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Problem statement: It was a welcome change to see Student View retitled to the clearer "View as Student". Currently this view does not work when a staff member uses the button to see what students are...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Rubric Save button. When using rubrics, I often grade in stages, requiring me to scroll to the bottom of the rubric to save, if only at item at the top was assessed. Proposed solut...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Problem: When the "Build on Last Attempt" is selected on a New Quiz, the only option for score calculation is to IMPROVE the score until all attempts are used or the student reaches...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, New Quizzes' IP filtering feature only checks the student's IP address at the start of the quiz. Once the quiz has begun, students can potentially switch to a different n...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When Canvas users are automatically rostered (for instance, by a SIS integration), their email addresses aren't automatically confirmed. If a Canvas user's email address hasn't been...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: On canvas calendar, section information is displayed along with the sessions. However when importing to third party calendar through ics, the section information is not included Pr...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Too many unnecessary scroll bars on one page. It's almost like having several things pop up at once and not knowing which one is supposed to work. There's now been another scroll pa...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a user changes their selected language, nothing happens in the interface until the page is loaded without cache. Proposed solution: Please force a re-load of the page when a d...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I am a math instructor, who frequently teaches the same courses from one quarter to the next. One of my uses for Canvas discussions is as a place for students to ask questions that ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Using outcomes should be an easier process than it is. If I am an instructor of courses in different sub-accounts, I should be able to use outcomes across multiple sub-accounts. It ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When students see a completed assignment in a module they don't see their grade. Proposed solution: Please add their grade to the display. It is already on the display when they ar...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I would like to see grades in the gradebook grouped by assignment category and then by date (oldest to newest) within that category. This does not seem to be an option. Proposed so...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We currently have multiple markers for our assessments and students can identify our markers and are approaching them directly for an appeal. As we have a process for appeals in pla...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Assignment groups can get very cumbersome. I may have 15 assignments that I want to be in one grading group AND they may fit into subcategories that I would like to see visually sep...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: For a course in which enrollments were created via SIS, an account admin cannot add a user to a course section (or remove them from a section) unless this permission is enabled: "SI...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We want faculty members (and those that have the permissions to manage the people area) continued access in their course. It is very labor intensive to extend the date of the course...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The three dot menu option on the Assignments tab doesn't include the migrate option for Classic Quizzes. The migrate option only appears in the three dot menu option on the Quizzes ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As a teacher, I'd like to be able to enter quiz responses for a student from my own account. I have students who require paper-based testing due to IEP accommodations, and their dat...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, students who are working on separate sections of an assignment must be assigned manually to different tasks. For example, in a nursing research course, some students are ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Several students have accidentally logged into Canvas using the same account. When they accessed a quiz, both devices were allowed to enter, acting as the same student. Proposed so...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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