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Problem statement: I am frustrated by the fact that the "Final Points" calculation in the Canvas Gradebook does not include scores from assignments that are currently hidden. I would like to be able t...

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Problem statement: Using outcomes is a good way to check that students are meeting SLOs or MLOs and offer a good addition to or part of a rubric. However, outcomes can clash when not graded with a rub...

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Problem statement: In (Roll Call) Attendance, there is only possible woth one registration per day. It should be possible with multiple registrations on a single day. Proposed solution: (Roll call) A...

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Problem statement: The Pages course navigation link/shortcut sends course builders first to the Home/Front Page, requiring an extra step/upper button click to reach the global list of all course pages...

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Problem statement: When a group assignment is submitted by a single member of a group, "Speedgrader will assign the submission to one of the students in the group as the submitter for the group submis...

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Problem statement: When instructors create filters within the Gradebook, they would like these filters to still be applied when they are in Speedgrader. For example, the instructor has created multipl...

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Problem statement: When an instructor is creating a Rubric and clicks off that rubric to edit the actual assignment, all the work that they did to that rubric disappears. For instance, if you have an ...

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Problem statement: When adding grading keys in the grading notes box for essay question in New Quizzes, there is no way to enter anything but text. Many teachers need to be able to add formulas, diagr...

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Problem statement: When a teacher copies a course using the "Copy this Course" button in the settings page for a course in a current or future term, the copied course remains attached to the old term....

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Problem statement: When importing or copying a course in Canvas, course-level LTI tools (Apps) can be installed without requiring the necessary permissions. This presents a potential security and acce...

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Problem statement: I use the video feedback in SpeedGrader daily. However, whenever I need to share my screen to give feedback to a student (on a quiz or essay, for example) I have to record the video...

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Problem statement: I'm the Canvas admin at our institution. Several times per week, I am asked to add a chair, discipline coordinator, or other faculty/administrator to a concluded Canvas class. This ...

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Problem statement: With Google Classroom, I was able to bank comments that would auto-fill when I typed comments into the comment bubbles just outside the margins of my students' essays. For example, ...

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Problem statement: We are migrating from Blackboard to Canvas. In the migration process, we are migrating literally hundreds of files from old courses that are many years' old. ,Most of these files ar...

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Problem statement: When there are Sub-Accounts with more than one level of nesting, they are not displayed in the list of Sub-Accounts. This makes it impossible to find a grandchild Sub-Account throug...

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Problem statement: Assignments require multiple files to be uploaded. These files contain several words. But the list of files for upload truncates and only shows a part of the file name. The box list...

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Problem statement: Our institution is enterprise-scale, and as such we have many different positions dedicated to specific roles. We've discovered that it would be beneficial to provide the ability to...

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Problem statement:   When looking at the quiz statistics, an instructor should easily be able to tell the spread of answers for a quiz question to know how to tailor learning. In multiple choice, you...

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Problem statement: Students on IEP / 504 Plans often have the accommodation written into the plan to receive oral accommodations on test. In order to do this, the teacher has to Duplicate their quiz/t...

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Problem statement: Existing outcome grading options don't satisfy my requirements for measuring proficiency The existing "measure [n] times" grading won't show _anything_ until the student has _met_ ...

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