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Problem statement: A Final Exam was given and set to be due on the date the section ended. The instructor had short answer questions that needed to be manually graded. The students submitted the exam ...

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Problem statement: We want more flexibility in how to calculate grades to match our government expectation that grades reflect the consistent achievement of students with more focus on recent achievem...

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Problem statement: When using the SpeedGrader, if you press the left arrow in the student selection bar (at the top right) it doesn't stay in the same location because some images take longer to load....

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Problem statement: Student Comments Tracking Problem: Currently, in Canvas, there is no efficient way for teachers to track comments left by students on assignments, quizzes, or other sections within ...

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Problem statement: We are looking for a way to have students see different questions based on the answers chosen for a question. Proposed solution: For example: If a student selects "False", go to th...

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Problem statement: Students and parents are not motivated and/or savvy enough to check Canvas grades consistently to keep track of missing work. Parents have told teachers at our school that they woul...

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Problem statement: The process for adding a Rubric to a discussion board is different for Graded Discussions vs. Assignments. Process 1 (Assignments): Create and Save Assignment > "+Rubric" Button. Pr...

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Problem statement: Assignments with (1) student file uploads can be (2) bulk downloaded to the professor, and (3) bulk uploaded back to the student. Great for things that are more readily scored and/o...

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Problem statement: When I include a question-dependent calculator for in a New Quiz, I see a screen that behaves like the desired scientific calculator. This helpful feature only has two challenges th...

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Problem statement: In a course that contains employee based materials from each of the different groups like administration, facilities, Information Technology, etc... We want to use the Calendar to s...

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Problem statement: Instructors are with students for a short period of time. Yet, we like to know students and address them by their names. It is quite difficult to learn so many names right away, tho...

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Problem statement: Zoom has added sections to their LTI/API, and you can add meetings for specific sections now, great! That said, Canvas does not support calendar events by section apparently. Accord...

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Problem statement: Can you please make the publish and unpublishing of a document or link can be done with a toggle so that one quick click can change it? The other options should be moved into the ke...

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Problem statement: With the new feature of temporary enrollments recently being added (it's an amazing feature), I was wondering if a similar feature for courses could be created. We get lots of reque...

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Problem statement: I want to use modules to meter student progression through a course, but am being limited by the "all of" or "one of" options for module completion. I want to be able to have studen...

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Problem statement: No teacher facing tools implemented that would allow the instructor to suggest changes or comment on lesson instructions order to refine curriculum the following semester. This is a...

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Problem statement: In Speed Grader, we have to click each individual attachment to view. They don't all load at once, which sounds trivial, but sometimes errors occur in loading one of the attachments...

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Problem statement: Identify the students who have not completed an assignment and send them an e-mail notification. Proposed solution: Canvas should have the ability to run a script to check which st...

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Problem statement: Sections within course are used to group users, and considerable control over interactions is provided, allowing users enrolled in different sections to either interact with users i...

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Problem statement: When a Microsoft Class Team is created, and user are synched to the Team, the Team role is created as either Owner or Member. This appears to be driven by the base_enrolment_type of...

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