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Problem statement: I have worked as an Admin for a few years now and did not know until today that when a profile picture is reported that it goes into an area for admins to approve or delete. There a...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Faculty would like to create Canvas Studio groups of the students in each course. Currently this can only be done manually, one by one. Courses here range from 15 students to over 2...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Idea is currently in development Problem statement: Currently, no part of a Canvas account level grading scheme can be edited after the scheme has been used in a course to grade student submissions....

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our institution operates on a primary course model. We had an instructor accidentally delete a discussion question recently. Instructors are added to our courses with the role "Teac...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, if Bulk Purchase/Enrollment is enabled, anybody can be a purchaser. We do have some Catalog sites who want this functionality to be internal and not allow any of the publ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I have noticed that even when you lock a certain assignment, students have found a loophole. If they leave the tab with that assignment open, they can continue to work on/turn in th...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It takes several individual clicks to either mark assignments missing, excused, or zero them out. In our previous LMS, there was a "batch update" function that allowed teachers to s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a user selects Set Default Grade 0, a pop-up window appears listing the number of students affected and one option..."OK". It does not permit the user to cancel this action. Pl...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Particularly an issue in courses with a large number of enrolments per instructor, it's not always practicable to message large number of students from an individual account. This c...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In the Canvas Credentials (Badgr) integration, there is a discrepancy between the Course End Date and the Badgr Group End Date. When educators modify the Course End Date to accommod...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: On Catalog admins are able to view analytics... listings, orders, enrollments, users. We have marketing and enrollment personnel who need to know whether specific individuals have e...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Looking at add this to Canvas Theme titled: Add more options for 'message students who' to gradebook and analytics tools Want the ability for "Message Students Who" to auto add the ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: SpeedGrader is very slow at loading assignments. Gradescope is able to load assignments in less than a second. SpeedGrader is consistently taking 4 seconds per assignment. Sometimes...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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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 ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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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 ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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