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Problem statement: Unanswered essay questions (from students either skipping them or running out of time) requiring manual grading. With >150 students, I many times have instances where I am just putt...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There is a notification setting for "Announcement Created By You" so that a teacher receives an email notification of their own announcement. There is NOT a notification setting so ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: when a student accesses a locked page that has pre-requisite , the 'pre requisite' text shows no indication it is clickable. So they can't see list of missing items they need to com...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In late 2020, Instructure changed the default and icons for files located in a course and on a page. Previously a magnifying glass accompanied a linked file on a page and defaulted ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: New Quizzes Accommodations show “all course assessments” despite only applying to New Quizzes Proposed solution: The ability to apply accommodations across numerous assessments wit...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It is difficult to identify users in the Item Bank sharing menu. When sharing Item Banks with a person who shares a name with someone else (John Doe and John Doe), it will only show...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a quiz is built by adding individual questions from multiple item banks, instructors can not tell which questions were pulled from which bank. (NOTE if you use the “all or rand...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our area has a large Hmong community, and we are beginning to offer courses in the Hmong language. It would benefit our users to be able to select the Hmong language for the Canvas ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: New Quizzes is missing parity in displaying quiz time for extending time while Moderating a student. With Classic Quizzes, when you extend the time of a student, for example with an...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas account admins with "Item banks - Manage Account" permission have access to all item banks in all courses, potentially thousands or or tens of thousands of item banks. In ord...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In new quizzes, when banking a quiz question, the user is presented with a search box from which to select the desired item bank. For anyone with access to a large number of item ba...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Classic quizzes, it was possible to align one or more outcomes with a question bank. In New Quizzes, outcomes be aligned with the entire quiz or individual questions, not banks. ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There is currently no functionality in either quiz engine to create dynamic quizzes that adjust (during the quiz) based on student performance. An example of how this could be used ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The daily report includes "New Account User" when someone is granted an admin role. Where more than one role is granted, the same text is displayed (to the character) repeatedly, wh...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: To increase student engagement and community, some of our faculty like to utilize video discussions that require students to post a video in response to a prompt as their initial re...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas currently groups peer review according to the essay being reviewed, so if I want to find Horatio's comments, I need to look for Estelle's essay. This makes grading difficult....

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: For Account Calendars to be of use, we need the ability to block off time across multiple days. Fall, winter, & spring breaks, etc. Proposed solution: Add the ability to block off ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: After recording Audio or Media feedback, Canvas displays a dialog stating ‘Media is currently being converted, please try again in a little bit.” when the file upload has failed. Th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Having optional work is challenging to manage. Students can be assigned work as a whole, based on their needs according to the Mastery Path, or if a teacher knows that specific stud...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Often times faculty want to set a repeating announcement but there is currently no way to schedule that out. Proposed solution: provide a way for announcements to repeat or be sche...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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