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I have an instructor who has lost his modules through no fault of his own. both modules from previous courses and recent course are not visible and no content is visible. we were unable to use the delete command to restore the data. How can we find o...

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I have folder with 70 files, one for each student group, that I want to link to from the Assignment page, but I cannot seem to get a link to the folder, which is inside the course's Canvas page. None of the (archived) suggestions help: https://commun...

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I am my school's Canvas admin.  A teacher accidentally deleted 29 assignments from a course.  He meant to delete only one but was distracted while in class with his students - separate discussion, so let's not go there.  If I am correct, there is a q...

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How can I hide suspended users in the peoples listing?

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I want to terminate my account and request to be forgotten, but all possible ways as described in helpfiles appear not available to me. I can also not find any other way to get support than this way, by posting in community. Please delete my account ...

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Hi all!For our Spring intake at our University, we’re thinking about making orientation materials available early, but we don’t want students to start too soon.Is there a way in Canvas to release content on specific dates without manually publishing ...

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Hello, I am an instructor, hoping to get in contact with a CSM to assist with integrating Office365 with Canvas, in Australia. When trying to add the app, I am asked to contact my CSM for a Consumer Key & Shared Secret. Please let me know how I can g...

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I am requesting a change to the Canvas feature "Add to Student To-Do List." Currently, when a page is added to the Student To-Do List in Canvas, it is immediately visible to students, regardless of its scheduled publish date. This can be problematic ...

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When I revise my lesson plans and hit 'save' there is a reply that says "Lock date cannot be after course ends." But I've checked this and even re-entered dates that are before the last day of the course and no matter what date I put I get the same r...

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Before the move to GA4 we used to use a dashboard which, I think, had been developed by the UK HE Canvas community. It was free and very useful; senior management loved it. Does anybody know of a dashboard for GA4? Adam

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There were three required Discussions in my class. Some students missed the deadline for completing one or more of these discussions. Thus, I want to create a 4th discussion that is optional for students to complete. The student who would likely opt ...

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In this term, we have several students without 0's in the Gradebook for Missing Assignments. However, our Gradebook Settings, under Late Policies, is set to "Automatically apply grade for missing submissions" of 0%.  This is true in all of our course...

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We've had several instances where a student has been concluded in a course but no one went in to conclude the student. How is this happening?

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How do I enable a page that is in the left side bar, so that it gets visible to students?Thanks!

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Hello Community,  I am a district technology facilitator and I have a teacher that has created an assignment using Google Slides. One criteria for this presentation is for the students to create animation within the slide deck. However when they subm...

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Is there a way to batch edit assignment details? I would like to change the settings for all assignments at once. For example, change the Allowed Attempts from the default number to Unlimited. 

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A teacher of ours has made a peer review assignment and students have 2 attempts. Now a few of the students missed the due date and did not turn in their first assignment. The result is that they can't give feedback on the other students assignment. ...

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I've been asked these questions by a teacher regarding student booking appointments in Canvas for one-to-ones. I've had a scan of previous posts and read guides on the usual way of doing this but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing another way of ...

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Has anyone experienced Canvas automatically reverting quiz grade posting policies (from automatic to manual) even if we have it set to automatic for all quizzes by default?So once the students have attempted a quiz, the quiz appears as "muted", where...

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Um, has anyone done a Canvas orientation that includes like breakout groups or team activities? I’m planning one for our new students at my University, and I’m wondering how to keep it interactive. Would love some ideas!!

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Canvas LMSはMicrosoft Teamsと統合できるという記事を読みました。この統合は、オープンソース版のCanvas LMS(OSS)で可能ですか、それともCanvas LMS Cloud(商用版)に限定された機能ですか?

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I would like to remove People and Files from the navigation menu in a Homeroom course for Canvas Elementary. Is this possible?

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Let's say we have two quizzes: Quiz 1 is worth 10 points, and Quiz 2 is worth 100 points. A student lost 50% on Quiz 1 and 48% on Quiz 2. Logically, it makes sense to drop Quiz 2 since it is worth significantly more, and keeping it would not be a goo...

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How do I require a training or activity that students should complete before gaining access to their current semester courses? 

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I created a free canvas account by mistake with an incorrect email and I want to delete it 

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Can Canvas identify AI submissions by students that would be similar to the Similarity Score?

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One of our instructors has asked the question below.  I turned first to the Canvas Instructor Guides before submitting here.  There was information about how peer comments remain for a student  who withdraws from a class, but there didn't seem to be ...

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How can we effectively use the Canvas Attendance feature to track and mark student attendance in regular face-to-face sessions? Are there any solutions or best practices available to streamline this process?  

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I want the option to turn off student's ability to make comments on assignments, or if this cannot be done, I want to disable the ability to attach files to comments.  Students use comments to turn in assignments after the due and late date, which is...

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I use pages on Canvas for my main set up for students. I have a page for every week and I made a template with everyday of the week. I will link assignments in the template on the page for the week. However, now, the only way students can access my a...

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