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Problem statement: In a course that contains employee based materials from each of the different groups like administration, facilities, Information Technology, etc... We want to use the Calendar to s...

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Problem statement: Instructors are with students for a short period of time. Yet, we like to know students and address them by their names. It is quite difficult to learn so many names right away, tho...

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Problem statement: Zoom has added sections to their LTI/API, and you can add meetings for specific sections now, great! That said, Canvas does not support calendar events by section apparently. Accord...

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Problem statement: Can you please make the publish and unpublishing of a document or link can be done with a toggle so that one quick click can change it? The other options should be moved into the ke...

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Problem statement: With the new feature of temporary enrollments recently being added (it's an amazing feature), I was wondering if a similar feature for courses could be created. We get lots of reque...

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Problem statement: I want to use modules to meter student progression through a course, but am being limited by the "all of" or "one of" options for module completion. I want to be able to have studen...

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Problem statement: No teacher facing tools implemented that would allow the instructor to suggest changes or comment on lesson instructions order to refine curriculum the following semester. This is a...

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Problem statement: In Speed Grader, we have to click each individual attachment to view. They don't all load at once, which sounds trivial, but sometimes errors occur in loading one of the attachments...

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Problem statement: Identify the students who have not completed an assignment and send them an e-mail notification. Proposed solution: Canvas should have the ability to run a script to check which st...

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Problem statement: Sections within course are used to group users, and considerable control over interactions is provided, allowing users enrolled in different sections to either interact with users i...

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Problem statement: When a Microsoft Class Team is created, and user are synched to the Team, the Team role is created as either Owner or Member. This appears to be driven by the base_enrolment_type of...

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Problem statement: When manually assigning a peer review, there is currently there is no indication in the drop-down list of students to show who is already assigned or who has completed the initial a...

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Problem statement: Aloha- We are getting several reports from parents (observers) who are confused by the Coming Up list that shows on their course home pages. This list does not provide parents with ...

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Problem statement: There seems to be a lack of assignment reporting which is really important within colleges and universities. Curriculum admins recently asked me if Canvas can produce a list of stud...

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Problem statement: When you create a user without doing a SIS import (for example, a single new staff member has started employment and you want to quickly add them), there is no way of telling Canvas...

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Problem statement: The Course Summary tool shows events/assignments that have already happened as well as those coming up. For an ongoing course or shared space, that makes upcoming events too hard to...

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Problem statement: The teacher is working in a middle school yearlong Canvas course & often needs to filter by trimester in her gradebook in order to report progress & grades. In her course gradebook,...

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Problem statement: CompTIA's LTI tool supports multiple types of LTI links -- instructor dashboard, student dashboard, deep linking to individual assets, proctored exams, etc. However, if I wanted to ...

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Problem statement: As Account Admin one of the issues I see the most is teachers copying assignments from one grading period or term to another and having trouble with the dates. Often they do not or ...

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Problem statement: New Quizzes allow you to ignore case only in the "close enough" answer type, which in turn requires a minimum solution distance of 1. If one knows regex, it may be possible to ignor...

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