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-...

Problem statement: When "Export Pairing Codes" is run from the users page in a course, the csv does not include section information. Current fields: Last Name, First Name, Pairing Code, Expires At. Pa...

Problem statement: Instructors are currently manually checking the word count for discussion posts when grading if they have a minimum word count for students to meet. I've seen the "[Discussions] Mee...

Problem statement: As a Canvas admin at my institution, I often create content for teachers when building their course. As an admin who does not have a teacher role in the course, I do not want my nam...

Problem statement: When adding an outcome to a rubric, there does not appear to be a way to format the text of the outcome criteria or ratings. Evidently this was possible before the recent update. Ev...

Problem statement: In the Announcements page, you have to go in and manually edit each individual announcement. This is tedious and time consuming because I use numerous announcements (at least 20-30)...

Problem statement: As administrators, we build up the course for the lecturers in the course blueprints which are then sync out to the associated courses when term starts. In the blueprints, we have...

Problem statement: I'm glad that "Build on Last Attempt" is finally implemented and it works as expected. However, it would be great to also carry forward the grader's feedback from previous attempts ...

Problem statement: Problem: The Test Student cannot be enrolled in Groups. Use Case: Instructors are asking how they can "see what someone in a particular group can see in the course". In a cross-l...

Problem statement: Faculty aren't sure of how frequently students access course content on the app vs. computer. Proposed solution: Showing this data would reveal to faculty how students most frequen...

Problem statement: Global announcements only allow for one date range for release. This means that a recurring announcement that needs to be release several times over a few weeks or months must be cr...

Problem statement: My teachers often read and respond to Canvas messages through the automated e-mail they get, and rarely go into their Canvas Inbox. At the beginning of the year, they have hundreds ...

Problem statement: Currently, when a user account is suspended, the only visual indicator I am aware of is on the Admin view of the user account page, where red exclamation mark appears within in a re...

Problem statement: Students often do not realize there is a way to view their current grades from the Dashboard. The To Do list pushes the View Grades button too far down for them to clearly see it. I...

Problem statement: Due to state testing requirements students can not have access to editing options we would like to have that environment replicated for students in Canvas. Having a toggle option av...

Problem statement: In Speedgrader, the sections drop-down displays in order of creation. This leads to an inconsistent user experience and can make it difficult for teachers to find the appropriate se...

Problem statement: On a Page, I would expect that inserting a hyperlink to a course image would do just that: create a hyperlink that, if clicked on, would open up the image in a new window. Instead, ...

Problem statement: You can't see which assignments have rubrics unless you go into a student view of the gradebook Proposed solution: Add rubric indicators to the assignment list under Assignments an...

Problem statement: Wasted screen space on Gradebook view Inefficient / excessive steps to select Section in Gradebook view Proposed solution: Allow option to deselect current permanent view of "Stude...

Problem statement: Problem: Currently, assignments have to be assigned to student sets (e.g., everyone, section, groups, etc.) individually. When a course is imported from the previous year into the c...