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Currently, Canvas grade the Multiple Answers questions this way: When creating a "Multiple Answer" question, you can set the total points for the question and assign points for each correct answer. * Point Calculation: Canvas divides the total points by the number of correct answers. Students earn points for each correct…
How can I change the "tag" under a task title? In Module view it shows the assignment and under it the "tags" (not sure the actual term for this) of due date, points possible, and then it says "score at least a 10". The points for the assignment are only 5. I can see how to edit/save points for the assignment and I tried…
If a student has a tab open for an assignment or quiz, and I then unpublish that assignment, quiz, or entire module, the student is still able to access their assignment or quiz and even submit it. I do not want students to be able to access anything once I unpublish a module. The whole point is for them to only be able to…
I know that there is a little blue bubble that identifies someone has shared content with me, but how do I set my notifications so that I get an email alerting me to it?
I just need the play button. Can this be done? I uploaded an mp3. Then added it to a page. But it's displaying in a box like there's a video, but it's only an mp3 audio file. It looks bad on the page. People will expect it to play a video even though it's only an mp3.
So I have a quiz for students. I have tried the following, and I have also attempted to select 'see only once' after each attempt. However, students never seem to be able to view it, and I have verified on their screens that there does not appear to be a way to view it. Am I missing something, or are they? Let Students See…
Has Canvas recently changed their qti format? In the past I could export a quiz that used question groups and import it into Respondus 4. When I do that now I get the error when previewing the file: DynaZip UnZIP error: zip file structure invalid (problem extracting file(s)). I was able to import a quiz qti that did not…
how to i install the lockout browser for my class
Hi All. I have been retroactively assigning captions to my images in Canvas and I noticed something strange. I have been adding the image captions within Canvas pages by clicking on “image options” and entering the information, saving the page. However, when looking at the “Files” view of the site, the captions are not…
I'm currently trying to do a quiz on Canvas but it says the service is unavailable due to maintenance. How long will the site be down?
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