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Problem statement: Grader to mark some question(s) while grading in Grading Scheme Proposed solution: I wish there could be some button or mechanism for grader to mark some question(s) while grading,...

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Problem statement: It would be great to have more "file manager" like option in BANKS. I would like to sort and group my questions in the bank. Maybe create groups or folders of questions by criteria....

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Problem statement: Please make available a way to CREATE a quiz from a question or item bank - DIRECTLY. By selecting several or selected questions from a bank then clicking a button to "create quiz"....

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Problem statement: Allow Respondus (or other software) to download the quiz questions directly FROM A BANK from Canvas for further editing / re-use. Currently banks cannot be downloaded or exported. B...

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Problem statement: When I create a quiz, I should be able to export any or all questions from a quiz to a bank. I should be able to freely move questions from quiz to bank. That is NOT possible and it...

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Problem statement: Excess test student accounts created by faculty use of student view clutters system when these accounts are not used anymore. In addition, some API integrations attempt to pull thes...

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Problem statement: on 2-16-2024 Canvas suddenly stopped allowing Python .py program files to be viewed. As CS faculty, this is a very important feature not only for grading but providing students feed...

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Problem statement: The "Account and Course Level Mastery Scales" are too rigid. Once a mastery scale has been applied to a sub-account, all outcomes in all courses for that sub-account must use that s...

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Problem statement: Microsoft recently changed (2023) the default font in the MS Office Suite from Calibri to Aptos (Aptos (typeface) - Wikipedia). Aptos is currently not a "supported font" for the Doc...

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Problem statement: Universities usually have standard university-wide grade bands and descriptors, e.g. <50% may be a fail grade D for postgraduate students, while 40-49.9% may be a pass grade D for u...

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Problem statement: There are several reasons for us to want to see the grade distribution statistics (min, max, mean, median, quartiles) for unposted grades, including for anonymous assignments. For t...

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Problem statement: When a user's account is Suspended, the current way to know that at the course level (in People) is to go to the person's "User Details" and "User Account Details" to see if they ar...

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Problem statement: Once questions have been added to an Item (or Question) Bank there is currently no way to export them into an editable format (or even non-editable). It would be a useful feature to...

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Problem statement: The New Analytics Reports do not allow for reports to be run for specific grading periods. I would like to be able to run missing work reports, late work reports, etc. for only the ...

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This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2025-01-18)    Problem statemen...

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Problem statement: Inconsistently Assignment details show Until date, but To Do list shows Due date. Proposed solution: Why not show one or other or both the Due date and Until date? I prefer the Due...

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Problem statement: Currently in the GRADEBOOK when the due date is passed for an assignment, a pink color is used for the indication thereof. However, the assignment may still be available for student...

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Problem statement: Our integration currently manages the creation and status of both staff and students in Canvas, automatically suspending and reactivating users when their contracts or tenure ends a...

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Problem statement: Student "Grades" view - Would like the ability to set the student "grades" view to show letter grades only for individual assignment scores but the quantitative result for the stude...

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Problem statement: After creating a temporary enrollment pairing that assigned the Observer role to the enrollment recipient, Admins must still go into each selected course to link the Recipient to th...

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