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Problem statement: Late Policies are an all-or-nothing policy that apply to ALL assignments globally. It would be great to be able to specify some assignments (or assignment groups) to be treated with...

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Problem statement: When I want to push out a Google Doc for students to write an essay in I do so through the Google LTI. This is convenient because I can check in on my students' writing progress thr...

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Problem statement: When I post comments in my Rubric and click the checkbox stating "Save this comment for reuse", the comment is available to reuse for that specific assignment ONLY. Even though I ca...

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Problem statement: In gradebook the option to post grades for an assignment or quiz is labeled "Post Grades" This is confusing and scary to new users. It actually doesn't post the grades but brings up...

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Problem statement: The name for Group on the Assignment Index page should be changed. This name can be easily confused with Groups of People and Group Assignments. Proposed solution: I propose that t...

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Problem statement: As a K-12 district that has quarterly grading periods, there are times when an assessment falls near the closing of a grading period. This poses a problem as students are expected t...

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Problem statement: The "learning_outcome_link_created" event is only fired after creating an Outcome which is linked to an Outcome Group at creation. Aligning an Outcome to a piece of content does not...

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Problem statement: New Analytics has some very important information. In addition to grades, the information about weekly activity and students is very helpful. However, the presentation and access le...

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Problem statement: It is good practice to ensure that rubrics are aligned with grades. While not every instructor would want to use this, Instructure should make it easy for those who do. Proposed so...

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Problem statement: Both Announcements and Discussions have the option to *Allow 'liking'*. However, it applies only to the replies not to the original post. In other words, if the option is checked, t...

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Problem statement: The way that Canvas distinguishes between New Quizzes and Classic Quizzes in most of the interface is a "solid" spaceship for New Quizzes and an "outline" of a spaceship in Classic ...

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Problem statement: There are times when instructors want to view multiple Modules at once using the Filter Presets tool in the grade book. You can add multiple filters, but they have to be from differ...

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Problem statement: Sometimes, students would need to switch between similarly-offered Canvas Courses or Canvas Programs. For example, a student may need to change from Catalog Program A to Catalog Pro...

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Problem statement: When I sync a Blueprint course, that has an associated (child) courses in sub-accounts, I am asked if I wish to: Send Notification and/or Enable New Item Notifications. I expected t...

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Problem statement: There are broken images appearing in courses that are not being caught by the link validator. These have the images in the files, but they are not being displayed in quizzes after b...

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Problem statement: When returning a Google Assignment LTI 1.3 to a student, the assignment does not show up in the To Do list. I was showing a teacher how this tool works (I was the teacher in my demo...

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Problem statement: Most of our students use the mobile app to access Canvas. We send out links to quarterly Student Surveys as a Global Announcement. If students using the mobile app close that announ...

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Problem statement: For the Complete/Incomplete and the Letter grading type assignment types, when selecting a grade from the drop-down menu in the cell for a specific student in the gradebook, the gra...

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Problem statement: While I love the new ability to have multiple hot spots in a New Quiz question, is there anything in the works for the auto-grading where if a student doesn't not select something w...

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Problem statement: Each time you go into a Gradebook as teacher or admin for first time, you must move the Total Grade column from the end to the beginning. It is more helpful to default the total gra...

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