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Problem statement: When a new quiz is added to modules as a module item, the next and previous buttons display on the start page. After the student starts the quiz, however, the buttons are no longer ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Users shouldn't be able to save an announcement if it lacks a title. Currently, if an announcement lacks a title, Canvas defaults to adding, "No Title" to the announcement and allow...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, new quizzes will not push an updated quiz grade to the gradebook if the term end date has passed, even if the end date for teachers (or other grader roles) is still in th...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In new quizzes, the initial title given to the quiz is applied to both the quiz and the corresponding LTI assignment. After that, if edits are made to the title of the quiz or vice ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the combination of the assignment creation page remembering the previous settings for peer review, with the fact that the peer review option and tickbox is hidden when th...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have students submit on paper in class, but have it set to accept online submissions so absent students can submit items to the actual assignment link if they are not in class. T...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Use case: An instructor wants to allow an additional attempt on multiple assignments but wants the grade to be capped at 80% of the score on the second attempt with the highest grade standing. Current...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We would love to have a reminder sent to students on the morning of an appointment. Our music department uses the appointment feature to schedule lessons, but students often forget ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement:   After a student submits a quiz in classic quizzes, the tool displays basic metadata about the quiz to the student, including: quiz title, availability dates, time limit, allowed ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently if a student is enrolled in a cross-listed course, the student only sees the "parent course" listed in their course list or dashboard. This can be confusing, especially if...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The Collaborations page should tell the instructor who the document has been shared with. Currently you have to open each document separately and check sharing permissions. This is ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our institution has many schools with individual terms for each school, all within one Canvas instance. We're already up to 255 terms in use for this academic school year. When asso...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently the courses provisioning report has these fields: canvas_course_id,course_id,integration_id,short_name,long_name,canvas_account_id,account_id,canvas_term_id,term_id,status...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In classic quizzes, teacher have the option to "Lock this quiz now", which allows to see the quiz in the assignments and quizzes tools, but not open it. This feature is useful for s...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: For new quizzes that permit multiple attempts, students are currently unable to view the submission date and time for each attempt. When the students view each attempts through the ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I am using Canvas Free for Teachers. My students are constantly forgetting their passwords. When they request a new one, they claim they don't receive "reset" links, even after chec...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As an admin, I need explicit control over changes I make. Autosaving on leaving the field does not provide confirmation of the action, nor allow control over it. Proposed solution:...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When navigating the vertical menus, there is no indication of the end of a listing. This means new users to the platform don't easily understand that the navigation ends at that poi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: While masquerading in STUDENT VIEW I am unable to login into LTI tools. Here is the precise message I receive from an LTI tool; "It looks like your LMS is not sending an email. Plea...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The pen tool in the Speedgrader is in general very helpful when marking large numbers of scripts. However, it is currently very sluggish. One needs to tick the "ok" very often or do...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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