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Problem statement: The majority of our users that use the Canvas Student App on an iPad are students that are in grades Kindergarten thru 2nd grade. Most of these students are developing readers and w...

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Problem statement: I am very happy to see that Group Sets now copy from one course to a new course, and that they are applied to the same assignments. This definitely saves time when setting up course...

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Problem statement: The Roll Call Attendance tool allows teachers and TA's to give individual scores for attendance. These scores are then averaged together to create one score for the assignment it is...

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Problem statement: Students are submitting quizzes without giving the quiz an honest try to just get past it. A student submitted a quiz in 20 seconds to get past it so they could get to the next assi...

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Problem statement: In new quizzes, I love using the stimulus feature where you can put out a situation and add questions to it. Many times I would like to change the situation, but ask the same questi...

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Problem statement: I'm shocked to hear from support that we cannot allow the "teacher" role to rename courses at the subaccount level. It is only available at the top account level. This prevents admi...

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Problem statement: We like that instructors can submit on behalf of students, but occasionally they submit to the wrong student. We do not want instructors to be able to delete submissions made BY stu...

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Problem statement: Changing the width of the gradebook columns helps with including more grades on the screen, but cuts off the titles. Proposed solution: Can the system be changed to wrap the title ...

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Problem statement: I'm upset, Baton Rouge Community College said admissions application is completed, and had the word advisor too close to the url for instructure canvas signin website. I sign in the...

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Problem statement: it is not a problem, since i completed the function the long way. All emails i subscribed for a trial with, have a select option for multiple messages/emails. Of course some load me...

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Problem statement: We have used activity completion reports in Moodle to assign grades as complete/incomplete. These reports list every course activity with a completion requirement as complete or inc...

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Problem statement: Currently, Canvas allows instructors to set an “Available From” date on assignments, which prevents students from viewing the assignment until a specified time. However, for long-te...

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Problem statement: Students often change their answers when taking a quiz - it would be helpful if the quiz platform would keep track of the number of questions students changed from correct to incorr...

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Problem statement: Instructors and instructional designers experience unnecessary friction when trying to attach an existing rubric to a Canvas assignment. Unlike many of Canvas’s streamlined features...

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Problem statement: In our school we want to be transparent about the grading proces. This includes the student knowing the date their teacher graded an assignment. Currently these date(s) are only ava...

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Problem statement: A teacher is only able to modify an assessment one student at a time to reduce the number of answer choices. This is incredibly time consuming. On other LMS's, it's an easy, standar...

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Problem statement: Is there a way to set up Canvas so that students with accommodations for extra time can submit assignments one day late without a grade reduction, and have this apply to all assignm...

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Problem statement: Canvas Studio users have the benefit of auto-captioning and editing captions. This allows individuals to meet WCAG 2.1 level A. To meet level AA, Canvas Studio users need to be able...

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Problem statement: Can not rearrange classes when in list view, so they can go according to class schedule. One can only rearrange when in card view, which doesn't allow for seeing assignments/ to do ...

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Problem statement: When I use a rubric to grade in SpeedGrader that has more than 2 or 3 columns, I have to scroll down and over to the right to find the cancel and submit buttons. This also shrinks t...

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