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Problem statement: Currently, the Canvas Gradebook has the following statuses available: - Late - Missing - Excused - Resubmitted (I've only seen it in the color settings - never seen it used) - Dropp...

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Problem statement: The only people that have access to the "what-if" grades are students. Our Academic Success Coaches have had the "Act As" permission that we are turning off because of liability iss...

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Problem statement: Students are not required to respond to all questions in a quiz. This can be intentional or non-intentional on the student's part. There is a warning prior to submission, but will s...

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Problem statement: Please see helpdesk chat number 10153247. I am going to be offline for a few days and wanted to grade for a few hours now and then release the grades that were done as soon as the q...

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Problem statement: Right now students have to look in multiple places to find feedback: the assignment comments, the rubric, and the written assignment itself. I know students aren't going to all that...

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Problem statement: Canvas allows instructors to select a premade grading schema, or create their own. However, if an instructor wants to share this schema with their students, they must take a manual ...

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Problem statement: When I manually grade an assignment I give points but I'd like to see the grade displayed as a percent in the grade book. This is not currently possible. Proposed solution: For an ...

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Problem statement: When moving through low stakes assignments in the speedgrader, I have to drag the cursor up to the right arrow/next student. arrow and select the next student. It can get tedious. I...

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Problem statement: Students work from the Canvas To-Do list--because it's easier than having to bounce from "classroom" to "classroom" where what they need to do is "buried under 'stuff' " or organize...

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Problem statement: With the increasing use of Canvas Studio to host and share videos, it has become crucial for institutions to be able to embed these videos seamlessly across various platforms. While...

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Problem statement: We have at least two user for our subcatalog pages, and our Subcatalog admins page has gotten lengthier. During audits of accounts with admin roles, we would like to start including...

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Problem statement: When a Catalog admin creates a promotion, they can only choose from two usage options: one time per user, or unlimited. We have a use case where a Catalog admin wants to share just ...

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Problem statement: Currently, user defined fields are only usable for Catalog instances that utilize the user registration process. For our institution, we are using a third-party service so the user ...

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Problem statement: For you to add a "Google Drive" button that is solely for Google Drive when students need to use something out of their Google Drives. The "more" option is over looked by students. ...

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Problem statement: More than 1000 students and keeping track of who has submitted an assignment and the teacher or TA has not yet graded the assignment. Proposed solution: A report that can be export...

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Problem statement: There is not a way to see when a student watched a video. We are mostly in person but on days when I have a substitute, I require my students to watch a notes video that I make in c...

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Problem statement: Students and observers cannot see or access their attendance inside the courses. Proposed solution: Attendance should be accessible to students and observers inside the courses. Ou...

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Problem statement: There is no way to take the attendance multiple times for the same day. Some of our lessons are taking place two or three times in the same day and we cannot take attendance for eac...

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Problem statement: Currently, when a subcatalog admin requests for an API key for their subcatalog instance, we are unable to provide them that option as giving a Catalog API key cannot be limited to ...

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Problem statement: If utilizing Bulk Enrollment, the intended workflow poses as a problem because the bulk enrollment registration link can work for any user, despite only sending this link to an invi...

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