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Problem statement: When grading peer review assignments that allow partial credit for EITHER a comment OR a completed rubric, faculty need a way to see that the peer reviewer completed the rubric, wit...

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Problem statement: Students are asked to complete a peer review, and provided with a rubric for the peer review, however faculty grading are then presented with the same rubric for grading. If faculty...

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Problem statement: New Canvas users do not understand what < / > means in the Canvas LMS content editor / RCE view without reading the Canvas Guide, even if they are already competent in HTML. Many us...

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Problem statement: When an online submission requires student annotations, students might find the highlighter and pen getting away from them. Many of my students have accidentally selected all the te...

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Problem statement: If a student wants to take notes on the content posted to a Canvas page, they have use another program like google docs or Word, or they have to have another window open (if they're...

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Problem statement: This request concerns our independent site https://canvas.sussex.ac.uk/courses/33403. We use this Canvas site every year for our Geography field classes. It is essential that we can...

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Problem statement: In the Discussion Redesign that will be enforced on July 20th, I have noticed that secondary replies appear in a smaller font than top level replies. I am concerned that the smaller...

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Problem statement: A lot of students in our large competitive course are using the comment function when submitting their assignments to try and influence the marker and the grade receive by the marke...

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Problem statement: When we have several marking rubrics, we need to go from one rubric mark to the next by remove the hand from the keyboard and grabbing the mousescrolling with the mouse to the next ...

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Problem statement: Canvas uses the words 'Course Progress' for Windows/Android users and the word 'Grades for iOS users. iOS users can see their Course grade average but not Windows users. When a stud...

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Problem statement: Several iterations of CANVAS ago, when you applied drops to assignments as a "Rule" set-up, when students would view their final grades they would see a little "X" next to the assig...

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Problem statement: Ability to parse out the "Edit Grades" permissions so that we can restrict or allow editing of grade schemes. In this case, we would want teachers to use pre-determined grading sche...

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Problem statement: When instructors download student submissions for an assignment to grade and annotate offline, the resulting export is a zip file simply named "submissions." For faculty grading man...

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Problem statement: We request an easier method to add time for students on a Classic Quiz or a New Quiz, particularly a universal button to add time to a student's attempt or many students' attempts a...

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Problem statement: Due to GDPR requirements, our institution needs to contact everyone who creates a User access token to remind them of their data management responsibilities. At present, we need to ...

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Problem statement: A Quiz Question contained 4 images within a table, when the browser window is resized the table resizes, the images can shrink to the point where they are not visible. Proposed sol...

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Problem statement: When accessing the link validator screen in master courses, I cannot tell when the last link validation was done and if I have to navigate away from a course to take care of somethi...

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Problem statement: It would be great if the date of when a student was added to the course is displayed under the "People" tab where all faculty with access to the specific course can view it. Each te...

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Problem statement: Currently instructors have a hard time when scrolling on the grade view page of a student's to see exactly how they see their grades. It consists of quite a bit of vertical scrollin...

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Problem statement: The VietNam's Ministry of Education and Training announces illustrative questions for the high school graduation exam from 2025. There is a new multiple-choice exam question format ...

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