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I have a Canvas quiz built in New Quizzes using One Question at a Time, No Backtracking, and Build on Last Attempt. Several of the questions are built as Stimulus questions, with a case shared in the Stimulus content area, then multiple questions posed to students relating to that case. I'm experiencing a problem when…
Morning! One of the more frustrating aspects of Canvas are groups and the issues that show up when copying courses that have them. But now we have yet another issue. Most recently we have had instances where people mark an assignment/discussion as a group assignment but then do not link the discussion or assignment to any…
I am setting up a question where there are three hotspots on an image, and the learner is required to click somewhere in each of them to be marked as correct. The marker is allocating full points if all marks are placed inside ANY of the hotspots - so, if a learner clicks three times in exactly the same location, they…
I feel like the math is not mathing: I am running a class that has 100 points possible. I want to make each assignment, no matter how many points it is worth, to have a 'late fee' of 2 points deducted. Because I have to deduct via percentange instead of points. and because I can only specify one deduct calculation per…
Hi I saw you have a nice link validator on the whole course webpage. Is there such a facility on a page-by-page basis? This would make work more time-efficient as I can do it gradually, spreading validation, as we move through the module.
Apologies if this question has been posted or answered in the guides and I didn't find it; the keywords are a bit tricky as you might imagine. I'm new to Canvas and trying to work out policies and resources for our K-12 district ahead of our August 2026 launch (so we have some time). We want to use a standardized, simple…
How do I copy one module from an older course to one that I am not facilitating?
Hello, I come to the community seeking your input. We are a small, rural K12 district and have been using templates for our secondary courses for three years now. It's starting to get messy. I love the consistency it creates for our homepages and it allows us to create spaces that are accessibility-friendly. The challenge…
Introduction Creating quizzes in Canvas LMS can sometimes be time-consuming, especially when dealing with large question banks. At Lawrence S. Ting School (LSTS), we’ve developed the first-ever free tool to convert DOCX files to QTI format. This groundbreaking tool supports various question types, including those with…
In speed grader you receive the students initial discussion board posting and their peer reply. We have time deadlines and criteria for each posting. In speed grader it show initial posting was 6 days ago and the reply was 2 days ago. How can the date and time of each response be shown in speed grader instead of having to…
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