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Problem statement: Currently if a student is enrolled in a cross-listed course, the student only sees the "parent course" listed in their course list or dashboard. This can be confusing, especially if...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Badgr/Badgr Pro/Canvas Credentials, it appears that the size of a badge has been hard-coded to render as 136X136 pixels, irrespective of the screen size on the public description...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The Collaborations page should tell the instructor who the document has been shared with. Currently you have to open each document separately and check sharing permissions. This is ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our institution has many schools with individual terms for each school, all within one Canvas instance. We're already up to 255 terms in use for this academic school year. When asso...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently the courses provisioning report has these fields: canvas_course_id,course_id,integration_id,short_name,long_name,canvas_account_id,account_id,canvas_term_id,term_id,status...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In classic quizzes, teacher have the option to "Lock this quiz now", which allows to see the quiz in the assignments and quizzes tools, but not open it. This feature is useful for s...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: For new quizzes that permit multiple attempts, students are currently unable to view the submission date and time for each attempt. When the students view each attempts through the ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I am using Canvas Free for Teachers. My students are constantly forgetting their passwords. When they request a new one, they claim they don't receive "reset" links, even after chec...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently the "Evidence" field in Canvas Credentials/Badgr Pro does not support Markdown. This causes evidence to be jumbled and unorganized for the viewer (recipient and 3rd partie...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As an admin, I need explicit control over changes I make. Autosaving on leaving the field does not provide confirmation of the action, nor allow control over it. Proposed solution:...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When navigating the vertical menus, there is no indication of the end of a listing. This means new users to the platform don't easily understand that the navigation ends at that poi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: While masquerading in STUDENT VIEW I am unable to login into LTI tools. Here is the precise message I receive from an LTI tool; "It looks like your LMS is not sending an email. Plea...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The pen tool in the Speedgrader is in general very helpful when marking large numbers of scripts. However, it is currently very sluggish. One needs to tick the "ok" very often or do...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Unanswered essay questions (from students either skipping them or running out of time) requiring manual grading. With >150 students, I many times have instances where I am just putt...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There is a notification setting for "Announcement Created By You" so that a teacher receives an email notification of their own announcement. There is NOT a notification setting so ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: when a student accesses a locked page that has pre-requisite , the 'pre requisite' text shows no indication it is clickable. So they can't see list of missing items they need to com...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In late 2020, Instructure changed the default and icons for files located in a course and on a page. Previously a magnifying glass accompanied a linked file on a page and defaulted ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: For f2f classes, taking attendance in Canvas is a daily routine at the start of class, and thus becomes a de facto tool for learning students' names early in the course. However, ma...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We would love to create animated badges for students to receive after completing a module. Only static images are currently accepted in Badgr/Canvas. Proposed solution: Animated ba...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: New Quizzes Accommodations show “all course assessments” despite only applying to New Quizzes Proposed solution: The ability to apply accommodations across numerous assessments wit...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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