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Three weeks into teaching with this new version,and I HATE the new discussions!  They force me, EVERY time, to go back to the top to re-expand threads.... and in all the years I've been teaching in Canvas and Blackboard, I have almost never needed to...

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An instructor reported that SpeedGrader is randomly sorting students when selecting sort by student name.  When sorted the list of students (105) is apparently being segmented.  Those segments are alphabetized in reverse alphabetical order, but then ...

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I've been using Canvas for five years. I can't seem to delete any prior rubrics. As the class names haven't changed, it is difficult to assign a rubric that doesn't come up as the second or third iteration of the same rubric, I have to look through a...

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I noticed today in student view that my scheduled announcements all show the dates and times that I created them and edited them instead of showing the date and time the announcements went live for the students like they used to. Is that simply how m...

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Hello, when I go to import course content into 2025 module, do I go into the 2024 module to import course content or the 2025 module? Thank you

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Hi y'all, How do I automate reminders for assignment submission dates (2 weeks, 1 week and due date) reminders?It has been requested that we automate the sending of email reminders to students two weeks, one week and one day before an assignment is d...

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I need the consumer key and the shared secret so I can use the lockdown browser.Please help. 

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I no longer see the option to "find a rubric" when creating a rubric.  I would like to use a rubric that I already created from another course. 

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I'm trying to import my courses from last year and they don't show in the drop down menu of choices of courses to import.

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I was just updating a single assignment item in a course in Canvas.  I selected “Save” and Canvas did nothing.  Then I saw there were no dates at the bottom of that screen?  I selected “Manage Due Dates and Assign To” and discovered that there should...

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Hello, When setting up a Quiz there are three adjustable dates: ' Due At,'  'Available From' and 'Available Until' I understand that the 'Available Until'  date will allow students to take the quiz until this date. Question:  Can students still see t...

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I was supposed to copy in my actual Chemistry I course a file sent from my academic coordination, but instead I copied my Chemistry II course from the last semester which does not matches with the one I had to copy. How can I undo or eliminate or can...

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I see posts from teachers from up to two years ago (2022) asking Canvas if and when they plan on developing a feature to allow teachers to view student assignments in real-time. Microsoft and Google have this feature embedded in their platforms, and ...

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When someone replies to my discussion post, I am unable to access it by clicking "1 reply, 1 unread."  I have to go back to my email inbox and click the link to the discussion.  This is not optimal.  I would like the link to work to open the reply to...

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Hello-With AP courses going all electronic starting next year, my school is starting to require students to take assessments using the Respondus lockdown browser on their iPads. Is there a way for students to annotate documents for multiple-choice qu...

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When adding new assignments, is there any other way to move them in the instructor gradebook other than dragging them one by one through all of the other assignments in the gradebook to get them where you want. I would assume that if I put them in th...

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I have formatting requirements for assignment submission, but Canvas will sometimes distort the font and spacing when rendering the submission in the Gradebook.  This makes it impossible to check the formatting without downloading the document.  I al...

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When I run the Link Validator I often get result messages I don't understand: E.g, it will say:       download?wrap=1  or      Non-existent content referenced in this resource:  gc9122a6cadcd158cbff96b2017ee3ba5 or          download?download_frd=1 I ...

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I am a student and new to Canvas; I have added a secondary email for notifications, but I cannot enable SMS notifications. I have gone to account > settings > ways to contact > other contacts > + contact method, but the only options available are "em...

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Is there a way to globally set accommodation settings for one student for a whole Canvas course? For example, I have a student who is to receive 1.5x the normal time limit on all quizzes and tests. The course has weekly quizzes. That is a timely task...

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Good afternoon,  I am working with a faculty member on trying to create an assignment that she said was easily doable in Bbl when we had that as our LMS last year. This group project involves groups of 3 students (she has 32 students total) producing...

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I often use the external tool option in my assignments, so students have their own document, chart, slide etc..to type on.  However, I have 13 students who are unable to use the external tool feature.  When they click on the blue letters to access th...

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Why is speed grader all messed up?  My classes are in reverse alphabetical order.  It drives me crazy.  I need my canvas grade book and speed grader to be set up the correct way.  

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Instructor and course author Setting up my fall course, I copied my materials from a previous course, including a good number of Announcements I typically recycle. It looks like they have come in as "Discussions" under Announcements. Even after chang...

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I have a teacher who has assignments with greyed columns. When you click to add in grades , you can't put in anything. If we click the arrow and go to speedgraded, I can enter a grade. I checked the due dates and the module is published.

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I have a teacher whose course is published, but the parents cannot see the content in the canvas parent app. Any suggestions? 

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To all So I'm a newly minted admin.....still learning.  There's a person here who knows more than I but apparently not enough.  She "Moved" all the courses to this new school year and that part looks good.  The issue is none of the student accounts a...

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Hey all-Looking for some help for myself and other teachers in my building. When creating assignments in Canvas last year, the boxes to enter dates, calendars, etc. were just at the bottom of the edit assignment page. This year, we now have to click ...

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Hello @chriscas Please help in resolving the issue of email not being sent to users after uploading through CSV in canvas. Any solution would be greatly appreciated. Also I have attached  the screenshot for  your reference.Thank you in advance.

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