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Problem statement: Students have identified that the To-Do List on the side menu shows all tasks and notifications, until you manually remove one by clicking the cross or it removes itself when a task...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students have identified that the Notifications centre is currently quite complicated. There are 28 categories with different notification settings for each course, which, for most ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: An LTI tool integrated into Canvas can sometimes need to make an API call on behalf of the user. Sometimes OAuth2 integration can be used to prompt the user to authorize the applica...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas assignments can be set up to take submissions for direct marking, as well as to explicitly NOT take submissions but still have a rubric attached. A good example to illustrate...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Please move the new "Submit for Student" option in the Grade Book to ABOVE "Speed Grader" option. It was great having "Speed Grader" at the bottom to get their quickly, now I spend ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: How is this topic ( https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Ideas/I-can-not-import-grades-to-quot-the-Override-quot-column-using/idi-p/424272 ) seen as "resolved" ?? Educators are...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I am frustrated by the fact that the "Final Points" calculation in the Canvas Gradebook does not include scores from assignments that are currently hidden. I would like to be able t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Using outcomes is a good way to check that students are meeting SLOs or MLOs and offer a good addition to or part of a rubric. However, outcomes can clash when not graded with a rub...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In (Roll Call) Attendance, there is only possible woth one registration per day. It should be possible with multiple registrations on a single day. Proposed solution: (Roll call) A...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The Pages course navigation link/shortcut sends course builders first to the Home/Front Page, requiring an extra step/upper button click to reach the global list of all course pages...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a group assignment is submitted by a single member of a group, "Speedgrader will assign the submission to one of the students in the group as the submitter for the group submis...

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Problem statement: When instructors create filters within the Gradebook, they would like these filters to still be applied when they are in Speedgrader. For example, the instructor has created multipl...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When an instructor is creating a Rubric and clicks off that rubric to edit the actual assignment, all the work that they did to that rubric disappears. For instance, if you have an ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When adding grading keys in the grading notes box for essay question in New Quizzes, there is no way to enter anything but text. Many teachers need to be able to add formulas, diagr...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a teacher copies a course using the "Copy this Course" button in the settings page for a course in a current or future term, the copied course remains attached to the old term....

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When importing or copying a course in Canvas, course-level LTI tools (Apps) can be installed without requiring the necessary permissions. This presents a potential security and acce...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I use the video feedback in SpeedGrader daily. However, whenever I need to share my screen to give feedback to a student (on a quiz or essay, for example) I have to record the video...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I'm the Canvas admin at our institution. Several times per week, I am asked to add a chair, discipline coordinator, or other faculty/administrator to a concluded Canvas class. This ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: With Google Classroom, I was able to bank comments that would auto-fill when I typed comments into the comment bubbles just outside the margins of my students' essays. For example, ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We are migrating from Blackboard to Canvas. In the migration process, we are migrating literally hundreds of files from old courses that are many years' old. ,Most of these files ar...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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