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Problem statement: When grading the tests of courses with a big number of students, teacher must go to the end of the page after each grade set, in order to save and conclude the correction. Proposed...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I want question groups to exist in New Quizzes like they do in Classic Quizzes. I realize there is a workaround for this by using Item Banks. However, I see question groups as a dis...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When creating a course announcement you can select which sections see an announcement and even delay the posting for all the sections with the same delay date. However, it would be ...

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Problem statement: Autocomplete creates confusion for students filling out quizzes that use input boxes. In some cases, this could even facilitate academic dishonesty because the students will have th...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the text color for the "Title" and "Instructions" headings/form labels have a contrast ratio below the minimum requirement for WCAG 2.x compliance. It is possible to use ...

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Problem statement: Canvas Course Syllabus is extremely valuable whether used as a Course Home Page, or used as a linked overview of the course / scheme of work. In both cases the inclusion of the Cour...

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Problem statement: I went to reuse a class from one year to the next (this is a special Summer class...) and while maybe next year I'll copy the class and start with a clean slate, this year I just us...

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Problem statement: The "Question Title" in new quizzes is only visible to students for stimulus questions but not visible to students for all other question types. This lack of consistency in its visi...

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Problem statement: Sometimes we assign classwork or homework that we want students to complete and this work will only be graded for completion. If I want to enter this assignment in the gradebook, my...

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Problem statement: Problem: When you are using Lockdown Browser and Monitor for a quiz/exam, it isn't possible to show students their results in a review window. I have read that there is a workaround...

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Problem statement: I'm currently building a course in Canvas that contains HTML/CSS Flip Cards. The Flip Cards look great, but I can't make them fully accessible because the Canvas HTML Editor Allowli...

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Problem statement: I'm resurrecting this request that Instructure archived a year ago.   Status: Archived Submitted by pflickin on ‎06-27-2019 01:02 PM The ability for group sets to sync across bluepr...

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Problem statement: Currently if you paste a youtube link directly into the text editor, not through insert > link or the external link tool, it automatically makes it a hyperlink. This is great. The i...

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Problem statement: If an instructor enters text in the "Long Description" field of a rubric, a student must click a button to view that text when viewing the rubric. Especially in cases where a rubric...

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Problem statement: Currently, auto-subscribed account calendars remain attached and visible to a user even after their enrollment has ended in that sub-account. Proposed solution: After a user's enro...

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Problem statement: Situation: Administrator belongs to only one account and selects "Admin" in the vertical navigation bar. The Administrator is presented with "All Accounts" and his/her account. This...

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Problem statement: Since Pages are one of the primary places for content to be displayed, a lot of our instructors tend to have a ton of pages with various different content for their courses. As a re...

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Problem statement: The gradebook total will only provide you a total for the specified marking period. We would like to see the total grade when a date filter has been applied. For example, in the spr...

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Problem statement: We have instructors who would like to have an option of "In Progress" in between the Complete and Incomplete options when using this grading scale. This would help indicate for them...

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Problem statement: the wording 'Hide Grades' in the gradebook has a dubious meaning. Instructors think that by clicking it they will hide grades in general, which is not what happens. Proposed soluti...

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