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Problem statement: We've recently learned that when students are taking a quiz in the "New Quizzes" format that includes essay questions, the view log shows that the student has "stopped viewing the q...

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Problem statement: New users often struggle with implementing extra credit in Canvas due to the lack of a built-in, default option, leading to reliance on workarounds such as adjusting assignment weig...

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Problem statement: Let student needs to be able to view their total activity as they progress through a course Proposed solution: To have a way to put time limits on assignments. The only place I see...

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Problem statement: I use external tools with Canvas Assignments. Specificially, the Matlab Grader, where students submit multiple attempts and Grader sends all of the to Canvas. However, what often ha...

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Problem statement: Currently, Canvas discussions send notifications for every new post in a discussion thread, which can quickly become overwhelming. Students often receive notifications for posts tha...

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Problem statement: Faculty of large courses made up of multiple sections want the ability to select the date that answer feedback is provided to students (much like the ability to prpvide a specific d...

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Problem statement: I just finished a conversation with Canvas Helpdesk folks in which I learned that even when I have a gradebook filtered to a specific grading period and I ask for a current view gra...

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Problem statement: Currently, a Missing Assignment Report can be generated under New Analytics in a course. However, this report is not an accurate list of missing assignments for each student. First,...

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Problem statement: We have a partner school and a teacher from it acts as an observer to any of their students enrolled in our courses. We allow students to access their courses one week prior to the ...

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Problem statement: Problem having to scroll all the way to the top or all the way to the bottom to naviage and choose things like "student views.. or SAVE! and know which class you are viewing. A Stat...

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Problem statement: Graders cannot highlight across page breaks in SpeedGrader, but often they need to do so. Proposed solution: In the SpeedGrader doc viewer, it should be possible to start highlight...

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Problem statement: When a student looks at the Calendar in Canvas, they can only see the first few letters of the name of the event. If you hover your mouse over the event link, you can see the whole ...

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Problem statement: I have a 30 question "midterm" New Quiz that I want to print 50 different copies of, as each "quiz" pulls from multiple large Item Banks. Proposed solution: Ability to print multip...

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Problem statement: When writing an Inbox message to send to students, you have to either Enter them one-by-one, or select them one-by-one. It is not possible to enter a list of several students at onc...

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Problem statement: Currently, when adding Outcomes to a rubric in Canvas, they must be added as separate criteria at the bottom of the rubric. This setup makes rubrics longer and harder to navigate fo...

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Problem statement: You can only tag one user at a time in discussion forums using the @ function. Proposed solution: Add the @All function to notify all students in the discussion forum (if split by ...

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Problem statement: It would be nice if there was an option to lock students into the assignment much like locking students into the test. This would help cut down on the tabbing out by students as tea...

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Problem statement: We want to make a specific LTI tool that is transcending courses available to only students, or only instructors. Currently, this is only possible by adding this tool to the global ...

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Problem statement: Currently, Canvas New Quiz settings allow only for students to view the red/green indicators for correct/incorrect answers after submitting the attempt. With Build on previous attem...

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Problem statement: We very much welcome the ability to assign modules to sections and individual students. This makes the Modules page a lot clearer for students. However, in large courses, our instru...

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