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Problem statement: My students are confusing lock dates and due dates because of the way the list of assignments displays in Canvas. This is creating tremendous amounts of late work and confusing when...

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Problem statement: When working on a project, the easiest way for students to demonstrate their process is by submitting multiple assignments. The problem with this is that students can become very ta...

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Problem statement: There are new parameters for the global announcements as of 11/20/2024 which allow an admin to see all announcements for an account instead of only seeing the announcements for thei...

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Problem statement: Our compliance and curriculum design teams create and validate pages and assessments to ensure accuracy and quality. However, the autosave functionality in the new quiz tool has led...

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Problem statement: I am a student. In one of my courses, the collaborations are automatically sorted alphabetically instead of by date. There is no option to sort by creation date. If there are only a...

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Problem statement: Teachers face significant time constraints when providing detailed and timely feedback on student assignments, particularly in virtual and asynchronous learning environments. The st...

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Problem statement: When completing an assessment using a rubric for a discussion, one has to scroll to the right. Having the "Submit Assessment" button on the left-hand side rather than the right woul...

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Problem statement: We want to be able to submit a grade as a letter, not directly linked to percentages. We like to adjust for participation, attendance, and assistance issues. We make the decisions o...

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Problem statement: Current Issue: When generating learning outcome reports in Canvas, administrators are restricted to pulling data for only one term at a time. For institutions tracking outcomes acro...

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Problem statement: Current Issue: When generating learning outcome reports in Canvas, administrators are required to manually navigate to each sub-account to pull reports for outcomes built at that le...

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Problem statement: In Canvas Classic Quizzes, instructors could provide general feedback, including correct answers or model responses, for essay questions that students could view immediately upon su...

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Problem statement: Editing a rubric takes at least 10 seconds per single item in a single box. For instance, if you want to paste in a single description title, you have to click the pencil, triple cl...

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Problem statement: The CSV report taken from Students in New Analytics contains no page views or participation data, despite the data being visible in Canvas. We currently have to copy and paste the d...

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Problem statement: When creating an export from within the New Quizzes Exports page, a file is generated for download. However, after successful downloading, there is no way to remove the file from Ca...

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Problem statement: If a new item bank is created from within the New Quiz builder, there is no option to add questions immediately. eg. After creating a new question bank, you must first exit the new ...

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Problem statement: When adding quiz questions there are two interfaces, one from within the build page (two columns) and one from within the Item bank (three columns). Top right of the interface withi...

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Problem statement: The Return button in New quizzes is not as obvious as it could be, particularly to students being assessed. In terms of assessment, what does Return actually mean? For an instructor...

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Problem statement: Publishing an un-publishing of New quizzes is neither convenient nor straightforward. Initially I thought there was only one place to Publish a New Quiz, and the process for un-publ...

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Problem statement: When importing, Fill in the Blank questions from Classic Quizzes, then new question is automatically set to be case sensitive by default. Unfortunately, as Classic quizzes did not h...

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Problem statement: Many of the New Quiz question types have poor vertical alignment (anything with a drop down, fill in the blanks etc.). This makes the system look unfinished and does not portray the...

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