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Problem statement: Is there anyway, like there is to print quiz questions with answers from an Item Bank that was created. Currently it seems the only way to do that is to create a quiz with all the q...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I suppose this is more of a feature request than a question because I already know that the Submissions endpoint on the Canvas API does not currently take put requests on the submis...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When using the Attendance/Roll Call tool, an instructor wishes to keep an accurate attendance log using the four options (present, late, absent, excused). However, they consider a '...

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Problem statement: Currently, Teachers can hide Course Navigation links from students to de-clutter, but they cannot remove links for themselves. This means that instructors see all of the tools they ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When assignments created in Canvas using Google Assignments are not submitted by the due date they are not automatically marked as missing by Canvas. This requires the the teacher t...

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Problem statement: Students struggle to turn on captions due to the non standardized icon for "toggle captions on" versus the universally standard "CC" icon. Resulting in a frustrating hunt for my alt...

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Problem statement: The Observer/Student communication is restricted to one way communication. observers can message their studentsstudents cannot message their observer Reason for the Problem: As a K-...

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Problem statement: When "Export Pairing Codes" is run from the users page in a course, the csv does not include section information. Current fields: Last Name, First Name, Pairing Code, Expires At. Pa...

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Problem statement: Instructors are currently manually checking the word count for discussion posts when grading if they have a minimum word count for students to meet. I've seen the "[Discussions] Mee...

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Problem statement: As a Canvas admin at my institution, I often create content for teachers when building their course. As an admin who does not have a teacher role in the course, I do not want my nam...

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Problem statement: When adding an outcome to a rubric, there does not appear to be a way to format the text of the outcome criteria or ratings. Evidently this was possible before the recent update. Ev...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We would like to see more detailed data/logs about awards such as (and not limited to) whether a notification email has been sent to the earners along with the badge award (tick or ...

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Problem statement: In the Announcements page, you have to go in and manually edit each individual announcement. This is tedious and time consuming because I use numerous announcements (at least 20-30)...

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Problem statement: As administrators, we build up the course for the lecturers in the course blueprints which are then sync out to the associated courses when term starts. In the blueprints, we have...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I'm glad that "Build on Last Attempt" is finally implemented and it works as expected. However, it would be great to also carry forward the grader's feedback from previous attempts ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Problem: The Test Student cannot be enrolled in Groups. Use Case: Instructors are asking how they can "see what someone in a particular group can see in the course". In a cross-l...

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Problem statement: Faculty aren't sure of how frequently students access course content on the app vs. computer. Proposed solution: Showing this data would reveal to faculty how students most frequen...

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Problem statement: Global announcements only allow for one date range for release. This means that a recurring announcement that needs to be release several times over a few weeks or months must be cr...

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Problem statement: Each user only has one portfolio. Many different "projects" can be added to the portfolio but there is no way to group or categorize the projects, they are just all there together. ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: My teachers often read and respond to Canvas messages through the automated e-mail they get, and rarely go into their Canvas Inbox. At the beginning of the year, they have hundreds ...

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