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Problem statement: There's no ability to post individual grades in Gradebook. The section feature is great, but it'd be great to be able to release individual grades (and leave others hidden e.g. when...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently Inbox does not support either forwarding messages to oneself, or exporting messages, as a means of retrieving messages from Inbox and storing them either locally or in one...

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Problem statement: It can be hard to tell how many students have viewed a particular announcement. It would be helpful to be able to quickly check the reach of an announcement and identify students wh...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The course that opens for students when doing a group assignment can be confusing. Just as when a new instructor first sees a new Canvas course with all the links they need to be sh...

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Problem statement: Instructors who opt for Labor-Based Contract Grading need the flexibility to add the "lateness" feature to Complete/Incomplete assignments. Students also need to see in the gradeboo...

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Problem statement: When using Analytics (New) only 500 students can be displayed per term. Yes, the report can be downloaded, but then the interactivity is lost. Changing the sort also allows access t...

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Problem statement: I'd like there to be an administrative option to restrict a teacher from viewing their course roster until a certain date? Proposed solution: Admin Option to prevent the people tab...

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Problem statement: Right now, I do not have the ability to specify when I want Notifications to go out for meetings created by the Zoom LTI. Although the Zoom LTI is creating a notification, it is Can...

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Problem statement: We are providing Canvas Studio training and encouraging instructors to use it often. When looking at the "Interactions by Category," Canvas Studio is not included, which makes it ch...

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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 Commons Release Notes (2025-01-18)  Problem statement:...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When printing quizzes, the space to write down answers to the questions is too small. Also, the RCE is appearing and that is not necessary. Proposed solution: Make sure the print o...

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Problem statement: Speedgrader contains a parameter for similarity originality_report[originality_score]. However, now we have AI detectors that provide another score based on the same work, so teache...

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Problem statement: Currently when the setting to filter speedgrader by groups ("Launch SpeedGrader Filtered by Student Group" setting in course settings) is turned on it applies to every assignment, e...

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Problem statement: Embedding content into the editor through the LTI editor_placement allows tools to integrate their content right into the wiki page and allows instructors to surround the content wi...

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Problem statement: If students have 6 core courses, when they download/ view the iCal calendars everything is just appearing as a calendar item and unless they go and look (i.e click) at each one in d...

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Problem statement: Currently, the LTI Report available for account admins does not include the External Tool ID for the listed tools. The External Tool ID acts as the unique identifier for a tool. It'...

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Problem statement: Students have identified that the To-Do List on the side menu shows all tasks and notifications, until you manually remove one by clicking the cross or it removes itself when a task...

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Problem statement: Students have identified that the Notifications centre is currently quite complicated. There are 28 categories with different notification settings for each course, which, for most ...

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Problem statement: Observers are currently unable to see student new quiz responses. This was available in classic quizzes. The point of observer role is to see all aspects of student learning. Propos...

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Problem statement: An LTI tool integrated into Canvas can sometimes need to make an API call on behalf of the user. Sometimes OAuth2 integration can be used to prompt the user to authorize the applica...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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