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Currently, if a Front Page is selected as the Course Home Page, students open the class to a Page with no navigation buttons. If there are no links on the page then the student must...
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The Calendar is a great way to change the due date for an assignment. With drop and drag ease, moving the assignment on the calendar causes the due date to be updated. However, the ...
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Students may mistakenly and/or purposefully attach files intended for an assignment submission to the assignment comments instead. Comments and attachments are also available after ...
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My students are struggling to get back into the course exactly where they left off the last time they engaged. For example, when a student is working through the first module and th...
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When downloading student submissions, ONLY the recently submitted file will be downloaded.
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Allow the ability to download student submissions including submission...
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I want to copy a commom module to all my classes in one go. At present I have to copy the modules one class at one time. Is there ay way I can copy them all at once. for example I h...
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Would love to mark student submissions as INCOMPLETE so they know there is more to do to make the full score.
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at the "pencil" on the grading page, add an INCOMPL...
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the account admins page currently is just a long list of names with role and email address. it's hard to find people cross reference who has which role, in which sub account and kee...
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As an admin, we must proactively go to People - Manage Profile Pictures - Submitted to approve those Profile Photos that have been submitted for review and are pending. However, the...
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The Problem: Students can record a media video in Canvas and before that video has fully uploaded into Canvas, they are allowed to submit the assignment. However, submitting the ass...
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Admins are allowed to search Courses by Semester -- However When Instructors and Students are looking through All Courses they do not have this functionality. It would be helpful fo...
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The student does not see the question type before answering the questions in the quiz, a student wants to now before they answer if it is possible to answer with many answers or jus...
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I just discovered today that a Teacher can remove an assignment and all the students' submissions to that assignment, and grades for those submissions from their Canvas course. They...
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Instructors who are currently using the Bulk Edit tool from the Assignments page are finding that unique changes are difficult to manage as they don't see a student's name and are u...
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LTI 1.3 grade syncs can (and will) push a grade to Canvas regardless of it's due date in Canvas. This should be optional/controlled in canvas if a due date has passed. Additionally,...
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Courses only have their own individual file content storage option. There is no central (organizational) content repository for files and assets to be used inside courses. Many solu...
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When delivering group works, students can invite other members to join the group in the moment of its creation. However, after created, other integrants can only join the group by s...
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When pulling reports from the portal settings, reports tab, I'd like to have the student default email field included in the report data. This would allow ease of use in contacting ...
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In choices for quiz answers, instructors have expressed the ability to have a "wildcard" option. For example, give one of the top ten events we discussed in class. The wildcard woul...
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If you allow instructor permission to add observers to their course, then they are automatically allowed to also add a user as any custom role if it is based on observer. We do want...