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This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2024-07-17)  Problem statement: ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our workflow involves navigating between term blueprints and associated courses when making updates. Each blueprint course shows the number of associations in the upper right corner...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a student uses up all of their Quiz attempts, there is no notification to the Teacher within the students Section to alert them that the student need support. The onus should n...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: At our university we always create announcements in german and english. Now we add the text in both languages in one announcement that can be displayed as a long text. Proposed sol...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: New Analytics has a lot of helpful views on to support the day-to-day of Canvas Admins and instructional designers. As we continue to build, we have a lot of anecdotal evidence supp...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Classic Quizzes a teacher had the option to check a box to "Let Students See the Correct Answers" and then had the additional option to either click the box for "Only After Their...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The Feature Use in Courses with Activity report does not provide enough detail to be truly useful since it only gives a numeric count of External Tools in use: Course Name Term Name...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Users are unable to view CPP files in SpeedGrader, which in reality are just .txt files used in programming classes. Causing confusion since they work "intermittently" at times - Ca...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Alert disappears after a while instead of being persistent when unusually high points are awarded during grading in speedgrader and course gradebook. Feature https://community.canva...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: My use case is that we have a program w/ multiple courses… over 20 and our students see them in a card view dashboard. It is a rolling enrollment, so there aren’t specific dates thi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, student pronouns and display names are not shown in the Canvas gradebook. Proposed solution: Add student pronouns and display name to Gradebook - Student Name - Secondar...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Calendars can be very difficult to organize with a large group of classes. This is especially true for staff or parents that observe multiple accounts. Proposed solution: Several s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Allow the teacher to click and drag a saved comment in speed grader to shorten the time of grading. Turnitin already has this feature, but it would also be great to have this featur...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In our previous LMS, we had it configured to enroll users into non-academic course sites. These include ones for health and wellness, student resources, faculty resources etc. We we...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have staff members who are both students/faculty and staff members. Because of this, they count with two Canvas accounts. One connected to their university-assigned email and ano...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When we schedule an appointment in the Canvas calendar, students receive an email notification to sign up or book an appointment. In this notification the appointment registration l...

Channel Partner Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We would like API access to toggle the Canvas for Elementary setting for a sub-account. Instance with hundreds of sub-account could benefit from the ability to read and write to thi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Often, instructors need to change assignment due dates. With the classic quizzes, you could adjust due dates for an assignment as needed and the assignment would remain open for all...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It seems that a course would need to be added to the commons as individual modules, one at a time, for a teacher to be able to import an individual module into their course from the...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students on IEP / 504 Plans often have the accommodation written into the plan to remove a distractor from Multiple choice tests. In order to do this, the teacher has to Duplicate t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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