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Problem statement: Since "deleting" a user account will delete all associated information, courses, grades, etc., we have decided to "suspend" user accounts that have not accessed our Canvas instance ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I would like students to create their own groups to submit a group assignment. Currently as the instructor I can create a group set, create the number and size of groups, and then s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students can see who modified or uploaded a file in Files and who created or modified a page in the list of course pages. This is problematic for some institutions that employ stude...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: If a parent removes a student from their observer account, I find no way to re-add a student to observe using a code. The only thing I can figure out is to delete the observer accou...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When we restrict access to/ visibility of future term's courses we accidentally restrict access to courses in the current term that have not started yet.  Background As Canvas admi...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When looking at student names in Attendance, their last name appears formatted as bold. We have individuals whose last name consists of two words. When their name appears in Attenda...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Noting that it is possible to see when an individual student viewed their feedback within SpeedGrader, it would be useful to be able to have this information represented for all stu...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Third party LTI tool links or embed options are usually only available on the course navigation for enabled tools. There are products we would like to easily link from the link inse...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Pairing values with their corresponding units is a fundamental skill in STEM, but Formula and Numeric questions lack the ability to apply units and multipliers to their answers. Thi...

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Problem statement: Students who are added to a course after Group Sets have been created must be manually added to groups, even if groups were created automatically to start with. This can be a daunti...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a student upload a document for an assignment and leave the page befor submitting (hit the blue button submit assignment), the assignment will be saved in the students files - ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I currently use the quiz time limit feature based on the number of questions. It would be nice to be able to set a per question time limit. For instance, if I wanted to only allow 2...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Using a mobile device and the Student app, students cannot embed video into a discussion reply by choosing media from their Studio Library. The current workaround is to use a deskto...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Idea is currently in development Problem statement: Teachers are able to write and submit comments in SpeedGrader. Sometimes, after submitting a comment, teachers realize they made a mistake. The pr...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When creating an assignment I'm usually linking to an external tool to do this. For a given course, I typically only have one or two external tools that I link to. However, my insti...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Idea is currently in development Problem statement: Discussions typically require multiple posts by students before they are ready for grading. Any student who has posted in the discussion shows up ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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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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Idea is currently in development Problem statement: When entering a Default Grade for students in the Gradebook, the Missing label remains. A teacher trying to use the Default Grade still has to man...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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