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Problem statement: Currently Inbox does not support either forwarding messages to oneself, or exporting messages, as a means of retrieving messages from Inbox and storing them either locally or in one...

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Problem statement: It can be hard to tell how many students have viewed a particular announcement. It would be helpful to be able to quickly check the reach of an announcement and identify students wh...

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Problem statement: Weblogs currently only allows you to pass dates into the query parameters when pulling weblog data back. The dataset being so large, this can pose an issue with using, analyzing, an...

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Problem statement: The course that opens for students when doing a group assignment can be confusing. Just as when a new instructor first sees a new Canvas course with all the links they need to be sh...

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Problem statement: We imported a question with an image from a course (Course A) to the Item Bank. The image in the imported question is still referencing to the original course (Course A). When this ...

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Problem statement: Teachers have to enter the weights for their categories in PowerSchool, import the categories into Canvas and then enter the weights again in Canvas and ensure they match with Power...

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Problem statement: Teachers are not setting up their grade sync between Canvas and PowerSchool correctly. We do not have the manpower to check all of the courses individually to see which teachers hav...

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Problem statement: Instructors who opt for Labor-Based Contract Grading need the flexibility to add the "lateness" feature to Complete/Incomplete assignments. Students also need to see in the gradeboo...

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Problem statement: When attempting to modify options in account settings, many options don't differentiate between different types of users. Right now, many options only allow you to enable it for all...

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Problem statement: When using Analytics (New) only 500 students can be displayed per term. Yes, the report can be downloaded, but then the interactivity is lost. Changing the sort also allows access t...

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Problem statement: I'd like there to be an administrative option to restrict a teacher from viewing their course roster until a certain date? Proposed solution: Admin Option to prevent the people tab...

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Problem statement: Right now, I do not have the ability to specify when I want Notifications to go out for meetings created by the Zoom LTI. Although the Zoom LTI is creating a notification, it is Can...

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Problem statement: Some instructors use non-standard methods for calculating their quizzes. The overall points total for quizzes are tied to the individual quiz question values, which limits how quizz...

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Problem statement: If a user has the ability to copy/import content from the course to another one, they ALSO have the ability to do all the other things listed (including create, add items, and dupli...

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Problem statement: We are providing Canvas Studio training and encouraging instructors to use it often. When looking at the "Interactions by Category," Canvas Studio is not included, which makes it ch...

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Problem statement: The nursing program at our institution is required to follow NGN scoring models. For multiple answer questions, this requires the score for a question to match the number of correct...

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Problem statement: When using a users.csv file to update a user's email address, it was found that the new address does not overwrite the existing address, even when Override UI changes box and Clear ...

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Problem statement: When printing quizzes, the space to write down answers to the questions is too small. Also, the RCE is appearing and that is not necessary. Proposed solution: Make sure the print o...

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Problem statement: Speedgrader contains a parameter for similarity originality_report[originality_score]. However, now we have AI detectors that provide another score based on the same work, so teache...

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Problem statement: Currently when the setting to filter speedgrader by groups ("Launch SpeedGrader Filtered by Student Group" setting in course settings) is turned on it applies to every assignment, e...

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