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Problem statement: Our Illustrative Mathematics curriculum has Cool Downs and Practice Problems built into Canvas as New Quizzes. The problem we are running into right now is that some of these questi...

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Problem statement: The font size of teacher comments under each line item in the rubrics is so tiny, and the grayscale color blends into the other type, so students really are missing some crucial fee...

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Problem statement: When switching between courses, you have to go back to the Dashboard or Courses each time. Proposed solution: A dropdown menu at the top of the screen would be beneficial to toggle...

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Problem statement: In Assignments -> Edit Assignment Dates -> Batch Edit tool, the option to "shift dates" is limited to 3 characters. This means you can change due dates by up to 999 days, or just 2....

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Problem statement: Desire that teachers could easily see group members' names on group submissions in speed grader. For example, that the names are listed in the right frame. It is often that the stud...

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Problem statement: I would like to see a "gradebook" for all practice quizzes, where I can see each student's performance across many practice quizzes. I have 27 practice quizzes in my class. They don...

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Problem statement: In the 18 June 2024 deploy, admins could enable users to add a name pronunciation to their Canvas profile. Some schools may already have their users entering their pronunciation val...

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Problem statement: Allow observers to message all teachers at once in one Canvas message. If a parent needs to send a message, it makes them choose a course and only allows them to send the message to...

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Problem statement: The see grades page that students use to check their grades for all of they course shows the grade as a percentage. Our school does not use percentages, but rather a 4 point scale. ...

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Problem statement: The "Message Students" option from a scheduler appointment sends an inbox message to ALL students who have reserved the appointment and the message has NO SUBJECT and no reference t...

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Problem statement: When I'm editing text and invoke the find tray [in my case with a keyboard shortcut that overrides the browser search function] I expect the entry field to be brought out in focus s...

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Problem statement: Currently if you want to leave audio-only feedback in the comment box in Speedgrader, you need to turn off the camera. However, unlike video, you can't right-click and download the ...

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Problem statement: We have students in our classes that assignments are changed or different assignments are given due accommodations, modifcations, or gifted and talented. Currently if we want these ...

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Problem statement: The student roster in New Quizzes currently sorts students by participant ID. This is fine until the ID numbers don't align with the sort being alphabetical. Proposed solution: Is ...

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Problem statement: The login asks for email and password, but if a student has joined with a username instead of an email, they are in need of entering that username. Our students always end up creati...

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Problem statement: The instructor has a ton of assignments in their course and finds their gradebook difficult to navigate. They want to be able to quickly dismiss/remove an assignment column. Propos...

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Problem statement: The color picker palette in the RCE has mostly color choices that produce insufficient color contrast when used as paragraph text. While some colors are obviously very light, the mi...

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Problem statement: Faculty would like to know if the List View can be hidden from students selecting it on their Dashboard View? That way it stays on the Card View. We are finding out when students se...

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Problem statement: Enrollments for a concluded term, even if those enrollments still look active in the class, are marked as concluded on Canvas. When an admin runs a query on enrollments against a co...

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Problem statement: background: You have a merged course, mixed populations. You have created Groups for different populations in the "People" section. You want to send an announcement to a specific po...

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