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Problem statement: Discussions are flooded with AI-generated posts. Responses to other posts are also AI-generated. Discussions are just bots talking to bots. Papers submitted are often AI-generated. ...

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Problem statement: The projects in our class require more than one file (a project and a cover memo), and students frequently upload a new version of only one of these files, which means the file that...

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Problem statement: If an account has both Canvas LMS and Canvas Studio, the presence of the "media recording" submission type for online Assignment submissions and the lack of a clear "Studio Library"...

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Problem statement: I'm part of my institution's support team for Canvas. An instructor reported that some students were unable to see comments on Quiz attempts. After one of the students helped me inv...

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Problem statement: When a teacher logs attendance, they can only view day-by-day, currently there is no option to view attendance from a weekly or monthly view. The only option seems to be to use the ...

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Problem statement: Teachers have asked if it is possible to have a "pure text" editor as an option for submitting on an assignment, in addition to the Rich Text Editor we have now. Proposed solution:...

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Problem statement: Currently, students have to complete interactive lessons via external tools like Lumio and Nearpod. I propose Canvas create an assignment type that is an Interactive Lesson that all...

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Problem statement: When Item Banks are imported, edit permissions are automatically set to 'View only,' and instructors within the course are not granted permission to edit the content. It is very tim...

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Problem statement: When using the Website URL submission method in a Canvas Assignment, students are selecting URLs that lead to previously-submitted assignments from the form autocomplete suggestions...

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Problem statement: It appears that when grading a submission in the Canvas peer review tool, the default grade in the speed grader is a dash. This is the only tool in which the speed grader first cont...

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Problem statement: There currently isn't a way to add or edit alt text to an emoji in the RCE. Teacher and designers often use emojis to give visual clues to students about the content in their course...

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Problem statement: I require students to work collaboratively. But not all students participate or participate equally. Instructors need a way to determine the degree and quality of each team (group) ...

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Problem statement: We have recently noticed some concerns regarding New Quizzes, specifically with the Item Banks. When a course using Item Banks in their New Quiz is copied to another shell, the Item...

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Problem statement: We have a grouped course that is set to default to use Course Modules as the Home Page. Why is not the point of this problem. Modules have the ability to directly insert an external...

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Problem statement: It is sometimes difficult to sift through all student work when it seems more than one student has submitted the same (or similar) assignment. This is especially true in large class...

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Problem statement: If you have the secondary info turned on in the gradebook and it is showing section enrollments, the system currently shows all enrollments (active, inactive, concluded). Even with ...

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Problem statement: Calbright needs to use New Analytics On-line Attendance feature. However, our course weights are "heavy" and will not load. Proposed solution: Change one of the load parameters. In...

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Problem statement: Some special education students take a class but have a modified grade on their IEP, a legal document. However, Canvas cannot document this because the gradebook for the class is se...

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Problem statement: Instructors want students to be able to see exam results directly after they complete the exam while they are in the testing center, but they don't want them to have access to it af...

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Problem statement: Add item to module isnt very intuitive for teachers. The fact that you have to chose what to upload is okay, but then have to press "New Assignment" in brackets in the exact same de...

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