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Problem statement: When a teacher creates a new module, it defaults to the bottom of the course module page. Can you please create an option where teachers can have the newest module created default t...

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Problem statement: Since "deleting" a user account will delete all associated information, courses, grades, etc., we have decided to "suspend" user accounts that have not accessed our Canvas instance ...

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Problem statement: I would like students to create their own groups to submit a group assignment. Currently as the instructor I can create a group set, create the number and size of groups, and then s...

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Problem statement: Students can see who modified or uploaded a file in Files and who created or modified a page in the list of course pages. This is problematic for some institutions that employ stude...

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Problem statement: Noting that it is possible to see when an individual student viewed their feedback within SpeedGrader, it would be useful to be able to have this information represented for all stu...

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Problem statement: Third party LTI tool links or embed options are usually only available on the course navigation for enabled tools. There are products we would like to easily link from the link inse...

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Problem statement: Students who are added to a course after Group Sets have been created must be manually added to groups, even if groups were created automatically to start with. This can be a daunti...

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Problem statement: When a student upload a document for an assignment and leave the page befor submitting (hit the blue button submit assignment), the assignment will be saved in the students files - ...

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Problem statement: I currently use the quiz time limit feature based on the number of questions. It would be nice to be able to set a per question time limit. For instance, if I wanted to only allow 2...

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Problem statement: When creating an assignment I'm usually linking to an external tool to do this. For a given course, I typically only have one or two external tools that I link to. However, my insti...

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Problem statement: Discussion posts are visible immediately, and there is no option (or extension or plug-in that I have found) to be able to schedule these. Working across different timezones can mea...

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Problem statement: I have an instructor who would like to use the peer review function in an assignment for students to evaluate their team members. The evaluation is for participation, so the assignm...

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Problem statement: When I select a group discussion, I am taken to the appropriate "Group" discussion area as expected. However, to return to the Discussion landing page, I have to either click on the...

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Problem statement: Currently, differentiated assignments with one or more due dates that aren't assigned to everyone can only be sorted alphabetically. This provides a source of additional frustration...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Sometimes, assignments are created that are: a) Due at midnight (rather than 11:59 pm) b) Due at inconvenient times (such as 6am) c) Have no shown due date. This gives students ...

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Problem statement: Is there anyway, like there is to print quiz questions with answers from an Item Bank that was created. Currently it seems the only way to do that is to create a quiz with all the q...

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Problem statement: I suppose this is more of a feature request than a question because I already know that the Submissions endpoint on the Canvas API does not currently take put requests on the submis...

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Problem statement: When using the Attendance/Roll Call tool, an instructor wishes to keep an accurate attendance log using the four options (present, late, absent, excused). However, they consider a '...

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Problem statement: Currently, Teachers can hide Course Navigation links from students to de-clutter, but they cannot remove links for themselves. This means that instructors see all of the tools they ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When assignments created in Canvas using Google Assignments are not submitted by the due date they are not automatically marked as missing by Canvas. This requires the the teacher t...

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