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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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Problem statement: Hi! When you are editing your course, it is often useful and necessary to view the final product in student view. However, to make edits, you need to turn off student view. This mea...

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Problem statement: Canvas Catalog's API is lacking parity with UI functions. For example, you cannot manage sub catalog admins via the API as you can in Canvas. This can pose a problem for institution...

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Problem statement: I have been using hotspot questions for over 3 years to great success in my courses (with 300 or more students). I recently was informed by several students completing the practice ...

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Problem statement: Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see the point biserial data in the item analysis? This is a requirement listed in the AZBN advisory opinion: https://azbn.gov/sites/default/files/A...

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Problem statement: In New Quizzes, you can export the quiz and answers as a pdf, but not rationales. I often have to update rationales with AI or analyze them to update the test plan, but have to cut ...

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Problem statement: I would like the ability to have an assignment flagged as AI detected in students textbox submissions. Turnitin shows plagiarism review, but I strictly want AI detected. Also, the a...

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Problem statement: New quizzes does not support the html code for tabs: Page1Page2Page3Page4Page5Page6Page7Page8 Page 1 Insert Content Page 2 Insert Content.  Page 3 Insert Content Page 4 I...

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Problem statement: New quizzes is still missing NCLEX style question item types. I'm not sure which idea was deployed Proposed solution: Ensure all NGN item types are available in New quizzes. See Ev...

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Problem statement: After half a decade of waiting for advanced quiz results features in New quizzes, the option ONCE AFTER X ATTEMPT was added to everything except viewing the quiz questions. Nursing ...

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Problem statement: There is not currently a feature that only allows students to view quiz questions ONCE AFTER AN ATTEMPT, and nursing faculty cannot do quiz reviews because students will steal and s...

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Problem statement: Have you ever been writing content for a page and realized that you need another new page? Wouldn't it be great if you could quickly create a new blank page as a placeholder, but co...

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Problem statement: Currently, the Canvas Assignments page defaults to “Show by Date,” and while it may remember a user’s last selected view within the same browser or session, this behavior is not con...

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