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Problem statement: Currently the only way to view the overall class attendance (from beginning of semester till today) is by having an Attendance Report emailed to you in .csv format. Please make avai...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I would like to suggest an improvement for the attendance tool. When I click on an individual student, I can only see the number of classes they missed, not the dates for when they ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students can control which courses appear on their dashboard and account menu by going to All Courses and starring/unstarring courses. However, students have no way of controlling w...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the assignments index page has limited capabilities for teachers to properly filter through all assignments on this page. Teachers become easily overwhelmed when looking ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas UI doesn’t display correctly a combination of enrolments active/inactive for one student on a course. UI expects all enrolment to be active or inactive for each student in a ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There is no Grading Period toggle in the Learning Mastery Gradebook, Canvas Quizzes, Modules, or Discussions. Teachers with a lot of content in their courses have a difficult time o...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We use the Speed Grader with a rubric on an iPad to mark assessments as part of a face to face course where we complete competency assessments throughout the day. These are the issu...

Community Member 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: Canvas currently groups peer review according to the essay being reviewed, so if I want to find Horatio's comments, I need to look for Estelle's essay. This makes grading difficult....

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Hi This is off the back of a call with Canvas support. Turinitin originality scores cannot be viewed in the Canvas Mobile student app. I raised this off the back of an enquiry from ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I've received a number of emails from teachers of courses wanting to know why a student's name is out of place alphabetically in their course roster. In most occasions, the student ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a student is in a group and then dropped from the course, there is no way to see you have inactive students in a group, unless you expand each group to look. This is taking up ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the dashboard seems to automatically sort all courses (published and unpublished) alphabetically on the dashboard when a teacher is not utilizing the favorite tags. It ap...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The problem is that when marking attendance, I can only see what I mark for that day. I cannot easily see patterns for the course because I can't see all course days together in one...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I've been really encouraging students to use the assignment comments when they have a question about an assignment, and it's such a helpful way to be taken directly to their work to...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: New Quizzes now has the option to place the stimulus above it's related questions when building a quiz (this is done by selecting the "Questions below" orientation option when editi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In the new LTI interface for Credentials in Canvas, there's no way to filter by who has/hasn't earned a badge in the progress view. This would be useful for various outreach and oth...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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