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Problem statement: Problem to Solve: Currently, account-level calendars that students are subscribed to are not visible in the Canvas App under the 'Other Calendars' section. In the app, students can ...

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Problem statement: The Canvas Teacher iPad app currently does not allow instructors to create modules within the app. This requires the user to use the Canvas website, which defeats the purpose of hav...

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Problem statement: Currently, stickers are only viewable on a laptop for students. Within our district, our primary students are on iPads and log into Canvas using the Canvas Student App. When a teach...

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Problem statement: In the canvas app, the grader displays the submission date and time, and WHETHER the assignment is late. For my purposes, I want to know just how late it is. Proposed solution: Dis...

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Problem statement: The majority of our users that use the Canvas Student App on an iPad are students that are in grades Kindergarten thru 2nd grade. Most of these students are developing readers and w...

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Problem statement: Most of our students use the mobile app to access Canvas. We send out links to quarterly Student Surveys as a Global Announcement. If students using the mobile app close that announ...

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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: 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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Problem statement: Students can't find the record media icon in the rich text editor in the student app. They don't know they need to swipe the first few icons to the left to reveal more icons because...

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Problem statement: A student created a video for a Discussion reply in the Canvas Student app, but when he clicked "Reply" it posted a blank message with no video. Proposed solution: After recording,...

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Problem statement: In the Canvas student app for ipadOS I need the ability to automatically enable "Allow Cross-Website Tracking" and "Open external tools in Safari" settings. In my case I have a flee...

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Problem statement: Currently, it is only possible to set one session duration for the Student and Teacher apps. That setting then lets the mobile session expire X minutes after login. We find this met...

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Problem statement: With the new implementation of enhanced discussion posts, we are allowed in speed grader to view student posts, view previous replies and next replies. All are done easily on a web ...

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Problem statement: Students should be able to view the "until" or "lock" dates for assignments while they are on their phones. A lot of students do not have access to laptops, but they do have phones....

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Problem statement: Students can manually enter in "To-Do" items and assign them to a class, but these items don't show up in the "To-Do" list (and therefore don't push notifications). For example, the...

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Problem statement: Students using the CANVAS STUDENT APP on IPADS are unable to see their past enrollments. My school has yearlong courses broken up by semester. Sometimes students need to refer back ...

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Problem statement: Observations on the way that students access annotated feedback sn the Canvas Student app. In brief: There are more clicks for students to work through to access the annotations. It...

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Problem statement: The inability to launch the Support Centre from inside the Canvas apps creates issues in providing help to users. We have a significant number of students using the app, and need to...

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Problem statement: In the current version of Canvas SpeedGrader on the iPad, the grading scale only allows movement between whole numbers, which means teachers cannot assign decimal values (e.g., 3.5 ...

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Problem statement: Allow students to modify their To-Do list on the Canvas Student App. Example: A student reported that an assignment continued to show on their to-do list on the Canvas Mobile app ev...

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