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Problem statement: Students are circumventing the "post before seeing replies" option on discussion boards by submitting a post with one letter, which reveals other students' posts. Then they read thr...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas SIS import files support enrolment dates (start_date and end_date), to override section/course/term dates as per https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.sis_csv.html Onc...

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Problem statement: In large classes it would save time to be able to sort by the Turnitin similarity report percentage or the indicator colors to review high matching reports. Proposed solution: in g...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Faculty using random selection in New Quizzes with Item Banks is concerned that randomization may not address all outcomes. In this case faculty have associated outcomes to each que...

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Problem statement: Currently, instructors use Student View for a variety of situations that are very helpful in understanding how they can the course through the lends of a student. However, there are...

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Problem statement: Students do not always complete the course during the set term dates. Many schools have different policies on letting students finish a course past the term date. there is no easy w...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Support suggested I post here instead: When downloading data, the spreadsheets are truncated to the screen display. For example looking at students with a B average, there should be...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In large courses, there are often one or more pairs of students with identical first and last names. When sending a message to students and selecting specific students, there is no ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our main SIS integration failed for almost two weeks before being noticed as we had a new student register that could not login to Canvas and we realized that the sync was not worki...

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Problem statement: Can you please add tracking of roles other than student eg observer. We would like to track parent engagement across our institution and that is tracking the observer role. Propose...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our workflow involves navigating between term blueprints and associated courses when making updates. Each blueprint course shows the number of associations in the upper right corner...

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Problem statement: When a student uses up all of their Quiz attempts, there is no notification to the Teacher within the students Section to alert them that the student need support. The onus should n...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Idea is currently in development Problem statement: for file upload submission students need to see the filename and file type of each submission on screen as confirmation. currently it only shows t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: At our university we always create announcements in german and english. Now we add the text in both languages in one announcement that can be displayed as a long text. Proposed sol...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: New Analytics has a lot of helpful views on to support the day-to-day of Canvas Admins and instructional designers. As we continue to build, we have a lot of anecdotal evidence supp...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Classic Quizzes a teacher had the option to check a box to "Let Students See the Correct Answers" and then had the additional option to either click the box for "Only After Their...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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