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We are using Canvas for the first year and I'm getting in early before the end of our academic year (December) and starting to think about what happens for next year.We are using Compass as our school SIS which we have integrated with Canvas.When we ...

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We have just started using Canvas this year and are having trouble with assignment submissions - significant problems that may result in us only using Canvas for this year and then looking for an alternative. We are hoping that it is user error on ou...

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The changes I make to the Home page are not saved or appear when I click Save. Changes to past course pages work.

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Hi Everyone!We are in the process of starting a new school, and we will be using Edmentum Courseware for our curriculum and building it into Canvas.  I’ve already set up the LTI link between the two, and I’m able to populate content into Canvas using...

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My students say that they are not receiving the Canvas announcements that I post.  What can I do to check the validity of this?

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Add these features for grading I would like Canvas to display MP4 video format as an embedded video. So I do not have to download the file.I would like to be able to upload annotated images to the student, not as a comment.Please make the built-in an...

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Hello,  I'm currently building a course in Canvas that contains HTML/CSS Flip Cards. I learned the code for this from Dr.Nufer's "How to Canvas" website (S/o to the GOAT), which you can find in this link here: https://www.howtocanvas.com/theme-editor...

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Hello! I'm a huge fan of Canvas and I'm wanting to set up a learning course for my organization using the Canvas LMS. However, the question came up about whether or not Canvas is authorized to store and process controlled unclassified information (CU...

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This morning I got a notification that a professor had commented on an assignment from a few months ago. I looked on canvas on my iPhone and it said the comment was from March 23, 2024 12:48am but when I look on my computer it says it was from May 9,...

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Can anyone help me? I gave my students a quiz on canvas. They completed it and it was graded. Another one of my student's was absent and needed to take the quiz. I reassigned it to him in Canvas. He took the quiz and got a grade, but now the grades f...

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Hi all,When importing an exported CC file (from Sakai) into our Canvas Sandbox environment, the lessons pages get imported as "Pages." But when we perform the same steps in our Canvas Production environment, the lessons pages do not.The goal is to ha...

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Good afternoon, I am currently helping a faculty who has a large enrollment course finalize their end of year grades. In the gradebook, they have assignments with dashes. In his setting, though, they have the automatically apply grade for missing sub...

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I made meticulous comments on my students' work and it disappeared. This is not a case of not clicking submit, I was able to go back and refer to these comments and then all of a sudden they were gone. There are literal YEARS worth of comments that t...

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I am searching for a way to do additive grading in Canvas in order to differentiate. As a World Languages teacher, I'd like to base grades on something like a videogame skill tree. As an example, if students master basic skills for a Spanish class an...

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Hello, I'm hoping to get some current information about Mastery Paths. When I try coping a module of content, the quizzes associated to the main quiz do not copy over. I have created a quiz that will determine which quiz students will take next (base...

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Greetings, Since we support different authentication mechanisms for Canvas, we use a Discovery URL pointing to a page on our university's site to help people navigate to the appropriate place to login. Linking to the different login URLs is simple en...

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Hello community,Could you tell if it is possible to apply for the Final Exam review score of CPE exam?Last time I completed CC-MCS-BP1-103 Operating Systems.With a score for the final exam  13.08 out of 20. The minimum passing grade is 14 out of 20. ...

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I was in the process of scoring essays when the rubric stoped working.  I decided to close out of the page and then try again.  When I tried to log back into the page I received an error message.  I then tried completely shutting down, but that didn'...

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I have assigned quizzes to my students and when I go to the Moderate section and  I press "View log" it says There are no session events to display yet. 

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Hello, I am able to log into my canvas dashboard etc. I am trying to take a course through canvas. I have the URL that sends me to it and I already bought the course. It then sends me to the login page that is grey. It is not working and is not sendi...

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Is there a way to decrease the font size in the grade book? I am unable to read the grades for the last student in the grade book. I haven't changed anything that I am aware of and I can't scroll down far enough to see the complete information for th...

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Is there a way to get the quizzes feature on Canvas to take the first attempt grade for quizzes and also complete the quiz to 90%? I'm interested in this feature, because I want to incorporate competency-based learning, but I want students to study p...

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I have instructors that will have multiple copies of the same rubric.  For example, "Rubric A" / "Rubric A (1)", Rubric A (2)", etc., most-likely the result of course importing. Before we assume that we can delete the extra ones and hope that only th...

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Does the presence of unexpected HTML in a Canvas quiz essay question answer indicate content was pasted - meaning plagiarized? This can be seen using a browser inspectors https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/Tools_and_setup...

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I am a new instructor.  I am struggling with one portion of the grades continuing to reflect higher than 100%.  I have tried changing points, weight, and editing the individual assignments.  Despite whatever I do, the grades for that one portion rema...

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Hello! My university is looking for an alternative to Outcomes Assessment/Canvas Pathways/ePortfolios (I think these are all nearly interchangeable...). Essentially, what we're looking for is the ability to take student file submissions to specific a...

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I am building a course and the Admin. want my photo and name remove. It has no students at this stage but I cannot seem to remove the photo or name. I understand it will not likely remain at after the course copy stage but this is causing stress from...

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For my failing students I need to enter a last day of participation in a course when I enter their failing grade.  There is in-class attendance and there are also online assignments. I need an actual significant participation, not just a log in - but...

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I have added content to the Pages, but it is showing the student visibility icon as marked out along with the message "no content, not visible to students". Please help.

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