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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...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I want to be able to quickly click through assignments students have done. Instead, to show students multiple assignments from my class, I have to click on each assignment separatel...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The only way to scroll horizontally through my gradebook is to first scroll down, then there is a TINY bar I have to click and hold quickly before it disappears again. It is ridicul...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Catalog only has requirements and not electives. We have use cases where program certificates can be awarded if a user completes 2/5 courses. We also have a use case where completin...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The Enrollment ID given to a user when they enroll to a Catalog course listing is only given via the enrollment email to the user. If this id is needed, the admin would have to ask ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When I import an assignment from one class to the next and CHANGE the due dates, Canvas still automatically gives zeros in the grade book to students in the new class, even though t...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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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...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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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 ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Teachers cannot currently message people in Canvas from more than one class. Teachers have requested the ability to include administrators and counselors in some of their Canvas Mes...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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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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