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Problem statement: Student Names are always sorted on the mobile app and the website by last name, first name. Proposed solution: 1) Allow a preference to show names by First Last or Last, First. 2) ...

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Problem statement: In the Course search, it would be nice to be able to fuzzy search with a placeholder. We have some special numbering around course section numbers, so the ability to search for BIO ...

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Problem statement: Currently Canvas Credentials is pulling through the names of inactive students into the Canvas Credentials roster when awarding badges, running the risk of awarding badges to studen...

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Problem statement: Currently when a Canvas course turns to read-only access, this unenrolls all students in the course and the Credentials roster data other than inactive students. Students can then o...

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Problem statement: Currently it's possible to pass through a username to the internal Canvas login page with a URL like: https://example.instructure.com/login/canvas?pseudonym_session%5Bunique_id%5D=u...

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Problem statement: The regrade and partial-credit options in new quizzes are completely dependent on the question type. Some questions have incredibly flexible regrade and partial credit options while...

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Problem statement: When a teacher sends a message to "Students who have NOT taken the quiz" (or the other option there, I'm sure) there is not field for a subject, so messages are send with "(No Subje...

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Problem statement: When a student uses the app on their phone, and I (teacher) have put an assignment comment in the grade book they often miss it. It is not intuitive for them that the comment is the...

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Problem statement: In some cases you want to limit users (teachers) to make changes to course settings, but they always have access to this settings page. Proposed solution: Create a permission which...

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Problem statement: At the moment an LTI tool can find out the role of a user in Canvas (eg Teacher/Student/TA), or the LTI role that the user has. For lots of LTI tools this is enough, however when a ...

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Problem statement: After a child course sync’s from the Blueprint, the pages in the child course only shows the date of page creation and not the last edited date. We require the dates in the child co...

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Problem statement: Right now, when I create a new event under the account calendar there is no indicator to draw users to it nor is there any notification sent of a new account calendar event. My stud...

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Problem statement: As a Student; in a Canvas enviornment under a course under the grades link there is a webpage that loads with all the students grades. Next to the 'Grades' link there is a number in...

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Problem statement: The temporary enrollments release notes state that concluded courses will not appear on the list since they do not allow new enrollments. Thus, we still have to utilize a workaround...

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Problem statement: Hi there Within our KB Entries we request that the Canvas Support Person to follow specific macros in order to help the client. These macros all recommend where the Support case sho...

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Problem statement: Our Instructional Designer has found that if a JAWS user in an exam with radio buttons accidentally hits the enter key, they get stuck in a loop and have no idea what they did wrong...

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Problem statement: I find it very difficult looking for courses and knowing what they are connected with either through a learning pathway or programme. being able to filter all courses in a tag group...

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Problem statement: As part of a comprehensive exam for a doctoral level program, the exam consists of three essay questions. The participants are required to complete the essay question via a Word doc...

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Problem statement: In OneRoster 1.1, teachers used to be able to crosslist their courses from different subaccounts and still grade sync successfully. With OneRoster 1.2, this is no longer an option. ...

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Problem statement: I have noticed that the students are able to navigate to different site while in the process of taking a test or quiz in Canvas. This only helps them cheat in my opinion. I see it h...

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