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Problem statement: At the moment it is not possible for a teacher to delay posting of peer-reviews. In some cases this could have pedagogical advantage. It would be helpful, for instance, when teacher...

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Problem statement: CC Support ticket - ref:!00DA00Ibsk.!500TU08ivHJ In CC portal, we have defined the administrators (eg User A and B) for the issuers. After the Canvas integration with CC, we realize...

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Problem statement: The "Automatically apply grade for missing submissions" setting is assigning students the score for a missing submission. That score stays even when a student submits work and so sh...

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Problem statement: We use the API for content_migrations with date_shift_options[shift_dates] as TRUE for our instructors and sometimes there is an intermittent issue that causes one item's availabili...

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Problem statement: Currently, on the People page in a Canvas course, the "Last Activity" column displays the last interaction date of each user. However, the year is not shown, even if the activity oc...

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Problem statement: Re: The Student Analysis Report and preserving student anonymity When New Quiz Marking Anonymity is enabled, the Student Analysis Report is not anonymous i.e. the Student Analysis R...

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Problem statement: Adding students one at a time to Canvas Studio Groups is untenable at scale. Proposed solution: When adding members to a Canvas Studio Group, if we could add/remove students to Can...

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Problem statement: A lot of content and scrolling on one page can overwhelm learners. Adding HTML code for tabs and accordions using the Canvas HTML editor does not always result in tabs and accordion...

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Problem statement: I know my students by their first names. When grading, I can only sort by last name Proposed solution: Provide the option, in speedgrader, to sort by students' first names User ro...

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Problem statement: We have many users who use an environment we maintain who have requested bulk creation and enrollment into their courses. When processing enrollments through SIS Import, it blocks i...

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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: Badgr's reports do not align with the Canvas gradebook exports. These are the ways that they differ: - Inactive students are included in badge reports and excluded from gradebook re...

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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 current Studio interface does not allow a way to quickly navigate to a previously created collection when adding content through the RCE. I upload videos to collections and then...

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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: Currently, only the person who posted content to Commons can update that content in Commons. This is stated in the documentation ( How do I update a resource I previously shared to ...

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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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