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Hello - I have a few students whose Flipgrid will not link with Canvas. They have gone through the load tool, record and submitted their video but it is still not syncing to Canvas. Anyone know why this might be?

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I have one interior design course third period, but I offer it as regular and honors. Even though they are during the same class section, my dashboard shows them as two separate courses. Is there a way I can merge these two sections into one? I want ...

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Hi! good afternoon! Is there any way that the zoom recordings can be left automatically in Canvas? I need the classes that are in "Upcoming Meetings" to appear in "cloud recordings" without having to publish them manually. Previously this worked c...

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When running and import from my SIS I am getting this error: An enrollment listed a section and a course that are unrelated for user.   I have crosswalk everything.  The course_id is correct in the course file.  The section_id is correct in the secti...

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I created a new course and wanted to copy everything from one course to the other. I hit the import content button and it imported backwards from what I intended and now both courses are blank.  How can I get that restored?

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Hello, Is it possible to track an admin's page views for a specific course?  I am looking through the admin's user account and the Page Views, but there are several links that display and error.  Thank you,

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Can anyone help me with how to create a pairing code so I can observe my sons school year? I have read the faq sheets, but there is not an option on his account to create a pairing code. Is there a step we are missing? Is this something that has to w...

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Hello,How do I change the order of courses in the course tab (button on left)?

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Is it possible to create a midterm exam that is multiple choice that is separate from quizzes?  I weight the quiz group and the exam group differently.

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I was "playing" around with creating a quiz and then once I understood, actually got to building a legit quiz. However, as I catered it to my needs, the  name of the quiz doesn't go with the content. How do I change just the name of the quiz itself? 

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I have an interactive grading process originating with self-assessments, and I want my gradebook to record only whether or not students have turned the assignment in or not. In another LMS I used "yes" or "not yet" as my grades. Can I do this in Canv...

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I use a labor-based grading contract in my class rather than numerical scores on assignments. I don't see how to use a grading scale in the gradebook in Canvas.

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I teach High School English and I wanted to create an assignment that is due on Friday, but that they start recording answers for on Mon.What is the best way to create a document/assignment that would allow students to work on the document Mon, and t...

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Hello,  I had an issue with a course I designed where the TA's grades and comments both disappeared after students completed their peer reviews.  The timeline and settings were something like this: Students upload their submission to the assignment (...

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Is there a way to set it where I can type in all the possible numbers for each variable? I have a lot of questions where the numbers have to pair up correctly for the math to make sense, so I can't really use the random number generator, even if I se...

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Is it possible to force a link placed on the Global Navigation to open in a new tab or window? We have the XML below:<lticm:options name="global_navigation"><lticm:property name="enabled">true</lticm:property><lticm:property name="windowTarget">_blan...

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Before I ask for Roll Call to be turned on... Are badges assigned daily or does assigning once mean it appears every day? We are looking at using this feature for noting daily when a student is attending class in person or online, with a badge for ea...

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I recorded a conference using bigbluebutton. It showed up available to view so I clicked to view it. When I click to view the recording, it takes me a to a page the show both my face and my screen that I was showing at the time. But I could only down...

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As the title says, my homepage needs a facelift. It's been the same way for a few years now and I need something to spice it up, especially now that so many of us are teaching online only based courses. If you can I'd prefer visual examples rather th...

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Our Academic Support Center would like to be able to view all student Canvas accounts.  Is it possible to give them access to do this without giving them full admin access?

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I have embedded a Desmos activity into my Canvas course using the following HTML script. <iframe style="border: none;" src="https://student.desmos.com/?prepopulateCode=CLASS CODE GOES HERE" width="100%" height="500px"></iframe> This successfully embe...

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How do your parents login to Canvas?  Is there a way that the parents can login in one time and see all of their children who are in the school at one time?  Currently, each parent logs in with an SIS-ID (that we provide them with) or an email addres...

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When I try to unpublish a quiz, it says I can't because a student has already attempted it. But that's not true. I am the only person who has access to the course. I did preview the quiz, but no student has attempted the quiz. 

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Hi, we just blueprinted a course that had a series of question banks included for the final exam. The blueprint create each of these question banks as an unpublished quiz in the new course shell.  This is confusing some of the instructors.  I went in...

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Sorry but I am too old for this. There is too much information at once. My question is, what do you do first; modules, pages or courses?

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I uploaded a page into the files. Now I want to link to it from the syllabus page. I highlighted the word, clicked the link button, the list of choices came up.  I clicked navigation and clicked files, BUT it does not let me choose which file. How do...

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Is there an easy way of seeing incomplete assignments and completed assignments, side by side?

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I have two sections of the same course.  I've loaded all of the materials for the one course.  Can I duplicate all of those same materials for the second course so I don't have to re-load all of them all over again?

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Hi, i would need more than 8 BOR at the same time (for Partner-activity...) - do you have a solution for the problem?GreetingsJudit

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After having watched a knowledge clip on Coursera. A quiz or self answering/poll immediately pops up. How can I do this in Canvas / with Kaltura? 

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