Problem statement: Excess test student accounts created by faculty use of student view clutters system when these accounts are not used anymore. In addition, some API integrations attempt to pull thes...

Problem statement: on 2-16-2024 Canvas suddenly stopped allowing Python .py program files to be viewed. As CS faculty, this is a very important feature not only for grading but providing students feed...

Problem statement: The "Account and Course Level Mastery Scales" are too rigid. Once a mastery scale has been applied to a sub-account, all outcomes in all courses for that sub-account must use that s...

Problem statement: Microsoft recently changed (2023) the default font in the MS Office Suite from Calibri to Aptos (Aptos (typeface) - Wikipedia). Aptos is currently not a "supported font" for the Doc...

Problem statement: Universities usually have standard university-wide grade bands and descriptors, e.g. <50% may be a fail grade D for postgraduate students, while 40-49.9% may be a pass grade D for u...

Problem statement: There are several reasons for us to want to see the grade distribution statistics (min, max, mean, median, quartiles) for unposted grades, including for anonymous assignments. For t...

Problem statement: When a user's account is Suspended, the current way to know that at the course level (in People) is to go to the person's "User Details" and "User Account Details" to see if they ar...

Problem statement: Once questions have been added to an Item (or Question) Bank there is currently no way to export them into an editable format (or even non-editable). It would be a useful feature to...

Problem statement: The New Analytics Reports do not allow for reports to be run for specific grading periods. I would like to be able to run missing work reports, late work reports, etc. for only the ...

This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2025-01-18)    Problem statemen...

Problem statement: Inconsistently Assignment details show Until date, but To Do list shows Due date. Proposed solution: Why not show one or other or both the Due date and Until date? I prefer the Due...

Problem statement: Currently in the GRADEBOOK when the due date is passed for an assignment, a pink color is used for the indication thereof. However, the assignment may still be available for student...

Problem statement: Our integration currently manages the creation and status of both staff and students in Canvas, automatically suspending and reactivating users when their contracts or tenure ends a...

Problem statement: Student "Grades" view - Would like the ability to set the student "grades" view to show letter grades only for individual assignment scores but the quantitative result for the stude...

Problem statement: After creating a temporary enrollment pairing that assigned the Observer role to the enrollment recipient, Admins must still go into each selected course to link the Recipient to th...

Problem statement: The current max limit is 255 in the notes section in the gradebook. Proposed solution: Faculty are running out of space in the notes section and would like it to be increased or fo...

Problem statement: When classic quizzes that require lockdown browser are copied to a new course, the lockdown browser settings are also copied. However when new quizzes that require lockdown browser ...

Problem statement: Instructor is required to check Canvas to find out if new students have completed the survey/quiz. Proposed solution: Add notification option to alert instructor when a student com...

Problem statement: in the Access Report you can see what content the student has viewed, how many times and when LAST viewed. The ability to see when FIRST viewed is important for discussions with stu...

Problem statement: Outside the API I am currently unable to find out the date and time a course was created. Because of this I can't work out the sequence of events that led to an issue where data was...