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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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Are there plans for Canvas to ever get a new look? Many apps and websites are getting a new rounded look....but canvas hasn't yet and I haven't seen any plans for it to get a new look... the current look is outdated and looks very 2016... A new look ...

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It would be useful if we could apply multiple filters in the gradebook for modules and assignments as you can for students.  It's sometimes useful to be able to compare two modules side by side, particularly when looking at students at the start of a...

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How do I add other lecturers to my Canvas units?

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I am an administrator and have set our assignments to use Letter grade and have the final total of all completed assignments to be 100 percent We’ve noticed that there are some students submitting partially on their assessments. Unfortunately, Canvas...

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Hi! I was wondering if there was a way to create a course banner which appears on every page? When I paste on each individual page it appears under the page heading which looks a bit strange. From what I've read it sounds like I need access to Design...

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Good afternoon,  I am seeking some help on a predicament that a faculty member posed to us (instructional designers on campus) by which I'm currently befuddled.  This is a summary of their issue: They have 2 separate courses that they are combining i...

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Good Evening  I am able to log onto parent canvas. I am not able to see anything else on Canvas. I have a new computer.    Katherine Guest Katherineguest35@aol.com

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Is there anyway to incorporate a "Dark mode" on the interface for Canvas. It would be much easier on the eyes for those of us who are on the platform for extended periods of time.

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We migrated to Canvas this semester from Blackboard. In Blackboard, column statistics were available for every column in the Grade Center. These statistics displayed in a table with the mean, median, etc. and the number of grades in each group (for l...

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How can we make Passport to Canvas appear on all students' dashboards? Also, we would like to do the same with Growing with Canvas and our teachers/staff. We are new to Canvas and want those guides to be available by roles or just overall.

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I am wondering about the text box within quiz questions that is labeled "additional comments".  Is this box for instructor comments about the question/instructions, or for input to the student about the specific question score/answer? Thank you for y...

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I am grading fill-in-the-blank questions.  I would like to be able to grade ALL student answers for each specific question on one page.  The best I can figure out at the moment is to click on a question number, which will take me to a specific studen...

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