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How can I add more Module pages in the left nav bar? Not more modules in the Modules page, but actually more "Modules" links for users to click on. I uploaded my screen shot here to give more visual guidance.

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I  "This video's privacy settings require you to sign into your Guidde account". Why???? Does anyone have a work around?

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We're thinking of turning on discussion checkpoints, but we don't have Modernized Speedgrader, Enhanced Rubrics, or Enhanced Assignments turned on yet. Has anyone in that situation experienced bugs with checkpoints? 

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Hi, I need help. I would like to embed the interactive page of Google NotebookLM into Canvas. Anyone has any idea on how to go about this?   

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I've looked through the Guides, and see that there are two disclaimers regarding the Test Student in the context of New Quizzes: This page in the Instructor Guide confirms that "Quiz Preview does not support [...] multiple attempts". This page confir...

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In New Quizzes, the Pretty HTML editor within the RCE environment does not seem to be as robust as that within Classic Quizzes or elsewhere in Canvas. In these other locations, the RCE offers colorized HTML tags and autocomplete of HTML tags. From my...

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I have a single question graded survey in Classic Quizzes that is set up to award 5 points to the student if they complete it. When I take the quiz as a student, however, the points show up as 5 points out of 1. Why would this be? Is it getting the 1...

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I am a faculty director at the Berkman Klein Center. I would like to offer an orientation course to next September's incoming fellowship class. May I use Canvas to do this?

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I currently have a piece of software that runs on LTI 1.1 and have been looking to migrate it to LTI 1.3The application is a python Flask app. However I have really struggled to find any good resources around creating an LTI 1.3 Flask app. I would lo...

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Since I'm an admin, would my experience differ from that of faculty team members? I'm asking to confirm whether it's necessary to have someone without an admin role test the associate course.

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I want student to submit assignments using the Text Entry Box option to simplify formatting and reduce technical issues. However, when making them in SpeedGrader, it does not show properly.The line length is too long meaning that some text is hidden ...

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Canvas: Grades PageOverlapping Content or Cut Off Content (the Canvas UI looks sloppy at all widths on desktop)   To Reproduce This Bug: Use a desktop computer and browser(e.g. 13 Macbook Air and Firefox Browser) Go to the Grades Page for a Class At ...

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When working in Pages, when I select the type of html editor to use (Pretty vs. Raw), my choice is remembered on any other page I work in. So, for instance, Pretty html is the Canvas "default" but when I switch to Raw html in Pages, the html editor w...

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I work for a school district that uses Canvas, and build courses in Canvas regularly using my school district account.  This summer I'm going to teaching a course at a university that also uses Canvas, and my account with the University won't be acti...

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Does Canvas have the ability to allow instructors to apply automatic late point deductions based on grade categories rather than a universal application across the entire gradebook? I know this is NOT available now, but is there any possibility of it...

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Hi all,I teach 4-5 sections of American Government online, about 250-300 students. I used to have an average of mid 70s on my online American Government classes. Since the advent of AI, the average has crept up and now is in the mid to high 80s.Stude...

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I haven't seen this mentioned, though I may have missed it. My question is why in Canvas the breadcrumbs (the navigation links at the top of the pages as a user navigates the course) don't follow actual user navigation? For example, if I click from m...

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Hola, tengo una situación con las competencias duplicadas. Los profesores tienen bloqueados los permisos relacionados con la edición de competencias, pero tienen permitido crear cursos, en este lapsus , al momento de exportar un curso que ya tiene co...

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Hello. I am wanting to create drop down menus within the course overview pages. For example, one drop down could include course reading for the week and another could have assignments. Is this possible? I have looked around these forums for an answer...

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The default for importing content changed this semester to "import all" and this totally messed up 9 weeks of my course. Our instructional team spent nearly 50 hours undoing this error during a busy part of the semester and this was totally unnecessa...

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I'm not sure how long this has been going on, but I noticed this week that when I create a hyperlink, the Canvas Accessibility Checker flags it as not being a dark enough blue. Is there any way for me to change the default so I don't have to change t...

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Hi,  We are reviewing our LTI/software review process, and I wondered what other Canvas schools do.  Currently, we have the faculty member fill out 2 forms.  One is a rubric that they have the vendor help them fill out.  The other is a department rev...

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When a student answers a quiz question incorrectly, I would like for them to receive a notice of where they can get information in the course material that explains the answer.  This would only apply to incorrect answers. I don't quickly see how I ca...

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I'm working on a course page built with the new CidiLabs Design Tools. The page has buttons and content cards. In Chrome, on my PC (15") and Mac (13") these look like this: Attachment 1.When I check in Designer tools the responsiveness for different ...

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A faculty member just asked me:  I am wondering if there is a way to clean out the Files sections in some of the courses I support more efficiently. Is there a way to tell from the Files section if something is in a Module? Or some way of telling if ...

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We are using OpenStax textbooks in many of courses. We are also trying to keep the students in Canvas so we embedded the chapters of the OpenStax textbook in pages. The issue us that since the textbooks chapters are so long, we have a scroll bar insi...

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I am teaching a course called Mathematics for Programming.  As a part of that, I am teaching about logic and truth tables.  I would like to give quizzes that included formula questions about boolean functions.  The only function I've been able to fin...

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I need an algorithm for rounding whole numbers in a quiz. Is that possible to do? For example, the number is 405 and I want the student to round to the nearest hundred.

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I feel certain that Spring 2025, I was able to set a specific time and date (ex: Friday at noon) for the course to automatically publish so students could see it. Now, I can't remember how I did that, nor am I finding the answer in a guide. I do know...

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After uploading SVG files as a part of our standard course design process, the files are no longer viewable. SVG files that had already been uploaded are still viewable, but only files uploaded as of today are corrupted in Canvas. The files are not c...

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