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I am working to create a canvas course. I have created buttons for my homepage. When I log in to the course, the first view I see shows the 3rd button down being smaller than all other buttons. The buttons are the correct size when the zoom on the wi...

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I have some formative assignments in Canvas and I want to be able to determine if the student followed up on my feedback in subsequent assignments.   Is there a way I can print out or have a PDF file of all my feedback to a student without having to ...

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Hello; My sincere thanks to all who have replied to my questions. Based on your help I have successfully changed Canvas to display my Modules as the Home Page, and I have fixed the modules so that students must complete module 1 before module 2 …and ...

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On Friday, half of my written assignments disappeared. They are not in the undelete folder. I spoke with a canvas representative and they said that an admin would be contacting me. Can you please get in touch with me? English 097 at Community College...

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When I attempted to submit a PowerPoint presentation for my course, when partially submitting it Canvas froze and remains frozen whatever I do. My course is ET-550 at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. Why did this happen? How ...

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How do I gain access to recorded lectures in cyber boot camp cyber security course

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Does Canvas have AI/Plagiarism tool for Discussion Posts?  And if not, what are the steps in running discussion posts through one? Thank you

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I drop the lowest exam grade, but my students keep on asking if the lowest exam grade has been dropped.  Their gradebook does not show the dropped grade in a different color or in a different way.  Is there a trick to make the dropped grade more visi...

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The accessibility checker is interfering with the rich editor on all of our pages. Is there a way to turn this off?

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I am having difficulty viewing a peer s Post to respond to it in the Discussion Assignment.  Elleton McCullough, 12/10/2023

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What does a grade and due date being grey lettering instead of black mean?

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A colleague has alerted me into a peculiar issue that I haven't seen before. What we'd like to do is get a sense of the grade distribution and, preferably, a list of students with their respective grades to that this information is available to the M...

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Can you change the default text color in the item bank questions? I have to change the color for each question and answer that I do. It's a grey color, but I want to change the default to black.

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Hi everyone, I've recently received questions from colleagues about the use of special characters in the Canvas student/teacher app. Our students often use the app on their smartphone to submit assignments or post in Discussions. (A few students don'...

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Hi,When I'm in the edit mode "editing the page", the edit mode displays the old colours theme.I already deleted the old theme, but the page keeps getting the data from it for some reason.Does someone know why this is happening?Thanks,

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I allow students to turn in all assignments digitally, which requires me to enable "Online submission" for my assignments. However, many of them prefer to turn them in a hard copy (which is fine by me). Problem 1: If a student opts to hand in the har...

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I want students to write the exam essay in the textbox and not on a separate document that they then attach. Is there any way to prevent the students from being able to attach or upload a file in an essay question in a quiz/exam?

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I would love to see discussion assignments be able to have 2 due dates. 1 due date for the post by the student and a 2nd due date for the responses to their classmates. This is the #1 feedback I get from students in my online sections every semester....

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How I can create a new course shell in my CANVAS

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I have a students' quiz log that has several entries of  https://kalamazoo.instructure.com/api/v1/conversations/unread_count   It looks like the the student is navigating from the quiz and checking their Inbox? Is that right? It happens many times du...

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Technology specialist asking on behalf of a teacher.Is there a way to export Canvas submission comments? By assignment? By student? Teacher is hoping to review all comments before writing narrative progress report and not having to go to every assign...

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@KristinL  it's amazing in 2023 (almost 2024) with enabled pronouns they can't be applied to the email signature block.  Like we have the option to enable pronouns OR not.  How many lines of code does it take to add pronouns for those that already cl...

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My teacher and I are trying to figure out how to send an assignment through canvas after the class was removed. Who do I contact to help send the assignment?

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I'm new to Canvas, and I cannot figure out what the orange dot means next to each student's name in the upper-right dropdown menu in Speed Grader. I though it was used to indicate that the student had submitted work, but that doesn't seem to be the c...

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On assignments that have open-ended questions, the default submission (if multiples are allowed) to load on the Speed Grader is the most recent. I have two questions: Is there a way to set the Speed Grader default to the highest (from the multiple ch...

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How to add weights to grade when the grade book is already set up

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Dear Canvas Community,I am a bit challenged by computer usage.  I need to learn basic fundamentals and where to find things and log in.  My first class starts in January.  I have not had the opportunity to use Canvas or anything similar.Any help to g...

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How do I export a list of assignment and due dates into a spreadsheet? I am working with a group of faculty to redesign a course, and we would like to have a spreadsheet of all assignments and dates to evaluate the flow of the course, the specific as...

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