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Problem statement: Rubrics do not have the option to be digitally signed/authenticated by the assessor - limits use for VET users where evidence requirements require a signature. Proposed solution: A...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When you create a section and set "section participation dates," you cannot restrict the access of users in that section outside of the selected dates (the users will continue to ha...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When Observer's send the Instructor an email, it does not say who their student is. Not all students have the same last name as their parents. I have to email them back and ask who ...

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Problem statement: Once anonymous grading is turned on for a New Quiz, it cannot be turned off, even if the quiz has not yet been published and no students have taken it. If this setting is accidental...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Formula questions are great but I would like the option to generate certain answer values. I want to be able to generate only integer values or decimal values for certain question t...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In the new Catalog analytics, our users have found that when they run the User report and download the csv, they are able to see the user_defined_fields but they don't get the listi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I am constantly writing out the same comments in the grading pane (not the comment pane) in pdf assignments. This is tedious and repetitive. Proposed solution: [1] Allow access to ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I have worked as an Admin for a few years now and did not know until today that when a profile picture is reported that it goes into an area for admins to approve or delete. There a...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Faculty would like to create Canvas Studio groups of the students in each course. Currently this can only be done manually, one by one. Courses here range from 15 students to over 2...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our institution operates on a primary course model. We had an instructor accidentally delete a discussion question recently. Instructors are added to our courses with the role "Teac...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, if Bulk Purchase/Enrollment is enabled, anybody can be a purchaser. We do have some Catalog sites who want this functionality to be internal and not allow any of the publ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I have noticed that even when you lock a certain assignment, students have found a loophole. If they leave the tab with that assignment open, they can continue to work on/turn in th...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It takes several individual clicks to either mark assignments missing, excused, or zero them out. In our previous LMS, there was a "batch update" function that allowed teachers to s...

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Problem statement: When a user selects Set Default Grade 0, a pop-up window appears listing the number of students affected and one option..."OK". It does not permit the user to cancel this action. Pl...

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Problem statement: Particularly an issue in courses with a large number of enrolments per instructor, it's not always practicable to message large number of students from an individual account. This c...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In the Canvas Credentials (Badgr) integration, there is a discrepancy between the Course End Date and the Badgr Group End Date. When educators modify the Course End Date to accommod...

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Problem statement: On Catalog admins are able to view analytics... listings, orders, enrollments, users. We have marketing and enrollment personnel who need to know whether specific individuals have e...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Looking at add this to Canvas Theme titled: Add more options for 'message students who' to gradebook and analytics tools Want the ability for "Message Students Who" to auto add the ...

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Problem statement: SpeedGrader is very slow at loading assignments. Gradescope is able to load assignments in less than a second. SpeedGrader is consistently taking 4 seconds per assignment. Sometimes...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the Canvas Gradebook has the following statuses available: - Late - Missing - Excused - Resubmitted (I've only seen it in the color settings - never seen it used) - Dropp...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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