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I've noticed that every time I edit an announcement or make a change (not publish date related), I get an email notification. I need a notification when my announcement pushes out on it's "available from" date for verification that it went out correc...

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I copied a couple of assignments and discussions from other courses (they had similar format to this course).  They had due dates from 2022, which I then removed. I then copied the format for the entirety of the course.  Canvas is still showing that ...

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I would like to receive a notification when a student does not submit an assignment past the due date and time. Is there a feature for this already? I'm struggling to find it. I can only see when students submit things on time and late, but no notifi...

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I was wondering if anyone knew of an easier way as an admin to add people to past courses. For example, our spring term ended a month ago and the course end dates reflect the same. I have a new faculty member who needed access to one of those past co...

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Would love to hear from campuses using Google Assignments LTI 1.3 within Canvas that run two Google Tenants (employees and students) Does the Google Assignments LTI 1.3 feature within Canvas work with multi-tenants? Issue: When an instructor creates ...

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I'm a contract lecturer and found the Course Roster (I think that's what it was called) useful for identifying students and some info about which Masters course they were doing.  The only tab now is the "People" one, which is far less useful 

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Hello, I have created a quiz at the end of my Articulate Rise360 course and uploaded the SCORM file to Canvas as a graded assignment. I can see that a percent score is recorded in the gradebook, but is there any way to see data for the individual que...

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Like many others here, I am frustrated at the lack of TurnItIn integration for Discussion boards posts. I am wondering if anyone has tried to create an assignment that requires peer review as an alternative?From what I can tell, it would fail to prom...

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Has anyone else come across this issue? When creating an ungraded Group Discussion, the availability dates won't save unless I leave "This is a Group Discussion" unchecked and first "Manage Assign To", assign it to everyone (not sections), apply the ...

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Is it possible to export the list of active/inactive participants (or both) in a .csv or Excel file from Canvas?

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In Pages, there is an "Assign To" function that allows you to assign a page to a student/students.  In the student view, however, the page does not appear on their "To Do" list.  How do students know if a page has been assigned to them?

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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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