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Problem statement: Most tools that implement some sort of todo-list feature allow users to hide completed tasks (or hide completed tasks by default). This makes it easy for users to focus on tasks the...

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Problem statement: The new "Online Attendance" feature in New Analytics requires users to re-select the "Class days" that the class meets every single time a teacher checks attendance for a given cour...

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Problem statement: As instructional Designers, sometimes we make custom-made instructional videos, using Studio, for the students of certain faculty. Faculty also create videos that may like to share ...

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Problem statement: Hello, As instructional designers, some of the instructional videos we create, using Studio, should be available to all faculty at our institution. Hence, we need to put them at the...

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Problem statement: When students submit work to Canvas, they will sometimes submit the wrong file, a corrupt file or attempt type 'types' of uploads such as Studio+File Upload. Whilst students can cur...

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Problem statement: When we teach the same courses in subsequent terms (as most of us do), we copy previous versions of the course into new ones and then check and adjust release dates to match our new...

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Problem statement: I use complete/incomplete to grade my discussions. If a student hasn't met the criteria for marking the discussion as complete, I mark it as "incomplete." However, additional postin...

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Problem statement: Hello, I'd love to see an override for viewing course materials in locked modules in student view. Currently, as an instructor, if you'd like to look at an assignment in a locked mo...

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Problem statement: Many Canvas users, such as educators and administrators, often have multiple roles within different courses. However, Canvas's current dashboards don't provide an efficient way for ...

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Problem statement: I would like to be able to set a notification when students submit an assignment in just one assignment category. For example, I might only want a notification when students submit ...

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Problem statement: When a teacher creates a new module, it defaults to the bottom of the course module page. Can you please create an option where teachers can have the newest module created default t...

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Problem statement: Since "deleting" a user account will delete all associated information, courses, grades, etc., we have decided to "suspend" user accounts that have not accessed our Canvas instance ...

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Problem statement: I would like students to create their own groups to submit a group assignment. Currently as the instructor I can create a group set, create the number and size of groups, and then s...

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Problem statement: Students can see who modified or uploaded a file in Files and who created or modified a page in the list of course pages. This is problematic for some institutions that employ stude...

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Problem statement: Noting that it is possible to see when an individual student viewed their feedback within SpeedGrader, it would be useful to be able to have this information represented for all stu...

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Problem statement: Third party LTI tool links or embed options are usually only available on the course navigation for enabled tools. There are products we would like to easily link from the link inse...

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Problem statement: Students who are added to a course after Group Sets have been created must be manually added to groups, even if groups were created automatically to start with. This can be a daunti...

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Problem statement: When a student upload a document for an assignment and leave the page befor submitting (hit the blue button submit assignment), the assignment will be saved in the students files - ...

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Problem statement: I currently use the quiz time limit feature based on the number of questions. It would be nice to be able to set a per question time limit. For instance, if I wanted to only allow 2...

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Problem statement: When creating an assignment I'm usually linking to an external tool to do this. For a given course, I typically only have one or two external tools that I link to. However, my insti...

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