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Problem statement: Faculty would like to create Canvas Studio groups of the students in each course. Currently this can only be done manually, one by one. Courses here range from 15 students to over 2...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There is not a way to see when a student watched a video. We are mostly in person but on days when I have a substitute, I require my students to watch a notes video that I make in c...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Hello, As instructional designers, some of the instructional videos we create, using Studio, should be available to all faculty at our institution. Hence, we need to put them at the...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Some videos are quite long, and for review purposes, as well as for finding the particularly relevant segments, users need to listen to the video perhaps on faster speed, or scroll ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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We are new to Studio and I am discovering things that are problematic. One is that Studio Admin is an all or nothing role.   We need that each school ITC can be a Studio Admin for their school sub acc...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Right now the Settings for Studio are for all Teachers and all Students, globally. We need to be able to select different settings for High School students (less restrictive) than for Middle and Eleme...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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I suggest that Canvas develop a Chrome Extension for Canvas Studio. There are so many times when reporting a bug or wanting to share my Canvas tip to a teacher that I need to record my screen. I love ...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Videos downloaded, not created, on Studio need to have some sort of editing feature available to add lines, blurring, etc. to the video.  This is useful not only as an editing tool to go back and fix ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Groups in Canvas Studio were recently made available. I know it is possible to manually create groups, but is it possible to automate the creation of groups? E.g. I have 30 departments I want to creat...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Hello everyone! At our institution we use Studio to create educational videos we find that when we generate a public link to share a video we cannot know the viewing statistics as we did on youtube. I...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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This Feature Idea is similar to the one submitted by @MalenaM called Canvas Studio Playlist - Instructure Community. Now that Vimeo has been added as another video option for Canvas Studio [Studio Rel...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to move multiple videos at time from my global studio into a collection.    Use Case: We have an American Sign Language course with TONS of videos. We migrated to Canvas in 201...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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In Canvas Studio when using the Studio LTI app in the RCE and choosing a video from My Uploads library, there are two tabs: Standard Embed (assuming Commenting Enabled) and Video Quiz Embed. You can c...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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With 100% remote teaching during the COVID pandemic, I and my colleagues are blending synchronous and asynchronous content. We are creating quite a few videos that we house in Studio and embed into Ca...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Presently, replacing a thumbnail image for a Studio video requires uploading an image file from the local computer. In nearly every conceivable case, the desired image will be a frame from the video i...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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It would help save time, and make grading easier, if insights could be separated by course sections.

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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By "universal" I mean to not limit instructor comments to one specific course.   If I create/use a Studio video I want to use in more than one course and I add comments for students to reply to (e.g. ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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