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Problem statement: Being able to change names of courses is related to the Courses - Manage/Update permission. We do NOT want our subaccount admins to be able to change names of courses as this can ca...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The 255 character limit on auto responses to Canvas messages limits our ability to be as professional and helpful to our learners as possible. Our use case is to use the auto reply ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In the Account Menu ("Account" Link in Global Nav menu), there are two menu items: "Profile" and "Settings." In Profile users can set their biography, profile pic, and one or two ot...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Problem: When importing materials between courses, many materials are automatically put into an "Imported Assignments" group. This can mess up grades for students and gradebook view...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: While trying to schedule/reschedule some homework assignments I found it difficult to just change the time/day of an assignment. It appears this task now falls under the "Assign To"...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the AI Writing Detection flag, percentage, and report are nestled in the Turnitin Similarity Report. There is no way to know at a glance students' AI Writing Detection fl...

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Problem statement: Users are unable to find and keep up with updates to Canvas without going to the release notes, reducing efficiency and causing stress for the user Proposed solution: Use an intera...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I see that a pop-up warning is quickly given and then disappears when an instructor gives a point value higher than the max allowed for an assignment. However, we had an instructor ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There are some fonts within a Canvas course that are difficult to read due to size and italicization. For example, the font in which the term information appears above the course na...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I have a number of assignments that are *not* assigned to "Everyone" and I need to manually add specific users into that assignment. Currently the only way to do this is manually, u...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When I add conditional content into a Mastery Path inside a course, this content will not show up for users that have already completed (unlocked) the mastery path. Whilst I *can* m...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: With the new discussion design you can only print what you can see onscreen like a screenshot. It used to until the update. Now there is no way around this and I rely on having the ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Manually posting grades is the preferred setting for the Grade Posting Policy at our institution. The courses API allows discovery of the post_manually setting through an include pa...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When building Outcomes in Canvas, using the Outcomes tool, the default settings (such as number and name of mastery levels) can be changed, but must be done so EVERY TIME you create...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When duplicating banks in Canvas, currently tags/metadata do not duplicate along with the questions. Proposed solution: Solution: Code the tags so they also duplicate in their ques...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: After making office hour appointment slots, from course scheduler, there is no button on the page to quickly return to the course site. Steps to re-create: 1. On course home page, c...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas course with different courses cross listed into the course and having issues with updating the grade book because students appearing in different sections or multiple because...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We use global announcements very frequently to reach the entire university (or subgroups, such as students only, teachers only, etc.) and appreciate the improved features that have ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Implementing a color editing/adjusting function for the alert box within the help button at the bottom left of the sidebar. Proposed solution: This aims to address accessibility ne...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Admins currently have the ability to lock teachers from adjusting course start/end dates on the root account. While helpful for universities that have courses that start/end on the ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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