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In the new discussions, is there a way to sort by the date of the initial post in the thread?  Not by the date of the most recent post in the thread?  Appreciate any help.

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How do I find my student advisor? 

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I keep getting an error message each time I try to submit my first day attendance. It tells me that my progress is saved and to try again in a few minutes, but it's continuing to show this error.

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Is there a simple way to export the questions/answers of a canvas quiz so I have a record of them off canvas please?

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In recent weeks embedded and uploaded Google docs have "disappeared" from long established courses. We are trying to determine if it is an internal issue or is it an LMS issue.  Has there been interruptions or glitches that may have caused a google d...

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I have created an XML file and a manifest file too.I am creating zip of them and then importing them on the Canvas site by using QTI.zip option from the dropdown.But in Quizzes tab, it's not getting shown!I created a quiz manually on the Canvas and d...

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How to install turn it in on my canvas course. 

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When we try to import the IMSCC it creates the new App always into the course level. We just want to create simple module which will point to the LTI 1.3 App created at the account level. Could you please help here?

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Hello all, I am fairly new to Canvas and online teaching. I teach Biology, online lectures and in-person lab. I would like to test my students using Canvas Quiz, but while they are in person in lab. I think I have almost all figured out except the ti...

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Here's the question: can you search every course and page in a Canvas instance simultaneously to find a particular string?    Here's more details: We are looking to identify and update all the external links from an academic library in our Canvas ins...

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Good morning, I was attempting to trouble-shoot problems that a student was having with her exam.  To do so, I looked in her URL history and saw that some of the links were "user-generated" as seen in the screen shot below. How are these created with...

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Can someone provide instructions on how to upload Rubrics created in Microsoft Excel? Thank you. 

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I would like to upload a powerpoint presentation to Canvas free for teacher for my students to view it as a slideshow on the LMS but not be able to download it. Can someone please help me with this? 

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The new "whole post" only view for Discussions is unwieldy. Especially for large classes. All other LMSs have the option to collapse the Discussion to view just the Subject Lines or just the First Line of the posts so students and the instructor can ...

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I am the administrator for a course run on the 'free for teachers' version. A user changed jobs and no longer has the email address used in our course.  She is about to graduate from the course and needs access to the resources and materials to compl...

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The video won't play saying I must first accept the cookie policy. How and where do I do that?

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One of our courses was using self sign-up for student groups and opened them during the class period hoping that all students could sign-up while together in class. Unfortunately, the groups staggered their opening slowly and it took over 30 minutes ...

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I have a question regarding Speedgrader and Turnitin. Last semester, I had the ability to resubmit student assignments to Turnitin, and now as I am looking at Speedgrader, I don't see that as an option now. Did that go away on purpose?

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I am a student of AWS Restart program Jan-Mar 2024; After the course completion, the course content ddisappeared; I wanted to go though the course content again, but accidently I declined that new invitation also after logged in to Canvas; Is there a...

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Hi So we make use of the Kung Fu Canvas course to help onboarding new staff.  But during a check of the course I have discovered that one of the embedded videos is no longer available. I was on Vimeo, but it's not any more. The video is from the Gree...

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I have hundreds of emails with discussion threads each quarter.  I noticed that Canvas is placing new emails received in "Archive" when I place the original email (root email in the thread) in "Archive."  As such, Canvas does not notify me a new emai...

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Are auto close captions a feature of the new screen recording option in SpeedGrader? What about when you create a video from a page?

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It is not letting me access Mt San Antonios college canvas account for the summer course I am enrolled in. The error keeps popping up that I do not have a canvas account with them. How would I solce this

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Hello, everyone! I'm having trouble finding a feature that prevents teachers from changing their Front Page selection on their Blueprint courses. We'd like to maintain a consistent student/parent user experience for each course's Home Page when they...

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we've been testing plagiarism review options, and I am going to reach out to support, but, I feel like maybe I'm just missing something simple maybe one of you know.  In adding/removing some plagiarism checkers to the plagiarism framework on the admi...

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We are in the process of transitioning to Canvas from Moodle and we're hoping someone has an elegant solution to an issue tied to required student training. Our issue: At our institution, Students enrolled in their first online course are required to...

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Is there a quick way to assign outcomes to selected questions in an Item Bank? I have an Item Bank currently with no outcomes associated to any questions, and would like to split the questions between two different outcomes. It is very tedious to cli...

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Hi all,I’ve been trying to create an import by converting a CSV file to a QTI file so that it creates a classic quiz and so far I’ve managed to have a quiz created with these types of questions:-Multiple choice (MC)-Multiple answers (MR)-True/False (...

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