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Problem statement: *Any* kind of root admin gets *full* Studio admin permissions. This means that if I grant someone a limited permission such as the ability to post a Global Announcement, they will a...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: A subaccount admin who is also an instructor wants to do pattern comparisons between the timestamps when students submit assignments and the assignments' available, due, and until d...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It is hard to see a list of only missing assignments for individual students. This would be beneficial when trying to help a student get caught up on assignments, without having to ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the only export options when creating a multiple choice Khanmigo quiz is Word, PDF, or Google Drive. There is also the options to copy a shared link with the results. Use...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When I use the arrow keys to navigate up and down through the gradebook it will wrap to the next column when I get to the bottom. In classes where there are more students that fit o...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The current Canvas allows instructors to set a date to publish a page and/or no submission assignments. However, it does not have an option for instructors to set a date to automati...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The course access report does not show when a new quiz is submitted. Proposed solution: With 59% to 68% of college students admitting to cheating in some form, maintaining academi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: At the moment, when we delay announcements a system generated email is sent out to all observers and students. The title of this can be quite long and it can be hard for users to di...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: At the moment, management within Files is tedious and really not user friendly. Basically it means no files are ever deleted (or even archived) and we have to keep upping people's C...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Can you please include more information in your e-mail notifications. I find it very annoying and time consuming to see an e-mail that someone commented. As a parent it's the same w...

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Problem statement: If you have a course in which students are in multiple sections, (such as all students being in the same LEC section but being in different LAB sections) and you try creating groups...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Sometimes Instructors will include ungraded surveys that are a required part of the course. For instance, an instructor may require that students submit a term paper outline via an ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We are a multi-campus institution with some campuses in Eastern Time Zone and some in Central Time Zone. Since Eastern is set as our default for our institutional account, it would ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As others have mentioned, we can select how many decimals to include for variables and how many the answers should be rounded to. However, setting up formula questions can get very ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: For faculty and designers who use the same module in multiple shells, updating it in one shell means updating it in every other shell one at a time, or deleting it in the other shel...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When I create a new unit, I create one assignment that has the final submission date for the unit and upload requirements, then I copy that assignment multiple times to maintain tho...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I saw a similar idea proposed but it's been marked as delivered and it's not exactly what I am asking for. When I create a rubric I have it set so the rubric is used for assignment ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In the past we have encountered issues with spam and phishing attempts sent through the Canvas Inbox for courses that have very large enrollments. As a result we have changed our pr...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the Quiz and Item Analysis reports do not provide an option to see which students answered incorrectly; there is only an option to see how many answered incorrectly. At p...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We would like to give a student accommodations for an assignment, and that assignment is set to use anonymous grading, but we are concerned that despite that, the teacher can still ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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