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As the LMS admin for our institution, I have encountered a specific challenge related to user access in our courses, and I am seeking guidance or insights on potential solutions. Our current situation involves a necessary lockdown of faculty's abilit...

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I need to create a self-administered Canvas quiz using the Short Answer format. None of the options listed seem appropriate, but perhaps what I need is labeled differently. Can anybody help me out?

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I need a csv file containing user names, emails, and date of last login (i.e. basically all of the information under the "People" tab). Is there a way to download this info as a csv in Canvas?

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Looking for any recommendations on a tool that instructors can use to gauge the availability of their students for their weekly class Zoom sessions. It would ideally look something like the attached, which is a Google Form that we currently use but h...

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Please adviseAs an instructor, am I supposed to have the to-do events option in calendar? From the canvas instructor guides and videos I have seen, to-do events option in calendar does not show. Why does it show for me? I am not enrolled as a student...

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I had attached a picture to my discussion post, and it was taking too long to upload so I had hit cancel. When I hit cancel it had erased my whole post. Is there any way possible of retrieving it? If there is a way to retrieve it how do I go about it...

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Hi, Canvas community,I have a question regarding the Financial Page on Canvas.Is it possible to attach a financial page to Canvas through which students can access information about their payment details?Thank you for your answers in advance.

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Is there a provision to learn complete Canvas online for free of cost. if so can i get the link of it

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How can I conduct online C Programming Lab exam for minimum 70 to maximum 150 students at a time in canvas by providing programming tool attached to question.

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I  keep getting this message:"You need to authorize this integration in order to use it.Please sign in to your Google account and authorize this integration."I have clicked the authorization button, I do the steps, and it keeps saying authorization f...

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Is there a way of retrieving 2023 class work and copying across to the 2024 class work?What is the best way to set up the class settings for rolling intakes so the term 4 to term 1 students do not lose their work and have to restart?We do rolling int...

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I log in to my canvas on my MacBook but there is nothing accessible. My classes are under courses but I can't see any assignments its just blank.

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Is it possible to highlight parts of questions or answers on the quiz?  I would like to be able to highlight parts of the exam for returning to the question.

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I'm an admin for a Canvas account, and I need to send an email to inactive users to notify them that their account will be deleted if they do not log in by a certain date. Is it possible to directly email these users, instead of sending a message to ...

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Does Canvas Mail save messages as you are type them?  I spent a long time typing a detailed message to students and I pushed something and the mailbox disappeared.  How do I recover the draft message?

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Hello!We would like to be able to upload lists of new students to create new Canvas Student user accounts. Can you tell me the best way to do this so that we dont have to add them manually one at a time?

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 I need to know who do I read material for Quiz 1 on HIT 162?  

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I'd like to see the Assignment Group of an Assignment be displayed. It is there when you are in edit mode, but once you save it, you don't see it and can't confirm it unless you hit edit. It could show like this:

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One of my completed courses is still on my course dashboard. I have checked my "all courses" settings and have found that none of them are "star-marked". Any possible remedies?

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New to using Canvas - I want to upload files for my students but whilst I can do that that the visibility to my students is disabled - how can I correct that?

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I had an instructor come to me with the following issue:The instructor had created math equations in a quiz and resized the math equation using the handles on the box that surrounds the equation.  He then saved the changes he made to the question and...

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Hi Canvas As we create some text-heavy images that go beyond the text capacity for alt text and become unreadable on some devices in the LMS it would be good to have the 'click to enlarge' built into Canvas as a preset for images. We don't want to ha...

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During a lesson on Collaborative Ultra and Canvashow and where can i get students to respond to a questionSay - Hand written response - adhoc and upload to Canvassave and keepadditional measure of engagement.

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Hi, to whom this may concern. My professor has sent me invitation of a course at AWS Academy, but once i clicked the "Get Started" button, it went straight to log in page, and I can not log in using my school email where the invitation is sent to. An...

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Hello, Canvas.Question: Does Canvas have any plans to upgrade the email feature soon? The email feature in the iteration of Canvas that I am using at my institution is quite antiquated. It's simply a text-only function that allows for attachments. Is...

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I have a few "inactive" students in my Canvas class, but can also see that their activity time is showing activity in the course. How is this possible? And are these students able to see the course?  

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I keep getting a message labeled "Too Long" when I try to publish an announcement. How do I fix the issue and what does it mean?

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A student completed an assignment on time with a grade of 100%. However, the student went back to the assignment to review for the test and Canvas counted the second submission as late and deducted the points from the assignment that was submitted on...

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I know there is an issue with converting rubrics from Blackboard to Canvas because Blackboard's rubrics rank low to high, while Canvas' rubrics rank high to low. Since I knew this, I converted by rubrics in Blackboard to be high to low because it is ...

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