment "shell". T...

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I am  a Teacher's Assistant for a course and wanted to change the timings for my office hours, just wanted to know if people get notified when i change the simple syllabus or would i have to send out messages to the entire class about the change i ma...

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When a user signs in to Canvas , after how much time of inactivity will the user be automatically logged out ? 

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Is there a way to customize the automatic late deduction to a percentage per week late? I see the ability to deduct per hour or day late, but no longer than that.

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When students send me a message via Canvas, I get a copy in my university email the way I'm supposed to. In past semesters, when I replied to those students from my institution email, a copy of my reply would be sent to my Canvas Inbox. That is no lo...

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Is there a way to pre-set or establish rules for my weeks classes to publish on a certain date? Example, Monday is Week 3 and I want all that information to be published Sunday night at midnight. Or is publishing all manually done? Thanks

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Hi all, I'm having issues with SCORM and Canvas working with each other, when the same set up has worked previously.  Essentially, I have an Articulate Rise SCORM package. The publish settings were: SCORM 1.2 (also tried 2004 and API),completion scor...

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I have two courses, A: Spring Wrap and B: Spring Course.When a student has successfully completed B: Spring Course, I want their successful completion of the entire course or a specific assignment to automatically (or, if necessary, upon being trigge...

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I wanted to combine my 7th Grade (orchestra II) and 8th Grade (orchestra III) together. Instead I put the 7th Grade Orchestra into another class. Is there a way I can take the class out of another combined class?

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This is the first year that I allowed my teachers to cross list their course sections with parallel classes that they teach.  The course section number in the grade export at the account level is not matching the course section number in which they a...

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I received a pairing code from my student's teacher but when I signed up, I think she paired me with her account and made me a student instead of an observer for my student. I deleted her courses (I think) and now I don't have the option to use my st...

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Hello!Is there a way to insert external links to Canvas pages and have them open within the same tab/window?The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines recommends minimizing the number of links that open new windows or tabs. I've tried editing the HTML ...

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It would be great if we could have a feature like google classroom, where I can see and interact on a student's paper while it is being typed on. Right now, I can only see their work AFTER they have submitted it, which leads to them having to resubmi...

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How do most instructors run an online course? This will be my first online course I'm running soon!

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I use the Calendar Feed link from the Canvas Calendar so I can see all of the assignment due dates in my regular calendar. (That's the intent, right?) However, Canvas has started adding any courses with due dates into the feed, regardless of whether ...

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Whenever I create a rubric it adds "(1)" to the name despite not having a rubric with a similar name. What could be the cause of the problem and how do I fix that?? 

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My teammate and I have been sharing content directly all year. Today when she shared a quiz she created with me and I imported it, I could not publish it. I tried to reimport it and tried again to no avail. I created an entirely new module and import...

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I would like to see that the quizzes have the added feature of a suggested time limit, with the timer, yet allow students to go over the time instead of immediately closing.  For an asynchronous course, this would be beneficial for instructors to: Al...

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Our University has many very large courses that use Scantron sheets for testing, including student comments. In Moodle, we were able to upload these into a comments field in the grade book. It appears from older discussions that workarounds exist. Ca...

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I have a student who started test and was kicked out immediately. There is no record of her attempt in "Moderate" section however, I can see her attempt in Proctorio gradebook. The poor student is waiting. How can I reopen it in moderate tab when the...

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This article says that I should be able to sort gradebook by first name, but it only sorts by last name. I followed the instructions, but all it did was swap first and last name, but the sort still used the last name. How can I sort by first name?Tha...

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I exported the course content, but when I try to import it into another course, after selecting the file and clicking the import button, it says 'pre-processing' in the 'Current Jobs' section. After 1 hour, it gives a 'timed out' error. I deleted the...

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Hi, We are just starting using HMH IntoMath (Grades 6-8).  We are struggling to get assignments to sync.We got the "Are You Ready?" to sync but only have had a little success to get the "On Your Own" to sync.  One teacher did, one didn't but posted t...

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Hello, I'm looking for a single field in the Gradebook that can be used to send an API call to a third party system (Salesforce I think) to trigger the student's course completion certificate.  My problem is, most of our courses have multiple assignm...

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I am an instructor and I have used both Google Docs Cloud assignment and Google Assignments (LTI 1.3) and have this same problem with both types of external tools and I am frustrated and so are my students. Here is the problem: I create a Google Doc ...

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Is it possible to compare statistics on exam questions in different semesters? For example, after making a curriculum change, can performance on the same question be tracked over time (in different semesters)?

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