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Problem statement: Current state, when a user uses the @mention feature to mention another user in a discussion, the list that generates provides only the full names (soon to be updated to display nam...

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Problem statement: We have a mandatory attendance policy at our school (many instructors have such policies in their courses even when the school itself does not have a school-wide policy). Currently,...

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Problem statement: Canvas gradebooks only display overall course grades to the hundredths place. Admin and instructors would like to be able to customize this view for themselves and for students/obse...

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Problem statement: Currently if I user has a specified middle name in their 'full name' it's very difficult to search for them and find them based on their name. Because the search box only indexes ba...

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Problem statement: When navigating through the discussion interface using only a keyboard, the focus indicator around buttons does not correctly display. There is insufficient margin/padding around th...

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Problem statement: The user reached out wondering what videos of theirs were being shared (if any). User has over 200+ videos. Canvas Studio does not easily indicate what videos are being shared. Canv...

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Problem statement: Studio videos added to course with comments enabled should also have comment notifications enabled. After course copy, instructors must manually go back through every video to reena...

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Problem statement: I can not see all of the points that are available in a course. Example: I go to grades and see that a student has made so many points from the assignments and quizzes that are done...

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Problem statement: Honestly, I am surprised I could not find this idea. Many LTIs involve financial contracts. While most of ours are broad-stroked (cost is not limited by individual activity or user)...

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Problem statement: If you go to Gradebook Settings-->Late policy-->Automatically apply grade for missing submissions, and check it to apply for instance 0 to any missing assignments, then it applies o...

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Problem statement: Often, I struggle with the inbox and figuring out how to work it properly right away. The class cards on the dashboard are already assigned to the teachers you have. Sometimes, I ca...

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Problem statement: I have my gradebook set to drop the lowest score of a category. I can clearly see which score is dropped as it is assigned a color in my gradebook. Students using chromebooks to che...

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Problem statement: There is no point total box at the bottom of the rubric in Speedgrader. I swear it was there before--it doesn't make sense to scroll up to see the total points then back down to the...

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Problem statement: Details The Gradebook setting Automatically applies grades for missing submissions and marks assignments with the desired percentage regardless of their published status. If a teach...

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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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