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Problem statement: I have created a few observer-based custom roles. In the People page, these all appear listed as "Observing: nobody" instead of the actual name of the role. This has led to a confus...

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Problem statement: No ability to Archive courses without an additional addon being purchased. Proposed solution: I've had a look at the K16's solution but it is still a bit outside of what I feel is ...

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Problem statement: Using the Canvas API, it is possible to determine which accounts, courses, and assignments a rubric is associated with. This is useful when auditing rubric usage. However, when tryi...

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Problem statement: Currently when creating an Outcome, you can enter Proficiency Ratings and points, but there isn't an option to include a long description of a criteria. Thus, when adding Outcomes t...

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Problem statement: To collect Outcomes data, Outcomes are added to a rubric and associated with an assignment. To make sure the grade for the assignment is updated when a rubric assessment is complete...

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Problem statement: If a student was already added to a group and you need to change their group, it can be a tedious process to find the student so they can be re-assigned to another group. All the gr...

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Problem statement: Many students prefer names other that what is listed on their official registration. Sometimes that is as simple as a preferred shortening of their name or a name that they have cho...

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Problem statement: In the Enrollments box of a user's profile there's a long list of every course they have ever been enrolled in. I am unable to sort or filter to narrow down the search, I spend a lo...

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Problem statement: Description: Canvas data structure currently does not allow students to select multiple options within one assignment limiting student choice of what and how they learn. Problem: Ca...

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Problem statement: I have a student who uses JAWS to navigate Canvas. Wile working in Firefox we've noticed that every time the student enters a short answer text box Jaws indicates the student is in ...

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Problem statement: Currently there is no way to filter out the results of the link validator to not include broken links that appear within unpublished content. One use case for this is if there is a ...

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Problem statement: Hello community, In the forums students post their comments and if the teacher configures it, students can like their classmates' post. A student who has been liked has no way of kn...

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Problem statement: Currently, there is no way to set up a rubric that allows for an outcome criterion to be scored using ratings without also enabling ratings on the other non-outcome criteria. It wou...

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Problem statement: Hello everyone, in our institution students sometimes look for the profile pictures of their classmates and unintentionally click on the link "remove avatar" and the person's profil...

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Problem statement: When you have a user who will have student-like interactions in a course, but is not actually enrolled in the course, unfortunately they appear in the gradebook. There is no way to ...

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Idea is currently in development   Problem statement: In previous years, I've been able to unpublish work from a previous quarter and still be able to click on a student's profile, click Grades, and...

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Problem statement: Students are rushing through quiz questions and not taking the time to read through the questions/answers. During my bellwork, in which I use the quiz function, I am finding that se...

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Problem statement: Instructors are getting mass notifications during peer review assignments when they have the assignment comments feature turned on. They would like to be notified when students subm...

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Problem statement: It would improve the user experience if it were clear in the Canvas interface, in the Gradebook, that there is a menu to the right of every assignment name in the table. Right now, ...

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Problem statement: Hello, Last week I needed to submit an assignment that was required to be a pdf. I created the document as an excel workbook and was able to rename the document from "exampleWorkboo...

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