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Problem statement: When you have a user who will have student-like interactions in a course, but is not actually enrolled in the course, unfortunately they appear in the gradebook. There is no way to ...

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Idea is currently in development   Problem statement: In previous years, I've been able to unpublish work from a previous quarter and still be able to click on a student's profile, click Grades, and...

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Problem statement: Students are rushing through quiz questions and not taking the time to read through the questions/answers. During my bellwork, in which I use the quiz function, I am finding that se...

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Problem statement: Instructors are getting mass notifications during peer review assignments when they have the assignment comments feature turned on. They would like to be notified when students subm...

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Problem statement: It would improve the user experience if it were clear in the Canvas interface, in the Gradebook, that there is a menu to the right of every assignment name in the table. Right now, ...

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Problem statement: Hello, Last week I needed to submit an assignment that was required to be a pdf. I created the document as an excel workbook and was able to rename the document from "exampleWorkboo...

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Problem statement: Currently the "Assign To" feature requires at least one student to be selected. Thus, to hide content from students, you have to ensure it remains unpublished. Unfortunately, an ins...

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Problem statement: We have numerous "compliance" paperwork that students have to submit. We are looking for a low-impact way to restrict them from their courses at a certain point if that paperwork is...

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Problem statement: Currently grading periods can only be added and edited at the root account level. With multiple sub-accounts with corresponding admins for each representing a college, school or dep...

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Problem statement: When students submit an assignment a few minutes after the due date, they will often leave a comment on their submission like "my computer rebooted and couldn't upload this in time,...

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Problem statement: Add an add /delete button to Peer Reviews so if a peer review is substandard it can be removed from the automatic review. This would be more efficient , rather than manual submissio...

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Problem statement: When I click the "Save" button in New Quizzes I am booted to the modules summary page. A normal save button does not kick you out - it keep you on the page you are already on. To pr...

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Problem statement: All pages have a white background. Proposed solution: My suggestion is to have a way to change the page background or add an image to make it more attractive to students. User rol...

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Problem statement: Push notifications are not supported for global announcements. Proposed solution: Allow push notifications for global announcements. It would be nice as an administrator to be able...

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Problem statement: Late work is currently marked at percentage per day (or hour), down to a floor. For example, I take a 10% penalty for late work regardless of how late it is. I set the floor to 90%,...

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Problem statement: The older gradebook homepage allowed for filters populate drop down menus so teachers could easily toggle between different sections. The new gradebook "apply filters" is cumbersome...

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Problem statement: We are looking for an enhanced solution to efficiently update the "Roll Call Setting" for the "Do not count attendance toward the final grade" option in Canvas for multi-section cou...

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Problem statement: We have been using Canvas for 5 years now, and was not aware that individual Student Test user accounts are created whenever a teacher selects Student View in a course. We have 4 sc...

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Problem statement: Could quizzes, assignments or anything grade be automatically reassigned if they don't meet our lowest possible grade requirement? Proposed solution: When we set up a quiz, test or...

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Problem statement: If you have duplicate enrollments of same person/course/role but different statuses in your SIS import file they will be processed without warning or error. Because Canvas breaks SI...

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