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Why on earth would Canvas change this feature? The comments within the same assignment allowed me to see the conversation with my student, allowed me to see what I had already typed to them, and we could communicate this way. Now I have no idea what I wrote previously - I have to go up and click on as many submissions as…
Hi everyone… Has anyone else run into issues with SAML authentication not working, but only on their beta instance? Our production and test sites are fine, but we manage a number of different Canvas instances and every one of them that uses SAML authentication (with either Okta or Microsoft Entra) has not worked for a…
I have 9 years of Canvas courses listed and every time I have to import or share or add a rubric, etc., I have to scroll through more than 35 different (yet similarly named) courses. Can there be a way to have a Current Year only? Or published only section? Like, have another tab under, similar to when importing shared…
When the link to "Pages" is selected, it takes you to the home page and shows only the home page. You have to select the link "View All Pages" to actually see all pages. This is pretty stupid. The link to pages should show all pages not the home page first. Why should I have to make another selection when I want to always…
I am currently teaching a high school Spanish course, and many of my assignments use the fill-in-the-blank question type in new quizzes. The problem that I'm encountering is when a question requires a special character, such as an accented vowel (examples include: á Ó or ü) or the special letter ñ (which is a different…
I know there's a guide* on how to make Time Adjustments through the Moderate tab. We really should be able to do that through the People screen as well. Only going the the Moderate tab is counter-intuitive as well as a bunch of unnecessary extra clicking. And what if I want to go ahead and enter accommodations before I…
Hi everyone, Over the past few years, I’ve spent a lot of time working inside Canvas - designing assessments, revising them, re-using them across courses, and trying to keep everything coherent as programs evolve. One thing became increasingly clear: the challenge isn’t writing good questions. It’s managing them. Between…
In Classic Quizzes, it is possible to display question-level feedback to students without manually grading an essay question on a quiz. Can this be enabled in New Quizzes? Use Case: This feature is vital for practice quizzes that include essay questions along with other question types. We mix essay questions with other…
Hello, I believe this question may have been answered before and the answer was "no", so I want to confirm the answer is still "no": I have an assignment I only want some of the groups in my class (not sections) to do that assignment How can I do that? Currently the "Assign To:" allows you to select ONLY sections or…
I was looking for a tool that lets me see all discussion posts made by one student throughout a term but I couldn't find a discussion post aggregator tool. Is there a way to do that? (I tried checking in Settings; also tried using People to see if I could get to posts under a student name. No luck.)
I created a student annotation assignment. I want to download the students' work on this assignment. I have looked for the download option in the gradebook and in the assignment and it does not exists. Is this something that cannot be done in this type of assignment?
Encountering an issue where students are emailing that they have finished their quiz and can see the results after their attempt but their grades for the assignment. On the instructor's end, their attempt still shows as missing. Inthe Moderate tab for that quiz and you can see their attempts along with the grades they got…
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Hi everyone, I’m Olivia, and I’m excited to officially introduce myself as the Product Manager for IgniteAI Agent. Before joining Instructure, I spent several years as a PM at Microsoft, where I worked on bringing the power of AI into Excel for millions of users. My career has always lived at the intersection of complex…
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