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Problem statement: Currently, selecting "Remove points from rubric" disables "Use this rubric for assignment grading" for all assignment types. This leads to duplicated work at least for complete/inco...

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Problem statement: In courses with multiple people under a Teacher role, all individuals can grade all assignments, as well as get notifications about grading all assignments. However, often it is onl...

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Problem statement: Grading a complete/incomplete assignment currently requires two clicks (once on the combo box, once on "complete", "incomplete", or "excused"). This unnecessarily slows down grading...

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Problem statement: Is is possible to delay posting of grades at the admin level so that they only become visible to students during certain times of day? Currently, Canvas allows teachers to manually ...

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Problem statement: Faculty members are experiencing session timeouts in Canvas without any prior warning, which results in the loss of unsaved work. This issue disrupts workflow, especially during con...

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Problem statement: When comments are left in the Overall Feedback section when grading the External Tools Google Assignments (LTI 1.3), I am not able to edit the comment after the assignment has been ...

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Problem statement: The only place to see the number of items in a question bank is by going to Item Banks in the menu. I'm typically using New Quizzes where I engage with banks. To see how many questi...

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Problem statement: The way I uses banks to create a set of questions with a shared core. I often write the initial question in the quiz, add it to the bank, then duplicate it in the bank for each new ...

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Problem statement: When editing a rubric in a discussion board after the Discussion Redesign Release, it loads looking skinny like it would on a phone. https://app.screencast.com/qhl3Vbpkhs9WK. There ...

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Problem statement: In my asynchronous courses, I typically have a page of instruction (with text, videos, or interactive H5P items) then a quiz assignment. When students ask questions that have been a...

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Problem statement: I like to use banks of questions for quizzes for each question so students get different but similar questions from each other and from their own previous attempts for multiple subm...

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Problem statement: Problem is the following: "We do not guarantee that everything will appear in DocViewer as it does in the original program due to the varied encoding methods and various document ty...

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Problem statement: Enrollment changes made in the GUI such as completing a student enrollment do not survive subsequent SIS file uploads if the student is identified in the feeder file as being enroll...

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Problem statement: I would like to see that the quizzes have the added feature of a suggested time limit, with the timer, yet allow students to go over the time instead of immediately closing. It coul...

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Problem statement: Currently in SpeedGrader, a student's peer review rubric is only visible if a teacher has filled in the rubric, otherwise it is not displayed. This is inconvenient for teachers who ...

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Problem statement: Announcements from a Blueprint Course can only be pushed to all of its associated courses at the same time. In some cases we have Blueprint courses with more than 20 associated cour...

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Problem statement: When I receive a message (conversation) notification from a student via Outlook, a link is provided. When I click on the link, I end up in my Canvas Inbox and have to search for the...

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Problem statement: So far, there is no way to integrate simple questions as small intermediate checks, e.g. via the Rich Content Editor in continuous text. Currently, this can only be done with the pa...

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Problem statement: This is a very important issue for our institution (!) We have been working for many years with exams that give partial credit based on certain criteria. Canvas's rigid grading syst...

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Problem statement: Currently, in SpeedGrader there is a word account feature. The word account may not be accurate if the submission: Includes text in tables, views, and formulas(they won’t be counted...

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