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Problem statement: The formula-based questions are an essential tool for math based courses, but there is a big limiting factor. Formula questions work on a set of defined variables input by the teach...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Formula questions currently are either right or wrong. Partial credit should be able to be awarded if students have gone some way to answering the question. For example: A kettle ra...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Hi, folks. I'm a Canvas Admin and I have an idea I think would be helpful for those using rubrics in conjunction with New Quizzes. It's currently possible to attach a Rubric to a New Quiz and select "...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When submitting an assignment in the updated assignment interface, a green check mark appears next to a file once it has been uploaded. However, this check mark does not indicate th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Right now, the ability to Sync and Unsync assignments is done one by one. While this is beneficial in many ways, it does create a time sink around the end of a grading period/quarte...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: This should be a simple one. When assigning a due date to a New Quiz, Canvas ALWAYS takes you back to your Quizzes page. For literally every other assignment, you can set a due date...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement:   We can find users who are administrators of the platform at different levels and who are also students. When this happens, when the user accesses the course where they are a stud...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Now that we do have Account Calendars; they aren't terribly useful without the feature to establish a feed, or at least import, existing departmental and institutional calendars. Ot...

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Problem statement: The current location of the Module unlock dates (bottom right of module) is not intuitive. It can be difficult to identify if it is referring to the module above or below the date. ...

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Problem statement: In Classic Quizzes, students can see when their responses have been saved recently so that they can ensure that all the answers are saved automatically while continuing writing. Rec...

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Problem statement: When you have the Excel settings that your decimal symbol is a comma and therefore your list separator is a semicolon, due to region settings of your Computer OS, you cannot use the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a student clicks an assignment link in their grade book it takes them to the submission details page. This page has a submit button if there is a native submission type. If the...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When instructors create an Appointment Group in their Canvas Calendar and decide to delete one of the time-slotted events, they are provided with a confirmation/warning message to e...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: SIS student IDs are not included in the reports from roll-call / attendance in canvas Proposed solution: It would be helpful to include the SIS student ID in reports from roll-call...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Coming from previous LMS (Moodle), faculty were easily able to set how students view all of their grades and not just the total column. This left for very little confusion as points...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When accessing the Canvas Calendar for a Course, there if the short and long name are the same, but the Term is different it is not clear which calendar you are referencing as it do...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When releasing grades to students, sometimes a student may be under review for academic misconduct. This means despite being graded and feedback provided there is no easy way to exc...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, if an Admin enters a list of pronoun sets into the Personal Pronouns field there is no options to reorder how the list appears in the dropdown to the users (student/teach...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Canvas, 'delete' and 'remove' mean different things. Deleting means the content no longer appears anywhere in the course (but can be recovered if you know how or contact support)...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We use the Speed Grader with a rubric on an iPad to mark assessments as part of a face to face course where we complete competency assessments throughout the day. These are the issu...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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