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Problem statement: For you to add a "Google Drive" button that is solely for Google Drive when students need to use something out of their Google Drives. The "more" option is over looked by students. ...

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Problem statement: More than 1000 students and keeping track of who has submitted an assignment and the teacher or TA has not yet graded the assignment. Proposed solution: A report that can be export...

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Problem statement: There is not a way to see when a student watched a video. We are mostly in person but on days when I have a substitute, I require my students to watch a notes video that I make in c...

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Problem statement: Students and observers cannot see or access their attendance inside the courses. Proposed solution: Attendance should be accessible to students and observers inside the courses. Ou...

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Problem statement: There is no way to take the attendance multiple times for the same day. Some of our lessons are taking place two or three times in the same day and we cannot take attendance for eac...

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Problem statement: Currently, when a subcatalog admin requests for an API key for their subcatalog instance, we are unable to provide them that option as giving a Catalog API key cannot be limited to ...

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Problem statement: If utilizing Bulk Enrollment, the intended workflow poses as a problem because the bulk enrollment registration link can work for any user, despite only sending this link to an invi...

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Problem statement: Problem My courses use the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as Outcomes. As such, the names of the Outcomes are alphanumeric identifiers, and are largely meaningless to students...

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Problem statement: Most tools that implement some sort of todo-list feature allow users to hide completed tasks (or hide completed tasks by default). This makes it easy for users to focus on tasks the...

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Problem statement: The new "Online Attendance" feature in New Analytics requires users to re-select the "Class days" that the class meets every single time a teacher checks attendance for a given cour...

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Problem statement: As instructional Designers, sometimes we make custom-made instructional videos, using Studio, for the students of certain faculty. Faculty also create videos that may like to share ...

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Problem statement: Hello, As instructional designers, some of the instructional videos we create, using Studio, should be available to all faculty at our institution. Hence, we need to put them at the...

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Problem statement: When students submit work to Canvas, they will sometimes submit the wrong file, a corrupt file or attempt type 'types' of uploads such as Studio+File Upload. Whilst students can cur...

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Problem statement: When we teach the same courses in subsequent terms (as most of us do), we copy previous versions of the course into new ones and then check and adjust release dates to match our new...

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Idea is currently in development Problem statement: I allow multiple submissions for assignments with the intention that the students be able to re-submit an assignment until they have mastered the ...

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Problem statement: I use complete/incomplete to grade my discussions. If a student hasn't met the criteria for marking the discussion as complete, I mark it as "incomplete." However, additional postin...

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Problem statement: Hello, I'd love to see an override for viewing course materials in locked modules in student view. Currently, as an instructor, if you'd like to look at an assignment in a locked mo...

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Problem statement: Many Canvas users, such as educators and administrators, often have multiple roles within different courses. However, Canvas's current dashboards don't provide an efficient way for ...

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Problem statement: I would like to be able to set a notification when students submit an assignment in just one assignment category. For example, I might only want a notification when students submit ...

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Problem statement: When a teacher creates a new module, it defaults to the bottom of the course module page. Can you please create an option where teachers can have the newest module created default t...

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