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Problem statement: With the OneRoster integration, all grading categories are displayed when using the Sync SIS Categories feature located in Assignments. This occurs whether or not the grading catego...

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Problem statement: When sharing a resource to Canvas Commons, there is a required description text field where the person sharing the resource can provide information about that resource. The text box...

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Problem statement: One of the notes made in the "how do I automatically assign peer reviews" instructor guide states: "If a student has not submitted the assignment or submits the assignment after the...

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Problem statement Users are given a role when enrolled in a course, but this role is not always the best role for that user to have in all parts of the course. This is most often a problem when there'...

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Problem statement: When building custom roles, restrictions appear to be imposed when selecting permissions due to the base role selected. Canvas does not seem to provide enough flexibility to build r...

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Problem statement: We offer some units of study where guest lecturers/tutors teach only one topic within a course. These tutors may then be required to grade a related assessment and do not need to se...

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Problem statement: Currently if you share a Canvas Studio with someone else, the quiz will not move with them. At my institution, this is a problem because more than one person edits a course. In addi...

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Problem statement: Events created on an Account Calendar show up on the calendar itself but do not appear on the dashboard under "Coming Up". We would like to have important dates, like Registration D...

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Problem statement: Can we make Collaborations visible and easy to access for students in courses with Elementary Themes? I can add it as a link in the Resources Tab, but a button or a more obvious lin...

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Idea is currently in development Problem statement: When instructors create or edit an assignment and enable file uploads, they have the option to restrict the file type. Below the text box where th...

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Problem statement: Currently, any user can be a purchaser for bulk enrollments. Unfortunately, we have use cases where the admin does the purchasing. And there's no functionality that allows multiple ...

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Problem statement: As an instructor, currently there is no way to download the peer reviews for the peer-reviewed assignments. Proposed solution: For each peer-reviewed assignment, allow download of ...

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Problem statement: When there is a large class, it is easier to take attendance in groups with group leaders taking attendance. But the problem is taking attendance is only available to TAs and Teache...

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Problem statement: Please go back to the old way of allowing cross-listed classes to be viewed separately in the gradebook. When I first started using Canvas (during COVID), I could cross-list my clas...

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Problem statement: I have to present an attendance sheet at the end of every term. When we used Moodle, I used excel, because the Moodle gradebook is not at all intuitive. With our conversion to canva...

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Problem statement: For continuous enrollment or work-at-your-own pace programs there is no term end date to use to automatically conclude students from a course. Each student must be manually conclude...

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Problem statement: The syllabus is an incredibly important document and needs to be a lockable object in course Blueprints. Administrators and designers often use syllabi that cannot and should not be...

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Problem statement: In Canvas LMS, the Admin Tools tool gives admins a way to search email notifications and confirm if they were delivered or not, see https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Video-Guide/Ad...

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Problem statement: We use our department heads to help us monitor and work within teacher courses. To keep them from having to be enrolled as a teacher in too many courses, we give them root account a...

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Problem statement: When course content is copied between courses, announcements and discussions lose their authorship. In the new course the author is listed as Unknown, even if the original author is...

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