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Problem statement: Currently, the gradebook shows teachers which complete/incomplete assignments were late, if they have accepted late submissions at all. However, it does not respond to the late pena...

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Problem statement: At the end of every semester, we need to turn in the grades, along with all due dates and grading rules. The gradebook export setting records the grades, but not the due dates or th...

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Problem statement: When a course is copied, certain gradebook settings (the order of assignments, the notes field being turned on, the final score relocated to the left side of the page, etc) do not c...

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Problem statement: Schools that use canvas may assign teachers to courses that were already designed by a course designer who prefers that faculty interaction be limited to activities like grading and...

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Problem statement: Canvas allows lock dates that fall after the due date. Students have reminders of due dates, however there is no reminder for students of when that lock date occurs. This can result...

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Problem statement: In researching solutions, I have learned that there are multiple colleges and universities that have developed and implemented a more intuitive cross-listing tool. I would love to s...

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Problem statement: For several of my field supervision courses, the form requires a secure signature from several participants. Currently the plan is to use the student download of assignments into a ...

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Problem statement: Currently, all courses that are associated with a Blueprint are modified when changes in the Blueprint course are synced. This seems like a potential problem for a course's historic...

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Problem statement: With the recent update, the "due date" is no longer clearly displayed on the new assignment. Instead, there is an extra click on the blue text to go in and change the due date. This...

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Problem statement: We export grades weekly for advisor checkups. We have not found a way to choose multiple courses to export. We can only choose one or all. Proposed solution: Allow multiple or sess...

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Problem statement: Currently, the Feature Options in the main account settings (and all other sub-accounts) are listed in alphabetical order. Since there are many settings, tracking and locating them ...

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Problem statement: Before the redesign of Discussions, there used to be a PopeTech (Pope Tech) checker at the bottom of the page by the Save button. Please bring this back. If the redesign does not al...

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Problem statement: With the release of Discussions ReDesign, permalinks to individual posts have been lost! In the old discussions format, our faculty would frequently link to an earlier post, especia...

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Problem statement: When launching a tool via Canvas LTI, we cannot request custom roles attached to course members via the names and role service. Context: The Canvas implementation of the LTI launch ...

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Problem statement: When cleaning up Files, it is unclear which files are linked or embedded on a page in the course. Proposed solution: Add a column to the file properties (e.g., Name, Date Created, ...

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Problem statement: Hello everyone, With the implementation of new rubrics on July 20th, the speedgrader is also impacted. As the illustration shows the cell for a criterion occupies too much space, pr...

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Problem statement: Our student assessments are in the form of a quiz or an assignment. We need to export the assessments but we can only do this for assignments, which means at the moment, I have to c...

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Problem statement: Risk of replying twice to students or peers. Proposed solution: Make the discussion thread auto expand by default. This would minimize errors. I have seen students delete their rep...

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Problem statement: Being able to change names of courses is related to the Courses - Manage/Update permission. We do NOT want our subaccount admins to be able to change names of courses as this can ca...

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Problem statement: The 255 character limit on auto responses to Canvas messages limits our ability to be as professional and helpful to our learners as possible. Our use case is to use the auto reply ...

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