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Problem statement: It's not possible to have certificates generated from Catalog based on overall grade in a course. Proposed solution: Allow certificates to be generated based on overall grade. Use...

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Problem statement: When assignments have a requirement defined to "Mark as done", the button placement is at the top of the page. This is inconsistent with the location on "Page" items where it was mo...

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Problem statement: When grading an assignment, I often forget the exact prompt and have to open another Canvas session to keep it handy. Proposed solution: I'd like to be able to click a button and h...

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Problem statement: Students can't tell from Modules if they have submitted or received a score. They only can if the teacher set it up in the modules correctly with completion requirements but as a te...

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Problem statement: Students are often added to classes throughout the school year. In our classes (PE) we organize students in roll call and give them numbers. Each time a new student is added in Canv...

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Problem statement: Some faculty are not proactive about deleting or archiving messages in the Inbox. Proposed solution: It would be great if an option existed where users could select to archive mess...

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Problem statement: I would like to see a way of limiting the max score a student can earn in a test that has been given a second or third attempt. Proposed solution: In moderating a quiz or test when...

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Problem statement: When a teacher wants to view student responses and marks for a New Quiz, they either have to go to the SpeedGrader and look at questions one by one, or go to the Moderate screen (af...

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Problem statement: When marking Discussions as Complete/Incomplete, you have to select the option from a Drop-Down-list, which requires more mouse movements and clicking, slowing down the marking proc...

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Problem statement: Currently the instructor has to either check the email report or go through the SpeedGrader to find out if a student has posted a comment to the instructor feedback. Proposed solut...

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Problem statement: It would be great if the Rich Content Editor were state of the art. For example, the Symbol font does not work, line spacing is not available in the icon menu, and so on. One could ...

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Problem statement: My gradebook is cluttered with assignments that are not graded and/or do not count toward the grade. For example, if I want students to read for homework, but not turn in anything i...

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Problem statement: The dummy user 'Test Student' is created in courses when Student View is used. This user is then shown unnecessarily in SpeedGrader and the gradebook. Teaching staff who don't want ...

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Problem statement: Hello, we need a way to have all messages archived from students in Canvas. I understand that when a student deletes a message, it is gone forever. When two users engage in illicit ...

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Problem statement: I have deadlines for students to turn in work. I want there to be a status of missing past due to indicate to students that they never turned the assignment in, but they cannot subm...

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Problem statement: You can create rules in the Canvas Assignments categories when you create weights for your categories. For example, you can set a rule in a category to drop the lowest grade. Canvas...

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Problem statement: As a Canvas Admin, when troubleshooting grade passback issues, it would be helpful to see which assignments count toward the final grade without having to go into each individual as...

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Problem statement: Since the deploy on 2024-01-17 that added the "Submitted" date column to the individual gradebook (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Releases/Canvas-Deploy-Notes-2024-01-17/...

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Problem statement: Navigating throughout the courses content, there is so much information. I think it would be helpful if there was an option to save some of the pages to your favourites or put a pin...

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Problem statement: Currently, when users attempt to preview a New Quiz that has been shared with them via Shared Content, it returns an error stating, "External Tool Content Can't be Previewed: In ord...

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