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Problem statement: The Feature Use in Courses with Activity report does not provide enough detail to be truly useful since it only gives a numeric count of External Tools in use: Course Name Term Name...

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Problem statement: Users are unable to view CPP files in SpeedGrader, which in reality are just .txt files used in programming classes. Causing confusion since they work "intermittently" at times - Ca...

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Problem statement: Alert disappears after a while instead of being persistent when unusually high points are awarded during grading in speedgrader and course gradebook. Feature https://community.canva...

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Problem statement: My use case is that we have a program w/ multiple courses… over 20 and our students see them in a card view dashboard. It is a rolling enrollment, so there aren’t specific dates thi...

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Problem statement: Currently, student pronouns and display names are not shown in the Canvas gradebook. Proposed solution: Add student pronouns and display name to Gradebook - Student Name - Secondar...

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Problem statement: Calendars can be very difficult to organize with a large group of classes. This is especially true for staff or parents that observe multiple accounts. Proposed solution: Several s...

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Problem statement: Allow the teacher to click and drag a saved comment in speed grader to shorten the time of grading. Turnitin already has this feature, but it would also be great to have this featur...

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Problem statement: In our previous LMS, we had it configured to enroll users into non-academic course sites. These include ones for health and wellness, student resources, faculty resources etc. We we...

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Problem statement: We have staff members who are both students/faculty and staff members. Because of this, they count with two Canvas accounts. One connected to their university-assigned email and ano...

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Problem statement: When we schedule an appointment in the Canvas calendar, students receive an email notification to sign up or book an appointment. In this notification the appointment registration l...

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Problem statement: We would like API access to toggle the Canvas for Elementary setting for a sub-account. Instance with hundreds of sub-account could benefit from the ability to read and write to thi...

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Problem statement: Often, instructors need to change assignment due dates. With the classic quizzes, you could adjust due dates for an assignment as needed and the assignment would remain open for all...

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Problem statement: It seems that a course would need to be added to the commons as individual modules, one at a time, for a teacher to be able to import an individual module into their course from the...

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Problem statement: Students on IEP / 504 Plans often have the accommodation written into the plan to remove a distractor from Multiple choice tests. In order to do this, the teacher has to Duplicate t...

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Problem statement: In classic quizzes there is a section filter in quiz statistics. In new quizzes there is not a section filter in the reports section.Proposed solution:Create a section filter in the...

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Problem statement: Admin Analytics has no way to filter out crosslisted child courses inside reports like unpublished courses, status over time and other reports. Proposed solution: Hello, One sugges...

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Problem statement: I'd love for there to be a way to add a podcast cover image that would appear in whatever podcast player the student is using to listen to Discussion RSS podcast feeds. The visual c...

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Problem statement: Teachers are interested in more 'authority' in evaluating student's Course Average for Learning Mastery Outcomes. They want the ability to have some assignments count more heavily t...

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Problem statement: When Studio videos are submitted for assessment, markers cannot leave comments on the video timeline as these comments are immediately visible to students. Comments should not be vi...

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Problem statement: Dear Canvas Team, I am writing to suggest that Canvas take an important step towards promoting inclusivity and diversity in its platform by offering Culturally Conscious Identifiers...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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