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Problem statement: The Canvas system (very rationally) requires that grades be included in the semester grade or not be included. There are limited ways to calculate a grade. One problem arises when s...

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Problem statement: When a due date is past and the "available till" date is past, students can't access an assignment at all. If I leave the "available till" date open past the due date, they can stil...

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Problem statement: When we are searching for a user in the People section, it does not tell us what role they are in Canvas next to their name. This issue comes up often because we often have parents ...

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Problem statement: Today I added one instructor 14 different Canvas course sections (Sections A through N). The instructor only received a course invite for Section A and Section A was the only sectio...

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Problem statement: When Canvas admins import materials from another course, there is a solitary box available next to "Search for a course". One may begin typing the name of a course, but since we hav...

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Problem statement: I need to update various course settings in 27 Blueprint courses and then sync the changes to their associated courses. After I made this update the option to sync to their associat...

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Problem statement: It would be helpful to have the ability to use the SEND TO... other teachers from the Assignment groups. We can SEND TO... from the Modules, but not the Assignments. Proposed solut...

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Problem statement: As a teacher, when I got into "People" I can see all of the groups that I have created for various assignment (for example: STEM Fair, Osmosis Lab, Body Systems, etc). Each group ty...

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Problem statement: When editing course assignments dates, all assignments are listed in alphabetical order; which is not useful for designing chronological module assignments. Proposed solution: Add ...

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Problem statement: When I import a few modules from an old course, the quizzes, pages, discussions, and such do not get imported unless I check the boxes to import them. That is a pain, and I usually ...

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Problem statement: I use the fill in the blank option in canvas new quizzes to create guided stats write-ups. There will be dozens (sometimes even over 100) blanks in a write up. I try my best ahead o...

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Problem statement: Problem: Even though it is possible to select multiple Pages to delete (by placing a checkmark next to each page name), there isn't a way in the Canvas UI to select all pages at one...

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Problem statement: When we have students with disabilities, a common accommodation is to provide additional time for each quiz or exam. Currently, we have to make changes to each quiz and exam separat...

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Problem statement: In the Provisioning Report for Courses, the course start and end date are only provided if the course participation is listed as Course instead of Term. If the course start and end ...

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Problem statement: Currently, Google Calendar may take up to 24 hours to sync with the Canvas Calendar when the calendar feed feature is used. That events from the Canvas calendar aren't immediately s...

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Problem statement: When making/editing assignments and quizzes, in the "Assign" box, below the "due date", there are availability dates ("from" and "to"). Well, the complete date and TIME for the avai...

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Problem statement: The spreadsheet created by exporting an attendance report only includes the present/absent data. If I’ve used any tags/badges, like excused or sick, it doesn’t show those, so I have...

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Problem statement: There are many routine tasks that could be streamlined for users in Canvas with a LLM GAI voice assistant. This would aid students and instructors accomplishing much more in less ti...

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Problem statement: It has been reported that students (and their observers) are receiving excessive numbers of notifications when an instructor annotates student work submissions. Each time an instruc...

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Problem statement: When adding an External URL to a module, the fields are shown in the following order : URLPage nameLoad in a new tabIndentation However, when editing an External URL in a module, t...

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