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Problem statement: Currently, in the "Report Analysis Student" for New Quizzes, the activity submission column displays the date and time in standard UTC (UTC+0) instead of reflecting the time zone se...

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Problem statement:We have detected that when exporting the new student analysis report for recent exams, the column headers appear in English, regardless of the platform's language setting. Currently...

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Problem statement: There are two ways to change an assignment's points value in the Canvas interface as a teacher. A) From the Assignment Index, click on the title of the assignment, click Edit, and a...

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Problem statement: When working within a New Quiz, when you are editing a quiz question, there is an option to "Add to Bank" under the "Item Banking" section of the question. As part of the dialog, th...

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Problem statement: When creating an Item Bank in New Quizzes, the default permissions added are "Share With" the author-can edit, "Share With" the course - can view. This is intuitive. When importing ...

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Problem statement: In the gradebook there is a bit of a bug / glitch where if I give students zeroes and put a status as missing, and then they complete the assignment, the status will not change. Thi...

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Problem statement: There are times when a faculty member would like to add more information, but not have to direct a student to a different page. Proposed solution: The function we see in the "Need ...

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Problem statement: When sharing an Item Bank with a person in New Quizzes, no unique identifier is displayed, two people with the same name cannot be distinguished. This makes it a feature that's not ...

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Problem statement: It is not a problem. It is a suggestion to add a roll to the people section. Proposed solution: In the People section, there are a number of various rolls to select from. I would l...

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Problem statement: When using the "Adjust Events and Due Dates" feature of the "Import Content" tool, it would be nice to be able use any dates defined by the Course's Term information. Currently, the...

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Problem statement: With regard to mass entering a grade, currently all students receive the same grade, existing grades are replaced, and students that haven’t completed an assignment/submitted an ass...

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Problem statement: Student messages often contain inappropriate content and we have no way of knowing unless we happen to see it. If students are discussing suicide or shooting a school or violence, t...

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Problem statement: Currently, Instructure documentation states that TA in a course cannot access Item Banks shared with the course: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-share-a...

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Problem statement: We have had the same problem as ChadCaswell, who posted this to the New Quizzes discussions: I noticed that the New Quizzes has a checkbox under the box for exam access codes that s...

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Problem statement: When a student clicks on the assignment name from their view, they are brought to the submission page for that particular assignment. When that assignment is a quiz or other native ...

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Problem statement: I'm trialing using freeform comment rubrics for my draft feedback. I love that there is the option in this feature to save comments. However, from my testing, it appears that you ca...

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Problem statement: Any hope that Grade Passback for PowerSchool will stop entering zeroes which throws off grade calculations? We are seeing a sharp decline in instructors that want to use Canvas base...

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Problem statement: Would there be anyway that we could get an auto-grade option for classwork or homework assignments similar to quizzes and test. Especially for worksheets that are multiple choice or...

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Problem statement: Instructors cannot download their video feedback once they have recorded it in Canvas. They would like to use the video for multiple students and without using the HTML they cannot ...

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Problem statement: As of now, the only way to make a quiz that asks a random question (so that different students get different questions) is to create an item bank from which the questions that the r...

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