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Hello! I have a teacher who was invited to 2 separate Canvas classes (two different schools) as a co-teacher. She was able to create an account for one just fine and can see the class. When we logout and follow the link to the second class/school, sh...

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I have a student retaking one of my courses. They submitted all the assignments last year, and when I re-enrolled them, they are all still in the system. Is there a way to clear those out? I tried removing him from the course and readding, but they a...

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What would cause Canvas to assign a zero to an assignment that is not yet due.  We have checked that the due dates are correct for the assignment.  And it doesn't happen to every student in the class, just a few. I'm not sure what else to check.  TIA...

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HI Team, Blueprint objects can be lock / unlocked - great. Why are there no such features in the account template? It would be SO EASY to maintain course consistency that as new courses are being populated by the SIS that if certain pages / modules c...

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I like writing on the student's documents that are submitted, but every time I have to change the setting back to my preferred grading setting and this is a big inconvenience. Any idea on how to save my preferences for grading so I do not have to do ...

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The student answers to numerical questions, either by formula question or numerical question, doesn´t accept scientific format such as m*10^n or mEn. I have seen some answers in the past in the community but at the moment (September 2024) still the p...

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Recently we had a professor report to us that the expander button to make the text box larger as well as the full screen button were no longer present when in the SpeedGrader. While the text box appears to be slightly larger now to accommodate this i...

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When I copy an assignment from one section to another it automatically assigns it to the imported assignments category. Is there a way to fix this so I do not have to reclassify it every time?

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I want to set all grades for a particular assignment to missing and be a zero. However, I do not want to be the case for all assignments in the grade book. I know there is a setting for making that the case in the whole grade book but I do not want t...

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MI code works when setting default grades but EX does not. Can this be added?

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Am I correct that students must click on the "Expand Threads" button in every discussion in order to see their peers' responses? If so, can I please request that either 1) students be given an option to default to expanded threads all the time so the...

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I'm looking for insight and tips for how to manage discussion boards for a 140 student class I'm teaching. The class has 6 sections and to facilitate student comfort and allow the similar questions to be asked in by the same student (but in different...

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I hope I'm not asking something that is answered elsewhere already, as I wasn't even sure how to frame the question to get the answer I was looking for. Is there something that would prevent one student's assignment submission from not downloading wi...

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Hello, Is there a way to get a grade report of every faculty member each week to see that grades are being entered by each teacher? Thank you, Haley 

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My student's scores from EdPuzzle are whole numbers in Canvas but when sent to Synergy (Edupoint) they come in as a decimal number.  EdPuzzle technically shows a percentage in their gradebook.  I don't know if the difference in scores are a Canvas is...

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Last year the process of selecting an individual course in the gradebook got way more cumbersome (I'm sure you all know this), requiring using the dropdown menu. This is such a time waster, given that I do this multiple times per day. Last year my wo...

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This is maddening!  The visual clutter under the "People" tab is so annoying!  They don't show up under the "Grades" tab!  "People" should work the same way.

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I am trying to take an exam in Canvas, but when I click on the Begin button to start the exam, nothing happens. I have done everything from clear cache and cookies, use a different browser, update my browser to the latest version, update Proctorio to...

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I am an instructor in an accelerated high school. We just started using Canvas this year. I have experience with Canvas from a previous job, but I'm encountering a situation I can't seem to solve.What we usually do at my school is this: students are ...

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When I first started takimg classes with my professor we always had access to the assignments tab and it was actually life saving. just recently when the semester started she tryed to add the tab back to all her classes and recieved a nasty email fro...

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I am looking for a way to download all of my students' submissions at once for an assignment. I looked at help topics and the download all submissions is not there on the drop downs.

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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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