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Problem statement: When Observer's send the Instructor an email, it does not say who their student is. Not all students have the same last name as their parents. I have to email them back and ask who ...

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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...

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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: 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: Problem My courses use the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as Outcomes. As such, the names of the Outcomes are alphanumeric identifiers, and are largely meaningless to students...

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Problem statement: The new "Online Attendance" feature in New Analytics requires users to re-select the "Class days" that the class meets every single time a teacher checks attendance for a given cour...

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Problem statement: As instructional Designers, sometimes we make custom-made instructional videos, using Studio, for the students of certain faculty. Faculty also create videos that may like to share ...

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Problem statement: Hello, As instructional designers, some of the instructional videos we create, using Studio, should be available to all faculty at our institution. Hence, we need to put them at the...

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Problem statement: When a teacher creates a new module, it defaults to the bottom of the course module page. Can you please create an option where teachers can have the newest module created default t...

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Problem statement: Since "deleting" a user account will delete all associated information, courses, grades, etc., we have decided to "suspend" user accounts that have not accessed our Canvas instance ...

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Problem statement: I would like students to create their own groups to submit a group assignment. Currently as the instructor I can create a group set, create the number and size of groups, and then s...

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Problem statement: Noting that it is possible to see when an individual student viewed their feedback within SpeedGrader, it would be useful to be able to have this information represented for all stu...

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Problem statement: Students who are added to a course after Group Sets have been created must be manually added to groups, even if groups were created automatically to start with. This can be a daunti...

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Problem statement: When creating an assignment I'm usually linking to an external tool to do this. For a given course, I typically only have one or two external tools that I link to. However, my insti...

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Problem statement: When I select a group discussion, I am taken to the appropriate "Group" discussion area as expected. However, to return to the Discussion landing page, I have to either click on the...

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Problem statement: When initially exploring Canvas Credentials, while setting the trigger for specific assignments to be "Complete item", my thought was that this would be comparable to the Badgr trig...

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Problem statement: When assignments created in Canvas using Google Assignments are not submitted by the due date they are not automatically marked as missing by Canvas. This requires the the teacher t...

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Problem statement: Students struggle to turn on captions due to the non standardized icon for "toggle captions on" versus the universally standard "CC" icon. Resulting in a frustrating hunt for my alt...

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Problem statement: It is not currently possible to customise the emails sent out from Canvas Credentials when a badge is awarded. For example, if we wanted to encourage users to share the badge on Lin...

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Problem statement: When "Export Pairing Codes" is run from the users page in a course, the csv does not include section information. Current fields: Last Name, First Name, Pairing Code, Expires At. Pa...

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