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Problem statement: I have deadlines for students to turn in work. I want there to be a status of missing past due to indicate to students that they never turned the assignment in, but they cannot subm...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: You can create rules in the Canvas Assignments categories when you create weights for your categories. For example, you can set a rule in a category to drop the lowest grade. Canvas...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As a Canvas Admin, when troubleshooting grade passback issues, it would be helpful to see which assignments count toward the final grade without having to go into each individual as...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Since the deploy on 2024-01-17 that added the "Submitted" date column to the individual gradebook (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Releases/Canvas-Deploy-Notes-2024-01-17/...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Navigating throughout the courses content, there is so much information. I think it would be helpful if there was an option to save some of the pages to your favourites or put a pin...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, when users attempt to preview a New Quiz that has been shared with them via Shared Content, it returns an error stating, "External Tool Content Can't be Previewed: In ord...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When creating an assignment in one Canvas and you are ready to publish and save. Please include a drop drop down which will allow you to publish and save to other canvas onve you ha...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I know there is a way to add a penalty for late work. Is there a way to add a bonus for students that turn in an assignment on time? Proposed solution: Add a section similar to the...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The friendly name and friendly description fields in the Outcomes tool are not applied consistently to the student view of the outcome in the tools where the outcome is exposed. Her...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As of right now with the FFT edition of canvas, there are only roles that either let you view the course in student view or teacher view. There is no role that allows users to view ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, Canvas offers account admins the ability to restrict students from viewing quiz questions after the course end date at the account level. While this setting provides a bl...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Current settings in Canvas provide account admins with granular control over student access to courses outside of the term. However, they lack the flexibility needed for certain edu...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: According to the Canvas HTML Editor Allowlist, the `nav` element is an allowed tag. In order to properly support screen readers where custom navigation is being created within cours...

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Problem statement: While in the stem of a fill in the blank question, it allows you to use the equation editor but if you put something from the equation editor in backticks to make it a response, it ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It would be great if the + Add a Question box that appears at the top of the Question Bank could also appear at the bottom of the page, once a question has been added, so that you w...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I was working with a teacher today and she brought up a good suggestion. In modules, there is a clicking option to move items up or down to different areas of modules. It would be n...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Idea is currently in development Problem statement: On a course "Home" page, there is a "View Course Notifications" button on the right side of the page. When you click on this button, underneath th...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The Categorization question type in New Quizzes does not support the shuffle answers function. The order of the categories and answers is always presented the to the student in the ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Assignments can only be submitted within the course Start and End Dates if they are entered into the class. We allow retesting after a course ends, which doesn't allow us to allow t...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It's often helpful to view an individual student's grades. Currently, to view a different students grades, it is necessary to: 1. Click on Grades 2. Click the student's name 3. clic...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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