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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: We use Mediasite at our institution for video files. We have thousands of videos in Mediasite and we cannot link those videos at this time. Proposed solution: Allow Mediasite files...

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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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Problem statement: The problem for teachers who teach multiple courses simultaneously, is knowing which course a student belongs to when they contact them via messages. Currently, the teacher can clic...

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Problem statement: When I look at attendance for big blue button it lists the names of my students by first name alphabetically, is there a way to make it list by last name? When I try to enter in the...

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Problem statement: Instructors frequently copy over course materials from recently taught courses, importing all course content and settings. This results in old assignment due dates being copied into...

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Problem statement: Instructors at our school need to sometimes exclude the Respondus Lockdown Browser requirement for 1 or more students who are taking an exam in a proctored environment and those pro...

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Problem statement: Canvas pages cannot be scheduled with unique due dates by user. Proposed solution: We would like your engineers to consider adding a feature to schedule due dates for Canvas pages....

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Problem statement: In the past I could close (shorten) individual posts and their comments with an up or down ^ arrow in the top center or the post. this is not longer an option. Proposed solution: I...

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Problem statement: Hello, I currently serve Webb City R-VII School District in Missouri as a Canvas Administrator with my CCTA certification. As I work with teachers who use Blueprints, there seems to...

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Problem statement: Currently, fill-in-the-blank type questions do not allow math teachers to also generate random numbers in creating the question. Therefore, I have to create 4 to 8 versions of a fil...

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Problem statement: I teach classes that I am able to use New Quizzes and automate a lot of the grading. But I want students to ask me questions about their work. The assignment comments are *perfect* ...

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Problem statement: I teach classes that I am able to use New Quizzes and automate a lot of the grading. But I want students to ask me questions about their work. The assignment comments are *perfect* ...

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Problem statement: I cannot update all the due dates for a module with one click. I have to click into each piece of content, one at a time, to update the due date. The ability to update due dates in ...

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Problem statement: Similar to the Differentiate Pages idea, https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Ideas/Pages-Differentiated-Pages/idi-p/371255 It would be useful to have the option where multiple...

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Problem statement: If a teacher allows multiple attempts for a New Quiz, and then runs an Item Analysis for that Quiz, it will only show the item analysis for the last attempts. Proposed solution: As...

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Problem statement: In a gradebook, the students have an option of seeing their final grade that is “calculated only on graded assignments” (i.e., already submitted). However, if the students UNCHECK t...

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