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Problem statement: Currently our institutional imports a specific grade scheme from our SIS (student information system - banner) for each course. These schemes are mandated by the university and "sho...

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Problem statement: Aligns the Gradebook with institutional policies that prioritize certain assessments as critical determinants of course competency. Provides a clear and automated process for implem...

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Problem statement: Problem Description Students often fail to upload files and prepare to submit their exams before the quiz time ends. This results in students missing the end of the exam time limit,...

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Problem statement: When configuring quizzes to use Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor, it requires setting whether or not Respondus LockDown Browser is required, whether or not Respondus Monitor i...

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Problem statement: Prior to 2022 students who did not submit an assignment could still be manually assigned a peer review, so they could get a grade for peer review even if they got zero for the main ...

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Problem statement: Posting the same file, assignment, website, or announcement to more than one course is very time consuming. Example: I teach seven sections of French at varying levels. Some tasks r...

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Problem statement: (Allow me to thank user Hildi_Pardo for suggesting that I post this as an idea) Assume I create an individual assignment--Let's call it "Homework One." I assign it for 4 students to...

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Problem statement: When I use New Quiz and edit answer to mulitiple choice questions, when I select an answer to edit, the rich text editor appears, moving the text entry box to a different position o...

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Problem statement: Webmaster: Ctrl + F key combination to open a browser window based search box is a function which belongs to the user, not the website! When you put into place scripting that overri...

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Problem statement: Instructors cannot see the dropdown to view all student attempts on quizzes that allow multiple attempts. it's capped at 65 submissions and instructors who have larger classes are t...

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Problem statement: The current progress report module in Canvas LMS only allows teachers to view individual student progress by clicking on each student's name one at a time. It lacks the functionalit...

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Problem statement: At the moment, if you want to take a copy of the comments you write in Speedgrader you have to basically copy and paste them by taking them one by one (or export one by one). Propo...

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Problem statement: You offer to shuffle answers on an assessment so one students choice A might be another student's choice C. Can you offer than option for questions so one students question 1 is ano...

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Problem statement: When a teacher creates an Assignment, and adds a name and details, the name and details get deleted and overwritten by the file name once you add the Google Cloud Assignment. This d...

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Problem statement: Difficulty knowing if an assignment that is on the calendar has been published or not. Teachers see EVERYTHING but can't tell if they have published them for the students. Proposed...

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Problem statement: I have a new student enrolled today (last 2 weeks of school) and all 93 assignments for the semester are automatically marked "missing" for this student. I have to manually excuse e...

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Problem statement: Expand/Collapse All for Assignments is not available. Each group needs to be collapsed or expanded separately. The modules page already has this functionality. Proposed solution: E...

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Problem statement: 3.3.3 Error Suggestion As part of our annual accessibility audit of our Canvas LMS, we looked at accessibility compliance against WCAG 2.1 standards. This idea request relates to on...

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Problem statement: 3.3.3 Error Suggestion As part of our annual accessibility audit of our Canvas LMS, we looked at accessibility compliance against WCAG 2.1 standards. This idea request relates to on...

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Problem statement: When students submit an 'assignment' there is currently the option to allow them to submit using "Canvas Studio", however there is no option to 'restrict' them to ensure that they '...

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