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We are working with Perusall for one of our lessons on canvas. I have both admin and teacher access to our courses. Some of our students have problems with the integration of Canvas and Perusall. One of them getting the warning of "Your LMS is config...

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I believe Canvas updated last week and when it did, the following problem now occurs. When you go to copy an assignment from one class to another it now gives you the list of all classes in Canvas, including the ones archived from several years past....

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I've had several faculty members approach me with this scenario. They have a weekly quiz or survey which students must complete each week. The questions and settings are identical for each instance. But each week they have to create a new instance of...

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I , an Instructor, assign CK12 adaptive practice through canvas and I am happy with it for the most part. (I would like to select multiple chapter sections at once, but that is by-the-by. ) I set up the assignment so that CK12 is opened in a new tab....

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There was an update to the SCORM tool in Canvas at the end of 2020 that added the "import as page" feature and apparently started supporting Tin Can. Before, anything exported as Tin Can would get a "not valid SCORM package" error when importing. The...

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Hello! I am looking to access and print previous "activity log in" times from my concluded courses from last years classes, actually just one class to make it easier. I am able to get into those classes, but there is NO activity time anymore, which I...

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**I saw a similar post from 2017 that seems to be related, but I'm hoping maybe there has been a helpful development since then. I am using discussion groups to conduct virtual book clubs. The discussion is assigned as Group activity, so readers of e...

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I am an instructional design specialist and received this ticket: "I have had one or two students in each class submit the first assignment and it seems like Turnitin is not working properly. Both of these courses were just updated, so I don't know i...

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How do I link a specific unlisted Youtube video using the Youtube app with a link? (Rather than searching topical words) 

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Our previous LMS had a bulk update assignment tool, but it included times as well as dates. It also had the options to sort the assignments by module and/or by assignment type. Please add these features to this tool!

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How do I list all the assignments I have given to a group?  It's just very awkward to trudge through every assignment to see which group is responsible for it. Thank You.

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Hi everybody! I've set up a Developer Key at my Account and configured it to allow Link Selection placements of the LtiDeepLinkingRequest message type. As well, I've set up a pseudo-tool at IMS's LTI Reference Implementation Test Tool to use its prov...

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Hello everybody, I'm relatively new to Canvas + Zoom.  I've recorded the Zoom lectures and I'm struggling to get them shared via the Canvas module site. Is there a bullet point guide on how to do this task? Many thanks.

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I am an instructor. I would like to have the same discussion prompt to be graded, but with posts only visible to those students in the same section as the poster. I also want it to appear as one column in the gradebook when viewing students across al...

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who are the indivduals who hire or pick the online PD

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Dear Canvas Community, First of all, thank you for your support. Here is my question: How can I create a practice shell? * Currently I would like to explore the possibility of uploading supplementary resource materials from the publisher of our cours...

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We have teachers reporting that students both in their classroom and working remotely are having trouble loading New Quizzes.   The Loading screen just spins and never loads.   Some of these quizzes are just a few questions so it is not a size issue....

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This is my first time using an LMS. I created a course, but when I click on ADD MODULE nothing happens. I don't get a pop up box to add a title. I have watched several videos showing me what to do, but it is not working for me.

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I know how to make the canvas feed show up in my calendar on outlook, but is there a way for me to have my canvas calendar automatically sync for my students? I can show them the same steps, but it would be easier to just automatically push it into t...

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I have a quiz on which I've set a time limit of 90 minutes. However, when I go into "moderate this quiz" it's showing that several students took more than this amount of time. Next to one student, it says "finished in about 2 hours." Next to the othe...

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Does Instructure Canvas have a plan to implement Amazon Alexa in other countries (like Bolivia)? Some dates maybe? Thanks for any information.

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I called canvas to ask if there was a way to customize what symbols/categories that you want at the bottom of your dashboard card for 1 click easy access.  They said "no".  That would be so much better if I could customize what I want at the bottom o...

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I have a few assignments using the new Google Assignments external tool. Most of my students are listed as either "submitted" or "missing", but several of my students aren't on the list- their names are missing completely. At first I thought this was...

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I have set up a Fill in the multiple blanks Classic Quiz. I have set Let Students See the correct answers to be a date that has already occured so students can immediately see the right and wrong answers.  When I test this out from a student view it ...

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Hi all, One of my assignments is not showing up in Grades.  All options are exactly set like the assignment before and after this one (those show up fine), but to no avail.  I can grade in SpeedGrader, but those grades are not visible in the gradeboo...

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My question: is there a feature at the course level that lists all of tools and files used? (Something like a course inventory?). I'm hoping to find a tool that lists all tools and files that are used in a course. Thanks, Nancy

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With an option for remote learning this year, we have students leaving their in-person classrooms and joining new online teachers throughout the year. When this happens, those students see ALL assignments in their To Do list, including those that wer...

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In New Quizzes, questions that need graded and late submissions don't show up on the teacher to-do list. The only way to access it is through the grade book and going to speed grader. This has resulted in missing points for students since I am not no...

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I have a faculty who wants to change the points on an assignment in a blueprint and then push the change out to the courses. Does anyone know if that will cause student work to disappear when the points for the assignment are change?

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I teach a course with three different sections each day, and we follow a consistent schedule throughout the week. That means that when I say, "This is due tomorrow at the start of class," it's due at the same time each day depending on what section t...

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