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Problem statement: Background: My courses are skills mastery based, so students have more than enough opportunities via low stakes quizzes to demonstrate their mastery of each skill. In order to help ...

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Problem statement: Canvas users are unable to use Speedgrader when grading assignments imported using the Savvas MyPerspectives LTI. This is very inconvenient. It would be much easier to grade submiss...

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Problem statement: For governance and reporting purposes, it is often necessary to extract specific data on students’ assessments and outcomes from the Canvas Gradebook history. Currently, Gradebook h...

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Problem statement: I am trying to move outcomes out of one sub-account and into another. It is not possible unless you export through reports and them import into sub-account. This is tedious and time...

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Problem statement: It is not easy to navigate to the "manage grading schemes" settings page in a course, when an instructor wants to add a new grading scheme, or edit an existing one. Currently, they ...

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Problem statement: There is no option or feature to add comments or feedback to students' total course grade Proposed solution: Add a feature to the gradebook allowing instructors to add comments or ...

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Problem statement: When using requirements in Modules, the "Next" button that is found at the bottom of the page is always active even it the requirement has not been met yet. Prompting users to the t...

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Problem statement: When we had a middle school turn on their account calendar to auto-enroll students and staff that are linked to that sub-account, we received notifcations from students in high scho...

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Problem statement: The only way to adjust the point total for Roll Call is to edit the point value after the first session is taken, rescore the first session, and never change it again. To make the c...

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Problem statement: When students go the grades tab, they see a list of assignments. When they click on the name of the assignments, it takes them to "Submission Details." I would like a link on submis...

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Problem statement: The problem is that the standard reports provided by Canvas doesn't provide a way to get a list of all courses in a sub-account or for the entire institution with a total amount num...

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Problem statement: When using Speedgrader for quizzes, it shows all questions in the quiz, not just the ones that need review. So if I have an entire quiz of multiple choice, with just one written res...

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Problem statement: After have been working in speedgrader for 4 years, I start to believe it is actually a bit slow because there are so many clicks to navigate. Proposed solution: I would suggest re...

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Problem statement: When developing Rubrics for assignments, it currently is not possible to upload a PDF or DOCx file that would be useful in explaining the answer to the assignment. For example, one ...

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Problem statement: Online Attendance in New Analytics is supposed to track student participation automatically based on the instructor's settings. But right now, there's a problem. You can't generate ...

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Problem statement: After an assignment due date/time occurs or as instructor selects "missing" flag (and student score goes to automatic zero with a "missing comment" for an assignment for a student w...

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Problem statement: I use text headers for the date and objective of class, it would help if there was a text color option so they could stand out and also make it so the headers can be copied to other...

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Problem statement: Currently, many of our instructors rely on the feedback option within the quizzes tool to provide valuable insights, such as referencing page numbers or resources related to each qu...

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Problem statement: Course links do not currently open in a new window. It makes navigating back to the original page/assignment/discussion difficult. We have a Discussion Requirements page we like to ...

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Problem statement: I'm not able to preview a page, assignment, or discussion to see what it would look like before saving it. We're currently migrating from D2L and this was a very helpful feature esp...

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