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Problem statement: All "graders" are called "Graders" in the case of "Moderated Grading", leading to confusion about the settings and therefore a large number of queries about it. Proposed solution: ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas is sorely lacking program-level features. There are numerous use-cases for these features. Here's one small but common one: My course is offered to students enrolled in a ran...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Subaccounts are a useful way to organize groupings of courses, however the only present way to see the sub-account structure is to be granted the "Account Settings - manage" permiss...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The publish options currently available at the module level make it difficult to keep "internal facing" or "for teachers only" items unpublished. Clearly after publishing an entire ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students have reached out to our Technical Support team to report all of their modules having been marked complete, but they didn't complete the modules. We confirmed with Instructu...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Module set up can be clunky because requirements need to be applied to all items in the module individually. Proposed solution: It would be nice to have a shortcut option in Module...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It would be meaningful to have the ability to rearrange "regular" discussion board assignments in some sort of logical order chosen by the instructor. The display will be more logic...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When you create groups automatically by section in a crosslisted course, it will create groups and name them sequentially (e.g., Discussion Board Group 1, Discussion Board Group 2, ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Within a course, you can generate a .csv export of grades. As per usual with csv, all the data is put into the first cell of the row. In this case the data points are devided by com...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As an admin, im usually working/viewing on a few courses at a time. Sometimes my focus shifts. It would be useful for my workflow to be able to mark a course in a way so it appears ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: It is not possible to filter students who have submitted some (but not all) assignments. There are several submission filters but they will filter students who have submitted all as...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Since the AI tools can widely used by students when making submissions in Canvas, teachers would like to know if they were used. Right now we recommend the teachers to include this ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem: When in Admin Analytics and using the Filter button, the Select All option is not immediately available to select all items within the dropdown lists for Sub-Account, Term, Courses, and Teach...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: At the moment the only two roles in Canvas LMS recognized by Canvas Credentials are Instructor and Student. Currently, observers are not able to access the Credentials area within a...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas gradebook section filter no longer filters only active students; it includes all students in a section including concluded students (aka, completed students). This makes it d...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When we have a large number of assignments in Gradebook, it is great being able to make the columns narrower to see more assignments at once. For instance, with several weekly assig...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Presently, when multiple certificate templates are required for a single course, the only recourse is to create a version of the same badge for each template. Consequently, all badg...

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Problem statement: No place to add overall instructions to an assignment group. Usually, I would have the larger project description overview, then smaller assignments within that project. I know I co...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There is no easy way to bulk-edit all dates in a course after import. This feature currently only exists for graded activities. Dates on any non-graded items (pages, files, announce...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The community-posted solution for designing pages with background images (using RCE tools) is not ideal because it's not responsive. https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Questi...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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