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Problem statement: In order to add someone (student or TA or ...) to a course you need to provide their email(s). This requires me to know the exact email of the person, but I sometimes (without looki...

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Problem statement: My school has been using Canvas for three years now.  It was difficult to get teachers to use Canvas at first, but the Google Cloud assignment format and Speedgrader won most of our...

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Problem statement: Currently I receive Notifications that a student has made a Comment on an assignment, which is sent to my institutional/linked email address. I click "Click to View" and it does dir...

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Problem statement: When a student sends a message via the Inbox, you see the student name in bold then the Course in which they are enrolled below their name, then the timestamp. Currently to respond ...

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Problem statement: Pages do not allow comments or questions to be posted. Scenario: Students review pages and might have questions. Some students have the same question. Regardless, each student then ...

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Problem statement: Dear colleagues, Hope all is well and thank you, in advance, for any suggestions you may come up with to overcome the following issue. Prolog: Especially post-COVID, the number of e...

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Problem statement: Currently comment banks are only accessible when using the main comment section in Speed Grader. It would be helpful to be able to access those comment banks when doing in line feed...

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Problem statement: It takes several steps to get to the moderate quiz page from the Gradebook. Proposed solution: In the 3-dot drop-down menu for an assignment in the Gradebook, add a shortcut choice...

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Problem statement: I am a high school teacher with many different courses where I wish to have fully synchronized course items in courses that are NOT cross listed. Call this cross listing of items ( ...

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Problem statement: The blue "Submit" button in Speedgrader is confusing. Educators think that clicking "Submit" is actually posting grades. It does not do this...it "Saves" the comments to the Assignm...

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Problem statement: To add a notification whenever there is a new course(s) created in Canvas. Proposed solution: From time to time, we have courses created by our partner institutes in Canvas directl...

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Problem statement: Hello, When New Quiz users have "One question at a time" enabled, the print function is more cumbersome. When printing, it will only print the first instructions and first question ...

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Problem statement: When teachers/students leave the district, their accounts go dormant and emails are still sent to them via Canvas. When that happens, the account is added to a Suppression List and ...

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Problem statement: When Blueprints are being developed, but already connected to courses, it would be very useful if you could 'opt out' (similar to unpublish or unlock) certain content, so it is then...

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Problem statement: when looking at the new analytics weekly online activity the resource list includes items right down to individual images which is not helpful. I would like to be able to filter out...

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Problem statement: when looking at file in a course I can only see what has been uploaded and not a location of where they exist within a course or even if they have just been uploaded to file and not...

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Problem statement: As a teacher using the Canvas 4 Elementary Dashboard, you can rearrange the Course Navigation for the students, but not for the teacher. Modules is located at the bottom of the navi...

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Problem statement: The current setup with Immersive Reader does not include some parts of Canvas, like Quizzes. It would be a big advantage for users who need to use it while taking tests or interacti...

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Problem statement: As an Admin when I am looking for courses to spot check I would like to be able to sort the list of courses displayed for a SubAccount by the number of students. I end up needing to...

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Problem statement: Currently, when a student views their grades and clicks on a quiz they have not completed, they are taken to the submissions page for the quiz, which does not display an option to b...

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