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Problem statement: Problem statement: There are videos in Studio where the owner has left the institution and the video still resides in Studio. Faculty member leaves due to retirement or other employ...

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Problem statement: Problem: We have a link to a video in Studio but we do not know the owner. Instructure support cannot locate the owner with the link because the logs do not go back far enough. Admi...

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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: If a quiz is created in Canvas Studio for a video, and then it is edited later (ex: the answer choice for a quiz was incorrect, and changed to the correct one), it does NOT UPDATE i...

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Problem statement: The course name overlays the course tile image when looking at the course home in the Canvas Student and Canvas Teacher apps. This results in two problems: duplication (course code ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Assignments currently only display Available Until date. Proposed solution: Have Assignments show both the Available Until date as well as the Due Date. User role(s): student

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Problem statement: Students can not the option to switch option to view grades between percentage and total points. Proposed solution: Provide a view toggle to see either Total Points/Percentage. Us...

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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 ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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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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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...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The count of badges awarded by the organization does not appear on the dashboard. If I want to quickly report on the number of badges awarded during a quarter or a year, I cannot qu...

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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: My teachers would like to grade anonymously in the Canvas iOs Teacher App. Grade anonymously = hide student names to remove bias. This is currently a feature in the Canvas web page,...

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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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