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Is there way or what is the best way to indicate a student has a medical issue (for example, due to a concussion sports injury) such that only the Canvas instructor or course director role can see only a generic w/o medical details indication of a pr...

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Hi Canvas Community.  I am working on providing my institution with support training for new canvas users who lose their “Finish Registration: Canvas” email.   What are the best ways/how do you handle it when a user reports not getting this email?   ...

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A staff member came to me with some Lockdown Browser questions and wanted to see if anyone has some experience with their requests - I think I know the answers but wanted to gauge others before giving the person information: 1.  When picking sites th...

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Hi, is there a way of running a basic report which would show me every course on my platform, and the number of enrolments on each course? Preferably active users, but I'm not overly bothered about that if it's not possible.    So one column showing ...

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I've searched for others experiencing this but not found anyone posting, so maybe it is me but.... I have never had a glitch free experience using annotation tools in speedgrader- the following are the most common:    1) When highlighting text there ...

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Am I able to go in and set opening and closing dates for each week, each assignment, discussion, etc.?

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I have an assignment that requires starting a discussion and then adding an Excel file but the only way they have available is an attach button. I can add it but it only shows the name of the file and not the contents of the file.  how do I make it v...

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Today, March 12th I can't add new students to my course. Canvas returns the message "We were unable to find matches below" I tried with emails in different courses and different studets and I get the same message. Is it due to an update?

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Hi, We sync our Canvas data from Veracross, but student images are not coming over. Is there a way to add this to the Veracross-Canvas sync or can I batch upload images to student profiles?

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I've looked through the guides and throughout the community and cannot find the answer to this question. Can outcomes be reported on a Group assignment? Does it matter if the grades are individual grades or a group grade? 

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Our primary authentication method is M365/SAML.We have /login/canvas enabled as well.(1) On the Create Account page for our public, the form asks for course code, and several things, but it does NOT ask for email or have any verification using that e...

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When I give a unit test I have to have 2 versions of the test.  The 2nd version is for my special ed students who get modifications to their test.  When I go to Assign To, I end up typing 20 or so names of students from across all sections every time...

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I have already completed the registration process and started the class. Now I  discovered that there are three additional students who need to be included. However, the system is currently preventing me from registering them. Is there a solution to ...

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I would like the grade book to have a status "Credit" in addition to none, late and missing. It would be helpful for students that have IEP's and 504 accommodations.  I would like to acknowledge that the student completed the assignment to the best o...

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Hello All... Seemingly overnight, one of my teacher's has all of their active courses set to "unpublished" and all of the assignments disappeared. When we changed their courses back to "published", the assignments are still not showing up. Any though...

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The page bumps up when I type in the Speedgrader feedback box, and my typing stops. Any ideas on how to correct this? It is very frustrating! I have updated the Apple machine to the latest Sequoia. I am using the Chrome browser, and I have cleared th...

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Hi everyone,  We're currently deploying Canvas Outcomes across one of our larger courses, and it's quite the lengthy and manual process. We're having to look up Course Learning Outcome alignments in our Curriculum Maps, deploy the right CLOs in the r...

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I am a pre-algebra instructor and really enjoy using quizzes with multiple attempts and building on last attempt features for students practicing skills. I encourage students to treat their first attempt as an actual test for me to see what they trul...

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We're trying to get students to edit a Powerpoint document as an external tool assignment and it seems to be extremely temperamental whether it launches or not. Students can sign into their OneDrive to access the Powerpoint but about 50% of the time ...

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It sure would be nice to have the Submit Assessment button located on the left of the screen directly under the rubric. As it is, we have to scroll over to hit it, which disrupts flow. Is it just me?

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When moderating a quiz, why can't we have the ability to filter into sections?  It would be much easier to track the students of a single class taking a quiz instead of having to search through all the students enrolled in my course.

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Our district has told teachers to hide the Grades page from students since we're not using the Canvas gradebook as our "gradebook of record." Because of this, I'm struggling to figure out how students can view my feedback to them on a Discussion.I op...

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Hi, I'm writing a quiz and I'd like the students to submit comma separated questions.  For example, a rectangle has an area of six inches and the long side is one inch longer than the short side.   What are the lengths of the sides? I'd like them to ...

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Thank you for helping. I have four Assignment Groups in Assignments totally 100%. Within each group are multiple quizzes, writing assignments, etc., as per normal. I just entered a grade in one of the groups after so far having entered ten other assi...

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Someone changed a Canvas Theme in a subaccount, causing several CSS issues. Is there a way to determine who made the change?

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I’m curious to know if any institutions are using Canvas to facilitate a course for assessing credit for prior learning (PLA). If so, how are you structuring the process? Are you using a dedicated course, Folio, or another tool within Canvas to guide...

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There used to be an option for downloading submissions next to the assignment title on the grade book, and now it's gone.  How can I download a zip folder with the students' submissions?

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Hi,  I need some help and advice.  We asked a vendor to help develop a SCORM courseware using storyline, we created like text box, asking students to send their comment, we uploaded the SCORM into canvas as assignment, the graded quizzes work ok, but...

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How do you prevent or allow faculty course title editing by an admin?  We create all courses via .csv upload and are moving to ILP.  On the Canvas Admin, I want to adjust settings to allow faculty to edit the course title.  I have been unable to loca...

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HI Is there a way to enroll a user in multiple courses in bulk? I have to assign advisors to courses and one advisor has 15 courses so wondering if there is a better way to do this than individually enrolling her in each course. Thank you!

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