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Problem statement: The New Quiz tray does not use standardised icons, has no mouse over text, and clicking instructions does not lunch instruction editing (Mac Safari in edit mode). This means the tra...

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Problem statement: The New Quizzes Moderation Page only allows sorting by score. It would be helpful to be able to sort by student name. Currently, the names are randomly listed, not by first or last ...

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Problem statement: The API currently does not allow the read-only Assignment parameter "post_manually" to be changed via a PUT request to create or edit an assignment. Use case: creating assignments t...

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Problem statement: Item banks often have many questions in them. Currently, the only way to check the details is to click the down arrow next to each one, very tedious. Question banks had a "show ques...

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Problem statement: In a large enrollment course, there are sometimes multiple students with the same name. In these cases, instructors often rely on a loginID or other unique identifying information. ...

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Problem statement: I make use of the "Ignore Until Next Submission" option to keep my grading to-do list clear, but it's not as helpful as an "Ignore Until After Due Date" option would be. It would be...

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Problem statement: we are not able to ensure predictability for students that there is consistency in all rooms cause teachers get too much access to change ect. Proposed solution: Be able to lock th...

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Problem statement: confusing that the students can change their own grades , even if just so for calculations. we dont use grades in our canvas, just approved work assignments. Proposed solution: wou...

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Problem statement: I'm guessing the majority of Norwegian users are coming from colleges and universities. The wording being used on the Norwegian plattform is words used in elementary school in Norwa...

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Problem statement: We use an external system (Eduframe) that creates new user accounts in Canvas when users enroll through that system. To mitigate confusion for our existing Canvas users, if they enr...

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Problem: Currently, students enrolling in groups face challenges in locating the correct groups due to the extensive scrolling and limited organization on the enrollment page. Instructors, in contrast...

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Problem statement: When there is peer assessment through a rubric, sometimes the criteria to be evaluated by the student and the criteria to be evaluated by the professor are different. Proposed solu...

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Problem statement: I grade 100 to 150 essays submitted to Canvas at a time. I have many prepared responses and have since James Madison began using Canvas been able to copy and paste them into the com...

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Problem statement: We have many teachers who spend a lot of time and energy creating Canvas Studio videos for their course. But sometimes they need to share the shell with another teacher who is provi...

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Problem statement: As an instructor for a freshman orientation class, I often pull up Canvas on the projector to show students how to navigate it, where to turn in assignments, read over assignment de...

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Problem statement: Teachers want and need to save time. If they already have built a quiz in MS Word document, or in Google docs (MC, true/false, fill in the blank, etc), currently they cannot upload ...

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Problem statement: It would be nice to have a report that will track everyone's time in the platform. For instance if I have a student Billy Joel who is not performing well, I can pull up just his acc...

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Problem statement: There is an issue encountered regarding the login page of Canvas in the mobile version. In the computer version, the page possesses the icons which indicate the portals for users to...

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Problem statement: I (and many other faculty) allow students to resubmit their discussion board postings. This is important so all students see that there were some errors or misspoken ideas that are ...

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Problem statement: When the course dates/enrollment dates/section dates aren't valid for today, a teacher will get an error message saying: "An error occurred making a network request" Detail shows: "...

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