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Problem statement: Currently, instructors cannot filter to students without a submission in the Moderate feature of New Quizzes. Current filters are: Show All, No Attempts Left, Attempts in Progress, ...

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Problem statement: When managing tags in an item bank, there is not a possiblity to rename the tag. We have been using Item Banks with New Quizzes for over 2 years now and some of our tags were based ...

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Problem statement: When I am taking a canvas quiz, I sometimes get confused at the answer choices. For example, in a multiple choice question, option a is crossed out and so on. Proposed solution: In...

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Problem statement: When copying course content from one course shell to another, the source course's Participation setting values are copied too. We have instructors who use sandbox courses to copy th...

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Problem statement: Quizzes included in a course that has not yet reached the start date provide an error message that is confusing. Example: 'This quiz is no longer available as your enrolment has bee...

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Problem statement: We have a new Aviation Maintenance program. The FAA requires that our aviation instructor keep hard copies of all students' graded quizzes. The instructor chose to use New Quizzes s...

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Problem statement: There's no ability to post individual grades in Gradebook. The section feature is great, but it'd be great to be able to release individual grades (and leave others hidden e.g. when...

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Problem statement: Currently Inbox does not support either forwarding messages to oneself, or exporting messages, as a means of retrieving messages from Inbox and storing them either locally or in one...

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Problem statement: It can be hard to tell how many students have viewed a particular announcement. It would be helpful to be able to quickly check the reach of an announcement and identify students wh...

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Problem statement: Weblogs currently only allows you to pass dates into the query parameters when pulling weblog data back. The dataset being so large, this can pose an issue with using, analyzing, an...

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Problem statement: The course that opens for students when doing a group assignment can be confusing. Just as when a new instructor first sees a new Canvas course with all the links they need to be sh...

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Problem statement: We imported a question with an image from a course (Course A) to the Item Bank. The image in the imported question is still referencing to the original course (Course A). When this ...

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Problem statement: Teachers have to enter the weights for their categories in PowerSchool, import the categories into Canvas and then enter the weights again in Canvas and ensure they match with Power...

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Problem statement: Teachers are not setting up their grade sync between Canvas and PowerSchool correctly. We do not have the manpower to check all of the courses individually to see which teachers hav...

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Problem statement: Instructors who opt for Labor-Based Contract Grading need the flexibility to add the "lateness" feature to Complete/Incomplete assignments. Students also need to see in the gradeboo...

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Problem statement: When attempting to modify options in account settings, many options don't differentiate between different types of users. Right now, many options only allow you to enable it for all...

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Problem statement: When using Analytics (New) only 500 students can be displayed per term. Yes, the report can be downloaded, but then the interactivity is lost. Changing the sort also allows access t...

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Problem statement: I'd like there to be an administrative option to restrict a teacher from viewing their course roster until a certain date? Proposed solution: Admin Option to prevent the people tab...

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Problem statement: Right now, I do not have the ability to specify when I want Notifications to go out for meetings created by the Zoom LTI. Although the Zoom LTI is creating a notification, it is Can...

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Problem statement: Some instructors use non-standard methods for calculating their quizzes. The overall points total for quizzes are tied to the individual quiz question values, which limits how quizz...

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