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Problem statement: I sometimes create an assignment in multiple parts, which are independently submitted by the students and independently graded by us. All the parts together make up one logical assi...

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Problem statement: It would be beneficial to have course meeting day and time available in Canvas as it is listed in the Student Information System. This would be beneficial to offices across campus w...

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Problem statement: I searched the community for a while and could not find a clear answer, and trying to follow links to "themes" resulted in me being able to do nothing, so I want to ask the question...

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Problem statement: In most of Canvas the default is to SORT students by "last name" BUT to SHOW students as "first_name last_name" in the list, which makes it extremely hard (at least for me), to find...

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Problem statement: Upon chatting with a Canvas team member, I was told the following: The problem is that the system can not auto-grade essay type questions (and file upload type). These always need t...

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Problem statement: There are little to no filters in the mastery gradebook making it hard to filter through the work for the students. Proposed solution: Create filters for gradebook by quarter and s...

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Problem statement: One of the most common, time-consuming requests that I get as an admin is instructors asking me to add another instructor their course. So that's my problem: that I am spending way ...

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Problem statement: My company creates training videos and content that is proprietary in nature that we sell via this platform. The previous LMS we used allowed us to prevent someone stealing our cont...

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Problem statement: Make student Comments to specific assignments, quizzes, etc (Specifically using the comment box) available for teachers to find, navigate and reply. This could help with retakes and...

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Problem statement: When an incomplete/complete assignment, worth 0-points, with multiple attempts, is graded as "complete" and an additional attempt is submitted, the "use this same grade for the resu...

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Problem statement: User accounts with a leading space in their SIS IDs can be identified in reports such as the enrolment provisioning report. However it's currently not possible to edit these SID IDs...

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Problem statement: Concluded enrolments are not clearly marked in People or Settings screens within a course. Concluded enrolments are currently shown when clicking on a section in the Sections tab, o...

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Problem statement: It is extremely annoying that if you click anywhere on the canvas page while in the process of submitting a help ticket, the help bar disappears, and everything you have written in ...

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Problem statement: The "Available from" and "Until" date fields are too small to view the date and time in their entirety. Why are all the date/time characters not visible at once? This issue is espec...

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Problem statement: Would like the ability to insert metadata about objects (specifically assignments) into pages or other content locations. But the content should be live lookup whenever the page is ...

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Problem statement: When an educator is using SpeedGrader to grade a quiz, scores for each question are automatically saved. If the educator moved away from the page, such as when switching to another ...

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Problem statement: I teach 3 sections of the same course. I want my due time to be 30 minutes prior to class starting time. There are two problems. First, that you can only set a default due time for ...

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Problem statement: For users to be temporarily enrolled in a course, the enrollments and withdraws must be manually done. For example, if access is needed for an accreditation visit or outside course ...

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Problem statement: In grade book, I wold like to see an option to message students who achieved a score of less than the max but more than the minimum score. For example, on my 1-4 rubric, it is easy ...

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Problem statement: I teach hybrid courses, so in addition to the assignments on Canvas, I have to account for the in-class work that students complete as part of their grade. To keep track of this in ...

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