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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...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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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 ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Canvas, there is currently no way to filter or exclude students who are no longer enrolled in a course (e.g. withdrawn, concluded, or manually removed) when viewing analytics, gr...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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When using a 'Primary Button' style colour theme that passes 1.4.11 Non-text Contrast AA 2.1, an accessibility bug is created on the new Assignment page for the 'Assign Access' 'Clear' buttons, due to...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In rubrics, the ranges for each criterion as set as (for example): 25 to >19.9 Pts, 19.9 to >17.4 Pts, 17.4 to >14.9 Pts, 14.9 to >12.4 Pts, 12.4 to >9.9 Pts, and 9.9 to >0. As you ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We use Canvas quizzes for formative feedback. These "Do not count this assignment towards the final grade" and obviously, we set them as "Do not display in gradebook or the student'...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: At UK higher education institutions, Canvas terminology is quite confusing. Specifically, what Canvas calls "course", UK HE calls "module". This is further complicated by the fact t...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: New Analytics is kindof dumb - I doubt anyone who actually teaches or moderates at university consulted for its development. In the UK, quite often, there are multiple "dropboxes" (...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: New Analytics: for individual Canvas Assignments, Canvas generates histograms, but Canvas doesn't offer a way to download the histogram or its CSV (only, clicking on individual bars...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: New Analytics: In the UK, quite often, there are multiple "dropboxes" (Canvas Assignments) for a single assessment for the simple reason that there's one Canvas Assignment for regul...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, it is not possible to embed a single module into a page. It's also not possible to embed a practice quiz with immediately feedback into a page. In fact, this means teache...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: This has been addressed before but seems to have been lost in the ether of various transitions from feature requests and ideas. currently when the term ends or courses are concluded...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: On the desktop, browser-based site, students and parents are unable to message teachers from/about an individual assignment. In the mobile app, this functionality already exists, bu...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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