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Problem statement: We use a few custom student roles in our Canvas account, and it would be extremely helpful to be able to see how those different populations are engaging with Canvas. Proposed solu...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In new Admin Analytics there is no way to save the filter options you select. Proposed solution: Allow Admins to save filter options in new Admin Analytics to save time when review...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Teachers are not able to sync grades to our SIS with the grades passback feature in the Canvas mobile app. Currently, they can only perform this action via a web browser. Proposed ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: To properly manage and optimized storage usage, user quota must be set based on the actual needs and storage behavior of users. But without this information, user quota settings wil...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In a Course that uses Groups, you may have a Navigation option (ex: Collaborations) that is turned off for Students etc, in the normal course but once the Student goes into their Gr...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Many LTI tools seem to be unable to properly determine the section that a student is in based on an LTI launch. There are a number of similar ideas that have already been submitted:...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently there is an API to allow integrations and tool to set the account calendar to display to a user, however when using this API you have to supply the complete set of account...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students are circumventing the "post before seeing replies" option on discussion boards by submitting a post with one letter, which reveals other students' posts. Then they read thr...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas SIS import files support enrolment dates (start_date and end_date), to override section/course/term dates as per https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/file.sis_csv.html Onc...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In large classes it would save time to be able to sort by the Turnitin similarity report percentage or the indicator colors to review high matching reports. Proposed solution: in g...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Faculty using random selection in New Quizzes with Item Banks is concerned that randomization may not address all outcomes. In this case faculty have associated outcomes to each que...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, instructors use Student View for a variety of situations that are very helpful in understanding how they can the course through the lends of a student. However, there are...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students do not always complete the course during the set term dates. Many schools have different policies on letting students finish a course past the term date. there is no easy w...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Support suggested I post here instead: When downloading data, the spreadsheets are truncated to the screen display. For example looking at students with a B average, there should be...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In large courses, there are often one or more pairs of students with identical first and last names. When sending a message to students and selecting specific students, there is no ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our main SIS integration failed for almost two weeks before being noticed as we had a new student register that could not login to Canvas and we realized that the sync was not worki...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Can you please add tracking of roles other than student eg observer. We would like to track parent engagement across our institution and that is tracking the observer role. Propose...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our workflow involves navigating between term blueprints and associated courses when making updates. Each blueprint course shows the number of associations in the upper right corner...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a student uses up all of their Quiz attempts, there is no notification to the Teacher within the students Section to alert them that the student need support. The onus should n...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Idea is currently in development Problem statement: for file upload submission students need to see the filename and file type of each submission on screen as confirmation. currently it only shows t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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