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Problem statement: Make student Comments to specific assignments, quizzes, etc (Specifically using the comment box) available for teachers to find, navigate and reply. This could help with retakes and...

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Problem statement: When an incomplete/complete assignment, worth 0-points, with multiple attempts, is graded as "complete" and an additional attempt is submitted, the "use this same grade for the resu...

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Problem statement: User accounts with a leading space in their SIS IDs can be identified in reports such as the enrolment provisioning report. However it's currently not possible to edit these SID IDs...

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Problem statement: Concluded enrolments are not clearly marked in People or Settings screens within a course. Concluded enrolments are currently shown when clicking on a section in the Sections tab, o...

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Problem statement: In the iOS Teacher app, late work is marked as Late, and it tells me when it was submitted.  But with multiple sections, it's hard to keep track and do that math myself.  On the web...

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Problem statement: It is extremely annoying that if you click anywhere on the canvas page while in the process of submitting a help ticket, the help bar disappears, and everything you have written in ...

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Problem statement: The "Available from" and "Until" date fields are too small to view the date and time in their entirety. Why are all the date/time characters not visible at once? This issue is espec...

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Problem statement: Would like the ability to insert metadata about objects (specifically assignments) into pages or other content locations. But the content should be live lookup whenever the page is ...

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Problem statement: When an educator is using SpeedGrader to grade a quiz, scores for each question are automatically saved. If the educator moved away from the page, such as when switching to another ...

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Problem statement: I teach 3 sections of the same course. I want my due time to be 30 minutes prior to class starting time. There are two problems. First, that you can only set a default due time for ...

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Problem statement: For users to be temporarily enrolled in a course, the enrollments and withdraws must be manually done. For example, if access is needed for an accreditation visit or outside course ...

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Problem statement: In grade book, I wold like to see an option to message students who achieved a score of less than the max but more than the minimum score. For example, on my 1-4 rubric, it is easy ...

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Problem statement: I teach hybrid courses, so in addition to the assignments on Canvas, I have to account for the in-class work that students complete as part of their grade. To keep track of this in ...

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Problem statement: Instructors do not have enough tools to do in-line grading/annotating of student submissions in SpeedGrader. Proposed solution: Instructors need more robust tools for in-line gradi...

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Problem statement: Currently the only place the Turnitin Similarity Score only appears in on the flags in SpeedGrader for each individual student. It makes it difficult to see whose submissions need t...

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Problem statement: We have heard from instructors about a problem with the What If Grades, and the problem is that student's can't use an "EX" to remove a grade from consideration. Thus, this causes c...

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Problem statement: As a student, I want to be able to request a name change on a credential that has already been issued to me. Changing the preferred name in the user account doesn't update credentia...

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Problem statement: As an administrator, I want to be able to resend the initial credentials email a student receives. Students sometimes miss/do not receive the email and having an option available to...

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Problem statement: It's sometimes difficult to answer all the questions a newbie teacher has about Canvas. I wish we had a caring mentor for every new teacher to help them learn Canvas. Proposed solu...

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Problem statement: I would like to recommend that when one is in assignments or quizzes one should be able to go from 1 assignment or quiz to the other by clicking next. For example, I want to allow s...

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