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Problem statement: When you copy a course it doesn't change the home page and the faculty member has to search through all the home pages and start pages to find the one they copied in. When a course ...

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Problem statement: There is a course settings option to allow self-enrollment in a course via a URL, which is great, however, it is only for students. In other words, anyone who uses the link to enrol...

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Problem statement: Problem: There is currently no feature option to submit a request for a delay in scheduled maintenance. Example: Our institution follows an established standard, deemed a 'preemptiv...

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Problem statement: Some teachers practice not assigning a zero grade for various reasons. I can fill blank scores by setting Default Grade and not overwriting current grades. However, it would be nice...

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Problem statement: The Calendar iCal feed and ISC export only include calendar events from the past 30 days (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Student-Guide/How-do-I-view-the-Calendar-iCal-feed-to-su...

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Problem statement: Issuers cannot export badge fields, public URLs (path=unique identifier), or custom content unless the badge has been awarded. This makes QA and record-keeping difficult. Other badg...

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Problem statement: Amendments to a student's name in Canvas does not sync with the Credentials roster once the roster has already been set-up. Instead when an instructor awards a credential, the crede...

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Problem statement: Some faculty provide many possible assignments throughout the year from publishers, each with preassigned possible points, that they want students to be able to earn points on throu...

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Problem statement: The Batch Edit tool in Assignments is great for shifting dates from semester to semester. However, it would also be great to have the ability to shift the time. I have one course wi...

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Problem statement: There are times when the student's attendance is intentionally excused. Leaving it just unmarked can make it subject to interpretation if the student was indeed excused or was forgo...

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Problem statement: A Canvas site may want to configure an LTI 1.3 tool that is used only by instructors. They may want this tool to be available in a standardized location, like the User Account page ...

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Problem statement: Quizzes don't tally the total marks a student achieves against the outcomes questions are aligned to in a quiz. For, example, if we align the questions in our Yearly examination, we...

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Problem statement: Assignments in Canvas do not allow instructors to create auto-graded assignments with forced-answer question types such as multiple choice, true/false, matching, hot spot, etc. Inst...

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This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2025-01-18)    Problem statemen...

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Problem statement: A student with a high AI score in Turnitin shared after inquiring that they had fed the lecture transcripts to AI to generate responses. A second student reported downloading transc...

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Problem statement: If enrollments are created/updated by regular, automatic SIS imports, then there is no way for an admin to effectively remove an enrollment from a Canvas course, or in other words, ...

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Problem statement: Use of Outcomes is only set up for Mastery. We use it for that, but would also love to be able to use it to tally marks against outcomes from various tasks (where the marks allocate...

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Problem statement: Our parents access grades through a Canvas web interface. When the mobile orientation for the dashboard loads in a browser (Firefox, Safari, Chrome), the "View Grades" button is at ...

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Problem statement: I want to apply the late assignment policy to my pass/fail types of assignments. I use complete/incomplete, but this semester some students submitted the work after the deadline wit...

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Problem statement: Parent observers request that there is an easy to read consolidation of all students' assignments (more than the "to-do" list -- particularly a list that shows late and missing work...

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