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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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Problem statement: Instructors cannot set up module requirements in a course in a way that allows students to choose which topics they wish to complete if they do not need to complete them all. This c...

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Problem statement: Rubric ranges are only available if faculty at a per-rubric level select the small check box per criteria that says "Range." This is a lot of manual clicks for faculty. Proposed so...

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Problem statement: When using Canvas for Elementary on the Canvas App on iPads there is a color overlay on the banner of the course home page. This overlay cannot be removed except by turning off Home...

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Problem statement: 'Submit for student' is a new feature, since March 2023, that does not exist in the Mobile App. We would like say for a student who hands in homework (for example a drawn poster) in...

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Problem statement: It should be possible (and is in other systems, and was with a Canvas work-around that was mysteriously removed some months back) to sort posts within a discussion in such a way as ...

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Problem statement: Anytime a new module/module item is created, it goes to the bottom of the page/module and does not allow a teacher to choose where the module (or within the module) the item will li...

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Problem statement: Right now, students can sign up for an appointment time slot 5 minutes before the time slot, but the teacher may not have prepared to be at the appointment if they checked even 10 m...

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Problem statement: Currently the only way to view the overall class attendance (from beginning of semester till today) is by having an Attendance Report emailed to you in .csv format. Please make avai...

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Problem statement: Root Admin have hundreds of courses. It would be really helpful to be able to sort the courses into folders. Proposed solution: Create an option to put courses in folders. User ro...

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Problem statement: I want to be able to quickly click through assignments students have done. Instead, to show students multiple assignments from my class, I have to click on each assignment separatel...

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Problem statement: The only way to scroll horizontally through my gradebook is to first scroll down, then there is a TINY bar I have to click and hold quickly before it disappears again. It is ridicul...

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