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Problem statement: Currently, administrative notifications (of which the password reset email is classified) default to a frequency of "daily summary". For a user needing to login, this is an unaccept...

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Problem statement: In Assignment- reports - Outcomes Analysis it orders the list alphabetically by first name. This is the only place we've found where Cavnas does this. Please sort by last name or of...

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Problem statement: In the total column, the message students who feature is great! I would be good though if there were a way to message students who are between grades rather than just below or above...

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Problem statement: Students do not receive notification/confirmation/acknowledgement of receipt email when they make an assignment or quiz submission. This leads to some students not submitting and be...

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Problem statement: We need a role/custom role that can view grades and not export or import course content. For faculty to get tenure, a team of other faculty needs to review their teaching. We add th...

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Problem statement: In Grades, current individual assignments cannot be exported as percentages, only raw scores. Grades for individual assignments can be displayed as percentages, but won't export as ...

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Problem statement: Some teachers/admins cannot validate if the users have seen the announcement that they posted. This is crucial because what if that announcement is important for the student to cons...

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Problem statement: For my classes, I currently have a Syllabus Module that organizes Course Policies, Student Services, and FAQs into a very manageable series of pages that make it much easier for stu...

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Problem statement: I would like a way to restrict calendar appointment reservation by having a cut-off date. Currently, students can reserve an open slot at the last minute which creates logistical pr...

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Problem statement: Currently if a Peer Review assignment has a rubric attached, the rubric submitted by the student cannot be edited or removed by the instructor or a Canvas admin. Unassigning and rea...

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Problem statement: We sometimes simply need to verify that the contents of an archive file submission contains specific files, without downloading and extracting them. Proposed solution: It would be ...

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Problem statement: The Course Navigation Menu auto-collapses when a user clicks "Grades". Educators struggle with this, in that they want to click one of their navigation links to get back "Home", or ...

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Problem statement: AI bots are rampant in my class. I can spot them very easily however, students want to refute it. I have a proposed way to combat this and it would not take much effort on Canvas' e...

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Problem statement: The new Gradebook update to allow filtering for multiple sections is wonderful, but it would be wonderful to have this feature in Speedgrader as well. At our school, we have some te...

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Problem statement: What-If grades are difficult to track and identify as What-If grades because there is no distinguishing marker. ---- The formatting for What-If Grades used to be slightly different....

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Problem statement: Tracking and monitoring the utilization of Calendar Appointments set up within Canvas on a per-course basis. would provide valuable insights into the effectiveness of our scheduling...

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Problem statement: Allow admins to inactivate course roles that are no longer needed by an organization. Deleting roles removes the record of the role (and its permission) from the system. Much like w...

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Problem statement: When an instructor has the grade posting policy set to Manual, and then posts grades, they have the option to post grades for "Everyone" or "Graded." By default, "Everyone" is selec...

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Problem statement: When courses are copied the assignment availability, due, and lock dates can be auto shifted to the new semester's calendar dates. However, the dates for assigning peer reviews are ...

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Problem statement: When changing the due date on an assignment, the "assign peer reviews on" date is hidden. This can lead to faculty failing to match the due/lock date to the assign date, and then to...

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