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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)...

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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...

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Problem statement: In classic quizzes, when a new quiz question is created in a quiz, a copy is automatically saved to the "Unfiled" question bank for the course. The question is the quiz, however, is...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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While the idea of differentiated assignments is a good one, the sign posting for differentiation could be better. When a student has to resubmit work inevitably a new date has to be assigned. This can...

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Problem statement: The password of some users was not updated during an SIS Import due to the following: - If the password has been set by the user or a previous sis import https://canvas.instructure....

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Problem statement: I am a teacher in a school coming from Moodle and there have been instances where a question needs to be regraded En Masse (non-essay type questions). The procedure in Moodle would ...

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Problem statement: In New Quizzes, all item types with the exception of stimulus have an optional title field. In the case of the stimulus type, the title is required. Also, unlike other item types, t...

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Problem statement: In Classic Quizzes, the Moderate screen autoupdates student progress auto-updates showing student activity in real time. When students enter the quiz a timer appears next to their n...

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Problem statement: According to How do I view reports for a quiz in New Quizzes?, outcomes added to questions in item banks are not included in the New Quizzes item analysis report. The implementation...

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Problem statement: When using New Quizzes as the test student, quiz attempts are saved and included in reports, etc, as you would expect and want when testing the quiz. However, because New Quizzes is...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a new quiz is added to modules as a module item, the next and previous buttons display on the start page. After the student starts the quiz, however, the buttons are no longer ...

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Problem statement: Users shouldn't be able to save an announcement if it lacks a title. Currently, if an announcement lacks a title, Canvas defaults to adding, "No Title" to the announcement and allow...

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Problem statement: Currently, new quizzes will not push an updated quiz grade to the gradebook if the term end date has passed, even if the end date for teachers (or other grader roles) is still in th...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In new quizzes, the initial title given to the quiz is applied to both the quiz and the corresponding LTI assignment. After that, if edits are made to the title of the quiz or vice ...

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Problem statement: Currently, the combination of the assignment creation page remembering the previous settings for peer review, with the fact that the peer review option and tickbox is hidden when th...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have students submit on paper in class, but have it set to accept online submissions so absent students can submit items to the actual assignment link if they are not in class. T...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Use case: An instructor wants to allow an additional attempt on multiple assignments but wants the grade to be capped at 80% of the score on the second attempt with the highest grade standing. Current...

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Problem statement: We would love to have a reminder sent to students on the morning of an appointment. Our music department uses the appointment feature to schedule lessons, but students often forget ...

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