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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 editing captions within Studio, the caption lines on the left side are static and you have to manually scroll down (using either a scroll wheel or the scroll bar) while the vid...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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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 ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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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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Problem statement: A log of course administrative observers who have accessed the course is needed to see who has entered the course. This feature was available in Blackboard when I used it, and it wa...

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Problem statement: The cross-listing process in Canvas isn't very intuitive and our teachers struggle with the process every single year. We have seen that districts have written their own scripts or ...

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Problem statement: If you use Manually Post Grades option in the gradebook and new quizzes, the manual grading hides the quiz score from Grades. HOWEVER, if the student clicks the name of the new quiz...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Almost all users experience the new user tour popups when they enter Canvas for the first time, but many of us also get that popup every time we login. Proposed solution: I underst...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas's new "Disallow threaded replies" feature is very problematic. First, the feature doesn't really "Disallow threaded replies", it allows them. IN fact, if you check it, NO REP...

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Problem statement: When you embed a file into the rich content editor by clicking on the toolbar's Google Drive button, that embedded file cannot be resized. I was working with a faculty member earlie...

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Problem statement: There is no +Add option for multiple Assign To sections/people for Modules. You can only Assign To one option. Proposed solution: Add the option to "Assign To" multiple people/sect...

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Problem statement: Reverse chronological comments is incoherent for any kind of sustained discussion. I can see that it might be useful as an option in some circumstances, but for substantive engageme...

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Problem statement: Students digitally record quiz questions and then post them online. This is done despite using LockDown Browser (it is easy to keep a cell phone off camera to record the quiz questi...

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