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Problem statement: It's annoying to have to click and load a whole new page every time I want to grade another new submission. Proposed solution: I would love to be able to see all the submissions fo...

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Problem statement: Putting in due dates for assignments is beyond tedious, especially if your class times don't end exactly on the half hour or if the schedule changes. It seems some teachers have tri...

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Problem statement: Students get confetti on their screen when they submit assignments but teachers see none of this for their work. Proposed solution: Confetti for teachers for every 10 assignments g...

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Problem statement: If an error is made in the grade book, it requires manual correction. This likely happens when importing a CSV gradebook file. There is no way to automatically restore the gradebook...

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Problem statement: The New Analytics "Student" section downloads a ZIP file instead of directly to a CSV file. This becomes time consuming when downloading from 6 courses and then having to extract th...

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Problem statement: Long pages are hard to navigate Proposed solution: Header tags should automatically include an id property that is a slugified version of the header content (via Javascript or actu...

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Problem statement: For schools that want to use the Canvas API to manage all users' avatars to have them inline with the institutions current user profile photos (e.g. K-12 student yearly professional...

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Problem statement: The New Quizzes Item Banks have some nice new filtering options but the core functionality could be improved when it comes to sorting of questions which is important when working wi...

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Problem statement: Our faculty likes using SpeedGrader to grade in-class essays submitted through Google Assignments. We are starting to use LockDown Browser in Canvas quizzes for in-class essays. How...

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Problem statement: I'm an instructional designer and teach in the School of Education. In my ID role, we have a training course for faculty teaching online. Part of our assessment is for them to creat...

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Problem statement: Instructors would appreciate reminders that they have unsaved assignment submission comments and the ability to save them ('publish' them to students) en bulk. Proposed solution: A...

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Problem statement: In the New Quizzes report for Student Analysis, "Currently, only the most recent attempt by a student displays in the report." This limits instructors' ability to fully analyze the ...

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Problem statement: Admins do not have any information regarding which courses have enabled which feature options in Canvas. This means that we cannot message those users directly when there are issues...

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Problem statement: There is no option to translate for Traditional Chinese however this is a Simplified Chinese Option. Proposed solution: Adding a Traditional Chinese translation option in AI Inbox ...

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Problem statement: The learning mastery gradebook does not calculate an overall average of a student and their progress for the overall course. Proposed solution: We are needing a "total grade" colum...

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Problem statement: From Gradebook (teacher facing) it is time consuming (and can be confusing) to take real student scores and type them into "Test Student" in order to see which series of assignments...

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Problem statement: Within Canvas assignments, I would like the option to create questions where credit is awarded for completion only (and not correctness). Students should not be able to view that th...

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Problem statement: Currently, there is no way for a teacher to turn off the enrollment accepted notification, even if you turn off all course notifications. This can be a very annoying notification. ...

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Problem statement: One of our teachers has suggested that both discussions and announcemnets should have the possibliity to like also the topic/announcement itself, not just the replies. This suggesti...

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Problem statement: 4/5 of my instructors have not added a picture or color to their classes, so my dashboard is filled with gray. This makes it more difficult to quickly differentiate classes. The one...

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