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In simple terms, we would like to cross-list courses taught at our university (using Canvas) for in-person, live-streamed, and online classes. All of these will be the same course taught by the same teacher, just with different modalities and section...

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Hello forum members, I'm currently delving into a peculiar problem in Canvas where it seems that one user's data has been overwritten by another's. This may be related to our integration setup, so I might not be able to blame Canvas just yet. A curio...

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I am working with buttons for the first time and I've managed to create a grid that is responsive to screen size and has horizontally aligned text.  What I can't figure out is how to center my text vertically.  I know the padding is keeping it anchor...

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What's the difference between the HMH LTI and the HMH Ed Linking tool?  I've been using the ED linking tool to assign our tests from HMH Into Reading.  The LTI just appeared on my Canvas External tools options.  Is one better than the other?

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When viewing the video for instructions on cross-listing a course, it says that the child course "must" have at least one student in it. Does anyone know the reason for this? I can see no reason for this and it appears that you can cross-list courses...

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Is there a way not to post an assigned assignment to the course calendar? We use ALEKS in our course, which provides a link for each assignment, which is posting to the calendar. We would like it to NOT post to the calendar. We created Pages in Canva...

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Students who have an assignment submitted, but not yet graded by the instructor, are labeled as 'Missing.' This is creating confusion for students who think they have a missing assignment, but, in fact, do not.  The missing label is even syncing over...

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@jpoulos Does anyone know the status of this idea.? It says it was added to theme: "Improved UI Controls and Usability - Additional filtering and view options" but doesn't appear to be listed there. Many thanks!      

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I am trying to look at assignment grades from a course that ended a few days ago. Since the semester has technically ended, the course was taken off of my calendar. However, when I try to look at my past courses, the class isn’t listed anywhere. It’s...

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So our canvas instance has a few accounts. However I am only an admin of each account, and not a global admin.   I was asked to move courses from: example.instructure.com/accounts/2 into: example.instructure.com/accounts/3   So I can let each account...

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Hi all,We link to a 3rd party for our content - the 3rd party will autopopulate the grades in the Canvas gradebook for quizzes that are taken.  When the student doesn't complete the quiz, I have to manually put in a "0" for the quiz and I mark it as ...

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I am creating a new campus-based course which will be exclusively for mature adult learners.  The structure of the course consists of one VLE (Canvas) page per class and there are 10-36 classes per course.  Our institution has a 'learning' model whic...

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I thought this was a fairly common thing to do? Scenario: Your students take an exam, there are a few questions almost everyone misses and you decide that those questions are too difficult or confusing, so you want to "sort of" throw them out. But yo...

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I am looking for a way to convert an old hardcopy paper assignment to be on canvas and accessible, and am kind of stumped. The idea is that students have completed a small research project, and then afterwards need to reflect on the quality of their ...

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Hi! I cannot view scores in the Learning Mastery Gradebook. The score is visible in the normal gradebook and speedgrader. The rubric is connected to the Learning Mastery gradebook, the outcomes show. However the report is just blank. Is there a way t...

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Canvas Discussions have a cool feature - when creating a discussion, I can choose to "Add to student to-do". This is fantastic. Naturally, this feature is even more useful in conjunction with Announcements. However, I haven't been able to figure out ...

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I've been trying to fairly allocate points for student participation in the multiple discussion boards I've used over the semester.  I was pleased to find a method for supposedly (-- not faulting the script here, BTW) downloading student activity for...

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I need help understanding the "alerts" Canvas gives for tests. I have a student who received 3 alerts that all indicated different things about the quiz. "This quiz will be submitted in 30 Mins" "You have been given extra time on this attempt"  These...

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Whenever I click to open a google doc in a new window, I see this error attached. I am using Orion browser which I suspect is the issue since Edge works. 

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The draw feature for marking up submissions sometimes makes random drawings after the drawing tool has been used for other things.  A way to correct this is to choose select, then go back to draw and repeat?  This is really annoying.  Will this behav...

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As a former professor, the following article inspired me to look at the vocabulary used  in some Canvas course rooms in terms of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) levels: Studie: Vissa universitetslärare inte bättre än g...

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I will be co-ordinating a course with 1500 enrolled students. Piazza is used to manage student questions. This is time consuming. To address this I would like a chatbot integrated with Piazza on Canvas that is pre-loaded with data to respond to stude...

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My instructor added me to a group but the semester is now over and I no longer want to group showing up on my dashboard.  How do I remove it?

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I am trying to evaluate students based on their 'likes' of different discussion board postings. Canvas's documentation indicated that all of a student's activity with a course site is recorded.  I have figured out how to access student activity using...

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Is it possible to see exactly when a student had visited specific pages or clicked through buttons? I know the access report tells you the last time a student visited a page, but I have a student claiming they had uploaded an assignment just before t...

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I am using the new quizzes. under setting, I am randomized question but I want the first question not to be randomized because it is an agreement state where the student should answer yes. Is this possible  Thanks

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I would like to download slides to Microsoft oneNotes or MS Words. But right now alternative format does not allow either. I have to copy and paste. Any suggestion? Basic idea is to make my life easier when listening to professor lecture and make the...

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I have 2 classes and each has unique quiz banks, As far as I can tell I created the classes the same way, with the same features and settings.  In each class I can see the class quiz banks.  If I open a quiz and use the Find Question, I can see all t...

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The exams are given with two types of questions: stand-alone questions and case questions. Our exams try to mimic the NAPLEX which means questions are forward-only, one question at a time.I would like to have forward-only and randomized exam question...

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