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Problem statement: In Canvas, there is currently no way to filter or exclude students who are no longer enrolled in a course (e.g. withdrawn, concluded, or manually removed) when viewing analytics, gr...

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When using a 'Primary Button' style colour theme that passes 1.4.11 Non-text Contrast AA 2.1, an accessibility bug is created on the new Assignment page for the 'Assign Access' 'Clear' buttons, due to...

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Problem statement: In the mobile app, any links (including internal links) are stripped off from the SpeedGrader/quiz feedback - both the question feedback in quizzes and the overall comments. The lin...

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Problem statement: In rubrics, the ranges for each criterion as set as (for example): 25 to >19.9 Pts, 19.9 to >17.4 Pts, 17.4 to >14.9 Pts, 14.9 to >12.4 Pts, 12.4 to >9.9 Pts, and 9.9 to >0. As you ...

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Problem statement: We use Canvas quizzes for formative feedback. These "Do not count this assignment towards the final grade" and obviously, we set them as "Do not display in gradebook or the student'...

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Problem statement: At UK higher education institutions, Canvas terminology is quite confusing. Specifically, what Canvas calls "course", UK HE calls "module". This is further complicated by the fact t...

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Problem statement: New Analytics is kindof dumb - I doubt anyone who actually teaches or moderates at university consulted for its development. In the UK, quite often, there are multiple "dropboxes" (...

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Problem statement: New Analytics: for individual Canvas Assignments, Canvas generates histograms, but Canvas doesn't offer a way to download the histogram or its CSV (only, clicking on individual bars...

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Problem statement: New Analytics: In the UK, quite often, there are multiple "dropboxes" (Canvas Assignments) for a single assessment for the simple reason that there's one Canvas Assignment for regul...

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Problem statement: Currently, it is not possible to embed a single module into a page. It's also not possible to embed a practice quiz with immediately feedback into a page. In fact, this means teache...

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Problem statement: This has been addressed before but seems to have been lost in the ether of various transitions from feature requests and ideas. currently when the term ends or courses are concluded...

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Problem statement: On the desktop, browser-based site, students and parents are unable to message teachers from/about an individual assignment. In the mobile app, this functionality already exists, bu...

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Problem statement: Students leave the testing page for a period of time, but to see them as the teacher we have to click each student individually and scroll through. Proposed solution: It would be b...

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Problem statement: In Canvas Credentials, the format of date variables displayed on certificates (e.g. Issue Date or Expiry Date) is determined by the language settings in the browser of the user who ...

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Problem statement: Students and staff are using Microsoft authentication to login Canvas and MFA has been enabled on Microsoft. Parents are using Canvas authentication, MAF needs to be enabled for all...

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Problem statement: Canvas has a "to do" list, which is great if and when students log into Canvas. However, we all struggle with juggling multiple calendars, and try to have everything appear on a sin...

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Problem statement: The missing status on assignments that are set to "On Paper" or "No Submission" first need to be applied manually by the teacher either in the gradebook, one by one, or in the total...

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Problem statement: When students take a quiz, I sometimes include a File Upload question. I use this for problems that the students need to work out on paper to show their work. Or it's a screenshot o...

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Problem statement: In New Quizzes, when a teacher is using an item bank or multiple item banks and also using the Build upon last attempt setting, students who miss a question, get the same question i...

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Problem statement: There is no way to access the course ID from the Syllabus on the Canvas Student mobile app. This is accessible in 2 ways, however when loading pages, via a Javascript variable ENV.C...

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