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Problem statement: Our main language is German, but many students and staff only speak English. As the majority of users are native German speakers, the system default is also German. Non-German speak...

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Problem statement: When students click on an assignment title in their gradebook, they see "No Preview Available," but can access the assignment or quiz by clicking the link at the top of the page. I ...

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Problem statement: When viewing the entire gradebook, I would really like it if there was a comment icon visible next to an assignment's score in the Gradebook, similar to how it appears after clickin...

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Problem statement: The To Do List is apparently now sorting by SUBMISSION DATE. For example, if there are two assignments -- one with a due date of 1 October and one with a due date of 15 October -- t...

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Problem statement: It would be helpful to see who is paired with each student and then who does NOT have an observer, which we don't currently have a report for. This will greatly aid in communication...

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Problem statement: An assignment description (and syllabus, discussion/announcement topic) can be edited and the past versions of it are not always found in Beta/Test. Example: Beta reset last weekend...

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Problem statement: When our teachers and course designers use the "Sync" button found in the gradebook to "Sync (final) Grades to SIS," they often forget to post all the relevant grade columns first. ...

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Problem statement: Students need to know the start and end dates of a module, in order to plan their work, and see them as visually as possible. Proposed solution: Canvas LMS allows you to add requir...

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Problem statement: Each time I post a delayed announcement or assignment, I have to set my preferred time for posting. It would save time if I could set a default time for my course so I don't have to...

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Problem statement: Students accessing other areas of Canvas while testing using other devices. I experienced several students using their cell phones, other browser, other browser tabs to access multi...

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Problem statement: Listing SKUs are currently a free-for-all and there is no ability to manage consistency or uniqueness across the Catalog instance. Also, top-Catalog Admins are left having to check ...

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Problem statement: Hi, this is an old topic that has been archived (Bulk change assignment status) but I'm wondering if any others are still looking for an easier and quicker way to bulk update assign...

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Problem statement: With the new "Assign To" feature available for individual pages and modules, faculty have found themselves accidentally adding availability dates to things they don't intend to. The...

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Problem statement: There is a new AI extension tool called “AnswersAi” that allows users to take a snapshot of a page via their desktop or mobile device to generate an answer for the content captured....

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Problem statement: Messaging between Students and Paired Observers is currently a one-way messaging service. Proposed solution: The ability for Observers to send and receive messages with paired stud...

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Problem statement: A student can currently submit anything for a discussion or assignment, delete it, and still get credit towards the module completion badge (depending on the settings of the module ...

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Problem statement: Our university has already inconvenienced hundreds of faculty and students by shifting us from Blackboard. We ALL had to get training to accommodate your browser and learn ALL the i...

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Problem statement: I am not aware of a way to turn off the row shading in the Gradebook. This is problematic because any particular "status" appears as two different colors: one version if the row is ...

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Problem statement: It is cumbersome to add individual feedback to large numbers of students, and having the option to automatically apply feedback (or even apply the same feedback manually to multiple...

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Problem statement: Part of our institution had been using the self enrolment option which had been enabled for any course however our elearning support team was not aware that this had been enabled. A...

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