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Problem statement:   We have a problem with teachers being able to add students to courses as teachers (even just accidentally). Most are unaware of the consequences (ie. markbook visibility, course ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: An instructor would want to see the history of all instructor-made modification of an assessment, whether it is a quiz or assignment, basically a log file that shows who did what an...

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Problem statement: currently when grading rubrics with points using speed grader and students earn full credit in each category it takes a lot of time and clicking to complete the rubric. For example ...

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Problem statement: My students started submitting an assignment before I set the Group Set. Now Canvas doesn't let me change the groups, and only the student who submitted sees my comments and the gra...

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Problem statement: When I go to Settings --> Navigation I see all of the options for all of the teachers in my district. I am in the fifth largest district in the US. There are many choices. There are...

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Problem statement: When an instructor changes their assignment's Display Grade as from Points to Complete/Incomplete after grading some students—the already graded students can unfairly get lower scor...

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Problem statement: Currently if a course is concluded, users can no longer be added to the course. We often receive requests for new instructors to be added to a past course to help them prepare for t...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently if there are errors/warnings with SIS Imports, there is no notification sent to account admins. This requires either active monitoring of the SIS Imports and/or building a...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students can control which courses appear on their dashboard and account menu by going to All Courses and starring/unstarring courses. However, students have no way of controlling w...

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Problem statement: Currently, the assignments index page has limited capabilities for teachers to properly filter through all assignments on this page. Teachers become easily overwhelmed when looking ...

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Problem statement: I teach mathematics courses and use the Math Editor frequently (MathQuill in new quizzes). I really like being able to type math equations directly in the Rich Content Editor (RCE),...

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Problem statement: Teachers in our division use gradebook passback from Canvas to our SIS. The Canvas gradebook Settings > Late Policies currently possess the ability to automatically apply a deductio...

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Problem statement: When I need to message an observer and student individually, I have to look up their observers individual names and type them in to the Canvas email. This takes FOREVER. Proposed s...

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Problem statement: As the teacher, I cannot see what is the percent of total grade of each assignment. My students can see this on their Canvas page. Proposed solution: On the modules and assignments...

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Justification: To enable educational organizations to aggregate metrics on async jobs, analyze for operational behavior and store their results long-term for heuristics in S3 buckets. Job-level metric...

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Problem statement: The "What-If Scores" function is confusing for both the student and others who may need to look at a student's grades: parents, athletic coaches, etc. It appears, to the student, th...

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Problem statement: I am trying to condense the size of my table and Just make the text fit without too much white space. Is there a way in which we can edit a table to fit the wording in rather than h...

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Problem statement: In addition to providing Canvas admins with canned reports, please provide us with a report builder in the GUI so we can query the specific information and report with the fields ne...

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Problem statement: Instructors and students cannot organize discussion topics within the discussion landing page. Even though discussion can be organized within modules. Instructors and possibly stude...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When an assignment is set up both to be worth 0 points, and to have letter grades entered, grades are saved in an unintuitive way, which results in a loss of data when attempting to...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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