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Problem statement: Changing the width of the gradebook columns helps with including more grades on the screen, but cuts off the titles. Proposed solution: Can the system be changed to wrap the title ...

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Problem statement: I'm upset, Baton Rouge Community College said admissions application is completed, and had the word advisor too close to the url for instructure canvas signin website. I sign in the...

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Problem statement: it is not a problem, since i completed the function the long way. All emails i subscribed for a trial with, have a select option for multiple messages/emails. Of course some load me...

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Problem statement: We have used activity completion reports in Moodle to assign grades as complete/incomplete. These reports list every course activity with a completion requirement as complete or inc...

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Problem statement: Currently, Canvas allows instructors to set an “Available From” date on assignments, which prevents students from viewing the assignment until a specified time. However, for long-te...

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Problem statement: Students often change their answers when taking a quiz - it would be helpful if the quiz platform would keep track of the number of questions students changed from correct to incorr...

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Problem statement: Instructors and instructional designers experience unnecessary friction when trying to attach an existing rubric to a Canvas assignment. Unlike many of Canvas’s streamlined features...

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Problem statement: In our school we want to be transparent about the grading proces. This includes the student knowing the date their teacher graded an assignment. Currently these date(s) are only ava...

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Problem statement: A teacher is only able to modify an assessment one student at a time to reduce the number of answer choices. This is incredibly time consuming. On other LMS's, it's an easy, standar...

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Problem statement: Is there a way to set up Canvas so that students with accommodations for extra time can submit assignments one day late without a grade reduction, and have this apply to all assignm...

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Problem statement: Can not rearrange classes when in list view, so they can go according to class schedule. One can only rearrange when in card view, which doesn't allow for seeing assignments/ to do ...

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Problem statement: When I use a rubric to grade in SpeedGrader that has more than 2 or 3 columns, I have to scroll down and over to the right to find the cancel and submit buttons. This also shrinks t...

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Problem statement: Starting on April 9th Ohio Senate Bill 234 will become law and require us to post Suicide Prevention hotline information on all "electronic" dashboards, planners, student ids and ot...

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Problem statement: The Act as User function on Canvas is only available at the top account level of Canvas permissions. It would be easier to manage and filter down what staff can/can't see, if this w...

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Problem statement: Today when posting results in New quizzes you can hide the question asked by the teacher, but when posting the results the students cant see their own answer nor feedback given on t...

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Problem statement: Is it possible for faculty to add comments when they’re doing embedded assessment and for those comments to show up in the outcomes report, plus the report? I don’t see a place for ...

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Problem statement: My dashboard has so many tiles and it's very overwhelming to try to find what I need, despite my efforts (renaming, sorting, color-overlay, and images). Proposed solution: It would...

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Problem statement: Roughly 1 - 2% of student submissions turn out to be corrupt files. Teachers then must chase down the student to receive a good file, and it's impossible to establish responsibility...

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Problem statement: Often typographical errors and other issues are spotted by students in questions. Proposed solution: The ability to fix them in real-time would be helpful. User role(s): instructo...

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Problem statement: I have occasionally forgotten to allow submissions for an assignment that I have created. I create a lot of assignments, and I currently have to click on each individual assignment ...

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