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Problem statement:   We can find users who are administrators of the platform at different levels and who are also students. When this happens, when the user accesses the course where they are a stud...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Now that we do have Account Calendars; they aren't terribly useful without the feature to establish a feed, or at least import, existing departmental and institutional calendars. Ot...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The current location of the Module unlock dates (bottom right of module) is not intuitive. It can be difficult to identify if it is referring to the module above or below the date. ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Classic Quizzes, students can see when their responses have been saved recently so that they can ensure that all the answers are saved automatically while continuing writing. Rec...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When you have the Excel settings that your decimal symbol is a comma and therefore your list separator is a semicolon, due to region settings of your Computer OS, you cannot use the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a student clicks an assignment link in their grade book it takes them to the submission details page. This page has a submit button if there is a native submission type. If the...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When instructors create an Appointment Group in their Canvas Calendar and decide to delete one of the time-slotted events, they are provided with a confirmation/warning message to e...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: SIS student IDs are not included in the reports from roll-call / attendance in canvas Proposed solution: It would be helpful to include the SIS student ID in reports from roll-call...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Coming from previous LMS (Moodle), faculty were easily able to set how students view all of their grades and not just the total column. This left for very little confusion as points...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When accessing the Canvas Calendar for a Course, there if the short and long name are the same, but the Term is different it is not clear which calendar you are referencing as it do...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When releasing grades to students, sometimes a student may be under review for academic misconduct. This means despite being graded and feedback provided there is no easy way to exc...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, if an Admin enters a list of pronoun sets into the Personal Pronouns field there is no options to reorder how the list appears in the dropdown to the users (student/teach...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Canvas, 'delete' and 'remove' mean different things. Deleting means the content no longer appears anywhere in the course (but can be recovered if you know how or contact support)...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In classic quizzes, when a new quiz question is created in a quiz, a copy is automatically saved to the "Unfiled" question bank for the course. The question is the quiz, however, is...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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While the idea of differentiated assignments is a good one, the sign posting for differentiation could be better. When a student has to resubmit work inevitably a new date has to be assigned. This can...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I am a teacher in a school coming from Moodle and there have been instances where a question needs to be regraded En Masse (non-essay type questions). The procedure in Moodle would ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In New Quizzes, all item types with the exception of stimulus have an optional title field. In the case of the stimulus type, the title is required. Also, unlike other item types, t...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Classic Quizzes, the Moderate screen autoupdates student progress auto-updates showing student activity in real time. When students enter the quiz a timer appears next to their n...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: According to How do I view reports for a quiz in New Quizzes?, outcomes added to questions in item banks are not included in the New Quizzes item analysis report. The implementation...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When using New Quizzes as the test student, quiz attempts are saved and included in reports, etc, as you would expect and want when testing the quiz. However, because New Quizzes is...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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