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Problem statement: When pasting assignment titles from internally generated documents (typically word), special characters like the em-dash are not sanitised, leading to gradebook export display issue...

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Problem statement: When an enrollment within a course is "completed" it leaves the enrolled account in the group(s) in which they were in. This is problematic for those that run the course as it muddi...

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Problem statement: We are trying to create a sustainable process for the creation and management of manually-created courses. We would like for school-based manual courses to be managed by the school'...

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Problem statement: When an instructor has set a missing policy in a course and imports that course into a second course site without adjusting dates during the import process, all students are immedia...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Assigning roles appropriate for these users should be separated from the account's platform administration engineering team who need what's called "Admin" in canvas. Proposed solut...

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Problem statement: I've received a number of emails from teachers of courses wanting to know why a student's name is out of place alphabetically in their course roster. In most occasions, the student ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a student is in a group and then dropped from the course, there is no way to see you have inactive students in a group, unless you expand each group to look. This is taking up ...

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Problem statement: To encourage students to think through their errors, I like to give them multiple attempts without showing them the correct answers. It would be nice to show them the correct answer...

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Problem statement: Currently, there is no central location where students can access all rubrics for the course. They can only access them through the individual assignments, which is not always easy,...

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Problem statement: I teach a multisection lab course using Canvas, where different sections meet at different times and I am constantly having to set due dates (and times) for all the assignments base...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students submit an assignment. It's graded and returned. The instructor then allows the student to resubmit, but the original date remains as the due date. The student then doesn't ...

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Problem statement: When admins or advisors are meeting with a student, they want to be able to view all the grades for that student's courses in progress. Currently, they have to go to each course in ...

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Problem statement: There are times when we want to export all users enrolled in a course (everyone in the People) tab. For example, there may be a custom course that repeats each year with the same in...

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Problem statement: Canvas users can upload any file on their computer. Sometimes these files contain sensitive information (PII or Title IV Student Data), or might even be malicious (viruses, phishing...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Lots of new users with lots of old users being left behind. Proposed solution: A simple solution to mass deletion of inactive users. Maybe an automatic timer for inactive = 3 years...

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Problem statement: I set many of my extra credit and/or elective assignments with a denominator of "0" to indicate that there are not required assignments but rather "optional". When students are abse...

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When entering grades for an assignment category that will drop the lowest grades at the end of the semester, if a student has not completed the assignment because they know the lowest grades will be d...

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Problem statement: Currently, there is limited ability to distinguish between Module headers and text headers. Modules that possess a significant amount of content become very convoluted and are diffi...

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Problem statement: When new 'pop' up windows are displayed the 'X' for close is the default action when you press enter, thereby closing the page instead of adding the desired record or action. Exampl...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: For submission comments, the default emoji are yellow. A user has the option to add an emoji, but may be difficult for them to select a skin tone. If the user knows how to utilize e...

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