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Problem statement: Students leave the testing page for a period of time, but to see them as the teacher we have to click each student individually and scroll through. Proposed solution: It would be b...

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Problem statement: Students and staff are using Microsoft authentication to login Canvas and MFA has been enabled on Microsoft. Parents are using Canvas authentication, MAF needs to be enabled for all...

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Problem statement: Canvas has a "to do" list, which is great if and when students log into Canvas. However, we all struggle with juggling multiple calendars, and try to have everything appear on a sin...

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Problem statement: The missing status on assignments that are set to "On Paper" or "No Submission" first need to be applied manually by the teacher either in the gradebook, one by one, or in the total...

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Problem statement: When students take a quiz, I sometimes include a File Upload question. I use this for problems that the students need to work out on paper to show their work. Or it's a screenshot o...

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Problem statement: In New Quizzes, when a teacher is using an item bank or multiple item banks and also using the Build upon last attempt setting, students who miss a question, get the same question i...

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Problem statement: Please see this post describing the issue: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/Granting-Admin-Permissions-to-Third-Party-Integrations/m-p/638140 The current Acc...

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Problem statement: On new quizzes you can provide feedback based on the student's response and/or general feedback. Currently, you cannot see this feedback when editing the quiz without editing an ind...

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Problem statement:   The Override_sis_stickiness API parameter will not work correctly on data unless the data was imported initially via SIS (or import API).  We use ILP for our integration and this ...

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Problem statement: If you are adding/modifying an upcoming assignment while the course is active there is no way to test is because Student View won't allow you to run it because the 'Available From D...

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Problem statement: In order to use a rubric for grading, one must go to speedgrader to enter in rubric options. That requires more clicking by teachers. Currently teachers can insert a grade, but cann...

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Problem statement: When students take a New Quiz, and there are Hot Spot questions, students can work through the test. But if they click the previous questions button to check their work, they cannot...

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Problem statement: After an item has been added to an item bank, it is uneditable and forces the user to make a copy when they click the pencil icon. Some information, not affecting previous responses...

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Problem statement: When copying one course to another, the homepage settings do not copy over. Whatever was the homepage before the copy was initiated will be the homepage after the copy was initiated...

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Problem statement: When adding an LTI you can choose its Placements. One of those options is adding it to all Course Navigation menus. This creates an issue when the LTI is not something all courses w...

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Problem statement: As part of the 3-15-25 release, there were updates to the "Copy Course Content" page, changing the original wording on the "Import" button to "Add to Import Queue". Proposed soluti...

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Problem statement: After a recent Canvas update that included changes to the Import Content feature, the course list to import from (when importing part or all of an existing Canvas course) is now sor...

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Problem statement: I am exploring ways to better organize Item Banks in New Quizzes and was wondering if there is a built-in method to categorize banks based on similar tags or group them under a broa...

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Problem statement: Hello, Would it possible to extend the 'saved draft comment' feature to learners, as well as teachers and admin? At the moment, if an admin/teacher makes a comment on an assignment,...

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Problem statement: Students (young and old) attempt to upload assignment revisions through SpeedGrader comments instead of by resubmitting through the assignment tool. Instructors need a way to disabl...

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