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Problem statement: For users to be temporarily enrolled in a course, the enrollments and withdraws must be manually done. For example, if access is needed for an accreditation visit or outside course ...

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Problem statement: In grade book, I wold like to see an option to message students who achieved a score of less than the max but more than the minimum score. For example, on my 1-4 rubric, it is easy ...

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Problem statement: I teach hybrid courses, so in addition to the assignments on Canvas, I have to account for the in-class work that students complete as part of their grade. To keep track of this in ...

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Problem statement: Instructors do not have enough tools to do in-line grading/annotating of student submissions in SpeedGrader. Proposed solution: Instructors need more robust tools for in-line gradi...

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Problem statement: We have heard from instructors about a problem with the What If Grades, and the problem is that student's can't use an "EX" to remove a grade from consideration. Thus, this causes c...

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Problem statement: As a student, I want to be able to request a name change on a credential that has already been issued to me. Changing the preferred name in the user account doesn't update credentia...

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Problem statement: As an administrator, I want to be able to resend the initial credentials email a student receives. Students sometimes miss/do not receive the email and having an option available to...

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Problem statement: It's sometimes difficult to answer all the questions a newbie teacher has about Canvas. I wish we had a caring mentor for every new teacher to help them learn Canvas. Proposed solu...

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Problem statement: I would like to recommend that when one is in assignments or quizzes one should be able to go from 1 assignment or quiz to the other by clicking next. For example, I want to allow s...

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Problem statement: Student Names are always sorted on the mobile app and the website by last name, first name. Proposed solution: 1) Allow a preference to show names by First Last or Last, First. 2) ...

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Problem statement: Currently Canvas Credentials is pulling through the names of inactive students into the Canvas Credentials roster when awarding badges, running the risk of awarding badges to studen...

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Problem statement: Currently when a Canvas course turns to read-only access, this unenrolls all students in the course and the Credentials roster data other than inactive students. Students can then o...

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Problem statement: Currently it's possible to pass through a username to the internal Canvas login page with a URL like: https://example.instructure.com/login/canvas?pseudonym_session%5Bunique_id%5D=u...

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Problem statement: The regrade and partial-credit options in new quizzes are completely dependent on the question type. Some questions have incredibly flexible regrade and partial credit options while...

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Problem statement: When a teacher sends a message to "Students who have NOT taken the quiz" (or the other option there, I'm sure) there is not field for a subject, so messages are send with "(No Subje...

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Problem statement: When a student uses the app on their phone, and I (teacher) have put an assignment comment in the grade book they often miss it. It is not intuitive for them that the comment is the...

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Problem statement: In some cases you want to limit users (teachers) to make changes to course settings, but they always have access to this settings page. Proposed solution: Create a permission which...

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Problem statement: After a child course sync’s from the Blueprint, the pages in the child course only shows the date of page creation and not the last edited date. We require the dates in the child co...

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Problem statement: As a Student; in a Canvas enviornment under a course under the grades link there is a webpage that loads with all the students grades. Next to the 'Grades' link there is a number in...

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Problem statement: The temporary enrollments release notes state that concluded courses will not appear on the list since they do not allow new enrollments. Thus, we still have to utilize a workaround...

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