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Problem statement: Videos posted in quizzes whether recorded or uploaded have the option to slow down or speed up the video. I teach a language course and I would like the option of locking the video ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When I am taking a canvas quiz, I sometimes get confused at the answer choices. For example, in a multiple choice question, option a is crossed out and so on. Proposed solution: In...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When copying course content from one course shell to another, the source course's Participation setting values are copied too. We have instructors who use sandbox courses to copy th...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Instructure promotes Catalog as having a variety of uses including professional learning, eLearning courses, training workshops, seminars and webinars yet it has hard coded that all...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have a new Aviation Maintenance program. The FAA requires that our aviation instructor keep hard copies of all students' graded quizzes. The instructor chose to use New Quizzes s...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There's no ability to post individual grades in Gradebook. The section feature is great, but it'd be great to be able to release individual grades (and leave others hidden e.g. when...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently Inbox does not support either forwarding messages to oneself, or exporting messages, as a means of retrieving messages from Inbox and storing them either locally or in one...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It can be hard to tell how many students have viewed a particular announcement. It would be helpful to be able to quickly check the reach of an announcement and identify students wh...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The course that opens for students when doing a group assignment can be confusing. Just as when a new instructor first sees a new Canvas course with all the links they need to be sh...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Instructors who opt for Labor-Based Contract Grading need the flexibility to add the "lateness" feature to Complete/Incomplete assignments. Students also need to see in the gradeboo...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When using Analytics (New) only 500 students can be displayed per term. Yes, the report can be downloaded, but then the interactivity is lost. Changing the sort also allows access t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I'd like there to be an administrative option to restrict a teacher from viewing their course roster until a certain date? Proposed solution: Admin Option to prevent the people tab...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Right now, I do not have the ability to specify when I want Notifications to go out for meetings created by the Zoom LTI. Although the Zoom LTI is creating a notification, it is Can...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We are providing Canvas Studio training and encouraging instructors to use it often. When looking at the "Interactions by Category," Canvas Studio is not included, which makes it ch...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When printing quizzes, the space to write down answers to the questions is too small. Also, the RCE is appearing and that is not necessary. Proposed solution: Make sure the print o...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Speedgrader contains a parameter for similarity originality_report[originality_score]. However, now we have AI detectors that provide another score based on the same work, so teache...

Partner Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently when the setting to filter speedgrader by groups ("Launch SpeedGrader Filtered by Student Group" setting in course settings) is turned on it applies to every assignment, e...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Embedding content into the editor through the LTI editor_placement allows tools to integrate their content right into the wiki page and allows instructors to surround the content wi...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: If students have 6 core courses, when they download/ view the iCal calendars everything is just appearing as a calendar item and unless they go and look (i.e click) at each one in d...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the LTI Report available for account admins does not include the External Tool ID for the listed tools. The External Tool ID acts as the unique identifier for a tool. It'...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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