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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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Problem statement: When manually assigning a peer review, there is currently there is no indication in the drop-down list of students to show who is already assigned or who has completed the initial a...

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Problem statement: Aloha- We are getting several reports from parents (observers) who are confused by the Coming Up list that shows on their course home pages. This list does not provide parents with ...

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Problem statement: There seems to be a lack of assignment reporting which is really important within colleges and universities. Curriculum admins recently asked me if Canvas can produce a list of stud...

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Problem statement: When you create a user without doing a SIS import (for example, a single new staff member has started employment and you want to quickly add them), there is no way of telling Canvas...

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Problem statement: The Course Summary tool shows events/assignments that have already happened as well as those coming up. For an ongoing course or shared space, that makes upcoming events too hard to...

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Problem statement: The teacher is working in a middle school yearlong Canvas course & often needs to filter by trimester in her gradebook in order to report progress & grades. In her course gradebook,...

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Problem statement: CompTIA's LTI tool supports multiple types of LTI links -- instructor dashboard, student dashboard, deep linking to individual assets, proctored exams, etc. However, if I wanted to ...

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Problem statement: As Account Admin one of the issues I see the most is teachers copying assignments from one grading period or term to another and having trouble with the dates. Often they do not or ...

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Problem statement: New Quizzes allow you to ignore case only in the "close enough" answer type, which in turn requires a minimum solution distance of 1. If one knows regex, it may be possible to ignor...

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Problem statement: A good feature of canvas is that you can download all the solutions to "assignments" at once in the form of a zip archive. These can then be corrected, rearchived and uploaded to ca...

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Problem statement: Students are seeing 0's in the gradebook when they have submitted something that needs to be graded. Instructor's see an assignment icon. Students panic at seeing the 0. Proposed s...

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Problem statement: Students have difficulty finding their groups under people due to all the groups listed with a locked padlock icon or an unlocked one. Proposed solution: Include the same Blue Grou...

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Problem statement: Not necessarily a problem to be described. Perhaps, rather, a way to encourage better sharing. Reading the syllabus for an upcoming course, the professor's writing immediately and p...

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Problem statement: We operate a distance education school, and our parents use the Observer account to track their student's progress through the course. A consistent "error" report is that the observ...

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Problem statement: There are Answer ID's that exist in QUIZ_SUBMISSIONS:Submission Data that do not exist in QUIZ_QUESTIONS:Answers. For example Question ID 1249, the following Answer ID's are missing...

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Problem statement: When retrieving a large list of users spanning multiple pages, the results can be both incomplete and contain duplicates. This can happen if any user's sortable name is changed betw...

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Problem statement: A user can select "Export Current Gradebook View" but unfortunately that functionality does not produce the results one would expect. If the user has selected certain options under ...

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Problem statement: A Teacher or Admin wants to view recent submissions to a New Quiz (it is a fully auto-graded quiz so viewing submissions=view scores). It is currently not possible to filter or sort...

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