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Problem statement: Having access to assignment comments in Inbox is really helpful. Please include a way to view sent assignment comments. Currently, only assignments comments you have received show u...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When viewing the log of a student's (New Quizzes) quiz attempt, the date and time they began the attempt is shown at the top after "Began". At the bottom, it says "Finished at", but...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Is there a reason why the button for a student to start an assignment is labeled differently in web vs. mobile? It's "Start Assignment" for web and "Submit Assignment" for mobile. ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our institution hosts a large number of courses with registration fees - some which are taxable and some which are tax-exempt. For our taxable courses, we ask our sub-catalog admini...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There is no Grading Period toggle in the Learning Mastery Gradebook, Canvas Quizzes, Modules, or Discussions. Teachers with a lot of content in their courses have a difficult time o...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Importing Course Settings from another Canvas course via "Select specific content" does not import in all grading schemes, only the one that is currently selected. However, when imp...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When uploading content to Commons, you are required to attach an image to your content. With Unsplash (and prior to that Flickr), it was easy to search for an image and attach it to...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the assigning of peer reviews can be done automatically, which saves a great deal of time. Unfortunately, students aren't perfect, and every batch of submissions I get ha...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have noticed that the check-icon under "Enrollable" that appears next to individual listings becomes confusing when one puts in start/end dates for a specific listing. We and our...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We would like our Canvas users to be able to export CSV files from New Analytics in the same way as they do from Grades. Currently our users are able to easily open and view the CSV...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When students take quizzes and are looking at their results, all they see is which questions they got wrong/right. On the teacher's end, I get to see the outcomes analysis which is ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a learner opens a New Quiz that they have already completed, it is not immediately obvious that they already completed that quiz. The only way they can determine that the quiz ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Program Assessment (Portfolium) we need to control which artifacts are assigned to each reviewer in order to properly assess artifacts for our Quality Enhancement Plan required b...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Numbering items within modules can help with student navigation. For example: Module 1 1.1 Overview1.2 Tutorial1.3 Activity etc... However, this all needs to be done manually by na...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Some student submissions on Canvas have low contrast and are hard to read. Proposed solution: Include filters or contrast settings in SpeedGrader for increasing the contrast of sub...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, course listings in Catalog either display the amount of days (if Days to Complete is used in the course listing) or the start date and end date (if getting the date from ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Published items in an unpublished module are not available to students in Canvas. For example, if a student tries accessing a published assignment in another Canvas area (e.g., Assi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our students often navigate to the To Do list in Canvas. When they hit show more, they are presented with the List View. Many then adopt this view as a way to manage coursework. How...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I have an instructor at my school who believes in assigning negative scores to students, specifically in daily class participation grades. The total point value of the assignment is...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The formula-based questions are an essential tool for math based courses, but there is a big limiting factor. Formula questions work on a set of defined variables input by the teach...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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