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Problem statement: I would like to suggest an improvement for the attendance tool. When I click on an individual student, I can only see the number of classes they missed, not the dates for when they ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: On the content export screen towards the bottom. Adjust the placement of the "Create Export" button beneath the section Export Type. When needing to choose the Radio Button for Quiz...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The annotation tools are not available for grading a Peer-to-Peer Review assignment when it is set up to review as "anonymous". Proposed solution: Have the annotation tools availab...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The outcomes we use in Canvas are on a 4/3/2/1/0 scale. The ratings of 4/3/2/1 are clean cut for rating student performance on an outcome on a single assignment. However, when score...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In both Course Analytics and the new Admin Analytics, average grade data is not based on grading periods. For institutions that use grading periods, the grade data is therefore usel...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement:   We have a problem with teachers being able to add students to courses as teachers (even just accidentally). Most are unaware of the consequences (ie. markbook visibility, course ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: An instructor would want to see the history of all instructor-made modification of an assessment, whether it is a quiz or assignment, basically a log file that shows who did what an...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: currently when grading rubrics with points using speed grader and students earn full credit in each category it takes a lot of time and clicking to complete the rubric. For example ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: My students started submitting an assignment before I set the Group Set. Now Canvas doesn't let me change the groups, and only the student who submitted sees my comments and the gra...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When I go to Settings --> Navigation I see all of the options for all of the teachers in my district. I am in the fifth largest district in the US. There are many choices. There are...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When an instructor changes their assignment's Display Grade as from Points to Complete/Incomplete after grading some students—the already graded students can unfairly get lower scor...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently if a course is concluded, users can no longer be added to the course. We often receive requests for new instructors to be added to a past course to help them prepare for t...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently if there are errors/warnings with SIS Imports, there is no notification sent to account admins. This requires either active monitoring of the SIS Imports and/or building a...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students can control which courses appear on their dashboard and account menu by going to All Courses and starring/unstarring courses. However, students have no way of controlling w...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the assignments index page has limited capabilities for teachers to properly filter through all assignments on this page. Teachers become easily overwhelmed when looking ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I teach mathematics courses and use the Math Editor frequently (MathQuill in new quizzes). I really like being able to type math equations directly in the Rich Content Editor (RCE),...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Teachers in our division use gradebook passback from Canvas to our SIS. The Canvas gradebook Settings > Late Policies currently possess the ability to automatically apply a deductio...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When I need to message an observer and student individually, I have to look up their observers individual names and type them in to the Canvas email. This takes FOREVER. Proposed s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As the teacher, I cannot see what is the percent of total grade of each assignment. My students can see this on their Canvas page. Proposed solution: On the modules and assignments...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Justification: To enable educational organizations to aggregate metrics on async jobs, analyze for operational behavior and store their results long-term for heuristics in S3 buckets. Job-level metric...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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