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Problem statement: When a module has an unpublished item such as a page, sometimes students cannot progress past that module even when they have completed all the published items (view pages, etc.). I...

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Problem statement: If a student accidently create a Student Group, then the Student Groups group set tab remains visible to the teacher. The teacher can remove the groups, but not the group set. Prop...

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Problem statement: I have had several professors ask me how they can set up a quiz or assignment and automatically have Canvas award the student FULL CREDIT for completing the assignment and a zero fo...

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Problem statement: Many instructors have submitted support tickets at Stanford, thinking they were stuck in Student View. It turns out they interpret the Student View button as a label indicating they...

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Problem statement: In the "Legacy" version of Badgr, when a student was dropped from my Canvas class, they also disappeared from the Leaderboard. At our school, a dropped student only becomes "inactiv...

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Problem statement: Our teachers do not have permission to create or manage LTI external tools for compliance/legal reasons, but if they import (or copy), that import can create external tools. The pro...

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Problem statement: When downloading a submission from Speedgrader (using the annotated document download), the student name is not currently added to the download (like it is when using the bulk downl...

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Problem statement: It would be nice if when making a Global Announcement to be able to select which sub-accounts should receive the announcement. Many times I need the announcement only to go to High ...

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Statement: Some lecturers use crosslisting for A and B classes.  The problem is that the crosslisting function becomes broken when lecturers add themselves into a crosslisted course. As a result stude...

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Problem statement: A semester-long project is introduced at the beginning of the semester. Students are given a page which gives instructions for the project. At the end of the semester, students subm...

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Problem statement: At the root account level, we have the setting checkbox option "Don't let teachers modify course availability dates". We would like to have this setting option for sub-accounts. We ...

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Problem statement: The process can be very time consuming to assign Badgr / Canvas Credential badges to Canvas LMS courses because it has to be done manually. The best process we have found is to log ...

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Problem statement: Add a course permission for COPY content. This was baked into the TA & Teacher role until July 2022 when someone in Canvas decided that this was a bug and lumped in use of the "copy...

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It would be a good idea to preventing markers from changing grades on canvas after they have been released, this feature should only be available to module leaders. 

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When accessing Canvas Studio from within Canvas, the landing page only displays videos and collections that I have created myself.  Those that were shared with me from others are not visible.  The end...

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It would be extremely helpful if a new column with the Outcome Group name were added to the account-level reports named "Outcome Results" and "Student Competencies".  At our institutions, it's quite c...

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Here's the dilemma: Quizzes have time limits, but PDFs attached in them cannot be annotated on in SpeedGrader. File submissions allow you to annotate in SpeedGrader, but there's no time limit.  What w...

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If an instructor accidentally clicks the "Reassign Assignment" button in SpeedGrader, there is not a way to undo the action. Please provide an option to undo the action. Here is the link to the "Reass...

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After speaking with one our education specialists about a recent integration request, I thought it would be very helpful to be able to deploy an integration or app to a course based on an attribute of...

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We are a K-12 District.  Sometimes it is necessary to see what is going on. Right now, in order to see a student's Studio library, one would have to masquerade as the student (which gives you editing ...

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