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Problem statement: In course settings, you can set the default due time. But it’s restricted to ‘on the hour’ (1:00, 2:00, etc). My school starts classes on the half hour onMWF and on 75 min intervals...

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Problem statement: Canvas offers a limited number of file types that are supported for DocViewer, however there are many courses for programming that require submissions of files with various extensio...

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Problem statement: We still have instructors who would like to test in their structured environments. Currently, they use Scantrons and have to manually enter grades into the Canvas Gradebook. Propos...

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Problem statement: Assignment and Quiz Submission Comments are available in the Canvas > Inbox > Submission Comment area, but they cannot be filtered by "unread". The endless list of comments shows mi...

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Problem statement: Learners want to be able to interact with their learning and get feedback while they are working through content, rather than having to go into separate formative or summative quiz....

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Problem statement: We have instances where 1 section needs access to Zoom and other sections are in person. I would like to be able to assign the Zoom only to those who are in the online instance, but...

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Problem statement: The Return button on the Build page returns you to the module/home page directly. Proposed solution: Return button should go back to the first edit screen for new quizzes in order ...

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Problem statement: Grading standards can be created at the course level or account level. User can assign account or course level grading standard to be active in course When using a teacher token, th...

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Problem statement: GraphQL is great. It is fast and easy to use. It is also worthless to most 3rd party LTI tools because it can not be scoped and schools insist that LTIs used scoped developer keys. ...

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Problem statement: The modules API does not return the assignment ID for discussions, quizzes, and pages. The submissions API does not return content IDs. So, the only way to connect submission scores...

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Problem statement: Canvas LTI load times do not seem to have been improved much in the past 12 years. The LTI handshake takes about 1.5 seconds while the page is white, and API calls are throttled sti...

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Problem statement: Currently, instructors cannot filter to students without a submission in the Moderate feature of New Quizzes. Current filters are: Show All, No Attempts Left, Attempts in Progress, ...

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Problem statement: When managing tags in an item bank, there is not a possiblity to rename the tag. We have been using Item Banks with New Quizzes for over 2 years now and some of our tags were based ...

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Problem statement: Videos posted in quizzes whether recorded or uploaded have the option to slow down or speed up the video. I teach a language course and I would like the option of locking the video ...

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Problem statement: When I am taking a canvas quiz, I sometimes get confused at the answer choices. For example, in a multiple choice question, option a is crossed out and so on. Proposed solution: In...

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Problem statement: When copying course content from one course shell to another, the source course's Participation setting values are copied too. We have instructors who use sandbox courses to copy th...

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Problem statement: Instructure promotes Catalog as having a variety of uses including professional learning, eLearning courses, training workshops, seminars and webinars yet it has hard coded that all...

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Problem statement: Quizzes included in a course that has not yet reached the start date provide an error message that is confusing. Example: 'This quiz is no longer available as your enrolment has bee...

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Problem statement: We have a new Aviation Maintenance program. The FAA requires that our aviation instructor keep hard copies of all students' graded quizzes. The instructor chose to use New Quizzes s...

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Problem statement: There's no ability to post individual grades in Gradebook. The section feature is great, but it'd be great to be able to release individual grades (and leave others hidden e.g. when...

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