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Problem statement: Leaders of school districts and school buildings are usually added to Canvas with Account level access. Normally, they are trying to locate a student (user), grades, assignments, an...

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Problem statement: A global search/fine and replace tool is lacking in Canvas to search within all pages in a given course shelle. Proposed solution: Please consider coding a tool that allows users t...

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Problem statement: We have a second Canvas instance created for our use of Catalog, and a trust relationship configured so our existing learners can SSO from the primary, SIS-connected instance. With ...

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Problem statement: Professor would like Students to be able to go into Canvas files and print files from Canvas without downloading them. We have tried doing CTRL-P when the file is open, but it cuts ...

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Problem statement: I'v added an External URL to a module in one of my courses. I want to copy this External URL to all seven of my courses. I can't do it, because there is no option like there would b...

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Problem statement: As the title suggests, the idea is to allow moderated grading for group assignments. Currently, if the assignment is selected to be a group assignment, the moderated grading option ...

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Problem statement: Description: Currently, multiple submission-allowed assignments do not have the option for selecting which student submission score is counted toward the course total/added to the g...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Admin Analytics provides many conditions to filter account data, including sub-accounts, terms, and weekly or monthly trends. Currently, there is no option to save filters to allow ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the wait list setting in Canvas only works if the enrollment to the listing is open and if the student cap has been reached. We have a use case for allowing the wait list...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Submit on behalf of student is likely to be commonly used after the submission window has closed - and at some point in marking. A Grader spots that something isn't quite right (pos...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When finishing grading a rubric, users must scroll to the top of the page to enter the assessment score, then scroll back to the bottom to enter any comments and SUBMIT. This requir...

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Problem statement: Writing instructors often spend a lot of time trying to provide feedback to students on their writing assignments. One example of an area that can be tedious to grade is grammar. In...

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Problem statement: At present, Canvas permissions allow us to enable or disable "Courses - change visibility" which allows an instructor to choose between Course, Institution, and Public visibility. A...

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Problem statement: En la página de "Archivos" hay partes con un idioma diferente al determinado por la página. En este caso, en inglés, lo que puede confundir al usuario. Proposed solution: Traducir ...

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Problem statement: When the user tries to create a new topic or respond to one of the proposed ones, as there are no form fields marked as mandatory; When he submits the form, he does not know if erro...

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Problem statement: Cuando el usuario trata de utilizar el buscador para encontrar con más facilidad el contenido dentro del foro, se encuentra con que el buscador no dispone de encabezados de sección ...

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Problem statement: When we create users and their passwords there is no option to force users to reset their password on first login. Proposed solution: This is a common feature on most other platfor...

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Problem statement: There is no way to keep track of reasons for absences or lateness in the Canvas Attendance tool. I allow students a certain number of unexplained absences, but after that number has...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: From a user’s end, it won’t allow you to see any attached image unless log in if you’re replying on receiving notifications through emails, but that doesn’t seem like an issue for t...

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Problem statement: There is no way to tell if a specific rubric is in use in a course other than manually visiting every gradable assignment/discussion/quiz and checking if the specific rubric is atta...

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