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Problem statement: Currently, the dashboard seems to automatically sort all courses (published and unpublished) alphabetically on the dashboard when a teacher is not utilizing the favorite tags. It ap...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Instructors can add emojis to comments as they grade Assignments. However, the emoji image that they click on to add emojis gets in the way and can cover up the text that they are ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Faculty creating a matching question on a Classic Quiz can provide student feedback for an individual question/answer pair that displays when a student answers incorrectly. The feed...

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Problem statement: The categorization type question has been malfunctioning, so students quizzes aren't getting graded automatically. I have discovered that if I go to the quiz' moderation tab, I can ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Because Discussion notifications are directly linked to those who are subscribed, we've noticed Discussions going largely unused due to students not seeing the activity within an op...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The problem is that when marking attendance, I can only see what I mark for that day. I cannot easily see patterns for the course because I can't see all course days together in one...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a course is associated, blueprint cannot check which course already has content and thus contents are duplicated in that course. Proposed solution: An option at the teacher's ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Media recordings within Canvas don't allow for auto-captioning and are difficult to accomplish at best. I understand purchasing Canvas Studio can resolve some of the issues, but the...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I know that in New Quizzes, we can apply a single student's accommodations (extra time or attempts) to all of their Canvas Quizzes; however, some teachers have *many* students in a ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: For academic programs I help manage, we use the API to pull in a list of students in specific courses and format the data into a useable format. While I'm currently using Enrollment...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Student feedback for matching questions in New Quizzes does not offer the same level of detail as the feedback options in Classic Quizzes. Instructors use that detailed feedback in ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: With the new design to disable file previews and force a download (Canvas Deploy Notes (2022-08-17) - Instructure Community), it seems that the download icon has also been removed. ...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a teacher allows a student the option to turn in something on paper OR digitially, I have to select the submission type: digital> text box etc. I cannot select "on paper" AND "...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When creating a calendar even there is no way to set the location for each section. Only one global location for all sections. i.e. if multiple sections occur in different rooms, th...

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Problem statement: We have a lot of "Admin" roles on our campus that are not full system admins. (i.e. Program Designers, Deans, Support Services, Directors, Chairs of Depts.. etc...) All of these adm...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It would be great if there was an option to post assessments at an Assignment Group level, rather than just at an individual level. Use case. We have a course revision assignment th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Modules can be set to require that students move through the content sequentially. However, if the course designer forgets to hide the Pages link in the navigation, the View All Pag...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: For groupwork activities, cannot assign more than one role to group members. Proposed solution: Would be to enable to assign multiple roles to Group members, not just Leader. User...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When you're in a discussion & you're looking at the posts in the discussion, they don't automatically update, so you can't see additional posts unless you reload the page, which can...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: From English Faculty: It is exceedingly frustrating not to be able to highlight books titles in italics in all spaces in Canvas. The grading comment box is just one space where one ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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