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Idea is currently in development Problem statement: I would like to be able to have students peer review students from other sections. I have five sections of the same course. At the moment, Canvas ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Current RCE tools allow for the easy addition of Alt Text. This functions well for non-complex images. However, this does not function well for complex images such as a diagram of a...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We recently had an issue in our Catalog instance and wanted to be able to post an alert to students using the platform. However, there doesn't seem to be a banner or notifications f...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We are excited about the new admin analytics views! Thanks for bringing this element to core Canvas. As of right now the feature does not cover teacher to student or student to stud...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The CSV files output to instructors is so unorganized as to be unreadable. A student name should be followed on the same line with his/her entire attendance history so that it becom...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When instructors copy/transfer their rubrics from course to course, their saved comments in the rubrics don't carry over leading to a great deal of frustation and time spent on recr...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, when a user uploads an image, document, or some other kind of file using the rich content editor that file is linked directly to the user storage of that individual. If t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, Quiz Statistics in a course only includes "active" enrollments. For institutions like ours that use rolling enrollment, we need Quiz Statistics to include "concluded" enr...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It would be INCREDIBLY helpful to have added a slider that shows up when grading using the 'range' feature. Instead of having point scaled rubric, possibly add a slider. The rubric ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Right now, no notification can be turned on that alerts students to a newly published module in their course (to the best of my knowledge). I thought it would be included in the cou...

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Problem statement: Our schedule functions on a six day rotation, so it is sometimes time-consuming for teachers to look up and choose the correct due dates for an assignment (especially if they have m...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Many teachers at my school teach different sections of the same course. To help with this, they crosslist their sections (which is great!). The problem is many of these sections occ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas currently allows students to sort their graded by module, but when sorted, students cannot tell which assignments belong to which module from that view. Similarly, they canno...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Report to give us a list of courses that do not have weighted grades set up, and the final grade is a 0 Proposed solution: We are looking for courses that do not have a final grade...

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Problem statement: After entering grades for assignments, rather than having to individually sync each class's grades with 3 clicks (which equates to 21 clicks each time I sync - personally), could th...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently there is an undocumented property that can be set on LTI placements to get Canvas to perform a permission check before launching the tool. This property (required_permissi...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a teacher is building a course that has grading periods, once they start the last quarter of the year they will see ALL the assignments that they have created but not yet estab...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When running reports, a number of fields use SIS or Canvas IDs, and these are not always readily readable when consulting reports Proposed solution: Include the name of objects whe...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas allows for IP Filters to be saved at the account/subaccount level. These can currently be configured in the Settings tab of any account, under Quiz IP Address Filters. Admins...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We rely on Blueprint courses and the association and synchronization of course content and activities. Blueprint courses are developed by our IDs and meet our quality standards, inc...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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