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Problem statement: Grading assignments with a rubric in SpeedGrader requires many clicks, which is slow and can cause repetitive stress injury. Submissions usually get the maximum score in most or all...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When combining sections into a Parent course shell using cross-list section, students are compiled into one course shell, but you have to manually click through each student's profi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students who are added to a course site after a Collaborations has been configured need to be manually added by instructor the existing Collaboration. Currently instructors must rem...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Teacher have over 150 students loaded to a canvas course. Clicking "everyone" easily assigns to the entire course. Assigning the same assignment with modifications to a smaller grou...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Data Services (not to be confused with Canvas Data Portal) are great for checking on live updates to data in your system, however there does not appear to be a way to ONLY report on...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The problem to solve is poor alignment between actual course activity due dates and the due dates listed in the Course Summary on the syllabus page. At my institution, faculty still...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Please add an additional column to the existing Zero Activity Report that contains the student's Canvas Login ID. Currently, much exporting and manipulation of Excel worksheets and ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Ability to restore all prior students once a course has been un-concluded instead of one by one Proposed solution: Having the ability to restore all students at one time from a cou...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Just as teachers are able to view Quiz statistics, it would be nice to be able to generate Assignment Statistics, especially for text-based assignment submissions. Specifically, I h...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Several times per term, it would be useful to schedule an appointment with someone who is not currently in one of my classes, yet for whom an office appointment would be the obvious...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: We have programs that want to use Outcomes to track how well their courses are aligning with the expected student outcomes in the courses. However, they do not want students to see ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, when an instructor attaches an Outcome to a Rubric they have the option to uncheck the box to "Use this criterion for scoring". However, the points associated with the Ou...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It would be helpful to somehow be able to turn off the "To Do" & "Coming Up" for specific courses. Problem: We have people that have been added to courses purely to be in the know o...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Parents that have more than one child are seeing their students grades mixed with each other. When each student has 8-12 courses per term, parents do not have a quick and easy view ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When a module has an unpublished item such as a page, sometimes students cannot progress past that module even when they have completed all the published items (view pages, etc.). I...

Community Champion Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: If a student accidently create a Student Group, then the Student Groups group set tab remains visible to the teacher. The teacher can remove the groups, but not the group set. Prop...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I have had several professors ask me how they can set up a quiz or assignment and automatically have Canvas award the student FULL CREDIT for completing the assignment and a zero fo...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Many instructors have submitted support tickets at Stanford, thinking they were stuck in Student View. It turns out they interpret the Student View button as a label indicating they...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In the "Legacy" version of Badgr, when a student was dropped from my Canvas class, they also disappeared from the Leaderboard. At our school, a dropped student only becomes "inactiv...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Our teachers do not have permission to create or manage LTI external tools for compliance/legal reasons, but if they import (or copy), that import can create external tools. The pro...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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