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Problem statement: Quizzes don't tally the total marks a student achieves against the outcomes questions are aligned to in a quiz. For, example, if we align the questions in our Yearly examination, we...

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Problem statement: Assignments in Canvas do not allow instructors to create auto-graded assignments with forced-answer question types such as multiple choice, true/false, matching, hot spot, etc. Inst...

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Problem statement: If enrollments are created/updated by regular, automatic SIS imports, then there is no way for an admin to effectively remove an enrollment from a Canvas course, or in other words, ...

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Problem statement: Use of Outcomes is only set up for Mastery. We use it for that, but would also love to be able to use it to tally marks against outcomes from various tasks (where the marks allocate...

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Problem statement: Our parents access grades through a Canvas web interface. When the mobile orientation for the dashboard loads in a browser (Firefox, Safari, Chrome), the "View Grades" button is at ...

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Problem statement: I want to apply the late assignment policy to my pass/fail types of assignments. I use complete/incomplete, but this semester some students submitted the work after the deadline wit...

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Problem statement: Parent observers request that there is an easy to read consolidation of all students' assignments (more than the "to-do" list -- particularly a list that shows late and missing work...

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Problem statement: I was supporting an exam and the time expired before any of the students could finish their exam. The teacher wanted to give them another 15 minutes to finish. Proposed solution: A...

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Problem statement: There are too many steps to manually grade a short-answer or essay question. You must click into a student's quiz answers, move to the specific question (or set it to sort by questi...

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Problem statement: We cannot alter the total grade for New Quizzes directly in Speedgrader; we have to go through Gradebook to manually set the grade to 'complete'. When you pick "show grade as: compl...

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Problem statement: Problem to view links in a attached documents, when using docviewer and have marked the tool for hignlighting note in a document. If the teacher have marked the icon for hightlight ...

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Problem statement: When creating a new quiz, the default points setting is 1 and there isn't a way to change this globally for a given quiz. To change points for each question requires a manual entry ...

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Problem statement: So the number one reason I HATE grading in Canvas is that I try to highlight specific pieces of text in my students assignments so I can comment on it, and Canvas seems to have a mi...

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Problem statement: When syncing Canvas grades to an Aeries gradebook (through the "Sync with SIS" function in the Canvas Grades tab), the grades will auto-populate the new assignment into the Aeries g...

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Problem statement: I am not sure it is a problem. Right now we can create tabbed pages so that say if I want to have all of the weeks bell ringers in one place I can. But you can't grade a page. I wou...

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Problem statement: I assign practice quizzes to students as homework as a way from them to check their understanding of concepts covered in class. The practice quiz does not show up on the calendar, s...

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Problem statement: It takes a long time to add non-repeating calendar events, as each one must the done through a series of mouse clicks. Proposed solution: A CSV upload would save a lot of time for ...

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Problem statement: When any change (including publishing) is made to a Canvas Page, students (who have enabled immediate notifications) will receive a notification email which contains the entire cont...

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Problem statement: I sometimes create an assignment in multiple parts, which are independently submitted by the students and independently graded by us. All the parts together make up one logical assi...

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Problem statement: It would be beneficial to have course meeting day and time available in Canvas as it is listed in the Student Information System. This would be beneficial to offices across campus w...

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