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Problem statement: I have a small request that would really help both Canvas coordinators, system owners and other admin involved in administering account roles in Canvas. User profiles include enroll...

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Problem statement: With the addition of the new "Apply Filters" option in the Gradebook, one can filter by submissions. But, when you choose "Has No Submissions" it only filters away the columns that ...

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Problem statement: When using quizzes as formative feedback, students can get frustrated trying to find the one or two questions in the long line of questions that they missed. They have to scroll and...

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Problem statement: Grading scale is set up with percent. When using 4 point grading scale this makes the cumulative grade on Canvas report the wrong grade since it is a percentage. We had a work aroun...

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Problem statement: Our Aquarium Science teacher created a quiz which asked students to recognize a picture of a hazardous fish and identify them by name. By right clicking on the picture, they can sea...

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Problem statement: I really hope Canvas creates due dates for readings that are attachment files, pages, documents, etc. in modules. This would hopefully help students know they are accountable for re...

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Problem statement: Our institution used item banks for migration to New Quizzes, but visibility issues were identified upon launch. Course-level roles couldn't access edit permissions for item banks, ...

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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...

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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...

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Problem statement: Currently, instructors are unable to reply to a student's discussion posting in grade book view. Instead, they have to go back to the discussion activity, scroll through the list of...

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Problem statement: Personalized comments in SpeedGrader show that a grader cares about the performance of an individual student. When creating comments to be used in the SpeedGrader Comment library it...

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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...

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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...

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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)...

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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...

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Problem statement: I'm glad that "Build on Last Attempt" is finally implemented and it works as expected. However, it would be great to also carry forward the grader's feedback from previous attempts ...

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Problem statement: Problem: The Test Student cannot be enrolled in Groups. Use Case: Instructors are asking how they can "see what someone in a particular group can see in the course". In a cross-l...

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Problem statement: Faculty aren't sure of how frequently students access course content on the app vs. computer. Proposed solution: Showing this data would reveal to faculty how students most frequen...

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Problem statement: Global announcements only allow for one date range for release. This means that a recurring announcement that needs to be release several times over a few weeks or months must be cr...

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Problem statement: My teachers often read and respond to Canvas messages through the automated e-mail they get, and rarely go into their Canvas Inbox. At the beginning of the year, they have hundreds ...

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