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Problem statement: Virtual Reality technology can transform educational experiences by immersing students in places and scenarios that they cannot get to in-person. Virtual Reality also allows student...

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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: When students are asked to record a video in Canvas on a Chromebook, it is difficult to know how to proceed because the recording window does not show the Record button without scro...

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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: Currently, group assignments are not marked as group assignments in any way, and they do not appear in the group workspace or as a group to-do in the group calendar. The first time ...

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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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Problem statement: Currently, everything is always shown in full in the list view of the dashboard. This makes the view very cluttered in some cases. Sometimes it can be helpful to be able to focus on...

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Problem statement: The list view on the dashboard gives students the most complete view of all upcoming deadlines. Our students, however, primarily use the to-do list prominently displayed on the dash...

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Problem statement: Students and teachers love what the Canvas Modules Organizer browser extension can do for them. Obviously, this corresponds to a perceived deficit. In particular, the ability to cre...

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