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Problem statement: Currently if a course is concluded, users can no longer be added to the course. We often receive requests for new instructors to be added to a past course to help them prepare for t...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently if there are errors/warnings with SIS Imports, there is no notification sent to account admins. This requires either active monitoring of the SIS Imports and/or building a...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Students can control which courses appear on their dashboard and account menu by going to All Courses and starring/unstarring courses. However, students have no way of controlling w...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Currently, the assignments index page has limited capabilities for teachers to properly filter through all assignments on this page. Teachers become easily overwhelmed when looking ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I teach mathematics courses and use the Math Editor frequently (MathQuill in new quizzes). I really like being able to type math equations directly in the Rich Content Editor (RCE),...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Teachers in our division use gradebook passback from Canvas to our SIS. The Canvas gradebook Settings > Late Policies currently possess the ability to automatically apply a deductio...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: One of my faculty members just inadvertently wiped *all* her active courses while importing a course from commons. She saw "All Courses" as a destination option and read it as "All ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In Canvas Credentials, the description in the badge does not have markdown ability, so any formatting, such as paragraph breaks, does not apply to the text. This is something that i...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When I need to message an observer and student individually, I have to look up their observers individual names and type them in to the Canvas email. This takes FOREVER. Proposed s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: As the teacher, I cannot see what is the percent of total grade of each assignment. My students can see this on their Canvas page. Proposed solution: On the modules and assignments...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Justification: To enable educational organizations to aggregate metrics on async jobs, analyze for operational behavior and store their results long-term for heuristics in S3 buckets. Job-level metric...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The "What-If Scores" function is confusing for both the student and others who may need to look at a student's grades: parents, athletic coaches, etc. It appears, to the student, th...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Massive amounts of images (or other assets/resources) are used in online learning. However, Canvas limits the ability to have a Repository of these assets by setting a file storage ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: I am trying to condense the size of my table and Just make the text fit without too much white space. Is there a way in which we can edit a table to fit the wording in rather than h...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: In addition to providing Canvas admins with canned reports, please provide us with a report builder in the GUI so we can query the specific information and report with the fields ne...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Instructors and students cannot organize discussion topics within the discussion landing page. Even though discussion can be organized within modules. Instructors and possibly stude...

Community Coach Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When an assignment is set up both to be worth 0 points, and to have letter grades entered, grades are saved in an unintuitive way, which results in a loss of data when attempting to...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Canvas UI doesn’t display correctly a combination of enrolments active/inactive for one student on a course. UI expects all enrolment to be active or inactive for each student in a ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: There are no forward/rewind buttons available in Canvas Studio.  Proposed solution: The simple addition of these buttons on the videos would allow Visually Impaired students using ...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: A text column in the gradebook would be helpful for Teachers who wish to calculate their more intricate grading systems outside of Canvas and then enter "A, B, C, or D." This text c...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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