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Problem statement: If a student transfers from another school and provides a grade average, it can take several minutes to input the average into every graded assignment (that was given prior to stude...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Viewing the Upcoming Assignments listing in the assignments index, students and TAs see the Available Until date BEFORE they see the Due Date, and that has created some confusion wh...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Right now, if a teacher wants to grade a text entry item, they need to look elsewhere for the answer key. You can't put the answers in the rubric because students can see the rubric...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Idea is currently in development Problem statement: I can only filter my sections individually or have all of the sections combined in the gradebook. I'd like to filter out cross-referenced sections...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I grade a lot of essays in Canvas using the highlight tool, etc. and make a lot of comments to explain on the side in the margin. It would make it much easier to be able to use my v...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When aligning an outcome, the outcome is shown in which assignments it’s aligned but when given a quiz with a question and an outcome aligned to it, this outcome is not shown in whi...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the RCE provides a "quick" picker for text colors. Many of the 20 choices are not deemed accessible at the default text size by Canvas's own Accessibility Checker feature...

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Problem statement: In a rubric when using an outcome the different scores have descriptions and per assignment these descriptions can’t be changed Proposed solution: It should be possible to give dif...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The only way to add a student/faculty member to a Canvas course is to use their email address or ID number. I would like a way to add people to a course using their name, so that it...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, in Canvas Credentials, each badge or pathway needs its own Issuer to be created. It would be nice to be able to nest "sub" Issuers under "master" Issuers to help organize...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, when a student has only “Student” enrollments, the To Do list on the Dashboard shows all upcoming items for all their active courses. However, once an enrollment is added...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When syncing from Canvas to SIS (Qmlativ specifically) the missing indicator doesn't transfer over. This indicator did seem to transfer last year (2022-23) when using the "old" Skyw...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, as Canvas administrators, we lack the capability to generate reports for "inactive" students. While the existing Canvas New Analytics tool allows us to generate activity ...

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Problem statement: Currently, the OneRoster Grade Passback integration will only sync an assignment to a SIS once at least one submission has been graded. Some use cases require that assignments are a...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Many districts, including the last two in which I've worked, have a corrections policy for students. This policy allows student to correct any failed (<70) assignment for up to a ma...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas instructors need a quick, clean, verifiable way to see which badges students have earned already outside of their class. And students need a clean, clear path for sharing a B...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When trying to add a multiple choice question to a New Quizzes quiz using the Safari Browser the focus management has issues for keyboard users. When trying to add a new choice the ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When trying to create formula questions in a New Quizzes quiz using Safari as the browser the focus management has issues for keyboard users. When going from the title of the questi...

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Problem statement: The screenreader announced label for the File Upload button on student view of a New Quizzes should be more clear. Currently, it just uses the instructions for the button (“Drag n’D...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The built-in scientific calculator in New Quizzes does not respond properly for mobile interfaces. It essentially takes up more than the device’s screen and users have difficulties ...

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