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Problem statement: Problem My courses use the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as Outcomes. As such, the names of the Outcomes are alphanumeric identifiers, and are largely meaningless to students...

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Problem statement: Most tools that implement some sort of todo-list feature allow users to hide completed tasks (or hide completed tasks by default). This makes it easy for users to focus on tasks the...

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Problem statement: When a student has a Display Name, other students in their class can't see their "real" name (legal name) except if the People tab is enabled. While the legal name still show up in ...

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Problem statement: Canvas Credentials can be installed at the account or sub-account level, but the only option is to have it display as enabled by default in the Course Navigation Menu. According to ...

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Problem statement: The new "Online Attendance" feature in New Analytics requires users to re-select the "Class days" that the class meets every single time a teacher checks attendance for a given cour...

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Problem statement: As instructional Designers, sometimes we make custom-made instructional videos, using Studio, for the students of certain faculty. Faculty also create videos that may like to share ...

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Problem statement: Hello, As instructional designers, some of the instructional videos we create, using Studio, should be available to all faculty at our institution. Hence, we need to put them at the...

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Problem statement: When students submit work to Canvas, they will sometimes submit the wrong file, a corrupt file or attempt type 'types' of uploads such as Studio+File Upload. Whilst students can cur...

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Problem statement: A student submits a quiz on time and earns a score. Student accidentally starts a new attempt, never finishes it. Canvas does student a favor and automatically submits the second at...

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Problem statement: When we teach the same courses in subsequent terms (as most of us do), we copy previous versions of the course into new ones and then check and adjust release dates to match our new...

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Idea is currently in development Problem statement: I allow multiple submissions for assignments with the intention that the students be able to re-submit an assignment until they have mastered the ...

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Problem statement: I use complete/incomplete to grade my discussions. If a student hasn't met the criteria for marking the discussion as complete, I mark it as "incomplete." However, additional postin...

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Problem statement: Hello, I'd love to see an override for viewing course materials in locked modules in student view. Currently, as an instructor, if you'd like to look at an assignment in a locked mo...

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Problem statement: At a 4 year institution our professors are used to having Sr level students grade assignments in freshman and sophomore courses. However, as we move assignments to canvas, we need a...

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Problem statement: Many Canvas users, such as educators and administrators, often have multiple roles within different courses. However, Canvas's current dashboards don't provide an efficient way for ...

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Problem statement: I would like to be able to set a notification when students submit an assignment in just one assignment category. For example, I might only want a notification when students submit ...

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Problem statement: When a teacher creates a new module, it defaults to the bottom of the course module page. Can you please create an option where teachers can have the newest module created default t...

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Problem statement: Allow an admin to go to settings > reports and schedule the daily exports of SIS exports or provisioning exports. It would be awesome if the report could be emailed or the file coul...

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Problem statement: Since "deleting" a user account will delete all associated information, courses, grades, etc., we have decided to "suspend" user accounts that have not accessed our Canvas instance ...

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Problem statement: I would like students to create their own groups to submit a group assignment. Currently as the instructor I can create a group set, create the number and size of groups, and then s...

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