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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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Problem statement: The mobile app does not disclose to students that a rule exists in an assignment group dropping scores. It's a pretty fundamental/elemental facet to higher education, dropping the l...

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Problem statement: When setting a New Quiz to allow multiple attempts and select the highest score as the final grade, teachers might grade the incorrect attempt in SpeedGrader if there are essay or u...

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Problem statement: Many of our faculty have inquired about additional statistics for the Discussion Boards they would find helpful in teaching their courses, including statistics based on an individua...

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Problem statement: I have manually created discussion groups on my course in Canvas where the students have to discuss through posts. In two of the groups active participants became only 2 students, s...

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Problem statement: According to the article How do I apply a Missing Submission policy..., "The Missing Submission policy lets you automatically apply a grade for all missing submissions in the Grade...

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Problem statement: I have a bit of an unusual request that I'm hoping you can help me find a fix for. In many of the classes I teach on my Canvas instance (I run an online dog training school) I rely ...

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Problem statement: At the moment, it is not possible to create a quizzes on the mobile version of Canvas. Will this happen in the future or will it only exist with customising quizzes from within the ...

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Problem statement: Please do NOT allow students to return to the quiz when the 10-second submission window shows up. Currently when the "Times up" message shows up and students click "Ok, Fine", stude...

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Problem statement: I am able to use the math equation editor when creating a fill in the blank question type in new quizzes, but I cannot use the editor when specifying the correct answer using backti...

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Problem statement: When using Multiple Answer questions in Canvas quizzes, there are two options for automatic grading; "exact match" and "partial credit with penalty". The "partial credit with penalt...

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Problem statement: Regarding examination in Canvas. No message to the creator/teacher(instructor when creating an assignment/quiz in a course with passed end date. When instructor set a startdate for ...

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Problem statement: It is difficult for many new users to log in. The "Invitation to course" email has no info about first time login and it is impossible for us to edit it before it is sent. Today, we...

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Problem statement: When a student resubmits a file in a new attempt for an assignment, the submitted file will be renamed if the file name is identical to a previously submitted file. Usually, the fil...

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Problem statement: The new Points-Based Grading Scheme appears to be a great feature, and we are excited to take advantage of it; however, the max range / upper limit for this type of grading scheme i...

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