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Problem statement: Right now I have to click on each assignment to see how many submissions there are for each. Proposed solution: If the number of submissions could somehow be included in the main l...

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Problem statement: If there is an innapproriate course, many students could access it. Proposed solution: That's when reporting comes in. Students and teachers can report innapproriate courses for Ca...

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Problem statement: My middle school students don't always read my feedback on individual questions in a quiz (essay feedback), and one diligent student told me they really have to work to find it when...

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Problem statement: I use workshop groups in all of my creative writing courses and the students review each other’s drafts on a rotating basis - for example, a group of 8 students will review 1-2 stud...

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Problem statement: Currently users who have an admin role can enroll themselves as a Designer, but they cannot remove themselves from the Designer role in the course. It would make sense that they cou...

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Problem statement: When choosing "Display grade as: Not graded" for an assignment in Canvas, the option to select a submission type is unavailable. This can be confusing for teachers who may want stud...

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Problem statement: The terminology used in Canvas can be very confusing, and definitions are hard to find. Users may not know the difference between "copy to" and "send to," or know what the term "ite...

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Problem statement: Canvas users often confuse the meaning of similar commands provided in the 3-dot (kabob) drop-down list (e.g., on the modules page). One might easily mistake "copy to" for "duplicat...

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Problem statement: Teachers are reluctant to switch to Studio because of the simplistic format. Professors want to blur their backgrounds when recording lectures. They would also like to have more edi...

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Problem statement: When enabling/ disabling in the Course Navigation list, users have to remember to scroll all the way to the bottom of the long list to select Save. A lot of people get frustrated wh...

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Problem statement: When a teacher tries to publish a file located in a hidden folder (a folder that is set as hidden in the course files), students cannot access the file because the folder remains hi...

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Problem statement: Allow faculty to see more than 10 peer reviews on a page or allow them to view by section. It's extremely frustrating to go through 8-10 pages to see if everyone completed their pee...

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Problem statement: So far, you can turn on the display of answers, true/false labels, ratings, etc. in a very small way. This is wonderful. However, our teachers miss the ability to control when quest...

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Problem statement: Our students find the requirements feature in modules very useful. It allows them to keep track of what is done and to be better organized, For most items (Page, assignments, quiz),...

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Problem statement: After adding a rubric to an assignment sometimes we observe it has been added to the wrong assignment. We would like it to be "deatched" from the assignment and then be able to atta...

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Problem statement: We have specific "pages" that need to be included in all courses, such as technology resources. However, using Blueprint pages poses a challenge because syncing the updates the firs...

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Problem statement: When there are several teachers in the same course who creates meetings in the calendar are struggling to figure out who the booking belongs to, it makes it harder for them to find ...

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Problem statement: I work in a distance education sector that relies upon teaching videos. Video watching is a core 'learning requirement' but one that's hard to check up on without going course -> fi...

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Problem statement: When a user is unenrolled from a Canvas course, then re-enrolled, Canvas restores most previous settings and progress for the user in that course (grades, discussion posts, assignme...

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Problem statement: There is not currently a means to capture a snapshot of a Beta environment to make an emergency backup. This should be something that customers have the ability to request. We had a...

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