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Problem statement: My school has been using Canvas for three years now.  It was difficult to get teachers to use Canvas at first, but the Google Cloud assignment format and Speedgrader won most of our...

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Problem statement: In Canvas Studio that when a comment is deleted, it permanently states "comment has been deleted," which can clutter the discussion board. This occurs even if the comment was from t...

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Problem statement: Currently I receive Notifications that a student has made a Comment on an assignment, which is sent to my institutional/linked email address. I click "Click to View" and it does dir...

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Problem statement: When a student sends a message via the Inbox, you see the student name in bold then the Course in which they are enrolled below their name, then the timestamp. Currently to respond ...

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Problem statement: We create videos that are used in multiple courses or include instructional videos in our blueprints. When a video becomes outdated and needs to be updated, it is very time consumin...

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Problem statement: Pages do not allow comments or questions to be posted. Scenario: Students review pages and might have questions. Some students have the same question. Regardless, each student then ...

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Problem statement: Dear colleagues, Hope all is well and thank you, in advance, for any suggestions you may come up with to overcome the following issue. Prolog: Especially post-COVID, the number of e...

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Problem statement: Currently comment banks are only accessible when using the main comment section in Speed Grader. It would be helpful to be able to access those comment banks when doing in line feed...

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Problem statement: It takes several steps to get to the moderate quiz page from the Gradebook. Proposed solution: In the 3-dot drop-down menu for an assignment in the Gradebook, add a shortcut choice...

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Problem statement: I am a high school teacher with many different courses where I wish to have fully synchronized course items in courses that are NOT cross listed. Call this cross listing of items ( ...

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Problem statement: The blue "Submit" button in Speedgrader is confusing. Educators think that clicking "Submit" is actually posting grades. It does not do this...it "Saves" the comments to the Assignm...

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Problem statement: To add a notification whenever there is a new course(s) created in Canvas. Proposed solution: From time to time, we have courses created by our partner institutes in Canvas directl...

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Problem statement: Hello, When New Quiz users have "One question at a time" enabled, the print function is more cumbersome. When printing, it will only print the first instructions and first question ...

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Problem statement: Currently, our instructors utilize a feature in Canvas to add pages to the student to-do list, enhancing student awareness of upcoming assignments and events. However, this function...

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Problem statement: When teachers/students leave the district, their accounts go dormant and emails are still sent to them via Canvas. When that happens, the account is added to a Suppression List and ...

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Problem statement: When Blueprints are being developed, but already connected to courses, it would be very useful if you could 'opt out' (similar to unpublish or unlock) certain content, so it is then...

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Problem statement: when looking at the new analytics weekly online activity the resource list includes items right down to individual images which is not helpful. I would like to be able to filter out...

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Problem statement: when looking at file in a course I can only see what has been uploaded and not a location of where they exist within a course or even if they have just been uploaded to file and not...

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Problem statement: When teachers create Canvas Studio Quizzes, they take the time to create questions that are appropriate at different points in the video. However, when the original video comes from...

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Problem statement: As a teacher using the Canvas 4 Elementary Dashboard, you can rearrange the Course Navigation for the students, but not for the teacher. Modules is located at the bottom of the navi...

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