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Problem statement: When a teacher is in the grading pane to respond to submissions it would be helpful if the original prompt/question that generated the student submission was included in that viewin...

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Problem statement: Students currently receive overall assessment comments immediately, even when their marks are not yet released. Proposed solution: A button only allowing students to see teacher co...

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Problem statement: For fill in the blank answers and one/two word written answers, it would be great if code could be embedded to allow for both case sensitive answers and common spelling mistakes tha...

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Problem statement: I like to know how long it took for students to complete exams. I can the individual time when I check each student individually, but when I look at the "Moderate Quiz" the time for...

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Problem statement: Currently if an assignment is marked for anonymous grading, Canvas does successfully cloak the student's name within Canvas. However, if the submission file is downloaded, its metad...

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Problem statement: A faculty member in multiple 600 person courses wants a method to analyze TA grading for Leniency / Too Hard of a grader for thier TAs. In a class of this size, there are 7 TAs, and...

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Problem statement: I have multiple sections for one course and want to combine them when taking attendance, rather than selecting each section individually. The current method is time-consuming. Prop...

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Problem statement: Currently, within the New Analytics for Online Attendance reporting, the ability for instructors to modify criteria at the course level is tied to the "Manage LTI" permission. This ...

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Problem statement: In Canvas LMS when selecting the Batch Edit feature on the "Edit Assignment Dates" page it is only possible to shift dates forward (not backward). Proposed solution: Include the ab...

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Problem statement: As an instructor, I rely on creating course announcements in advance and scheduling their release at specific dates and times. However, with the recent Canvas update for Discussion/...

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Problem statement: There is information in the system that teachers can benefit from if allowed access to it, such as date, course title, student name, etc. From the research I have done of canvas fun...

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Problem statement: We have enrollments over 400 per class and need to assign specific faculty to grade specific students' assignments. This is a manual process now in Canvas, giving faculty lists of n...

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Problem statement: Currently quiz categories have two choices, quizzes or surveys, with quizzes graded by correct responses to questions, and the surveys comprised of questions that don't require a co...

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Problem statement: There are new sort and filter tools available for Discussions, as of the July updates. The problem is that the filters and sorting options that instructors choose are lost once the ...

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Problem statement: Most institutions have data retention policies that may or may not be relevant to Canvas content. For example, a college could mandate that all courses that are more than five years...

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Problem statement: Hi, I'm a Spanish and Linguistics professor at Saint Louis University. I'm writing this idea because I noticed an error in the Spanish translation of the non-binary "they/them" pron...

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Problem statement: While Canvas provides an option for instructors to enforce sequential progression through course material within a module, the current process is cumbersome. Instructors must indivi...

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Problem statement: Good day, Currently, in the Canvas Student App, students are having difficulty, since in the app view, they cannot identify the Prerequisites that they must complete in order to hav...

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Problem statement: Good day, We are testing the "Discussion Forum Summary" function option, but it returns results in English. We appreciate you considering the idea that it is also in Spanish. Good d...

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Problem statement: Students need to answer all questions and in sequential order before submitting the Canvas Studio quiz., Proposed solution: This issue could easily be resolved by simply putting tw...

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