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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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Problem statement: Canvas Catalog API is severely lacking. Specifically there should be an API call for creating and deleting Canvas Catalog Sub-Catalog Admins. Proposed solution: Add GET | POST | DE...

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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 ...

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Problem statement: I would like a way to hide correct answers in Quiz Results for studio video quizzes (embedded quizzes). Currently, when students take an embedded quiz, they can see the correct answ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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Problem statement: Currently students can only see assignment feedback (including submission comments and annotated feedback) if instructors publish/post the grades. Instructors need to be able to gr...

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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 mo...

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Problem statement: We are requesting an enhancement to the Canvas API and/or Website to allow more precise control over updating sticky fields. Currently, the "override_sis_stickiness" property in the...

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Problem statement: Discussions are flooded with AI-generated posts. Responses to other posts are also AI-generated. Discussions are just bots talking to bots. Papers submitted are often AI-generated. ...

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Problem statement: Allow students to modify their To-Do list on the Canvas Student App. Example: A student reported that an assignment continued to show on their to-do list on the Canvas Mobile app ev...

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Problem statement: The projects in our class require more than one file (a project and a cover memo), and students frequently upload a new version of only one of these files, which means the file that...

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Problem statement: If an account has both Canvas LMS and Canvas Studio, the presence of the "media recording" submission type for online Assignment submissions and the lack of a clear "Studio Library"...

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Problem statement: I'm part of my institution's support team for Canvas. An instructor reported that some students were unable to see comments on Quiz attempts. After one of the students helped me inv...

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Problem statement: When a teacher logs attendance, they can only view day-by-day, currently there is no option to view attendance from a weekly or monthly view. The only option seems to be to use the ...

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Problem statement: Teachers have asked if it is possible to have a "pure text" editor as an option for submitting on an assignment, in addition to the Rich Text Editor we have now. Proposed solution:...

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Problem statement: Currently, students have to complete interactive lessons via external tools like Lumio and Nearpod. I propose Canvas create an assignment type that is an Interactive Lesson that all...

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