Problem statement: When our grades are finalized, instructors email our registrar and he has to manually pull the final grades. Proposed solution: Create a button that instructors can press in the gr...

Problem statement: We noticed that messages sent in Conversations are sorted by when the Conversations were created, instead of the last sent message in a conversation. This is not intuitive and cause...

Problem statement: When copying a class from a prior term, often the class is being offered at a different time. While you can adjust the dates of assignment due dates, the times stay the same. Propo...

Problem statement: I currently have my gradebook settings to automatically assign a 0% when assignments are missing. On assignments that have the submission type of extension tool, it doesn't know its...

Problem statement: It would be helpful for our admin to be able to filter by multiple terms when looking for Courses at both the root account level and the sub-account level. We currently run 3 terms ...

Problem statement: When students use DocViewer, it contains a download button, which means they can export documents or images even if we would prefer them not to - i.e. we'd rather their work stayed ...

Problem statement: When using Canvas and the class has been selected from the "Courses" menu it is a challenge to remember what subject you are working on in the module because the name of the class i...

Problem statement: We are using Canvas Outcomes to assess for students meeting accreditation standards in our courses. In addition to it being. a royal pain to have to select them one at a time rather...

Problem statement: It is incredibly difficult to get the previous submissions of a user in a programmatic way. It is possible to get this through the API, but even so creating an ETL process and expan...

Problem statement: Practice or ungraded items do not appear in the Canvas Calendar and Syllabus Course Summary page for students to reference. If a date is set on a practice quiz, the date will appear...

Problem statement: It's hard to quickly use the "Batch Edit Assignment Dates" page because of how limited in width the columns are. Proposed solution: Please increase column width for the "title" col...

Problem statement: There is only one single permission to allow account admins to be able to import SIS data. I would like for my student employees (who have a very limited admin role) to be able to d...

Problem statement: Several times we have had teachers who changed their due dates then realized they made an error and wanted to go back to earlier due dates. However, there isn't a place besides the ...

Problem statement: When working with a table in rich text formatting, there is a table editing shortcut that pops up, allowing to add rows, columns, etc. This thing hangs out, overing the text of the ...

Problem statement: When archiving a messages from the Canvas Inbox, a pop-up message appears ("Messages archived!"). Great! Love it! But the message covers up the "archive" button, and I have to wait ...

Problem statement: As an online student, I take 80-85% asynchronous classes, oftentimes with reading material and quizzes/assignments on Canvas. Often the professors for these classes also teach live ...

Problem statement: I am a current student here at Penn State University Park and am reaching out because I think there needs to be a better way to type accents for online Canvas tests. For my Spanish ...

Problem statement: At the end of every semester it seems we deal with several instructors who have inadvertently created assignments worth 0 points, and in many cases (except where they chose to displ...

Problem statement: Currently, the Roll Call Attendance tool exports data as a CSV file with comma-separated fields. Canvas provides a user setting under "Feature Options" called "Use semicolons to sep...

Problem statement: I have migrated to new quizzes and consistently have an issue with students needing more time on a quiz because they had tech issues. With online courses, I usually never know that ...