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Problem statement: While in the Grade book. Apply Filters. I desire that to: close or reduce the selection on the pop up menu. This is for both Apply Filters or editing existing filters. Now, I have t...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When editing an Assignment that has a Due Date that falls before the Start Date of the course, Canvas gives an error message of "Due date cannot be before course start." The issue i...

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Problem statement: External tools integrated with canvas provide scores based on the tool's assessment of the student. For writing assignments that may be only an autograded participation score. That ...

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Problem statement: Currently, there is no way to map outcomes to a group of assignments. For example, if it is important for me to show a mastery of pronunciation, I might want to add the associated a...

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Problem statement: In many courses, assignments are graded based on percentages rather than points. For example, coursework might count for a certain percentage of the overall grade, all falling under...

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Problem statement: As my college’s Instructional Designer, I share my college’s branded Canvas course template and other templates with faculty through Canvas Commons. In doing this, I need to provide...

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Problem statement: Unlike the Student App and the Teacher App, parents do not receive Push Notifications from the Canvas Parent App. They receive email notifications, but our parents are asking for pu...

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Problem statement: It would be wonderful to have a filter for Published and Unpublished courses within a Term. Possibly adding a check box like what already exists for 'Hide Courses without student' a...

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Problem statement: The "available from" option generally does a great job of preventing students from working on assignments too early, such as when instructors want students to see an assignment on t...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The people page in Canvas LMS is now cutting off the role, activity, and options for each of my students. This is a new problem this school year. Proposed solution: Revert to the o...

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Problem statement: It takes too many clicks to "Act As" a teacher when you are trying to view their course from their perspective (which is common workflow when trying to troubleshoot for instructors)...

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Problem statement: When you insert a course link, or insert a course document you are given an opportunity to search for a link or course document. This can be time consuming when you have a lot of li...

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Problem statement: Hello, Canvas InBox is useless to me without the ability to maintain Message Threading of outgoing AND incoming messages with the same Subject Line. This is a standard VIEW in most ...

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Problem statement: Bring back "multiple dropdown" question types into the new quiz format. This used to be available in classic quizzes and is not there anymore. Proposed solution: Seems like if it w...

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Problem statement: The RCE page editor table widget inserts tables into the page with no header row. This makes the tables less readable by screen readers. Its not user friendly to select top row and ...

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Problem statement: When I go to the Calendar, I continue seeing all my past enrollments (concluded courses) in the list of Course Calendars. This causes a problem when I'm trying to scroll through the...

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Problem statement: When my students view the People tool and click on my Profile they get a nice display of my photo, Biography, and Links. The weak link is the Contact heading area under Profile. It ...

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Problem statement: Increasingly, academics are looking for new forms of assessment. In this pursuit, one of the tools are discussion boards - while contribution to discussions are not yet complete ass...

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Problem statement: This is an EASY Fix!!! When creating a link put an option to create an html button. Just a check box on the link. Proposed solution: The HTML Code would look something like this: T...

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Problem statement: When teachers add a question from an Item Bank into a test, there is nothing that indicates the item is already added to the test. This has caused teachers to unknowingly add the sa...

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