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Problem statement: Discussion posts are visible immediately, and there is no option (or extension or plug-in that I have found) to be able to schedule these. Working across different timezones can mea...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I have an instructor who would like to use the peer review function in an assignment for students to evaluate their team members. The evaluation is for participation, so the assignm...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When I select a group discussion, I am taken to the appropriate "Group" discussion area as expected. However, to return to the Discussion landing page, I have to either click on the...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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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 Contributor 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We would like to see more detailed data/logs about awards such as (and not limited to) whether a notification email has been sent to the earners along with the badge award (tick or ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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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)...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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