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Hi - I recently concluded a course and have now been notified that I need to save each quiz (with full question detail, i.e., the correct answer and what students see when they answer incorrectly) for purposes of submitting evidence to CACREP.  In th...

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While editing an announcement in my course, I encountered the following warning message: "Students have already submitted to this discussion, so group settings cannot be changed." I'm curious about how this warning applies to an announcement. What ex...

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My course is set up so that students must complete all items in a module before they move to the next one.One of the items in each module is a quiz. But the quiz has a deadline after which it is closed.I have not been able to determine if students wh...

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Hola, buenos días! donde se puede deshabilitar o configurar para que un estudiante NO PUEDA COMENZAR (crear) un nuevo curso???? Gracias!

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My teacher uploads content in these online module forms. However, when I try to backtrack or skip ahead, the module instead restarts from that slide. This happens sometimes, and sometimes it does not. I do not know what is causing this. This is debil...

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Hi I'm interested to know other school's best practices on using Canvas for Graduate School level.  Is anyone using Blueprint to show standard/template when populating Canvas content? If so, how was your experience?

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Just thirty minutes ago it was working and loading everything ok, but now when I am trying to click on the parts of a module that contain course materials like videos and what I am supposed to read it does not load anything except for the title of th...

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A rookie question, but is there a way to automatically propagate an instructor profile page across all his/her courses? (Rather than copy/pasting for every course.)

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Hiding date settings under the assign-to feature, not only adds hundreds of extra clicks to every teacher's workload, this new feature hides things teachers use for every single assignment assignment: available dates, due dates, and lock dates. It is...

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I'm getting two errors when testing the redesigned announcements. "Disable comments on announcements" is checked in the course settings, and I set this test announcement up originally with an "available from" date and saved it.  The orange error appe...

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Is it a new thing that with Discussions Redesign one can not use the discussion grade for a Module requirement? The only options for the Discussions are "View" or "Contribute to Page". Whereas with Assignments and Quizzes you can use "Score at least"...

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HI All, I have created several announcements to be released at specific days and times.  I went in to make an update, and did not touch the date or time, and it appears that it was sent out.  If edits need to be made prior to the scheduled release, h...

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I really need to be able to import comments with individual grades. Much more important than one single overall grade comment that is in place now. Obviously the database has a place for this because we can ENTER comments for every single grade when ...

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I received a question about announcement visibility when the new Until Date was used. When testing as a student, I found that the announcement was no longer visible to a student on the Announcement Index page after the until date passed. That is what...

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Hello fellow Canvas-ers, I'm an Account Admin at our institution and for some reason, I can no longer change and save Course Settings. I often update terms or file storage size in current and old courses, but if I change them now, I can't save the ch...

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The “assign to” overhaul has been great to enhance the areas where you can apply this feature (Modules, Pages, etc). However, the change applied in the Assignment area now "hides" where to set due dates. This change may cause Instructors (particular...

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Hi. I'm an instructional designer trying to help one of our faculty members that is getting frustrated with students uploading documents into Discussions instead of pasting their written work into the body of the reply. Canvas provides a setting to d...

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I have a couple of questions about the Redirect Tool in Canvas: Can I bulk apply the same URL setup across all my courses after setting it up for one course?If an admin sets it up, can they apply it to multiple courses at once on behalf of teachers?

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Having smaller font for replies in discussion threads decreases readability. This is a poor redesign and makes using a smaller screen very difficult if not impossible. This is as an accessibility issue and should offer an option to be turned off. 

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Some of our faculty are going the route of dropping the two lowest grades. They have some assignments that they want excluded from being dropped. We were chatting about whether to do that by putting all "rule-qualifying" assignments in one group that...

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With the rollout of new Module Settings UI, when I try to lock a module or schedule a release date for a module, it defaults to the current time instead of 12:00 AM. In the attached screenshot, I've set the release date to July 23, 2024. The time def...

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Why are schedule times on the half hour? If I try to manually update the time it reverts to 12 AM or the time I've selected in the drop down. We were seeing this in the new Assignments Assign To panel but it was pointed out that I could manually over...

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When a short answer question needs to be graded, teachers click on the question number in the box under "The following questions need review:" Before the updates, when a teacher clicked that link to go directly to the question to be graded, only the ...

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The new format for announcements- discussions has a small creation box.  I can´t find a way to enlarge it other than full screen which is not helpful.  We use a lot of web tools and  pictures in announcements.  It´s difficult to create in that small ...

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I cannot change my setting back to the light mode. I have tried toggling the High Contrast slider in Settings.

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I'm having an issue with the new announcement format and delayed time/date on them. It is sending me an email notification immediately when I edit them and then NOT when they go live on the delayed time/date. I've contacted my tech support, but this ...

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Classic Canvas, "fixing" what isn't broken. I want to set up a discussion to expire at 11:59pm. Not at 12am. 11:59pm. I've done it this way for years. Now new Canvas isn't letting me set a custom time. It wants to force me to set the discussion to ex...

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Greeting, dear reader. I am a student. How can hide the comments/feedback showing on my canvas student portal? Every time I login I see the grading appearing as feedback from my grade instructor. I know and have managed to hide grades from appearing ...

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I have several modules that are published in Canvas but my students cannot access them to post. All beginning and end due dates are current. The published module appears greyed out and it is showing locked. I am unable to unlock it and allow postings...

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