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Problem statement: When students submit an assignment a few minutes after the due date, they will often leave a comment on their submission like "my computer rebooted and couldn't upload this in time,...

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Problem statement: Add an add /delete button to Peer Reviews so if a peer review is substandard it can be removed from the automatic review. This would be more efficient , rather than manual submissio...

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Problem statement: When I click the "Save" button in New Quizzes I am booted to the modules summary page. A normal save button does not kick you out - it keep you on the page you are already on. To pr...

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Problem statement: All pages have a white background. Proposed solution: My suggestion is to have a way to change the page background or add an image to make it more attractive to students. User rol...

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Problem statement: Push notifications are not supported for global announcements. Proposed solution: Allow push notifications for global announcements. It would be nice as an administrator to be able...

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Problem statement: Late work is currently marked at percentage per day (or hour), down to a floor. For example, I take a 10% penalty for late work regardless of how late it is. I set the floor to 90%,...

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Problem statement: The older gradebook homepage allowed for filters populate drop down menus so teachers could easily toggle between different sections. The new gradebook "apply filters" is cumbersome...

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Problem statement: We are looking for an enhanced solution to efficiently update the "Roll Call Setting" for the "Do not count attendance toward the final grade" option in Canvas for multi-section cou...

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Problem statement: We have been using Canvas for 5 years now, and was not aware that individual Student Test user accounts are created whenever a teacher selects Student View in a course. We have 4 sc...

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Problem statement: Could quizzes, assignments or anything grade be automatically reassigned if they don't meet our lowest possible grade requirement? Proposed solution: When we set up a quiz, test or...

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Problem statement: If you have duplicate enrollments of same person/course/role but different statuses in your SIS import file they will be processed without warning or error. Because Canvas breaks SI...

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Problem statement: On SIS Import screen if no file is chosen and process data is clicked it does not check if file a file has been chosen and still attempts to process Proposed solution: Instead do s...

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Problem statement: As some users have posted, the Comment Library can get large and take too long to search through, thus negating the reason for having pre-written comments. Since many comments are u...

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Problem statement: Currently, the late penalty setting in the gradebook counts all days, including weekends and holidays, in the late penalty deduction. Proposed solution: I would like to see an opti...

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Problem statement: Once an assignment has been created, if your intent is to make it a group assignment, but you forget to click the box, there is no way to change it to a group submission once someon...

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Problem statement: When searching for courses to associate with a blueprint, the term drop down seems to be randomly organized - not alphabetical or by year/term - it seems random and makes it incredi...

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Problem statement: Canvas does not support the new Google Analytics GA4 standard. While Admin Analytics are great, they do not show real-time traffic, where users are logging in from, the technology t...

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Problem statement: Regarding foreign language such as Japanese. The Kanji characters sometimes get garbled when opening the CSV file in Excel. However, that is not an issue with Google Spreadsheet. Mo...

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Problem statement: Our institution’s email communication policy mandates that email from university entities should be directed to university-provided email addresses for all students, faculty and sta...

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Problem statement: When I am searching for a course (for ex., to copy a page/module to another course) or for a rubric ( the find a rubric feature), I get a list of all courses that I have taught and ...

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