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Hi Guys,I'm new to Canvas, but I've created my online course and it is published.  But I have not yet "enrolled" my test student ...want to make sure they can access online learning content etc. Is there a step by step guide?Thanks, Neil, 

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I need to write an LTI 1.3 tool in asp.net MVC. There are quite a few articles such as https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Developers-Group/NET-LTI-Project-Part-1-Connect-to-Canvas/bc-p/271648 which supports LTI 1.0. I am not getting any starting poin...

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Hi!I am just wondering if anyone has experienced students' answers in a quiz not being recorded?Currently have a student who has submitted his final exam and after reviewing his final grade is not happy. When we released the quiz along with students'...

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For two of my courses at two different institutions, Canvas wasn't automatically assigning peer reviews, despite my following all the instructions to set up the assignment to do so. My poor students were wondering what was happening, and it set us al...

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Will a celebration only appear on assignments or will students receive a celebration for practice and graded quizzes as well? My 1st graders would love this!

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How do I add grading periodes to a free for teacher couirse?

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If you are allowed to create Canvas courses, you can copy a course and create a new course shell. Copied courses are added to the same subaccount as the course that is copied.Courses should be copied when you want to use or repurpose previously creat...

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I am able to use the API to create a rubric and populate it with criteria.  The problem which I keep running into is that the whole rubric object is incredibly verbose, and any just a bit larger rubric will get rejected by the server due to the size ...

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Hi, I marked half of the questions of the exam on SpeedGrader yesterday and closed the browser. Today, when I wanted to continue marking, I noticed that all marks from yesterday have disappeared. How can I save marks on SpeedGrader in order to contin...

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I've been teaching on Canvas for a few years now, and I've never seen this before. I post comments when I grade assignments. I know that if students have email notifications turned on for assignment comments, they will receive the comment with the gr...

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I am teaching a "stacked" class, one is a graduate level class and one is na undergraduate level classes.  I want to merge the two classes into one.  I see an option for my other class that has labs associated with it to merge them into one, but no s...

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I would like to implement an "ungrading" policy while still utilizing the Canvas grade book to track completion and proficiency.  Please help!I have revised all of my rubrics to "proficiency" ratings and removed the points.I developed a grading schem...

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The prerequisite function for Modules is great. We'd also like to remove the dates and run the course based on completing each individual assignment within a module in order. Is it possible to force students through a path - unlocking each successive...

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When a course is imported from a previous one, the announcements get anonymized (i.e., the name/avatar of the originator is replaced  with a "circle U") and other help-documents indicate that students won't receive them; although, they evidently do s...

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When I scroll left a little too much, Canvas takes me to the previous page.  At best this is annoying and at worst has cost me an entire page of typed instructions.  Is there a way to turn this feature off in settings?

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Hello,I would like to be able to lock student access to exam solutions based on whether they have had the exam graded. Is this possible?Example: 1) Given an exam on Tuesday (that requires file upload and is not autograded)2) Grade the exam for all th...

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Hello,Has anyone that used SISk12 ran into the issue of a version of an assignment not transferring over from Canvas to SIS?Scenario:I have three versions of my final 1, 1.1, and 1.2.  Today in class students took 1 and 1.1, but only 1.2 which no one...

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Hello Community,I was working through some MasteryPath work and ran across this Guide:  How can I choose an assignment path in a module?  The document was written for the student to make choices from the assignment group. How do I create such an assi...

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I'm attempting to make a pre-class quiz that helps guide students to the topics we'll cover in class. I was hoping to use the Quiz feature to do this, but it's not quite what I had in mind...let me elaborate:I want to give my students instructions on...

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I need to download all student submissions over the course of the semester, with all grade annotations.Is there a way to do this all at once, or do I need to individually download each one?There are about 500 submissions, so downloading them individu...

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When bulk editing assignment due dates (Assignments -> 3 dots -> Edit Assignment Dates) I would like to be able to add/edit the times in addition to changing the dates. My classes meet at different times on different days. I like to set my due times ...

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Using the New Quizzes version of Canvas, is there functionality that allows me as the instructor to release quiz results at a particular time and date vs. the student seeing their quiz results once they complete and submit the quiz?  I give students ...

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Follow me on this story: Steve takes a test 1st block.  He gets a 18 out of 20.  He looks at his score and views which questions he gets wrong.   Then, at lunch, he opens the test while sitting with his girlfriend Mel.  Mel gets to see what Steve ans...

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Hello Fellow Admins,This is my second year working at my current school, my second year using Canvas and my second year using Canvas as an admin.  So I'm still sort of a newbie here.    I am looking for your insight, advice, and support on the follo...

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Dear Reader,I am putting this out for consideration and hopefully effecting change. Could a new option be made in Canvas quizzes, in keeping with the naming scheme, Multiple Numerical Answers? This option would be similar to the present "Numerical An...

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Role: Teacher My district has implemented both a Proficiency-Based Learning scale and a "recency" policy, meaning that only the most recent assessment of a standard is used to calculate student grades. (No decaying average has certainly been interest...

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I'm a graduate assistant who's been helping professors and TAs develop content for their courses, and now that we're working on moving to New Quizzes (and I have to help export them from sharing sites to individual courses as well), I'm going to have...

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I have an exam consisting of 10 different groups (10 question banks), each group contains 8 problems on the same field. So the exam consists of 10 problems. I know that questions within each group can be randomized but what about randomizing groups? ...

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I realize this is kind of a dumb question, but  I have not been able to find an answer.I am using weighted assignment groups, and everything is graded as either complete/incomplete or with my own grading scheme (pass/needs revision/missing). What I c...

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 Hi Canvas Community,The following might sound naive - but I'm a novice at some of this - so please excuse...The list of H5P items available to me via the 'Canvas Custom Interface elements' module, where the required html coding for each type is loca...

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