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Problem statement: Availability of CD1 or CD2 resources are limited outside of technical documentation on how to download and basics of storing in a database. Would be extremely helpful to provide add...

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Problem statement: When clicking the pathway under Pathway progress, viewers should see a list of students, not the pathway flow. Group progress>Badge Progress> Clicking any badge allows viewers to se...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Instructors struggle to understand the < symbol in grade ranges. It is confusing to see the range (20 < 18) and understand that 18 would fall into then next range because the range ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: If you Copy All Content or Import All Content into a course in a new semester, the course copy also copies the settings which include your Grading Policy. In the copy from course, i...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We don't use Studio at the University of Utah, but our videos are housed in Kaltura. I'd love to see some way to easily create transcripts of the auto-generated captions in My Media...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I think a good feature to consider adding in the future is to let students click a star icon in module headers and items. Like Gmail and other email sites, users can mark something as important by cli...

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I mostly use canvas on my iPhone and there are zero features on the app for reading all unread messages in the inbox, so I’m left with a huge amount of unread messages on my phone. The only way to rea...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas Catalog The default headers for Catalog and color options for the bars cannot be changed without customization.   Need options to increase logo si...

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Instructors often want, or are asked, to share news and information of importance to all our classes.  Currently, that means copying and pasting that information into anywhere from 2-5 different class...

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