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I'm refreshing an existing course that uses a slew of external resources via URLs. Is there a way to pull just those external links from my course in Canvas?The closest I've come so far is:export course (nets imscc file, which is just a compressed fi...

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Sorry if I've posted this in the wrong place, I've been thrown into Canvas with zero knowledge. Is there a way of removing points automatically from a Students grading.For instance, if there were two assignments as below: Final Physical hand in - Gra...

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On Quizzes, if I set an essay question, how do I access the students' answers once quiz has been completed in order to mark it please?

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I registered for courses for the Spring Semester and want to find out the syllabus and the textbooks so that I can get them in advance. Where do I find that information? Thanks.

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I have 3 different canvas accounts. Two different observer accounts for my kids' different schools & one free teacher account. Today I tried to log into my teacher account and it has disappeared. It logged my into one of my kids schools and my class ...

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I've never seen this notation on previous tests in the moderation page/activity logs.  I've checked the community and see that there are two reasons for this notation. 1) clicking off the page 2) inactivity of more than 30 seconds. I've checked and t...

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  Scientific calculator in new quizzes - some buttons such as x^2 and x^y are gray and don't function (see attached image).. does anyone know how to get these buttons to work?    

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Images wont show up during exam in Google Chrome or Firefox, intermittently. How can I fix this?Thank you.

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Hi all,I've been using free-form comment rubrics to grade papers for a few terms now. I recently switched my rubrics to be rated because I figured it would be easier to click the score instead of typing it out for each criteria. However, I miss havin...

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The title sums it up. I'd rather the Comment Library selection paste at the current cursor location instead of wiping out anything that's already there. Or have a way to copy the comment from the Library (I didn't see a way) so I could paste it where...

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Canvas Community.  As we all know, exam security is an issue when helping students review exams. That said, is there a way for me to pull a list of the questions a student answered incorrectly? For example, Jeff Lebowski missed questions 2, 9, 10, 23...

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I'm trying to import outcomes and I have found the cvs format, but I don't think I understand each category because I keep getting an error when I upload.  1) Does anyone have a teacher-friendly template of what the different categories are and what ...

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I cannot find a upload or submit assignment icon for turning in my mid-term project.  How do I submit my assignment.  Thank you in advance.

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I was previously using a firefox on a macbook and got a lenovo yoga running edge 130. I sign into my account and Canvas shows no completed assignments. The app on my phone has my current progress as well as the macbook. Has anyone had issues with edg...

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I have used/reused embedded Google Slides presentations for the last 4 years on Canvas. This year, the presentation formatting does not match the original. The text overlaps the slide, causing information to be missing. Some of my presentations are d...

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Is there any work being done to allow group assignments for an external tool?  We are using LinkedIn Learning to supplement lessons, and students are self enrolled to groups based on their choice in an video editing platform.  I would like each group...

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I am trying to login to Respondus Lockdown browser, but every time I enter my user and password, I get a message stating "unable to login" and "no issuer configured for OpenID connect provider." I have tried to uninstall and reinstall Respondus, rest...

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I need to import a canvas course export package with the extension .imscc to my course. I received this package by Dropbox, I downloaded it to my computer, and then I want to import it to my canvas course but the import fails and I receive the follow...

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I'm part of my institution's support team for Canvas. An instructor reports that some students are unable to see comments on Quiz attempts. After one of the students helped me investigate, we traced the problem to an apparent inconsistency in navigat...

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A lot of my students have Apple devices so of course they are uploading HECI files which Canvas has said that they cannot support. I don't have an apple device, I'm working on windows and downloading and converting their files types is not feasible. ...

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Hello - it was my understanding that themes are open for voting twice a year - in October and February. Given that we are in mid-October I wanted to ensure I didn't miss the window as I have faculty who are very interested in participating this year ...

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One of our instructors is reporting that her cursor is appearing a couple lines above where she is typing in the Instructor Comment Box in Speedgrader. It makes it really hard to enter comments!  Here is a link to a video showing what's happening. Ha...

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I'm trying to link to an internal course page using the Redirect Tool and have that page be embedded (not opened in a new tab). Issue is it's pulling the entire page in, including the navigation menus. Is there any way to just display the meat of the...

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[In response to the summer 2024 Canvas LMS updates...] There are two instructor over-ride abilities needed for discussion forums. The new "Collapse Threads" default is problematic for students -- since they often do not know they need to open-up the ...

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Recently I find that when I want to verify completion date, the gradebook history will not give me the entire list of completions, perhaps only giving the most recent 10 (out of nearly 400 completions!) So I have to download the student quiz report t...

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Anytime I must take an exam, I have to do it through Canvas. I can click on the given assignment; I get a message asking me to open the Lockdown Browser. The application does open, I can log in with the teacher's given password, but when I want to st...

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I have gone through my course and all the links are working. However, I have over 1000 messages about links when I check the Link Validation.  Most of them repeat such as: 1. Links to other courses in this resource may not be accessible by the studen...

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Curious if there is a short cut to printing a whole class to put in an accreditation binder for future reference?

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I just want to boost scores on an assignment. The assignment wasn't generated within Canvas, but deployed to it from an outside application. All I want to do is to increase all scores by a fixed amount. How to do that?

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Our school has stopped using Edpuzzle that allowed multiple attempts at a quiz.Is there a way to allow students multiple chances on a video quiz in canvas studio?

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