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For reference, this course is a county-wide assessment for all 8th grade students.  We have multiple sections, and several Graders (for moderated grading), and all students need to submit within a two...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Currently, it appears the Student Interactions Report only shows grades in percentages, and will not use the custom grading scheme. Whichever grading scheme is selected for the course (including custo...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Our university use courses that are open to all University staff and  students and are not required to be enrolled in these courses as long as they can log in to Canvas. In the previous version of Cou...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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The admin tools - view notifications feature is really helpful - unfortunately - it doesn't show communication to pending users.When you add a student to a course (who is brand new to Canvas) by using...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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The People list in the admin area of an account or subaccount shows Name, Email, SIS ID and Last Login.The Last Login field shows the date of the last time a user actually carried out a login, but as,...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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For  schools that do not have the resources to use Canvas Data:    Help Canvas administrators assess usage of Classic Quizzes during the transition to New Quizzes by adding a reporting tool to "school...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hi, In Canvas there is not possible to see the trend in overall page views and thereby monitor the usage of the plattform. In account anlytics the page views are divided into terms and this does not r...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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We have recently discovered that all of the information in  Canvas UI -> Admin -> Admin Tools -> Logging in Canvas data is only retained for one calendar year.This information is imperitive to our in...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I would like to suggest that when admin reports, like unpublished and unused courses, are run that there is some indication of 1) whether the course is cross-listed, and 2) which course it is cross-li...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Hello, I would like to request an enhancement to the LTI report based on the archived idea Report for LTIs (External Apps) Usage and a concern that account-level LTI configurations are not being repor...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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The user "Page Views" information is not very useful as it is presently designed. Two small tweaks with the UI could vastly improve it's present functionality until a more comprehensive admin tool can...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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