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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: When searching for courses to associate with a blueprint, the term drop down seems to be randomly organized - not alphabetical or by year/term - it seems random and makes it incredi...

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Problem statement: When I am searching for a course (for ex., to copy a page/module to another course) or for a rubric ( the find a rubric feature), I get a list of all courses that I have taught and ...

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Problem statement: Please put back the score a student received when we send a message in the gradebook. For example, I send a message to everyone who missed an exam, then I also send a message to eve...

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Problem statement: In the gradebook, it would be easier to flag students who are struggling if I could visually see it. The grades can be sorted, but if I want to keep students in alpha order, it woul...

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Problem statement: Currently, modules exist in isolation of each other. Teachers at our school typically make each week a new module. However, it is difficult for students to see their weekly modules ...

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Problem statement: In the Attendance tool in a web browser, the 'mark all as present' tool is immediately below the dropdown menu to change the current class section. When moving quickly, it is too ea...

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Problem statement: I would like to be able to see a full view of all students attendance report, including badges, as a whole class without having to click on each individual student on the attendance...

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Problem statement: I work with a lot of instructors in a lot of courses, with hundreds of unique assignments between them. It would be helpful to know from the Assignments page which of these assignme...

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Problem statement: When we're commenting on student submissions, its common for a problematic, or exemplary passage/quotation/sentence to begin near the bottom of one page and continue to the next. Ri...

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Problem statement: The platform currently does not support inline review questions. Inline review questions are important to engage learners and help them retain information. For the current New Quizz...

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Problem statement: The next and back buttons do not display on the android app for Teachers, the student app is fine. This works on the ios systems. This means that if a teacher using the android app ...

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Problem statement: Right now, if a teacher wants to grade a text entry item, they need to look elsewhere for the answer key. You can't put the answers in the rubric because students can see the rubric...

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Problem statement: Currently, the RCE provides a "quick" picker for text colors. Many of the 20 choices are not deemed accessible at the default text size by Canvas's own Accessibility Checker feature...

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Problem statement: The only way to add a student/faculty member to a Canvas course is to use their email address or ID number. I would like a way to add people to a course using their name, so that it...

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Problem statement: Currently, in Canvas Credentials, each badge or pathway needs its own Issuer to be created. It would be nice to be able to nest "sub" Issuers under "master" Issuers to help organize...

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Problem statement: Currently, when a student has only “Student” enrollments, the To Do list on the Dashboard shows all upcoming items for all their active courses. However, once an enrollment is added...

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Problem statement: Many districts, including the last two in which I've worked, have a corrections policy for students. This policy allows student to correct any failed (<70) assignment for up to a ma...

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Problem statement: Canvas instructors need a quick, clean, verifiable way to see which badges students have earned already outside of their class. And students need a clean, clear path for sharing a B...

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Problem statement: *Every Time* I want to create a synchronized/online conference and put it on the student's' schedule, I have to create the whole thing? That's 30 times in a 2x a week A15 class. Pr...

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