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Problem statement: Right now, students can sign up for an appointment time slot 5 minutes before the time slot, but the teacher may not have prepared to be at the appointment if they checked even 10 m...

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Problem statement: Currently the only way to view the overall class attendance (from beginning of semester till today) is by having an Attendance Report emailed to you in .csv format. Please make avai...

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Problem statement: Root Admin have hundreds of courses. It would be really helpful to be able to sort the courses into folders. Proposed solution: Create an option to put courses in folders. User ro...

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Problem statement: When a student needs a resubmit and you only allow 1 attempt you have to update the number of attempts for all students rather then the system automatically just allowing an additio...

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Problem statement: If a student has to complete a resubmit then you have to hide the posted results to prevent the comments, and marks from being released automatically to the student while the submis...

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Problem statement: It would be helpful if there was a way the self-enrollment link could be automatically turned off on a specific date/time within a Canvas course, instead of having to manually disab...

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Problem statement: Students are being increasingly asked to submit citations to back-up their work, especially now as more artificial intelligence applications are being used by students. However, che...

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Problem statement: The current workflow for Observer role assigns an user to another user on a per course basis. Proposed solution: It would be helpful to be able to assign an user the Observer role ...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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Problem statement: Students may inappropriately rely upon Artificial Intelligent (AI) tools to generate text for their discussion board posts and quiz responses (for essay question type). Proposed so...

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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 ...

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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...

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Problem statement: On the page https://pcsd.instructure.com/accounts/81317/developer_keys the list of keys is getting longer by the day. It is also not in alphabetical order nor sectioned by On or Off...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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