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Problem statement: The To-Do List in the Canvas Student iOS has a few problems, especially for students in our middle schools. Each student is enrolled in 7-8 courses at a time. The To-Do List order i...

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Problem statement: Currently, New Quizzes offer a "Shuffle Questions" feature, which randomizes all questions in a quiz. It would be helpful to be able to "pin" one or more questions in a specific pla...

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Problem statement: We record accommodations for students on our student records system. Before each assignment instructors have to check whether any updates have been made to extra time requirements f...

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Problem statement: If a student has any unposted grades in the gradebook, the total grade column will show a slash-eye icon, and the warning text "This grade differs from the student's view of the gra...

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Problem statement: We are using the Canvas Credentials (Badgr) integration in Blackboard Ultra. For one of our certificate program assignments, we have the grade set to display in the gradebook to the...

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Problem statement: Canvas allows the poster to schedule (delayed publish) Announcements and Discussions. A similar scheduled post feature for Replies to Announcements and Discussions is missing. The u...

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Problem statement: I find that I continually have to reset the sort in SpeedGrader to "the date they submitted the assignment." Presently, if I filter by section, sort the gradebook in any other way, ...

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Problem statement: When looking at reports you see the student name. When you want to print them either physically or to pdf, the student name is nowhere to be seen. Proposed solution: Would it be po...

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Problem statement: Background: My courses are skills mastery based, so students have more than enough opportunities via low stakes quizzes to demonstrate their mastery of each skill. In order to help ...

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Problem statement: Canvas users are unable to use Speedgrader when grading assignments imported using the Savvas MyPerspectives LTI. This is very inconvenient. It would be much easier to grade submiss...

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Problem statement: For governance and reporting purposes, it is often necessary to extract specific data on students’ assessments and outcomes from the Canvas Gradebook history. Currently, Gradebook h...

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Problem statement: I am trying to move outcomes out of one sub-account and into another. It is not possible unless you export through reports and them import into sub-account. This is tedious and time...

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Problem statement: We have professors who use an excused absence policy where students will have 3 excused absences before their grade starts to be affected. These professors would like to use this po...

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Problem statement: It is not easy to navigate to the "manage grading schemes" settings page in a course, when an instructor wants to add a new grading scheme, or edit an existing one. Currently, they ...

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Problem statement: There is no option or feature to add comments or feedback to students' total course grade Proposed solution: Add a feature to the gradebook allowing instructors to add comments or ...

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Problem statement: When using requirements in Modules, the "Next" button that is found at the bottom of the page is always active even it the requirement has not been met yet. Prompting users to the t...

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Problem statement: When we had a middle school turn on their account calendar to auto-enroll students and staff that are linked to that sub-account, we received notifcations from students in high scho...

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Problem statement: The only way to adjust the point total for Roll Call is to edit the point value after the first session is taken, rescore the first session, and never change it again. To make the c...

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Problem statement: When students go the grades tab, they see a list of assignments. When they click on the name of the assignments, it takes them to "Submission Details." I would like a link on submis...

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Problem statement: The problem is that the standard reports provided by Canvas doesn't provide a way to get a list of all courses in a sub-account or for the entire institution with a total amount num...

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