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Problem statement: Currently, differentiated assignments with one or more due dates that aren't assigned to everyone can only be sorted alphabetically. This provides a source of additional frustration...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When initially exploring Canvas Credentials, while setting the trigger for specific assignments to be "Complete item", my thought was that this would be comparable to the Badgr trig...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have several district-wide assessments where all students in a grade level submit a writing sample (various courses/levels of Social Studies and English Language Arts). Using the...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When using Canvas for Elementary, due dates and missing assignments do not show up on the tile for assignments assigned with an external tool. Therefore my students do not know that...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Some courses are set up so that "Lecture" Assignments are due for all section at the same time, but "Lab" Assignments are due at different times. The limited time instructors have m...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Sometimes, assignments are created that are: a) Due at midnight (rather than 11:59 pm) b) Due at inconvenient times (such as 6am) c) Have no shown due date. This gives students ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Is there anyway, like there is to print quiz questions with answers from an Item Bank that was created. Currently it seems the only way to do that is to create a quiz with all the q...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Even with all the pairing code permissions turned off, the ability to link an observer to a student is still available in the people area for instructors/teachers. We use the observ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I suppose this is more of a feature request than a question because I already know that the Submissions endpoint on the Canvas API does not currently take put requests on the submis...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Canvas Release Notes (2023-07-15), one of the new features outlined was the new ability for instructors to copy and edit grading schemes. Currently, there is no separate permissi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: "Submit on student's behalf" is currently only available in the grade book. When "speed grading", if I find that a student has submitted a photo (.heic) that I have to convert to vi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When using the Attendance/Roll Call tool, an instructor wishes to keep an accurate attendance log using the four options (present, late, absent, excused). However, they consider a '...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It's great that we can easily REASSIGN an assignment to a student while using Speedgrader. It would really help in managing the class if the Gradebook had a View Option that would l...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, Teachers can hide Course Navigation links from students to de-clutter, but they cannot remove links for themselves. This means that instructors see all of the tools they ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I'm an instructor setting up assignments in Canvas. Can Canvas get better at interpreting what I type in for due dates and times? If I type "9/20" instead of September 20 it assumes...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When assignments created in Canvas using Google Assignments are not submitted by the due date they are not automatically marked as missing by Canvas. This requires the the teacher t...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: For the pop-ups that alert a user to the availability of tours, the text is a little dated. The announcement of the Admin Tour reads "[w]e know it's a priority to transition your in...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Newcomer students struggling to understand context or language within quizzes Proposed solution: There is not a Canvas Reader option for Quizzes. We understand the rationale of not...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students struggle to turn on captions due to the non standardized icon for "toggle captions on" versus the universally standard "CC" icon. Resulting in a frustrating hunt for my alt...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The Observer/Student communication is restricted to one way communication. observers can message their studentsstudents cannot message their observer Reason for the Problem: As a K-...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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