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Problem statement: Currently, when students are assigned a different due date, you can only see how many students you have with a different due date, rather than who they are. So rather than seeing "J...

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Problem statement: In the course settings the option "Course - Visibility" allows users with the "Courses - change visibility" permission to open up the course to users who don't hold a course enrolme...

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Problem statement: When grading an assignment using a rubric, after clicking "View Rubric," it will appear on the right. As of now, this is the only option of where the rubric can appear. Although we ...

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Problem statement: The RSS feed that students can use only give information on 'announcements' within a course. That is not practical because some professors don't make much use of announcements at al...

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Problem statement: Canvas's Course Access Report does not show the first time a student accesses an item. Proposed solution: With 59% to 68% of college students admitting to cheating in some form, ma...

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Problem statement: When assigning a New Quizzes Quiz to specific students, and you go to Moderate the Quiz, the screen displays all students in the class, not just the students who were assigned the Q...

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Problem statement: Users are prone to accidentally clicking on "Next" instead of "Reply" when trying to reply to another's discussion post. The module frame for the "Previous" and "Next" buttons is co...

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Problem statement: I have a very limited account-level role that my student workers use. The permission "View Course Content" is off for them, so they cannot see what is actually in the course. They c...

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Problem statement: In a situation where you have many Graders for Moderated Grading (the limit is 10, if I recall correctly), each Grader is listed as a new column. On the Moderate Grading / Grade Sum...

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Problem statement: When we have a Moderated Grading Assignment, and the Moderator (Grader that determines the final grade) goes to the Moderate/Grade Summary page, the students are not listed in any o...

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Problem statement: When using New Analytics in a Course and pulling a Report for Missing Assignments, Late Assignment, or Excused Assignment, the Student SIS ID is not listed. (The Class Roster Report...

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Problem statement: At any given time, the amount of the gradebook window that is taken up by headings, menus, settings, filters, etc is 30% to 50% of the screen, which requires a user to scroll up and...

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Problem statement: My students are confusing lock dates and due dates because of the way the list of assignments displays in Canvas. This is creating tremendous amounts of late work and confusing when...

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Problem statement: When working on a project, the easiest way for students to demonstrate their process is by submitting multiple assignments. The problem with this is that students can become very ta...

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Problem statement: There are new parameters for the global announcements as of 11/20/2024 which allow an admin to see all announcements for an account instead of only seeing the announcements for thei...

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Problem statement: Our compliance and curriculum design teams create and validate pages and assessments to ensure accuracy and quality. However, the autosave functionality in the new quiz tool has led...

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Problem statement: I am a student. In one of my courses, the collaborations are automatically sorted alphabetically instead of by date. There is no option to sort by creation date. If there are only a...

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Problem statement: Teachers face significant time constraints when providing detailed and timely feedback on student assignments, particularly in virtual and asynchronous learning environments. The st...

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Problem statement: When completing an assessment using a rubric for a discussion, one has to scroll to the right. Having the "Submit Assessment" button on the left-hand side rather than the right woul...

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Problem statement: We want to be able to submit a grade as a letter, not directly linked to percentages. We like to adjust for participation, attendance, and assistance issues. We make the decisions o...

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