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Problem statement: Currently the only way to view the overall class attendance (from beginning of semester till today) is by having an Attendance Report emailed to you in .csv format. Please make avai...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Root Admin have hundreds of courses. It would be really helpful to be able to sort the courses into folders. Proposed solution: Create an option to put courses in folders. User ro...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The only way to scroll horizontally through my gradebook is to first scroll down, then there is a TINY bar I have to click and hold quickly before it disappears again. It is ridicul...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, when a user uploads an image, document, or some other kind of file using the rich content editor that file is linked directly to the user storage of that individual. If t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, Quiz Statistics in a course only includes "active" enrollments. For institutions like ours that use rolling enrollment, we need Quiz Statistics to include "concluded" enr...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Right now, no notification can be turned on that alerts students to a newly published module in their course (to the best of my knowledge). I thought it would be included in the cou...

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Problem statement: Our schedule functions on a six day rotation, so it is sometimes time-consuming for teachers to look up and choose the correct due dates for an assignment (especially if they have m...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Many teachers at my school teach different sections of the same course. To help with this, they crosslist their sections (which is great!). The problem is many of these sections occ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Report to give us a list of courses that do not have weighted grades set up, and the final grade is a 0 Proposed solution: We are looking for courses that do not have a final grade...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: After entering grades for assignments, rather than having to individually sync each class's grades with 3 clicks (which equates to 21 clicks each time I sync - personally), could th...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently there is an undocumented property that can be set on LTI placements to get Canvas to perform a permission check before launching the tool. This property (required_permissi...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a teacher is building a course that has grading periods, once they start the last quarter of the year they will see ALL the assignments that they have created but not yet estab...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When running reports, a number of fields use SIS or Canvas IDs, and these are not always readily readable when consulting reports Proposed solution: Include the name of objects whe...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas allows for IP Filters to be saved at the account/subaccount level. These can currently be configured in the Settings tab of any account, under Quiz IP Address Filters. Admins...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As a student, I would like to log into Canvas and view my course progress on the course card. Proposed solution: Pulling from course requirements or the gradebook, this information...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There doesn't appear to be the ability to search for content within the published parts of a course, that students have access to, from one central location. The 2 search function o...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students need to be able to view their grades by semester. As a K-12 district that imports terms from our SIS, students can view All Grading Periods or by the quarter. Our students ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, cross-listing of sections is grouped with renaming course sections and changing start and end dates of sections in the sub-permission of Course Sections - edit within the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When developing LTI 1.3 tools a common thing is to need to validate the JWT that is returned at the end of the LTI launch. Existing libraries often assume that the server generating...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We created a Canvas course in which we house many faculty resources. We want faculty to be able to use the Copy To feature so that it is easy to copy over a quiz or page to their co...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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