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Problem statement: Our school uses standards-based grading. Our teachers have arranged their assignment groups by standard. They would like for students to automatically see which assignments they hav...

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Problem statement: Students cannot see rubrics without clicking extra levels. Proposed solution: Please make them accessible by posting them in the main assignment boxes where students don't have to ...

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Problem statement: If teachers assign various due dates to sections, they no longer see what section correlates with the date. It only says "1 Section". Teachers now have to click the "Assign To" butt...

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Problem statement: I teach the same class each semester and I have multiple courses on my dashboard. Many lessons within the course have rubrics, either created by the college or by me. I would like t...

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Problem statement: We use the Mastery gradebook for overall performance, but there is no way to drill down to performance on a single assignment by all students. Our current method is using the Speedg...

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Problem statement: How i run my class is each assessment contains standards and I test each standard a minimum of 3 times and keep the top 2 scores. I also use weighted groups to make my assessments 7...

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Problem statement: It is my understanding that when an admin impersonates another user, Canvas is not logging this action. This should be readily available for auditing purposes and should include a l...

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Problem statement: Expand course-level Designer role to include the ability to build New Quizzes. People who build New Quizzes must be Teachers or TAs in a class which exposes them and students to FER...

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Problem statement: This is for our learners who are taking quizzes or assessments. Nowadays, students have fast hands and know a lot of keyboard shortcuts. There are times that during assessment or a ...

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Problem statement: Teachers giving assessments through Canvas would like the option to allow students to have multiple attempts on the same assignment AFTER the assignment has been graded and the teac...

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Problem statement: Currently, you cannot resize the text box when composing a message. This is especially inconvenient on small screens and with large amounts of content. The author loses the overview...

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Problem statement: I'm not sure why this isn't already possible. Perhaps it is not desired that people with an admin role should also be able to contact other people with an admin role via the Canvas ...

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Problem statement: Currently, I can either send a message immediately - as it is - from the Canvas Inbox or cancel the message. I cannot prepare a message and then Preview it first. Many teachers don'...

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Problem statement: In Canvas SpeedGrader, users can open the Rubric and toggle between the three different rubric views. It is currently set to Traditional as default but teachers can switch to horizo...

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Problem statement: Currently there is no differentiation between student and course groups, no sorting or filtering options, and no keyword search under Groups | All Groups. If students are members of...

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Problem statement: When a person is a member of a group, they will see the note "Course Groups" and a hyperlink to the group homepage. Students often overlook this and do not even know that they are a...

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Problem statement: The current situation is that all people with access to a group homepage are "equals", i.e. if a teacher uploads a file, a group member can delete that file. If a teacher opens a di...

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Problem statement: Blueprint administrators can only select individual courses to send a message to all students in those courses. They cannot select all/selected associated courses to send a message ...

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Problem statement: The current situation is that teachers have to mention colleagues in order for them to receive any information at all, for example, that a message has been sent to all students in a...

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Problem statement: The current situation is that the due date appears inconspicuously below the activity title in the to-do lists on the Dashboard and in the course. Students would like to see the due...

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