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Problem statement: When a group is used in Canvas, every teacher in the course will get notifications if students use “Announcements” in a group area. Every time a student posts an announcement (or cr...

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Problem statement: I replied to a student's discussion reply and then rethought my reply. I tried to delete my reply and somehow deleted the student's reply. I can not now retrieve that reply. Propos...

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Problem statement: In New Quizzes there is not an option to allow students to see their overall score without also being able to see the points awarded per question. I would like students to be able t...

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Problem statement: Most of our courses include synchronous (often face-to-face) workshops or events, around which the timing of Canvas content is based. For example, students are expected to complete ...

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Problem statement: We currently manually schedule announcements to be sent to students based on the schedule of a course. For example, on the day when Module 2 of the course is unlocked in Canvas, we ...

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Problem statement: Please add drag-and-drop capability to SpeedGrader for faculty adding a comment. Right now it seems that only text can be added to the Comment textbox. Our college has faculty who l...

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Problem statement: When students do not complete an assignment on paper or through an external tool I want to be able to message students that have a missing indicator. Proposed solution: Currently t...

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Problem statement: The issue I have is the inability to manually select which columns in the gradebook show to students in their view, and which do not. While the system does allow for ungraded items ...

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Problem statement: While the ability to submit assignments during an availability window that can be set ahead of time is great, the description is still viewable by the students. Faculty often want t...

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Problem statement: An instructor at our university pointed out that it's quite confusing that is says "Send comment to this student only" and "Send comment to the whole group" when submitting comments...

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Problem statement: Unused Courses report provides false information. Proposed solution: Content posted in the Canvas Syllabus tool should be looked at, and if any text or links exist there, the cours...

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Problem statement: Currently in the People search of the Account area, you only see a user's sortable name, email, SIS ID, and last login. However, when using the search term, the results can be based...

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Problem statement: The course search in Accounts will search courses based on their course names, course codes, and SIS IDs. However, only the course name and SIS ID are shown. This can lead to some c...

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Problem statement: I cannot find a way to customize the spacing between lines, for either continuous text or between new paragraphs, when entering text onto a Canvas page. For example, I have created ...

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Problem statement: We are currently not able to lock the Submission type in Assignments in Blueprint courses. This makes the Assignment editable in the associate courses upto an extent the format of s...

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Problem statement: My organisation is a big user of Blueprints. Before we do an association we lockdown the content. Generally, this involves all pages, assessments, and quizzes. The current process r...

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Problem statement: Currently, the assigning of peer reviews can be done automatically, which saves a great deal of time. Unfortunately, students aren't perfect, and every batch of submissions I get ha...

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Hi, folks. I'm a Canvas Admin and I have an idea I think would be helpful for those using rubrics in conjunction with New Quizzes. It's currently possible to attach a Rubric to a New Quiz and select "...

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Problem statement: When submitting an assignment in the updated assignment interface, a green check mark appears next to a file once it has been uploaded. However, this check mark does not indicate th...

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Problem statement: This should be a simple one. When assigning a due date to a New Quiz, Canvas ALWAYS takes you back to your Quizzes page. For literally every other assignment, you can set a due date...

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