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Is there a way to find duplicate questions in a question bank?

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How do I pin an announcement to the front page?

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Please forgive me (Canvas newbie)  On my landing page im trying to change the image (stock standard) to something a little more subject appropriate.  Now i understand that it should be a particular size.  What pixel size should it be? Again sorry for...

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I am finalizing grades and trying to use the Canvas attendance function to input participation data, but I don't want students to see every step of this process. In the past I've "muted" the student view of attendance when working out the final score...

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I am trying to pull up my document but keep getting errors

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For our courses, our students submit their name to an Assignment to declare that they have completed the course. Teachers then verify student completion by marking the Assignment and completing a rubric with an attached Outcome. We run an Outcome Rep...

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Hi all,There is an instructor who created a quiz and was trying to give the student an extra attempt, but there is a strange quiz time of over 13 hours instead. By the names on the moderation page,  it doesnt say anything about the student having ext...

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My professor Yonas Getahun for summer semester that says it was supposed to start on the 4th of this month. I see no syllabus for my class and haven't gotten any updates about where to any of the class work please help.  @ygetahun 

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Why does my MKT 301-01 course and IS 460-01 course not show up on my calendar even though I am enrolled? I have to manually check the class checkboxes every time I open the calendar. In the image, I attached I circled the classes I have to click the ...

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trying to use some videos I made for one class for another. 

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What is the point of 'pages' if you already have a homepage?

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Canvas CSR,I completed my 45-hr Post-Licensing RE Course on 30 Apr 20 before 11:59 PM with a 95 percentile. Naturally, I expected to see my results and receive a confirmation email.I just viewed my DBPR  entry for my license and see no update informa...

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I'm having some issues with the Canvas API for rubrics. I'm trying to assign, to an assignment, a rubric that has free-form criterion comments, but the option is never accepted. I send a POST request to https://MY_UNIVERSITY_CANVAS_HOST/api/v1/course...

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Is there a way as an Admin to have the default card view in the Dashboard to allow more than 8 cards?This limitation has become apparent to both staff and students during out forced isolation due to COVID-19.Reasoning:On top of current courses of stu...

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I need to assign an assignment to only a select group of students.  I would like to assign it to the test student also but I don't know how.

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I have a few individual student assignment submissions that will not allow me to mark the assignment as complete.  How do I fix this?The rest of the assignment submissions allow me to mark the grade as complete.

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Hello,  is it possible to do a repeating daily quiz that has the same questions everyday 

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I am a university student creating a simple online course that will be implemented for my peers to participate in. I do not belong to an educational organization as an educator, but for the purpose of this assignment, I will need to create a course t...

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Is it possible to add other page content on the home page rather than just links to other pages?  For example instead if a link to week 1's page on the homepage, actually have content from page 1 showing on the homepage

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Starting to implement Canvas.  I manually created an Account Role for other non-technology district-level staff.  How do I add people to that new manually created Account Role?  Thanks, Rich

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Hello,I'm taking the "growing with canvas" class, so I created a sandbox to do the assignments, I'm trying to do the speed grader section, but I need to add some students to work with. How can i do it?Thanks,

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I created a few quizzes and wanted to see what they looked like as a student.  (I am using the regular quizzes NOT the New Quizzes) I was unable to do this unless I published the quiz which I did.  I then took the quiz as a test student just to get a...

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How do I un-hide Grades. I clicked on a button in the Gradebook, and it has Hidden my students' grades for that assignment and for their final points as well.Thanks!Tina

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Problem with Migrating old course to new year:I just migrated a graduate level course that I am teaching in June. This is the same course I taught last year. When I migrated the course, I noted that the templates under Collaboration I could not gain ...

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Hello All, I've searched through the guides and Google and there doesn't seem to be a guide that shows users how to self-enroll in a course that has this feature enabled. Does anyone have one they're willing to share? Thanks,Holly 

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How do I add an image to my paper?

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I'd like to know if, in the next update of Canvas, there will be a loading bar. I find that I often submit files that take a long time for Canvas to process, and wish I had a loading bar to see its progress. Also, some of my classmates get confused a...

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I have the final grades for all students on the last column - total, as for examples, 79%, 95%, etc. . How do I have them also displayed in letter grades? 

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Are students able to share their screens in Canvas Conferencing?Also is there a way to hide or turn off shared notes? 

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Why can't I save my quiz?  I've made many of them before and never had any trouble saving.  Does this have something to do with the fact that I walked away from it for an hour, leaving it up on my computer without saving it and then continued typing ...

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