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Problem statement: Our institution has a password standard that requires a minimum of 15 characters, can't be a previously used password, no common phrases, etc. While that is enforced for all our int...

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Problem statement: Please put back the score a student received when we send a message in the gradebook. For example, I send a message to everyone who missed an exam, then I also send a message to eve...

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Problem statement: In the gradebook, it would be easier to flag students who are struggling if I could visually see it. The grades can be sorted, but if I want to keep students in alpha order, it woul...

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Problem statement: Currently, modules exist in isolation of each other. Teachers at our school typically make each week a new module. However, it is difficult for students to see their weekly modules ...

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Problem statement: Learning coaches/guardians/parents want the ability to see if and/or when students have looked at each lesson/page/assignment and how long they spent on each item. New Analytics all...

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Problem statement: We are currently in the process of coming up with a solution to update the Canvas avatars of students based on their SIS profile picture in Synergy. We have been able to come up wit...

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Problem statement: In the Attendance tool in a web browser, the 'mark all as present' tool is immediately below the dropdown menu to change the current class section. When moving quickly, it is too ea...

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Problem statement: Allow sub-account Admins to reset student passwords. Proposed solution: Since sub-account Admins already have permission to view the "People" section of the sub-account, they shoul...

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Problem statement: Question types are not robust enough for math teachers. Cannot use formulas inside math editor/latex and ask the students to enter a math answer. For example, a math teacher cannot ...

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Problem statement: I would like to be able to see a full view of all students attendance report, including badges, as a whole class without having to click on each individual student on the attendance...

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Problem statement: Currently, the Canvas SIS integration rostering feature will import data collected from your SIS as-is without further validation. This is generally desired and expected for a sched...

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Problem statement: When using New Analytics, concluded students are included in the data as well as included when you choose the "message students who" functionality. Our teachers would like the abili...

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Problem statement: I work with a lot of instructors in a lot of courses, with hundreds of unique assignments between them. It would be helpful to know from the Assignments page which of these assignme...

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Problem statement: Canvas does not have any Report function/utility that allows us to assess the performance of a whole class/section on specific learning outcomes that are incorporated into grading r...

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Problem statement: When we're commenting on student submissions, its common for a problematic, or exemplary passage/quotation/sentence to begin near the bottom of one page and continue to the next. Ri...

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Problem statement: Students can answer quiz/essay questions without engaging them by cutting and pasting AI answers. Thus instructors can't validly ask simple comprehension questions about most readin...

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Problem statement: The platform currently does not support inline review questions. Inline review questions are important to engage learners and help them retain information. For the current New Quizz...

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Problem statement: The next and back buttons do not display on the android app for Teachers, the student app is fine. This works on the ios systems. This means that if a teacher using the android app ...

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Problem statement: The current assignment override API requires posting a complete list of all students for the override. Our use case involves up to 1000 students in a course, with up to 125 assignme...

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Problem statement: Under course notification I can select to immediately receive a notification for all course submissions. However, this does not include surveys (quiz tool) that are automatically gr...

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