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Problem statement: When I use New Quiz and edit answer to mulitiple choice questions, when I select an answer to edit, the rich text editor appears, moving the text entry box to a different position o...

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Problem statement: Webmaster: Ctrl + F key combination to open a browser window based search box is a function which belongs to the user, not the website! When you put into place scripting that overri...

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Problem statement: Instructors cannot see the dropdown to view all student attempts on quizzes that allow multiple attempts. it's capped at 65 submissions and instructors who have larger classes are t...

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Problem statement: The current progress report module in Canvas LMS only allows teachers to view individual student progress by clicking on each student's name one at a time. It lacks the functionalit...

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Problem statement: At the moment, if you want to take a copy of the comments you write in Speedgrader you have to basically copy and paste them by taking them one by one (or export one by one). Propo...

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Problem statement: You offer to shuffle answers on an assessment so one students choice A might be another student's choice C. Can you offer than option for questions so one students question 1 is ano...

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Problem statement: When a teacher creates an Assignment, and adds a name and details, the name and details get deleted and overwritten by the file name once you add the Google Cloud Assignment. This d...

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Problem statement: Difficulty knowing if an assignment that is on the calendar has been published or not. Teachers see EVERYTHING but can't tell if they have published them for the students. Proposed...

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Problem statement: I have a new student enrolled today (last 2 weeks of school) and all 93 assignments for the semester are automatically marked "missing" for this student. I have to manually excuse e...

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Problem statement: Expand/Collapse All for Assignments is not available. Each group needs to be collapsed or expanded separately. The modules page already has this functionality. Proposed solution: E...

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Problem statement: 3.3.3 Error Suggestion As part of our annual accessibility audit of our Canvas LMS, we looked at accessibility compliance against WCAG 2.1 standards. This idea request relates to on...

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Problem statement: 3.3.3 Error Suggestion As part of our annual accessibility audit of our Canvas LMS, we looked at accessibility compliance against WCAG 2.1 standards. This idea request relates to on...

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Problem statement: WCAG 2.1 - 2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context) As part of our annual accessibility audit of our Canvas LMS, we looked at accessibility compliance against WCAG 2.1 standards. This idea r...

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Problem statement: 1.3.1 Info and Relationships As part of our annual accessibility audit of our Canvas LMS, we looked at accessibility compliance against WCAG 2.1 standards. This idea suggestion rela...

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Problem statement: When students submit an 'assignment' there is currently the option to allow them to submit using "Canvas Studio", however there is no option to 'restrict' them to ensure that they '...

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Problem statement: Students in groups want to read other groups' postings. Could you please make an option to open the discussion to all students? Proposed solution: Making an option that opens to al...

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Problem statement: Unless teachers have enabled email notifications for receiving Canvas inbox within their account, messages from families sent to teachers are being missed because teachers are forge...

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Problem statement: We'd love to use more differentiated learning to provide individualized experience, but with rolling enrollment (professional development company) we are very limited if we need to ...

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Problem statement: Today, the only way to delete many or all events that you have in your courses in Canvas is to manually delete the events one by one, which can be very time-consuming. Proposed sol...

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Problem statement: The date feature released on 4/15/24 is unusable unless you are using it for a date in the current year. Catalog Release Notes (2024-04-15) Note in the release link above the examp...

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