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I am trying to turn in my video for my Spanish class, but every time I try, it says an error in the attempt. Is there a way this could be fixed or resolved?

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I am having a very frustrating issue with my assignments being sorted randomly in the gradebook. I have to manually go through in the Gradebook and drag and drop them into the correct order, but when I navigate away and come back, they're back to bei...

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I am having my students write a research essay in class instead of having it be homework because I'm tired of ChatGPT. I was told by my IT dept. that I can have them do this in Canvas in the computer lab without being able to access the internet. Bec...

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I teach Applied Statistics, and my students are assigned to use SPSS to enter data into an .sav file, then upload the file to Canvas. For the first time this semester (unlike the past 8 years I have been assigning this), a handful of my students' .sa...

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I have long been noticing that, once I think I am done with grading student submissions for a particular assignment in Canvas (as indicated by the lack of "to do" submissions in the drop-down menu for that assignment in the Speed Grader) I find, very...

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Our teachers have been reporting issues with student submissions where the text is 'invisible', and the issue for them is becoming more frequent. They are seeing this in SpeedGrader, on discussions, when students submit to essay questions, etc. Basic...

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I noticed there's a button named "Show All Details" when I use the student view to see the Grades. After I pressed this button, an extra line appeared under Assignment/Quizzes which had been graded, but it was blank and nothing was displayed. I searc...

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Hi where is the picot format to dowload that took me five hours and to save that imagen and not was able to find the document.

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Hi Canvas Community We have an assignment that was created for a Canvas course without the TurnItIn option being enabled. The teacher has now added the TurnItIn option to the assignment - however, all the students had already submitted their final dr...

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When you go to Settings- External Apps within a course, there are no apps listed, nor does the search work. Just wondering if there were any issues with this right now We are trying to use the Redirect tool which typically has been listed on External...

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I am a TA and I have uploaded PowerPoint into modules for some reason, it continues to show in the student view that no modules have been defined. Does anyone know what I need to do to fix this issue? Thank you. 

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How do I open up an assignment that is closed for only particular students who have not submitted on the due date?

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I am not able to see content for my classes that I am registered for this Spring Term 

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I've never used Canvas before.  I am a faculty member who previously taught at a different school that used a different system.I have three assignments—participation, midterm, and final exam—that show up in the Grades. Now, I would like to simply add...

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This is the first semester I have had this issue. The quizzes on my Canvas course automatically show up as a zero on students grade right from the first day of class. Typically the quizzes don't count until the day that the quiz is due on Canvas. The...

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Going over powers of i. The only answers are i, -1, -i, or 1. First attempt was to use a formula question with i^`a` and have it randomly generate natural numbers for a. I learned that Canvas doesn't like imaginary numbers, so only will generate a va...

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In a simplifying radicals fill in the blank question, I can type in the square root symbol just fine for the prompt, but I can't have an answer under the radical. First, is there a way to do this that I've missed? The best I've done is set up a table...

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I integrated Edpuzzle and embedded a video as an assignment in Canvas.  However, when I preview as a student, it forces me to login as a teacher.  When I enter my credentials, it gives an error message:  "User not allowed to access LTI data." 

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Feature request: Add an "assignment" link to the student group homepage left bar to access a group assignment.When students are assigned a group discussion, they can go to their group homepage and access the group discussion through the  "Discussions...

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Is there any tool in Canvas available to create Drag & drop kind of assessment activities? Thanks

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Hello, This is a emergency. Someone reply as fast as possible. Today I saw that all my modules got deleted in all my courses and someone was exporting them. So i changed my password and returned them. Minutes later,  I find my courses being deleted o...

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Hello!So, what I am trying to do is to connect multiple questions together so that if I am pulling from a quiz bank, I can pull the questions as a group, and they won't separate from one another.Here is an example. Say I have a quiz bank with 40 ques...

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Zoom has added sections to their LTI/API, and you can add meetings for specific sections now, great! That said, Canvas does not support calendar events by section apparently. According to Zoom. So even though students can only see zoom meetings for t...

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In MyLab through Pearson I see there are weights in my gradebook. In canvas all my groups are also weighted. Do I need to delete weights in Pearson? Dana

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Testing out the Zoom LTI in Canvas and it's really great - but would love for students to be able to use it in Groups. Right now it's just BigBlueButton. Is there any way to replace that with the Zoom LTI instead of the BBB tool?  Edit: although you ...

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I'm trying to add Rubrics to my assignements by pulling outcomes that I have previously created.  When I go to add a rubric, there is a line there ready to edit to add your own criteria, instead I am using the 'find outcome' option to bring my outcom...

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I find that when I create or edit a rubric, I often want to rearrange the order of my listed criteria. For example, late in the process, I will remember a criterion that I want located at the beginning of the rubric. As far as I know, I do not have t...

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How do students provide feedback when assigned a peer review? It appears that Canvas used to give students the edit/markup features, but they no longer have that.

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