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Problem statement: Every discussion email notification contains the hyperlinked text: "Click here to join the conversation ". There is an extra space at the end of the text which is also hyperlinked. ...

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Problem statement: Please add a SICK badge to the Attendance badges. Proposed solution: The badge could look like the Red Cross in a circle. User role(s): instructor

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Problem statement: Most of my classes are comprised of cross-listed sections. Sometimes I create a "test student" to test something, but rarely do I want the test student to hang around in my grade bo...

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Problem statement: There is not a ruler tool students can use in Canvas Quizzes. Students need to practice using a digital ruler to measure items. Proposed solution: Add a digital ruler tool as a too...

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Problem statement: We would like to be able to disable the option for teachers to import a complete course without selecting which content is required. Using import of a complete course eventually lea...

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Problem statement: Instructors spend so much time crafting feedback for students' assignments, yet most of them do not even read them. It would be beneficial to both the faculty and the student if stu...

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Problem statement: Students miss deadlines (due dates). Many instructors include a grace period when accepting late work and use the "available until" setting on the Assignment Detail page to set a fi...

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Problem statement: For my asynchronous classes, I have started giving tests using one-attempt, open-resource, timed quizzes (using new quizzes). So the quizzes are not identical to each other, for eac...

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Problem statement: The textbox provided for individual question feedback in Speedgrader is small and doesn't provide enough room to give adequate feedback. I can provide screenshots for clarification ...

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Problem statement: In this case, a user wanted to create one master course shell with several sections within that shell. Using the calendar to create and manage events, they wanted to have different ...

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Problem statement: From the gradebook view there is an option to "Message Students Who." If I want to leave a Comment on a student's work, however, I have to do that individually either from Speedgrad...

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Problem statement: We have some courses that want to be able to assign a "complete" / "incomplete" / "no submission" for assignments, in the "grade display as" feature. Could a "no submission" be adde...

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Problem statement: When duplicating an assignment, the grade posting policy is not retained while all other settings are. This has caused some headache/heartache at my institution. Here is the scenari...

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Problem statement: Current method of partial credit in the New Quizzes (Right - Wrong) * points/(Num of right answers) is not useful for many types of problems that the Multiple Answers problem type s...

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Problem statement: Admins are not able to import content from commons into courses unless they are enrolled as a teacher in the course. As the instructional designer for our university, there are time...

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Problem statement: Only having the drop-down option for matching questions makes it difficult for students to see if they have already used an answer, and it looks messy when you have more than 3 term...

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Problem statement: We have a suggestion regarding Speedgrader that would improve the teacher's experience in giving feedback to students when using letter grades. In Speedgrader, there is only an empt...

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Problem statement: Right now there is not way for a teacher to mark a student as absent or present in Canvas. This makes it challenging when students submit work late but, per my class policies, recei...

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Problem statement: One problem that I am noticing when using the Office 365 Cloud assignment feature is that students are cheating/plagiarizing the work. Proposed solution: It would be awesome if the...

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Problem statement: Migrating Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes creates duplicate quizzes in the Quizzes area. Then we need to deploy the new one in the Module (and delete the old one). Proposed solution...

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